Ever thought about turning a clicky ball point pen into a missile? Well, Hasbro beat you to it in the 90’s with this vehicle’s main weapon. Check it out in the latest Joe A Day video review.
Sounds like you have a little Stormshadow in the background
This vehicle is pretty nifty. Not only can Cobra commander use it to fix up the Baroness’s shrub [get your minds out of the gutter] but that scoop is thick enough to stop most anti armour shells.
Patton wanted to give a medel to the man who came up with the idea of fixing a dozer scoop to Shermans but he wasnt able to as nobody knew who he was
Any chance of getting a crossover repaint as Scrapper?
All right, sorry if this turns into a double post, but I tried to comment and it apparently timed out.
I think my favorite comment about this vehicle came from Tim’s Corner’s diostories. I believe it was this vehicle he had get destroyed in a massive explosion and Cobra Commander quietly asked “Did it leave a neon crater?” It’s been a long time since I’ve hit Tim’s Corner and it’s no longer on the Interwebs, so I can’t double check, but it’s an apt question about this vehicle. In all seriousness, this is a neat addition to the Cobra motorpool. I think the only reason I wasn’t terribly interested in it was because it didn’t come with a driver. When Hasbro started cutting down on the number of vehicle drivers, I really lost interest in vehicles. The specialized driver was something that was an added value that I liked as a kid and if a vehicle didn’t have a driver in the later years, I really wasn’t terribly impressed with it anymore.
I couldn’t see the vid,but I own one of these,any one have an extra scoop for sale or trade? This vehicle would look great painted Cobra blue and manned by Techno-Vipers…
That was a cute review, Rob. Out of the mouth of babes… If Will approves of it, I can overlook the neon plastic and paper stickers.
I remember seeing the Earthquake on the shelves and wondering if someone at Hasbro had gotten around to some of my own designs which I sent them around 1988. They featured a bunch of rescue and construction vehicles. The Earthquake fits that particular bill rather nicely as I envisioned it: Think of Cobra as having their own version of the The Fighting Seabees. Heck, the Joes had stuff like the Weapons Transport and the Bomb Disposal, so there’s even a precedent right there.
The articulation is a cool bonus, as is the added canopy. I’m looking at the blueprints on yojoe.com and it looks like it’s a two-seater. Nice! I gotta place this on my want list now.
@Skymate: That is a great bit of trivia about Patton that I’d never heard about. Thanks for sharing it.
@KansasBrawler: I remember Tim from the old USENET days. His site was cool and that line about a neon crater is pretty clever.
@troublemagnet: I agree, this would rock in the traditional Cobra colors and is perfectly suited as the Techno-Vipers’ main ride. I hope Hasbro still has the molds so they can reissue it somehow.
If so, then the site survives. If the link doesn’t go there directly, just put the timscorner web address into the Internet Wayback Machine, pick a date and try to work your way to the diorama stories.
Thanks Little Boa, that’s exactly what I was looking for. I’m glad to see it still survives in some respect. I think his dio-stories were some of the first I started reading back in the day and the work he did was really impressive both script-wise and image-wise considering his stuff is from the early 2000s and it still really holds up.
Sounds like you have a little Stormshadow in the background
This vehicle is pretty nifty. Not only can Cobra commander use it to fix up the Baroness’s shrub [get your minds out of the gutter] but that scoop is thick enough to stop most anti armour shells.
Patton wanted to give a medel to the man who came up with the idea of fixing a dozer scoop to Shermans but he wasnt able to as nobody knew who he was
Any chance of getting a crossover repaint as Scrapper?
All right, sorry if this turns into a double post, but I tried to comment and it apparently timed out.
I think my favorite comment about this vehicle came from Tim’s Corner’s diostories. I believe it was this vehicle he had get destroyed in a massive explosion and Cobra Commander quietly asked “Did it leave a neon crater?” It’s been a long time since I’ve hit Tim’s Corner and it’s no longer on the Interwebs, so I can’t double check, but it’s an apt question about this vehicle. In all seriousness, this is a neat addition to the Cobra motorpool. I think the only reason I wasn’t terribly interested in it was because it didn’t come with a driver. When Hasbro started cutting down on the number of vehicle drivers, I really lost interest in vehicles. The specialized driver was something that was an added value that I liked as a kid and if a vehicle didn’t have a driver in the later years, I really wasn’t terribly impressed with it anymore.
I couldn’t see the vid,but I own one of these,any one have an extra scoop for sale or trade? This vehicle would look great painted Cobra blue and manned by Techno-Vipers…
That was a cute review, Rob. Out of the mouth of babes… If Will approves of it, I can overlook the neon plastic and paper stickers.
I remember seeing the Earthquake on the shelves and wondering if someone at Hasbro had gotten around to some of my own designs which I sent them around 1988. They featured a bunch of rescue and construction vehicles. The Earthquake fits that particular bill rather nicely as I envisioned it: Think of Cobra as having their own version of the The Fighting Seabees. Heck, the Joes had stuff like the Weapons Transport and the Bomb Disposal, so there’s even a precedent right there.
The articulation is a cool bonus, as is the added canopy. I’m looking at the blueprints on yojoe.com and it looks like it’s a two-seater. Nice! I gotta place this on my want list now.
@Skymate: That is a great bit of trivia about Patton that I’d never heard about. Thanks for sharing it.
@KansasBrawler: I remember Tim from the old USENET days. His site was cool and that line about a neon crater is pretty clever.
@troublemagnet: I agree, this would rock in the traditional Cobra colors and is perfectly suited as the Techno-Vipers’ main ride. I hope Hasbro still has the molds so they can reissue it somehow.
Terrific, bad, useless vehicle…
Is this it?
http://web.archive.org/web/20040813012852/http://www.timscorner.com/GI%20Joe/dios.html
If so, then the site survives. If the link doesn’t go there directly, just put the timscorner web address into the Internet Wayback Machine, pick a date and try to work your way to the diorama stories.
Thanks Little Boa, that’s exactly what I was looking for. I’m glad to see it still survives in some respect. I think his dio-stories were some of the first I started reading back in the day and the work he did was really impressive both script-wise and image-wise considering his stuff is from the early 2000s and it still really holds up.
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