One of the top G.I. Joe events of the year has been announced for a while now, but advanced tickets are now on sale!  Please check out the announcement below:

“We’ve set up pre-sale tickets online for the 2012 CanJoeCon. No one likes Ticketmaster, so we’re using BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM to take care of everything for us, and you! They’ll ship your tickets to you for FREE if you live in North America, and by pre-purchasing your admission tickets, you’re ensuring that you’ll get into the Canadian Joe Con quickly with minimum time in line! Check them out and order your tickets online now!

Tickets will only be available online until July 10th.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/245185“

How cool is that?  Buy your tickets early and get ready for the 2012 Canadian Joe Con!  Taking place at the Sheraton Toronto Airport Hotel & Conference Centre on August 10th and 11th, it’s the “go to” event for Joe fans north of the border, and a huge event for the United States based fans as well.  Don’t miss it.

Keep your eyes on CanadianJoeCon.com for all of the latest details.

It’s been a long time, but the national nightmare is over… the JoeCanuck newsletter has returned!

With the Canadian JoeCon coming up in August, things look like they’re rolling along again with the JoeCanuck newsletter, with a change in release schedule to quarterly, but the same exciting newsletter content!

Great articles about G.I. Joe: Renegades, G.I. Joe articulation formats, and an interview with Gary from What’s on Joe Mind, there’s a bunch of great stuff crammed inside one awesome PDF.  Check out the latest newsletter right here.

Also make sure you keep your eyes on CanadianJoeCon.com for the most up to date information on the Canadian JoeCon, coming up August 10th and 11th.

The Canadian JoeCon has been officially announced!

Courtesy of the Canadian JoeCon Website, the 2012 convention has been announced for August 10th – 11th at the Sheraton Toronto Airport Hotel and Conference Center.

For all of the latest and greatest Canadian Joe Con info keep your eyes peeled to CanadianJoeCon.com!

Because your American brothers are suddenly going to be your best friends.

That’s right, the day is nigh.  Over on HissTank.com, bandonov reports that he has found the Pursuit of Cobra Ashiko w/ Cycle Armor and HISS Scout at “Winners” (which is the Canadian equivolent of  TJ Maxx).  For $9.99.

Yes, that’s right…  they are officially at Canadian retail.  Let the fury begin!

And for folks who aren’t sure what to think of Ashiko and the Cycle Armor, check out my review right here.

Start making some friends North of the border… JoeCanuck  has gotten word from Hasbro Canada that Zellers has agreed to carry the missing Alpha Vehicles for the Pursuit of Cobra toyline, which includes the highly sought after Ashiko w/ Cycle Armor and HISS Scout vehicles!

The exact phrase of the email is below:

“Just got word from Hasbro Canada that due to the fan outpouring and
feedback on these units, Zellers has stepped up to the plate and ordered
them!

That’s right – The HISS Scout and Cycle Armour have left Hasbro’s
warehouses and are en route to a Zellers near you! Look for them to arrive
within the next little while.

So, we said our piece, and Hasbro and Zellers listened. Now it’s up to us
to show them that it was a good decision by getting out there and buying
this stock up!

Talk about it here:

http://www.joecanuck.com/board1/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5778“

This is awesome news!  Thanks to Stealth Viper and the folks at JoeCanuck for the heads up.

Fresh from their trip up North, Greg and Gary have posted a very special “Canadian Joe Con” edition of the Whats on Joe Mind podcast!  Featuring interviews with Tristan Rudat (producer/director of the Code Name: Blast Off Documentary), Ryan from the Canadian Joe Con staff, and Pluv from JoeCustoms.com, they talk about the trip, talk about their time up North and all of the great things to see and do at the CJC!

Also don’t miss James Kavanaugh, Jr. tormenting people in line at 2am in the morning the night before.  Must listen radio!  Check it out at the Podbean Page, subscribe via iTunes, or just listen through the embedded player below.  Also stay tuned, because even though this episode is posted today, another one will still be coming this week!

Over the weekend I posted a handful of packaged images from the upcoming 30th Anniversary figures, thanks to Gary and Stealth Viper.  Well, the Fighting 118th has come through with even more images!  They’ve got nearly every figure from the apparent initial release of the upcoming Joe line.

Interesting changes include:

• Lack of camouflage on Iron Grenadier
• Red Arm Guards and updated weapons load from the Cobra Viper
• Cobra Trooper looks to be much the same (why no AK-47?!?)
• Steel Brigade looks to be much the same

Check out the thread right here, and I’ve also mirrored the images below.  A big thanks to ‘emike’ for the heads up!

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Ask and ye shall receive!  Gary and Ed, both live from the Canadian JoeCon have come through with some more images of new PoC items, including a couple great close ups of the Cobra Viper with the red arm guards!

Awesome work, guys, thanks!!  And be sure to keep tuned to JoeCanuck.com for the latest and greatest details from the Canadian JoeCon!!

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After being absent from the Canadian JoeCon last year, Hasbro Canada has returned this year and brings some nice stuff along with ‘em!  On the spot reporter and fellow What’s on Joe Mind podcast member Gary is in Toronto and has shared some images of upcoming Pursuit of Cobra items on card and at the Con!

So far we’ve got an image of the carded Pursuit of Cobra Stalker, and we’ve sent word along to Gary so hopefully we’ll get some more goodies as the day goes on!

Playing a little bit of catch up on news for the past day or two…and with the Canadian Joe Con coming quick, more exclusive figure revelations have taken place!  The two newest members of the Canadian branch of the Joe team are Traceroute and Valkyrie!

Check them out right here.

A pair of VERY cool looking figures.  Valkyrie is obviously based on the Pilot Scarlett anniversary figure, which lends an awesome sheen to the torso paint job that I love.  Traceroute has a bit more customization to him, with what appears to be a new head, and a great combination of parts from the neck down as well.

Two more very cool looking figures, and a set that is shaping up to be impressive indeed.

Keep your eyes on CanadianJoeCon.com and JoeCanuck.com as always for the latest and greatest news and info!