The G.I. Joe Collectors’ Club sent along an email with some great deals on some of their exclusive figures available…  click the “Read the Rest of the Entry” link below to check them all out!

Time to get ready for fall inventory.  Get these items on sale now while it lasts. Some quantities are limited!  Sale ends September 17.  Prices listed are Officer Level prices.

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The Red Shadows are back and more dangerous than ever! To secure an alliance with Cobra, the Black Major must demonstrate the power of his mind-altering chemical weapons to Cobra Commander and Flint is the perfect guinea pig. Now a handful of G.I.Joe and Action Force agents must stop the Red Shadows and save Flint before he goes irrevocably insane. With amazing cover art by famed G.I. Joe artist Tim Seeley.

Tim Seeley provides an amazing cover for this exciting Red Shadows story, based on the 2010 G.I.Joe convention exclusive figure set! Interior art by G.I. Joe artist Sheldon Goh. Featuring exclusive character Dossiers and other bonus content.

Price: $4.95 Pages 32

Walk, Run, Drive to or Call your local comic shop and make sure to ask them to order the GI JOE VS COBRA FALL SPECIAL: VACATION IN THE SHADOWS!

So, we now know the date and place for the 2011 G.I. Joe Convention, which of course means that the guessing will start taking place!  Well, over on the GI Joe Collectors’ Club forums, “The Commander” has made our jobs at least a little bit easier.

A single thread has been created over there where they plan on posting information about the exclusive set for the upcoming 2011 convention, and so far they’ve given us two clues, albeit very minor ones.

“1) The set will contain 25A-style figures!

2) We are not revisiting a previous Convention set!”

So begins the game!

I know when they first announced that the o-ring figure convention sets were getting phased out, I was disappointed.  But it’s become quite evident that there is so limited a selection of tooling that really, we would only be shoe-horned into a very limited canvas that the club could work with.  As I see the Pursuit of Cobra surge forward, with Renegades looming in the distance, and think about all of the 25th Anniversary homage stuff that’s still hanging out there, I can think of a wealth of great things the Club can do with the new selection of tooling.

Hell, maybe they’ll even dip their toes into the Resolute pool?  One can only dream.

Regardless, they have so many more options with the new tooling format that I find it hard to complain, and I can’t help but get excited to see what they can do with this new format (when they’re not simply revisiting a set from years past).  Don’t disappoint me, Collectors’ Club!  ;)

In a surprise email from the GI Joe Collectors’ Club, the location and dates of the 2011 G.I. Joe Convention have been revealed!  Here is the context of the email:

“The 2011 International G.I. Joe Collectors’ Convention “G.I. Joe Con” will be held in Orlando, Florida, at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort, March 31-April 3!  This is an outstanding property at an outstanding rate!  You will not want to miss this one.  Orlando will be perfect this time of year, so bring the whole family for this fun-filled weekend!

Make your hotel reservations now at GIJoeCon.com.

Convention registration will be available this fall.  Watch for our new online registration system!”

The last time JoeCon was in Orlando was for the 2004 convention, and it was a BLAST.  While I’m sure there will be some concern about the dates, hopefully no one will be upset about the location.  Time to start thinking on whether or not I can make it next year.

Okay, maybe I’m the only one who didn’t know this…    I haven’t seen much speculation online as to where Dr. Venom’s head came from, though Lanny Latham from the Collectors’ Club did confirm that it was retooled from the vintage line.  I’d combed through the archives and couldn’t quite figure it out.  But thanks to some dilligent GeneralsJoes commentors, who set me straight in my review post, I know now that Venom’s head was retooled from the Mortal Kombat Liu Kang!

Great detective work.  I love digging this stuff up, and I’m consistently surprised at how much mileage the Club can get out of those older tools (the ones still left in existence, anyway).  Check out the comparison image below.  Many features look similar…the hair, the nose.  But obviously the neck ball was removed, and the hair must have been trimmed up a bit as well.  Any thoughts from anyone else?

Yesterday I covered the GIJCC Adventure Team Commander.  Today, we’re focusing our attention on the other half of that two-pack, the GIJCC Exclusive Dr. Venom!  It took over two decades, but finally Cobra’s first mad scientist appears in plastic form.  You can check out the review in the GIJCC Reviews section or this link.

As always, too, if you like what you see, pick up the 2 pack at the GIJCC Shop.

My “one review per day” promise continues full steam ahead…and today I bring you a review for the excellent Adventure Team Commander, offered from the G.I. Joe Collectors’ Club.  Using modern era sculpting with a newly tooled head, this is a great 4″ representation of the 12″ iconic Adventure Team leader.  I love the way the Club is combining the Adventure Team and Real American Hero universes.

Anyway, I’ve linked the review in with the Exclusives and the GIJCC Section, or you can just check it out directly right here.

Now that the 2010 JoeCon is over, lots of folks have been emailing and asking me what’s up with the 2009 Convention Set review…and honestly, I don’t own it.  It’s not over some protest to the 25th Anniversary tooling or anything, it’s just the fact that I missed the Convention last year due to the birth of my child, and I just haven’t been able to scare up the funds to buy these items all at one whack yet.  Normally, I make a concerted effort to save money aside for the Convention as it approaches, but this time around, I knew I wasn’t going, so stupidly I didn’t stick to my regiment of cash savings in preparation.

Eventually I’m certain I’ll get my hands on these, especially the International Team 3-Pack and the SAS Copter with Blades, as those two items in particular are impressive, to say the least.

Until I get my hands on them, though, regular GeneralsJoes contributor Mysterious Stranger has stepped up to the plate and delivered a great guest review of this set!  I love having guest reviewers send their stuff in, but tackling a review of a massive convention set goes way above and beyond the call of duty.  Thanks a lot, Chris!

You can find the review linked in the GI Joe Collectors’ Club Reviews section, or you can also find it right here.

The G.I. Joe Club Store has received pre-order information for the first couple of rounds of Pursuit of Cobra product, and their Officer level pricing is very reasonable.

Click the “Read the Rest of this Entry” link below to get all of the great pre-order details so you can be sure to be first in line to get these impressive looking new G.I. Joe action figures.

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