This is awesome.
So, last weekend bandersnitch, girlydoll and myself attended the GI Joe con in Hamilton.
The awesome comes after some lead in.
First, I attended FCBD festivities at a local store. The problem was this store, whicha ppears to be visiting from 1988, does not accept debit or credit cards. I don't really carry much cash on me. So I ended up getting the Darkest Night prequel book (which I liked more than iamheavenrender. A LOT more) and meeting them for Indian.
I had on my OSI shirt, which was inspired by the GI Joe logo. Brock Samson, BTW, would call Snake Eyes a douchebag and stick a knife in his kidney. Just saying.
We went to the Joe show, where I was looking primarily for Avatar action figures for Cynra. There were none (Sorry, honey!).
So I picked up a little something (LITERALLY) for absinthe_dot_ca and a tpb from shortpacked.
I considered doing my big "get all the Dreadnoks and the funky car" thing, but it would have been a bit more than I'd budgeted for the con. The Transformers/80s Toy Expo had been the previous weekend, and many of the dealers at JoeCon felt that the TF Con folk were attempting to smother the Joe Con. God, that old dance, eh?
Now, during my strolls across the hall, I saw a dealer who made custom paraphenalia for 3 3/4" action figures. One of these items was a folding chair. Idea! Sgt. Slaughter was a GI Joe figure. We should get a picture of him hitting someone with a chair!
So. I searched for a loose Sgt. Slaughter action figure. Bingo! But who to hit? Well, Cobra ne'er do well Copperhead was to be on the receiving end when we learned something wonderful. Something beautiful.
You see, it turns out that at the big Joe Con in Atlanta a couple years ago, Roddy Piper had been a guest, and they'd made a custom figure for him as the PT instructor for the Iron Grenadiers.
Roddy goes for $350 and up, if you want one MOC. But there was a dealer with an opened on that was going for $100. Would we like to use it?
Would we, motherfucker? Do you have any other incredibly stupid... I mean yes, yes we would.
So, Sarge hefted that chair high in the air, and Roddy, the cowardly heel that he is, attempted to deflect the blow with his arms.
I wanted to pose the Rod figure down on one knee, but after my initial posing of him caused him to tip over and nearly fall on the floor, I decided to let discrection be the better part of valour.
I think Monte would have been proud.
The awesome comes after some lead in.
First, I attended FCBD festivities at a local store. The problem was this store, whicha ppears to be visiting from 1988, does not accept debit or credit cards. I don't really carry much cash on me. So I ended up getting the Darkest Night prequel book (which I liked more than iamheavenrender. A LOT more) and meeting them for Indian.
I had on my OSI shirt, which was inspired by the GI Joe logo. Brock Samson, BTW, would call Snake Eyes a douchebag and stick a knife in his kidney. Just saying.
We went to the Joe show, where I was looking primarily for Avatar action figures for Cynra. There were none (Sorry, honey!).
So I picked up a little something (LITERALLY) for absinthe_dot_ca and a tpb from shortpacked.
I considered doing my big "get all the Dreadnoks and the funky car" thing, but it would have been a bit more than I'd budgeted for the con. The Transformers/80s Toy Expo had been the previous weekend, and many of the dealers at JoeCon felt that the TF Con folk were attempting to smother the Joe Con. God, that old dance, eh?
Now, during my strolls across the hall, I saw a dealer who made custom paraphenalia for 3 3/4" action figures. One of these items was a folding chair. Idea! Sgt. Slaughter was a GI Joe figure. We should get a picture of him hitting someone with a chair!
So. I searched for a loose Sgt. Slaughter action figure. Bingo! But who to hit? Well, Cobra ne'er do well Copperhead was to be on the receiving end when we learned something wonderful. Something beautiful.
You see, it turns out that at the big Joe Con in Atlanta a couple years ago, Roddy Piper had been a guest, and they'd made a custom figure for him as the PT instructor for the Iron Grenadiers.
Roddy goes for $350 and up, if you want one MOC. But there was a dealer with an opened on that was going for $100. Would we like to use it?
Would we, motherfucker? Do you have any other incredibly stupid... I mean yes, yes we would.
So, Sarge hefted that chair high in the air, and Roddy, the cowardly heel that he is, attempted to deflect the blow with his arms.
I wanted to pose the Rod figure down on one knee, but after my initial posing of him caused him to tip over and nearly fall on the floor, I decided to let discrection be the better part of valour.
I think Monte would have been proud.