This is awesome.
May. 8th, 2009 01:37 pmSo, 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.
( Something behind this cut. )
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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
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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
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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.
( Something behind this cut. )