Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted August 26, 2009 Posted August 26, 2009 I used the Triad Toy's Catsuit 1.0 Female outfit. I could not find anymore available Barenless suits; they're sold out everywhere. The Triad Toy's Barenless outfit I do have is on the 1/6 Midori Washio Cy Girl figure (i didn't like the baggy look). I wanted to transfer the outfit to the Baroness, but decided that the Catsuit's laced-up boots gave more of that "baroness" feel. Heh. Here's the Catsuit 1.0 outfit: http://www.triadestore.com/catsuit-female-p-1795.html Hey how durable are the Triad Toy figure bodies? I saw the Shirokage figure and am thinking about buying it. Interesting back story too. Quote
doodler7 Posted August 26, 2009 Posted August 26, 2009 Hey how durable are the Triad Toy figure bodies? I saw the Shirokage figure and am thinking about buying it. Interesting back story too. Hi Shin, Upon opening up the Otaku 1.2 female figure, you'll notice a satin finish on the figure rathern than the PVC feel. It's somewhat translucent giving that "porcelain" look, very smooth; I think they did this to simulate skin/flesh tone. I would assume the same treatment with the male figure. Replacement chest pieces would be nice too...but it's lacking. The EVO & EVA will have them. The Otaku 1.2 female boobs are huge! Even my wife said, "gosh damn, those are huge!"....double Ds! One thing that I do not like is that there are no articulation on the rib cage area. You may discover this on the Shirokage figure. The Otake 1.2 female bodies are the same. But you can purchase an extra body, S1 for the female and Omega for the male...these basic, base bodies will have articulation on the torso and rib cage area. I noticed the weight of the Otaku 1.2 figure is heavier than the normal PVC figures. Also, A MUST!...read the instruction regarding exchanging wrist/hands and feet/ankle joints. I was too excited to check it out and ended up breaking the pivot joint. Triad bodies require you to heat them up with a heat gun or hair dyer to soften the plastic, then you can easily pull off the feet or hands....and place the new accessory. Their claim is that once the plastic cools, it will return to it's more solidified state so that the joint never becomes loose and will stay tight for a long time. If you have extra cash, pre-order the EVO Caucasian body to replace the Shirokage body. You'll have plenty more articulation. I hope this helps. Quote
doodler7 Posted August 26, 2009 Posted August 26, 2009 Is "dangercorpse" one of you guys or gals on MW? He's got a great looking Baroness using the Baronless Outfit. the photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dedguy/281638...in/photostream/ Quote
David Hingtgen Posted August 26, 2009 Posted August 26, 2009 I've got most of the parts to do a very similar Baroness---haven't done it yet though. (after seeing how poor the official one is, this is about your only option) If anyone wants to know EXACTLY what's on that figure, I can tell you) Quote
doodler7 Posted August 27, 2009 Posted August 27, 2009 I've got most of the parts to do a very similar Baroness---haven't done it yet though. (after seeing how poor the official one is, this is about your only option) If anyone wants to know EXACTLY what's on that figure, I can tell you) David, How did he/she get the cobra logo on her chest/vest? It looks cool and nice. Quote
David Hingtgen Posted August 27, 2009 Posted August 27, 2009 That's just a sticker from CobraStickers, applied very well. http://www.cobrastickers.com/index.php?mai...p;products_id=8 Quote
doodler7 Posted August 27, 2009 Posted August 27, 2009 That's just a sticker from CobraStickers, applied very well. http://www.cobrastickers.com/index.php?mai...p;products_id=8 Right on! Thanks man! Quote
areaseven Posted August 28, 2009 Posted August 28, 2009 (edited) Even this clip is more enjoyable than the new movie. Edited December 25, 2015 by areaseven Quote
Mog Posted August 28, 2009 Posted August 28, 2009 Thanks A7. Now I won't be able to get that bloody song out of my head! We're Cold SLITHER!! You'll be joining us soon! A band of vipers playing our tune!! Quote
doodler7 Posted August 29, 2009 Posted August 29, 2009 Ha ha! Great clips guys! Here's one...always cracks me up! Quote
BeyondTheGrave Posted December 21, 2009 Posted December 21, 2009 This movie could have been better if Channing Tatum wasn't in it as a lead character. I like pace of how it moves. The more sinister cobra commander is cool. Quote
VFTF1 Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 I just got around to watching this on DVD. Suffice to say I didn't need to see it on the big screen.... Anyways - It was enjoyable. Kind of like the first Transformers movie was enjoyable. Why did Storm Shadow have to die though? That was too bad. Changing their back stories was kind of inevitable I guess, since the whole Vietnam war background would make them all like 60 years old now or something like that... I dunno.. the movie was cliche. I kind of didn't like how Cobra Commander "emerged" only at the end... and i... eh... whatever... Not much to talk about. I'm now going to fry the other half of my brain watching ROTF for the first time. Neither Baroness NOR Scarlett were hot. Oh - and the amount of civilian casualties GI Joe causes is enormous... And ... and... umm... Ripcord was funny. Duke reminded me of somebody out of a teen pop music video... I'm not sure what motivated Rex though - he had to just b... oh... ah... whatever. No point asking too many questions about this movie... I wish the girls were hotter though. Neither of them fit the character. Baroness's hair was so thin...and I hated the glasses they gave her. As for Scarlet...meh... I hope they make a sequel...sort of. Pete Quote
