GIJoe

[creature4000]

Just an idea. But How cool would it be to have 12" GiJoe figs based of the Cartoon (80's)?

I would love to have a super detailed fig with accesories of the Joes and Cobras.

 

[kain4521]

I would take a destro or a cobra commander but that would be all I would want.

 

[Coheteboy]

I would take a destro or a cobra commander but that would be all I would want.

ALL you want? No Snake-Eyes? No Stormshadow? No Firefly??

and no.... BARONESS? hachie machie!

I'd buy in if it were at the quality that Sideshow is doing. My 12" hooded cobra commander is pretty disappointing.

 

[EVILFACE]

A line like that would be the death nail for Star Whores.

 

[MisterToyNYC]

Just an idea. But How cool would it be to have 12" GiJoe figs based of the Cartoon (80's)?

Not very. I'll pass, thank you

Eric

 

[Customikey]

I made a great classic Cobra Commander a few years ago. Sold it online. The buyer parted it out for his own crappy customs...

 

[screamingmetal]

I had hoped that when Hasbro started the line based on the cartoon characters back in the early 90's they would fulfill that need. They were all crap. I would love Sideshow to do a highly detailed GI Joe Cartoon line if Hasbro would let them.
On a related note, I bought a costume set from Triad that's called the Bare-N-Less outfit set that kind of looks like a Baroness figure when you have all the right parts:
https://dawgestyle.com/dawgestyle/suit24.htm

 

[Deak Starkiller]

I made a great classic Cobra Commander a few years ago. Sold it online. The buyer parted it out for his own crappy customs...

Pics Mikey? I'd very much like to see that.

 

[Coheteboy]

I actually had this talk with Hasbro two years ago. I told the guy, I forget his name... darryl or something. Anyway, I told him that if they made a fancy 12" figure based on the classic toons, and do it real well, people will snatch them up like crazy. I gave him the usual characters but pushed the Crimson Guard for some reason.

He said that they just wouldn't sell. I told him he was wrong. And that's the problem with companies like Hasbro. They're good at mass merchandise that cuts a lot of corners, but they're not good at making specialty products.

If sideshow did it... it would be game over for coheteboy. I'd have to sell all my toys to get this going.

 

[todoelresto]

I loved the cobra soldiers and all the variations of their uniforms. I would like those figures, Cobra Viper, Storm Shadow was my favourite
O come on SideShow!!! HotToys!!! anyone??

 

[JustinLuck]

I would love to see a Snake Eyes.

 

[Minimodel]

The man you spoke to would have been Derryl Depriest,then head of Hasbros boys toys section and proud owner of one of the largest collections of original 1964-78 G.I Joe in the world.He was responsible for some of the 40th anniversary gear you may have seen available a couple of years ago,and actually sacrificed some MOC outfits to make that possible.A great man.
I believe he s moved onto the star wars section now.

 

[ambac]

The One Sixth Warrior board has great customs of 12-inch 80's Joes posted all the time. Some were just incredible pieces of work and they were usually based on the comic or actual 3&3/4 inch versions of the characters. I think the cartoon versions would be too simple in detail for a 12" line. But I would love super-detailed comic versions. Imagine what a striking figure a V1 12" Crimson Guardsman would be.

 

[88th division]

I would much rather see Sideshow return to the Civil War and WWI figure lines they were doing. Come on Sideshow! You still have so many character figures to make from the Civil War. Not to mention the different regiments of common foot soldiers to choose from!

 

[sladesuperagent]

As cool as that would be, I would have to agree that it would be hard to translate the simple designs of the cartoon to 1/6 scale. The best way to do it would be to design the figures after the painted cardbacks, the comic books, and the actual people the figures were modeled after (Larry Hama-file card writer for the entire line-is Law from 1987). I've been collecting Joes since 1982 and I honestly rather see a Legends-style Joe line. Screw Sigma Six. Good for kids, lame for collectors. Gimme a GI Joe Legends line and put Firefly back in the gray camos!

 

[Coheteboy]

As cool as that would be, I would have to agree that it would be hard to translate the simple designs of the cartoon to 1/6 scale. The best way to do it would be to design the figures after the painted cardbacks, the comic books, and the actual people the figures were modeled after (Larry Hama-file card writer for the entire line-is Law from 1987). I've been collecting Joes since 1982 and I honestly rather see a Legends-style Joe line. Screw Sigma Six. Good for kids, lame for collectors. Gimme a GI Joe Legends line and put Firefly back in the gray camos!

Oh, it wouldn't be too hard to give the outfits a modern upgrade... just as long as they stayed true to the original intentions.

 

[screamingmetal]

The One Sixth Warrior board has great customs of 12-inch 80's Joes posted all the time. Some were just incredible pieces of work and they were usually based on the comic or actual 3&3/4 inch versions of the characters. I think the cartoon versions would be too simple in detail for a 12" line. But I would love super-detailed comic versions. Imagine what a striking figure a V1 12" Crimson Guardsman would be.

Either the 80's comic versions, the Cartoon, or the Larry Hamma card illustrations would be fine but I have to decline the modern Comic book versions. I really hate the modern style and costume design they use in the current books.
That picture posted by Justinluck is a great example of what I'm talking about. The butterfly knife just sticking out there on the shoulder without a sheath about to slice open Snake Eyes's neck or arm if he turns the wrong way, the metal armor things around his calves and wrists are a bit over the top, I never liked the grenades on the upper arm thing even when they used it on the 3 3/4" figures, he doesn't appear to have any pockets on his vest or elsewhere for Uzi style mags, and the katana sword should have a black colored blade for stealth.
I know it's just a Comic book but at least some of the costume elements should make sense.

 

[ambac]

Oh, it wouldn't be too hard to give the outfits a modern upgrade... just as long as they stayed true to the original intentions.

It's not so much the fact that the designs may look dated (I personally don't think so) but that cartoon designs are inherently simplified for ease of drawing, so a 12" figure of a cartoon design usually won't look as detailed as an attempt to do a more realistic style. Of course some characters in the cartoon looked very similar to their comic/toy counterparts so a cartoon Cobra Commander would work fairly well as a 12" figure.

I'd buy one and speak in a hissy/raspy voice whenever I held it!

 

[sladesuperagent]

Oh, it wouldn't be too hard to give the outfits a modern upgrade... just as long as they stayed true to the original intentions.

Yeah, I'm talking more about head sculpts. Once you get past the obvious ninjas, ninja commandos, Cobra Commanders, assorted Vipers, Officers, and Guards, Firefly, Destro, and the guy with stupid, brown hood--we gotta sculpt a somebody's human likeness. But I'll take the afformentioned first!

 

[bluesparrow]

If Sideshow or another good 1/6 company started making GI Joe figures along the lines you guys are talking about, I'd drop just about every other scale I collect and go all out 1/6. Which for me is saying a lot.