Collector’s Club: Update on the GIJCC store– more products coming soon-ish

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Fred Meyer

Members of the G.I. Joe Collector’s Club received the following email from Brian Savage last night regarding the fate of the Club store. It seems that the process of upgrades is moving forward– but just not at the pace the GIJCC had hoped. It’s safe to assume that the Figure Subscription Service enrollment will be one of the first new items offered.

This quick update is going out to all members of both clubs.

It will still be a couple more weeks (we don’t know exactly how long as we are waiting on the host to finish their work) until our dedicated store server is online.

Once it is ready to go, we will let you know that products in the store have be made active and you will be able to order items from the clubs again.

We do not anticipate that all items will be available in the club stores on opening day so please have patience as we finish the migration from the old e-commerce site to this one.

In addition, to try and avoid a denial of service issue (because of the volume) we will only bring one set of products online at a time.

We will email you when we are going to bring the products online. We are anticipating being ready to go the week of July 23rd, but that could change.

Thanks to both groups for your patience and the two great conventions this year!

Brian

Alexx Shorts: Dollar General exclusive Shipwreck

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Alexx

Dollar General exclusive Shipwreck figure

Don’t I do nice things for you? Here, read about Shipwreck. Go on. SHOO.

Joe Con 2012: Collector’s Club announces Figure Subscription Service, Round 2

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Fred Meyer

Not much in the way of news out of the Collector’s Club Roundtable held yesterday afternoon save for one key piece: a SECOND Figure Subscription Service has been announced. Only four figures so far have been revealed but those are:

Dragonsky (necessary to complete your Yearbook #2 team)
Iceberg
Night Force Falcon
Big Bear (another Oktober Guard!)

Still no word as to when the FIRST round of Figure Subscription Service will launch as the club is still working “bugs out of the system.”

My only comments are: So THAT’S where Dragonsky’s gone to!

Joe Con 2012: Hasbro’s G.I. Joe press images

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Fred Meyer

While I wasn’t able to attend the Con in person this year, JBL has had a lot of help from “on the scene” photographer Photonut! However, he’s also got some help– Justin from Hunter PR has sent along these “official images” of items revealed at the 2012 Hasbro Convention presentation.

One of the biggest surprises are the PVC mini-figs know as “Micro Force”– featuring 80+ blind-packaged collectible figures. That’s right– tiny G.I. Joe figures that are perfect to adorn any computer desk. (You can see where I’m going with this already.)

In terms of G.I. Joe Retaliation movie items, here’s what you’ll see in the images below. (I’m borrowing some details from over at GeneralsJoes.com. (Justin’s done a great job covering things as usual!)

Micro Force Quarter-Sized collectible figures in blind bags. Over 80 figures to collect and trade. Foot holes are compatible with normal vehicle foot pegs for display!
Alpha sized Night Landing vehicle with Cobra Eel. Cobra Eel figure is the canceled Rise of Cobra Ripcord which is extremely detailed, highly accessorized and uses the figure design that was sculpted to resemble the Sigma 6 Sigma Suits
Night Viper is moved up to Wave 3
Combat Ninja is intended to be “movie accurate” Cobra Trooper
Very movie accurate “Ultimate Firefly” with mini-HISS in Wave 3
Very movie accurate “Cobra Trooper” (Cobra Combat Ninja) in Wave 3
Movie accurate “Ultimate Duke” (with Data-Viper Predator Drone) in Wave 3
Comic accurate/toy accurate Snake Eyes ’85 w/ Timber totally newly tooled in Wave 4
Crimson Guard in Wave 5 with customizable label sheet

You can check out all of the images in the gallery below. A big thanks to Hunter PR for making these available to fans everywhere!