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 (edited) *Snip* Storm Shadow isn't dead. Last year, his agency announced that he would be working on sequel(s) starting as early as this year(or was it late last year?). Sommers has gone onto say that Storm Shadow did not kill the Hard Master. In the movie adaptation by IDW, Storm Shadow tells Snake Eyes in their last battle that he did not kill the Hard Master. The guys who wrote Zombieland and are writing the upcoming Deadpool movie are also writing G.I. Joe 2. Not to mention, Paramount has mentioned several times last year that they were going to make a sequel. Also, IDW is launching OPERATION HISS this month, a comic that takes place after Rise of Cobra, in which Storm Shadow returns. There is also a cartoon planned for OPERATION HISS this year. Edited January 31, 2010 by Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Quote
VFTF1 Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 (edited) I'm glad to hear Storm Shadow is not dead. He was my favorite character in the movie. Very smooth, and not as much method acting as the others.... I watched it again today. It's a fun film. I just hope Cobra Commander changes out of the over coat for GI Joe 2. I miss his "normal" outfit.... Pete Edited February 1, 2010 by VFTF1 Quote
DarrinG Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 I see that Transformers II and G.I. Joe are up for a number of awards! Huh - how bout that . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8491488.stm Quote
VFTF1 Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Awards shords Anyways...I watched GI Joe again last night...and it's cool. It's cool. I think part of the problem is that there's a disonnect between my idolization from my youth and my lookin at this now as an adult... Although...I was never totally into GI Joe... I actually always liked Cobra - they were the interesting characters. It's no different here. The Joes are borin. Ripcord is at least funny, Scarlet has no character beyond being a love interest and apparently beating up little girls and boys in school, Breaker has ZERO character - all he does is speak with an Australian accent. That's the extent of his character development. Maurice - or whatever his name is...basically the same... his entire character is encased in his french accent. But then again - in the cartoon it was kind of like that too. There was no time to properly delve into all the different Joe characters so they were all kind of stereotyped... Althouh...usually they were MILITARY stereotypes.... Cobra on the other hand was just a zillion Red Shirts and then a very close nit band of dudes. So they seemed to get more play and their characters got more attention... Anyways...Dr. Mindbender being in this film is funny He's like....totally .....it's just funny... Ah...whatever - it's GI Joe. It's well done. I give the film an A+ Seriously. If you think it sucks - it does. So why an A+? Because it's GI JOE. The film does what it's supposed to do. You can't make GI JOE better than this. GI Joe is no better than this. If you leave your brain at the door and just sit back and relax -it's a good flick. Pete Quote
David Hingtgen Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 I could have made GI Joe a lot better than that. I'd have started by casting a Baroness that wasn't skinny and blonde and not making everyone in Joe and Cobra related to each other. Quote
VFTF1 Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 The thing with the skinny/blond critique is that this is the problem with American aesthetics. Apparently - and I don't know how or when this happened because I've been outside the USA for a long time now - but apparently at some point in America, it became fashionable for women to look like they lived in a Concentration Camp for the last four years. Seriously - I even heard on the radio here that the editor of Vogue magazine wrote an article where she said that she had enough of the skeleton girls and would feature more shaply girls in Vogue. And by shapley - I don't mean fat. I mean - not twigs. Like - the blond chick Pretender from Transformers is an excellent example - I mean...she's just this stick and yet she's featured as this hug sexual temptation. I'm sitting there like "dag...girl needs to eat something" but the way the show her off it's like "ok - here's the hunny that's gunna drive everyone wild." I don't know. For the first time in my life - I am actually apparently outside of the mainstream in terms of what I view as a hot girl. I like to think that America has just really zeroed in on this. Because I don't see many girls in Poland, nor did I see many girls in...say...Dubrovnik (when I was there back in 07)...walkin around on the beech looking like twigs. And again - this doesn't mean they're "fat." The last American icon of sex that did NOT have the twig-concentration-camp look was Pamela Anderson. I would describe her as being curvacious, full, proportional. But she was at her peek as a sexual icon in what? The 90s? Anna Nicole Smith was another example of a hot girl who was no twig. Nowadays - every time I see an American popcorn movie, there's this super obsession