For the past several months, popular online G.I. Joe archive site The Joe Index has been offline due to issues with their webhost.  Well, I’m happy to report that the Joe Index is back online, under a new banner, now as TheGIJoeIndex.com.

While not quite complete, there is a wealth of great information with pictures, listings, year by year organization and a very unique interface.  If you’ve been a fan of the site and have been missing it, you can now add it back to your favorites!  If you haven’t checked it out, take this chance to do so, it’s another great resource.

TheGiJoeIndex.com

When it comes to this time of year, I find myself having a lot less free time, for obvious reasons…being a father of two young children, certain things take priority during the holiday season, and honestly updating my G.I. Joe website isn’t necessarily on top of the list. 

Over the past two days, we’ve had several Christmas “celebrations” more caloric intake than I care to admit, plenty of family time and lots of love and adoration from my two beautiful little girls during a time in our family’s “real life” that could use a bit of an uptick.

The commercialization of Christmas goes overboard, of course, and the celebration is purely about being close with the ones you love, but there’s something about the look in your four-year-old’s eyes when they see the tree first thing Christmas morning that is unlike anything else that happens that year.  It’s not just the “stuff”, it’s the spirit.  I do regret that I haven’t had more time in the past 72 hours to update the site, but hope to rectify that a bit this coming week, and now that the holiday rush has slowed down, I foresee more opportunitys for more content in the coming days.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

In case anyone’s not aware…I’m sure you may have noticed there haven’t been any real updates to the front page in a few days.  I’ve been a little bit busy…

At approximately 12:53am yesterday, my wife gave birth to a happy, healthy little girl named Allison.  She weighed in at 7 lb, 10 oz and everyone is doing great.  We are now back home and I’ve got 2 weeks off, so expect more site stuff than you could ever want. 

Well, probably not THAT much site stuff, I am spending as much time as I possibly can with the new addition and the rest of the family, but I’ve gotten some Rise of COBRA stuff that I haven’t reviewed yet, and I’ve got a few other neat things to cover, so things should pick back up.

Yo Joe!

Yeesh…not only did the Rise of COBRA movie hit, but I’ve been spending some serious time with the video game to get a review prepped, plus work has been nuts and my wife is about ready to burst with our second child, so we’ve been doing nursery prep and all that fun stuff.

So if you’ve noticed that news stories and reviews have slowed, please don’t worry about it!  Starting Monday, as long as I’m not in the hospital with the family, things will start picking back up again and going full steam.  I’ve got reviews in the hopper for the X-Box 360 game, Mark Bellomo’s excellent book that I’ve taken way too long to get a review done on, as well as many Rise of Cobra figures that I don’t have up yet.

So, while I know the Twitter feed and RSS Feed haven’t been cooking along quite as often as usual, rest assured, there’s plenty more to come, I haven’t lost my juice, just catching my breath a bit this week.  It’s been a whirlwind for Joe fans, but a great ride already!  Go see the movie like eight times so we can get some decent sequels out of it.

Well, SDCC was fun and everything, but getting it all sorted out and organized was a PITA of the highest level.  Regardless, the Toy Superpage should now be up to date (I think…  )

This is what I did, this go ’round:

• Added listings and images for Wal-Mart Battle Stations
• Added listings and images for Toys “R” Us Troop Builder 5-Packs
• Added listings and images for TRU Snow Serpent & Bench-Press
• Added listings and images for the white coat Doctor and unmasked Arctic Storm Shadow Variant
• Added listings and images for latest round of speculation (Duke, Ripcord, Desert-Viper, Storm Shadow, Resolute Snake Eyes)
• Separated Waves 2 & 3 of the Alpha vehicles and added images pertaining to them

I think that’s it.  If anyone finds anything I’ve missed, let me know, but I believe I’ve managed to capture everything.  Still refining the release dates and such, but most images have the tags in them with the release dates on them.  Check it out here.

Those who know me know that my wife is approaching 9 months pregnant…well today, I got an unexpected day off, so it was spent prepping the nursery, packing bags, and getting all the last strings tied up.  I will be playing catch up throughout the evening, so the news posts will definitely pick up.  I’m back at work the rest of the week, so the normal pace should continue.

Thanks for your patience!  SDCC is upon us!!

Just a friendly reminder that today is the day that we should be receiving answers to the latest round of G.I. Joe Q & A’s…  as always, GeneralsJoes will work as fast as possible and as thoroughly as possible to get links up throughout the evening.  I’ve been doing it since before it was the trend… 

Anyway, keep eyes peeled!

Oh, no!  Gary has joined Justin’s site too?!  Run for the hills!!

ACTUALLY, I am here to help a buddy out by occasionally adding content.  Whether it is talking about the current state-of-the-line, defending the Red Sox and bashing the Patsies (Go Colts!), I’m here to just add to the community.

It has been my observation that a solid number of the online fandom are new(er) collectors.  Whether they were vintage collectors from the 80’s who were lured back in with the Modern Era line, or just new collectors who simply started by picking up a figure at retail and got bit by the bug, many new fans have fired up the interwebs and have joined the online community.  If this is you, WELCOME my friends, you picked a heck of a time to get (back) into the hobby (and thank you for choosing GJ’s – shamless plug)!  I guess by comparison, I am one of those old foggies in the rocking chair as described by fellow GJ’s staffer Mike (I have Bulletman too!  :P).  Yikes, I just realized the other day that I remember when YoJoe launched…..geez, me-am-old!

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Lots of folks have been requesting it, so here it is…a SuperPage for G.I. Joe: Resolute!  Featuring links to the various artists on DeviantArt, links to the official site, and most importantly embedded video for every single episode, the JoeCon promotional piece, and even the Intro, exclusively used for the Adult Swim broadcast.

Check it all out right here!

As more information continues to trickle out, I’m doing some needed revamping to the Rise of COBRA Toy SuperPage.  In the past couple of days I’ve made the following changes:

• Added images for every single assortment, most of them carded
• Separated “Collection 2″ into the two separate waves based on retailer information from JoeSightings.com
• Added various items for Exclusives, Vehicles, etc…
• Added some Speculative listings for potential future items that have yet to be confirmed.

Check out the SuperPage here!  Thanks to everyone who has offered some help, and please let me know if there are any missing pieces.