"The JoeCon Brochures are out!" Those 5 words are just as potent to a Joe fan as "Gentlemen, start your engines!" is to a race car driver, because to us it means JoeCon is drawing closer and registration time is near. Print off your forms and follow along with Gary and Justin, who between them share their nearly 20 years of JoeCon experience. Our dynamic duo will attempt to help you understand the brochure and read between the lines on this annually anticipated document. From the con sets, to the package choices, to the guests, to the pre-con tours, they'll break it down for you in tinier, much easier to swallow morsels. Now all you need to do is print out the brochure and follow along! We've been on the road to New Orleans for a couple of weeks now, but the city lights are now visible in the distance. We're your Golden Ticket to a successful JoeCon. It all starts here...!
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This week we step back into the shadowy depths of the fandom to find the person responsible for the very cool, but very outlawed fan made video game, GI Joe: The Attack on Cobra Island. A crack team of WOJM investigative reporters, seasoned by watching 20/20 tracked down the lead designer of the game, known to us as Lord Skiff (aka Range Viper). Skiff, or Skiffer as Mike likes to call him, agreed to a clandestine interview. TO protect his privacy, Skiff asked that we disguise his voice. He's an every day collector and fan just like you and me. Find out what he has to say about his game, the C&D issued by Hasbro's lawyers and its foggy future. Rounding out the first half of the program, our buddy and admin of JoeBattlelines.com, Fred Meyer (aka Leo T. Dragon) gives an indepth review and historical lession of the 2002 JoeCon Crimson Strike Team set. Following halftime we were joined by Michael (aka Counterpunch) co-host of the Seibertron.com Twincast Podcast to discuss the atmosphere at BotCon and some of the differences and similarities of the opposing fandoms. You'd be surprised at what we discover. After our good byes with Counterpunch, we dip into the mailbag for some JoeCon related questions. In the news, Chuck GUSHES about the new YoJoe.com layout. The rest of us admit, it is AWESOME! THe GIJCC unveils Stormavik and the first figure of the opposing faction - you get our reactions. All this and a ton more, PLUS we debut our new ORIGINAL theme music by composer Mat Howlett!! The countdown to JoeCon 2012 continues! Join the fun, won't you?
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After the build up of the last couple of weeks, we finally got a chance to slow down and return to our more casual roots of reporting on the fandom. We gave Justin the week off because his throat hurt from making howling sounds at the moon fending off his new log cabin homestead site from bears, wolves and catamounts in the New Hampshire outback. Speaking of outback, able bodied Austrailian and Fwooshcast co-host Craig joined us along with our FAVORITE 12" collector, our buddy Ace Allgood. We catch up on the latest 12" community happenings with Ace including the GIJCC 12" MAN OF EVIL figure, what happened at JoeLanta, and how the 12" community is reacting to the issues of the GIJCC. In the second half, we go to the mailbag first and read a letter from a listener who had "the best Joe Day EVER!" In the news we talk about the new Retaliation pre-orders available from most retailers (we recommend Kokomo Toys for your Retaliation needs). IDW finally pairs up GI Joe in a cross over that doesn't involve robots (THANK YOU!). Amazon has begun selling and shipping their exclusive Retaliation and Renegades 4-packs. Plus information on the latest GIJCC newsletter and JoeCon set reveal of Col. Brekhov. Shogi Scott once again does a great review, this time of the 2010 JoeCon Vacation in the Shadows set - if you don't have one, you'll want to hear all about it! It's the STRETCH RUN to the 2012 JoeCon in NOLA! The push begins now... (this is your cue to go listen!)