with twig women. So... yeah - I agree - Baroness was badly cast. Her hair needed to be fuller, she was too skinny (although Scarlet was not the best casting choice either)... Both girls looked off. But...in the end... it's like...whatever.... I dunno...it didn't bother me. Maybe they'll pull a James Bond and can chane the actress for the Baroness? Why not? If Bond can change actors...Batman...why not Baroness? I agree that it would be cooler if they found a better looking woman or asked this one to actually go work out. I mean - that's the problem with these American popcorn flick girls nowadays - they look like ALL they do is just sit in a closet and not eat. That's it. They don't even look athletic - like do they swim? Play tennis? Jog? ANYTHING? I dunno. They look like all they do is not eat.... But GI Joe was still a good flick Pete Quote
CoryHolmes Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 GI Joe worked as a film for the simple reason that it was utterly shameless and unpretensious about what it is: an 80s cartoon brought to life. Could it have been better or different? Easily. But it wore it's "I'm based on a cartoon!" banner quite proudly. Quote
miles316 Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 The thing with the skinny/blond critique is that this is the problem with American aesthetics. Apparently - and I don't know how or when this happened because I've been outside the USA for a long time now - but apparently at some point in America, it became fashionable for women to look like they lived in a Concentration Camp for the last four years. Seriously - I even heard on the radio here that the editor of Vogue magazine wrote an article where she said that she had enough of the skeleton girls and would feature more shaply girls in Vogue. And by shapley - I don't mean fat. I mean - not twigs. Like - the blond chick Pretender from Transformers is an excellent example - I mean...she's just this stick and yet she's featured as this hug sexual temptation. I'm sitting there like "dag...girl needs to eat something" but the way the show her off it's like "ok - here's the hunny that's gunna drive everyone wild." I don't know. For the first time in my life - I am actually apparently outside of the mainstream in terms of what I view as a hot girl. I like to think that America has just really zeroed in on this. Because I don't see many girls in Poland, nor did I see many girls in...say...Dubrovnik (when I was there back in 07)...walkin around on the beech looking like twigs. And again - this doesn't mean they're "fat." The last American icon of sex that did NOT have the twig-concentration-camp look was Pamela Anderson. I would describe her as being curvacious, full, proportional. But she was at her peek as a sexual icon in what? The 90s? Anna Nicole Smith was another example of a hot girl who was no twig. Nowadays - every time I see an American popcorn movie, there's this super obsession with twig women. So... yeah - I agree - Baroness was badly cast. Her hair needed to be fuller, she was too skinny (although Scarlet was not the best casting choice either)... Both girls looked off. But...in the end... it's like...whatever.... I dunno...it didn't bother me. Maybe they'll pull a James Bond and can chane the actress for the Baroness? Why not? If Bond can change actors...Batman...why not Baroness? I agree that it would be cooler if they found a better looking woman or asked this one to actually go work out. I mean - that's the problem with these American popcorn flick girls nowadays - they look like ALL they do is just sit in a closet and not eat. That's it. They don't even look athletic - like do they swim? Play tennis? Jog? ANYTHING? I dunno. They look like all they do is not eat.... But GI Joe was still a good flick Pete I agree about having a new actress playing the Baroness they even have a ready made reason given that Cobra Commander manufactured her using his grief stricken sister he could just as easily use some anonymous woman to make a new Baroness. Quote
David Hingtgen Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 That's a really good idea. If the Baroness is little more than a "programming subset" of nanomachines set to CC's whims, you really could use anyone. Quote
eugimon Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 it's far too clever of an idea for the people who brought us sinking ice. Quote
VFTF1 Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 I still think that was the WEAKEST part of the movie. "Do you have any idea what it felt like? I gave her a way to deal with the pain!" Huh? She felt hurt and alone because Duke couldn't bear to face her because Rex was dead. So...Rex comes back...sees that his sister is distressed because she's suffering and...decides to inject her with his his Zombie juice... But...why not just say..."hey sis! It's me! I lived!" ? I mean...he explains it to Duke by saying "Science demands sacrifice!" But...does it really? Doing what he did to his sister was just arbitrary. Why not take any random chick off the street? But then...I'm commiting a capital offence: namely asking for logic from GI Joe the movie... although... the original movie was logical...I thought... Pete Quote