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LIVE FROM St. Louis, Indianapolis, Kansas City, New York, Seattle, Dayton, Milwaukee AND Sydney, its the ONE YEAR What's on JOE Mind Anniversary spectacular! This is the episode where we have YOU the fans call in and join us in the conversation! Also joining us on hotline calls were Operation Red Retrieval Director Mark Cheng, Canadian Joe Con promoter Mike Heddle, Marvel's Director of Communication Arune Singh AND...HERB FROM RHODE ISLAND! Instead of jamming this event into one TINY podcast, we decided to loosen the belt a little and let the show expand into what is now OUR LONGEST EPISODE EVER! I mean, with so many folks calling in, how could we NOT talk to all of you, our fans who stuck with us over the last year. As a special thank you, we got the biggest and best voice in ALL of the Joe Sunbow world to sit down with us for a solid hour. We had the one, the only, Michael Bell (aka Duke) shoot the bull with us AND critique Chuck on his horrible Major Bludd impersonation/immitation (call it what you want, he does neither good).
The remainder of the "first half" of the show are ALL of your calls while two lucky callers walk away with some Robert Atkins art for just calling in. Pretty sweet! We also get the latest on the Canadian Joe Con, Greg makes a return and Craig teases us about seeing The Avengers.
During our halftime break, we debut our newest promo. Will Chuck finally get to talk about robots in it?
In the news we talk about the GIJCC reveals of Diana and Schrage (which we pronounced a number of ways, including one with a tweeeest). Pics from China reveal the long rumored Amazon 4-pack and we get an additional surprise of a Renegades 4-pack. The single pack "dollar store" figures appear in The Philippines and we discover variants and running changes to the line. SyFy.com launches GI Joe: Special Ops (sounds like a podcast) social media game. IDW employees shoot down concernes about the Joe titles being scaled back. On the movie front, we got a ton of new movie posters and poster variants...and FINALLY, the big news of the week are the plethoria of domestic and regional trailers which will hold us over until the big day in June.
In the final segment of the show, the remaining cast and special guest, Will Bell, give their thoughts over the last year. Sure, its a little gratuitous back patting, but for anyone who has a podcast, been on a podcast or attempted a podcast, this is NOT easy work. We thank you the listeners for all the comments, good and bad, who fueled this show to this day. It is not often anything last long enough to complete a year and we thank you for being part of the ride.
One year is just the beginning for WOJM. The show is often immitated but it will never be duplicated. There is so much more to talk about for 2012, the movie, the toys, the comics and all the cons - and we'll be there with you, every week to talk about it. Hotel internet sucks! Now let's roll!!
Our apologies for anyone who go in the queue and didn't get a chance to be on the show. From the sounds of things this was a successful concept and we will do it again in the future.
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**THE FOLLOWING PODCAST CONTAINS RETALIATION MOVIE SPOILERS. LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!**
OK, no kidding around here. This podcast contains EXTREME GI Joe Retaliation spoilers. You will be warned at the beginning of the podcast and also within. Once you pass those, consider yourself warned. We do not want to hear anyone complain they heard spoilers here, especially after all the warnings. Your cries and complaints will fall on deaf ears. From herein, you are on your own.
Justin and Gary are joined by friend of the program and promoter of Roll Out/Roll Call 3 Dave Tree. Dave had an awesome opportunity to catch a 10 minute screening of the upcoming GI Joe movie, Retaliation. Dave spends the next hour with us going into detail as to what he has seen, including surprises we have not heard as of yet and confirming rumors that have been long in circulation. However, that is ALL you are going to get in this description. If you want to hear and learn more, you need to listen to the show.
GI Joe Retaliation, the sequel to 2009 film GI Joe Rise of Cobra, opens in the USA June 29, 2012 at a theater near you.