BeyondTheGrave Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 @VFTF1: At least you realize its not a movie your supposed to take ultra seriously. I do agree upon the fact that characters were miscast. Also the fact that A woman/girl with some weight on her is more attractive than a twig. I'm not sure where that trend started (I think reality TV had a large part in influencing it) but it does need to end. i have a feeling that movies like these will become like the old Bond movies. It campy you know its campy but you don't care b/c their fun. Quote
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 That's a really good idea. If the Baroness is little more than a "programming subset" of nanomachines set to CC's whims, you really could use anyone. The Baroness in the IDW comics is the best one so far, infinitely better than the movie version. Quote
VFTF1 Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Re: the Bond movies comparisson...yes...and no... Not all Bond movies are born equal. I am personally a huge fan of the Roger Moore movies, amongst which only Live and Let Die was truly campy. All the other ones were extremely well executed IMO. Some of Sean Conery's films were campy, but I actually have not seen all of them and am hard pressed to comment. The campiness in Bond really started, IMO, with Pierce Brosnan. I remember LOVING the Austin Powers parody - the Spy who Shagged me - and then I went to see Live Another Day (I think that's what it was called) - the first Brosnan as Bond movie... I fell off my chair. I could not believe it. Brosnan's Bond was NO DIFFERENT from Austin Powers. It was the one with Hughy Lewy or whatever that lady actress is named - the one who got the oscar for some other film...the one who played can woman... she royally sucked in the movie. But not just her - the whole movie - Bond's lines were SO cheesy. The action sequences were ridiculous - I mean...Austin Powers ridiculous... I think the advent of CGI has made people sick in the head in terms of what it is possible to show. They think "wouldn't it be utterly cool if we showed [insert physically implausible acts]" .... with the pre-CGI stunts - sure...they wanted to show crazy amazing stuff...but usually they were limited by physical reality in terms of what stunts were possible. It's one thing to use CGI to render things we can't build (robots) or things that don't exist (space ships, other planets, aliens) ... but I hate it when CGI is used to just flaunt the laws of physics and create an on-screen comic book where the hero executes a series of improbable moves at slow motion.... The newest Bond - the ugly dude - I've only seen Casino Royale - but I thought it was EXCELLENT. It was such a relief after Pierce Brosnan's Bond to get something that was good. Now - yes...you're right that there's a level of camp to ALL the Bonds... but I actually think Roger Moore's Bonds are excellent Cold War spy sagas. There are some flabouyant moments, and Live and Let Die is just dumb more than camp (I don't know WHAT the hell they were thinking when they came up with that episode). However, Moonraker is beautiful, the Spy Who Loved me has a great plot...I could go on... The point is - GI Joe is borderline Austin Powers in its' presentation... so... not totally comparable to Bond camp... Pete Quote
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 Storm Shadow To Play An Even Bigger Role In G.I. Joe 2 Hell yeah! Quote
David Hingtgen Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 So what's the story on him being alive still? I mean, he was VAPORIZED. He wasn't "shot in the chest and people just assumed he died off-screen". Quote
eugimon Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 So what's the story on him being alive still? I mean, he was VAPORIZED. He wasn't "shot in the chest and people just assumed he died off-screen". I thought he just fell in the water? Quote
David Hingtgen Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 That wasn't water. More like an electric plasma-nanite field, which was shown previously to dissolve anything that touched it, IIRC. Quote
eugimon Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 That wasn't water. More like an electric plasma-nanite field, which was shown previously to dissolve anything that touched it, IIRC. I remember there was instant-zappo-plasma but I'm pretty sure he fell into water Quote
David Hingtgen Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 I only saw the movie once, but I think maybe the zap-field was above the water, and he got zapped before he hit the water. Either way, definitely zapped by beam/arc/ray of insta-death-zapping. Quote
Uxi Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 The nanobots brought him back. I was most disappointed in the Duke actor and the Wayans Brother. Former came across as TOO wannabe bad ass while the latter tried too hard to be funny. I loved Storm Shadow and Snake-Eyes, even with the deviation from Marvel. I liked the Baroness with the dark hair but she lost alot of her attraction when she went blonde. I actually did like the Cobra Commander arc, though the Rex part was a bit silly. Interested to see if they'll have more Mind Bender (wish they had called him "Dr Venom" or something instead). Love the first Storm Shadow and Snake-Eyes fight (though didn't get why Snake gave up and wasn't pursuing him all the way to the glider). Quote
Gaijin Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 That wasn't water. More like an electric plasma-nanite field, which was shown previously to dissolve anything that touched it, IIRC. I dunno; looks like water to me... What part showed it dissolving anything? Quote
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