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As shows go, this was supposed to be a laid back one. Justin originally had the night off due to an IT project he had at work so we had an able bodied noted author ready to fill in for him. As it turned out, those IT plans went awre and a ton of news hit so it was quite helpful to have all hands on deck with this episode. In the first half of the show we are joined by our buddy Jay from CardedHeroes.com in a pre-recorded interview we had with artist Jeremy Dale. If the name is not familiar to you, as a Joe collector you should know his work from the 25th Anniversary comic 2-packs (ie Issue 21.5). Ironically, he's is from the same city as one of our sponsors, Kokomo Toys, so how could we NOT have him on, right? From the mailbag we discover Mike went to college with one of our listeners and holds a strong opinion of one supermodel Christy Brinkley. What does Mike have to say? Also from the mailbag, we toss around substitution ideas for the o-ring and disclose what 3 Joes we will rescue from a fire. Naturally, Chuck doesn't care about his Joes, so this should not surprise anyone. In the second half, we lead off with the news, and we FINALLY have good news from the club: Footloose is shipping! At the time of the recording, no one in the fandom got theirs, but SURE ENOUGH, a day after recording, they started showing up in GREAT BRITAIN of all places. Retaliation talk took up much of the remainder of the news with some spoiler free information leaking on some test screenings, Wave 1 Retaliation figures begin appearing literally right in Gary's backyard, a mystery black uniformed Cobra Commander sells for INSANE money on eBay (which later turns out to be part of the long talked about on this show - Amazon 4-pack), and some new single-carded Joes destined for "dollar stores" have the community abuzz after the limited articulation issues of the movie line. Wrapping up the program, Gary reveals he has "acquired" the Retaliation Ghost Hawk 2 jet and Retaliation HISS Tank. What does he have to say about these two large vehicles.
JUST A REMINDER!
For our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY show, our guest(s) will be YOU! By popular demand, we will be doing a "CALL IN" show.
Here's how it will work:
First, you gotta have Skype. If you don't have Skype, go to www.skype,com to download it.
Second, we'd prefer you have some type of headset/microphone combo. Its not essential, but if we can't hear ya, it will be hard to record ya.
Third, add chuckdawg1999 to your Skype contacts.
Fourth, join us on Skype April 24th - THIS TUESDAY NIGHT at 9pm EASTERN. Contact Chuck to let him know you want on the show - and bring a good question or topic to talk about will ya, or Justin, Mike and I will resort to sports talk which will anger a bunch of people and you don't want that.
Every 5th caller, gets a prize (and not some crummy figure you already have, but a GOOD prize)!
In the meantime, if you have any questions, hit us up here or add us on Twitter: @GeneralsJoes, @chuckdawg1999, @Beachhead_WOJM and @garygodsoe
Until then, enjoy Episode 51!
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It's here! It's our 50th episode!! This week we are joined by Marvel's Arune Singh and former GI Joe writer for Devil's Due, Brandon Jerwa. Brandon tells us his vision of how the adventures of GI Joe would unfold in the DDP universe. Learn more about his favorite characters, how Wraith came to be, and which October Guard is Brandon modeled after. Not only do we talk about Joe with Brandon, but we hear about his experiences on the Highlander and Battlestar Galatica properties. Brandon also tells us about his new project, Shooter, set to launch April 19th. Don't miss it! Next we talked to Arune some more about the next couple of weeks which will be HUGE for Marvel, including the Avengers v. X-Men epic cross over title AND how could we forget about Avengers appearing in your favorite cineplex on May 4th. In the second half, we listen to your voicemail, which included some real zingers that you won't want to miss! All this plus your listener mail, GOOD news from the GIJCC's concerning their New Orleans con set and upcoming release dates from DIC. Two more to go until we reach one year, but enjoy this brief stop at 50, a milestone number in its own right...plus we get a message from a special friend of the program that couldn't make us prouder to be a part of this hobby! Chuck even sings, so download and listen now!
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IDW GI Joe and Snake Eyes artist Robert Atkins joins us again as we wrap up our coverage of Roll Out/Roll Call 3. We get his and Gary's final report (and priceless stories) about their time in the UK for the convention. We also talk to Robert about his current projects AND get his impressions of the RobotCon artist alley decision passed down by Fun Pub and Hasbro (note: this was later cleared up during the week). After our talk with Robert, we dip into the mailbag for some more IDW discussion , Mike makes sure he gets the credit for whispering MAILBAG into the microphone and we all give our thoughts how Retaliation will hold up during Week 2 in its battle with a rebooted Spider Man franchise. In the second half, friend of the show Shogi reviews the Action Force ATC (or APC as we called it). If you want ANY Action Force vehicle, this is certainly one to go after! In the news we discuss the new pics of the carded figures shown on the GIJCC webpage and reviews of the Cobra Troopers and GI Joe Troopers that have popped up around the community. Next, Justin does the Mypos (said MEE-pos) Dance of Joy (aka Happy Dance) over Renegades appearing on Netflix; which leads to us taking a few minutes to talk about the old ABC TV Show Perfect Strangers - hey, its better than sports talk, right? Rounding out the news we cover the new Joe Caunck newsletter featuring an interview of Gary, new news about the GIJCC's new website, AND an eBay auction offering up a piece of Joe history that never made it past the model stage. In a brief editorial, we address the fears of possible convention goers about using their credit cards with the club in lieu of the recent events with the club. You may be interested in the facts we have to tell you to ease your fears. It's a jammed packed episode full of Joe, comics, movies, convention debauchery, Mypos native dancing and May Day discussion - yeah, no kidding. All this and even Siri makes a special guest appearance. We're on the heels of #50 and our 1 year anniversary, so while you are hunting eggs this weekend, pass the time by taking in this extremely entertaining episode of WOJM!
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It's finally here! It's our Kevin Michael Richardson epic interview episode! But before we get to the man who did the Renegades voice of Roadblock, we had another Kevin join us, Kevin Watts. You may remember Kevin from previous episodes and he holds the show record for being bleeped 44 times in less than 70 seconds back in Episode 38! This time Kevin joins us to talk about his new custom HISS Tank project for this Spring's New Jersey Collectors' Convention. After talking with Kevin, we go into the mailbag to discuss a letter from a listener asking our take on the prices of some of the more popular Pursuit of Cobra figures that were released late into the line and why they are so expensive on the secondary markets. Just before the intermission, the team discusses in great detail the upcoming 3rd party product ban by Fun Publications at BotCon and how it may possibly affect us at JoeCon in June. After the break, stay with us for the next hour as the we air our interview with Kevin Michael Richardson. Following the interview, Chuck sits in for Mike and tries to do his best impression of Ted Baxter and tries to take us through the news, which include coverage of a new fan-made video game, updates about the fanfilm GI Joe: Initiate, first looks/reaction to Retaliation toy packaging, Sears availability and updated movie PR stills....whew, that was a ton to talk about. As a side note to the listener, we tried our best to censor as many of the foul laungage in this episode. Hopefully we caught everything. If we didn't, we apologize in advance. As you can tell from the KMR interview and the ending with Mr. Watts, we had our hands full with editing! Other than that, we know you will enjoy this one! Have fun!
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YES! This IS episode 47 despite Gary calling it 48 in the opening - d'oh! Oh well, it couldn't be edited out to sound seamless, so we'll run with it. Yeah, it was a matter of time before that happened. Welcome to Episode 47 folks! You won't want to miss this one for TWO name alone. No, not Justin and Mike, try Flint Dille AND Larry Hama! They both join us as guests ON THE SAME SHOW. Yeah folks, no kidding! First up is Flint who talks about a wide range of his previous work and its not all Joe and Robot talk either. Visionaries, Inhumanoids and even Buck Rogers take up some significant talk time. Hopefully, if you are like us, you found what he had to say truly fascinating and chalk full of information. IMMEDIATELY following Flint, we are joined by Operation Red Retrieval Director Mark Cheng who brought along 2 special guests to make an exclusive announcement on WOJM. Joining Mark was the actor who played Beach Head in Operation Red Retreval, Joe Barbagallo and GI Joe writing legend Larry Hama. What are they announcing? What could Mark and Larry possibly be up to? Well, listen and find out! In the news, the GIJCC launches a new secure website, Retaliation figures begin to appear on eBay via China and a new Joe/Robot trade is set for a September release. Now, you may also be asking yourself, "Self, where is the Kevin Michael Richardson interview?" Well, with this episode being so packed, we decided to push back the interview another week or so so that we may focus all of our attention on the guests who joined us this week. You WILL hear the KMR interview in its entirety very very soon. Until then, sit back and enjoy Episode 48....er, I mean 47 of WOJM!!
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