New Vehicles for my G.I Joes and others

I'm hooked on G.I. Joe again! My younger brother who's a doctor rekindled my interest in the toyline again when he showed me his own growing collection starting with the 25th Anniversary G.I. Joe figures. Needless to say, I caught the bug again and we're helping each other out build our own respective collections. Here are a couple of pics of my xmas hauls. I've taken newer ones but lost the camera's memory disk to my dog's appetite ( see previous post.) Good thing I had these already saved on my hard drive earlier. My wife -- awesome that she is -- got me the vehicles in duplicates as well as an awesome Frank Frazetta calendar and some diecast muscle cars. More on these soon.

After the holidays, I also managed to pick up two BBI Elite Force Humvees in 1:18 scale together with the Abrams I posted earlier. One's painted for desert use and the other's in olive green, presumably for jungle use. Both trucks came with figures and accessories but they'll be deployed with my Joes. The figures are actually nice but I'm not sure if mixing them with the Joes would look nice. The BBI line is quiet hard to find here in the Philippines but I'm lucky that a friend decided to trim down his collection and offered these to me for a song and a dime.

I also picked up two single person gyrocopters from Chap Mei's Freedom Force line. The action figures that came with the vehicles looked short next to the new Joes so I ditched them instead. Maybe they'll show up somewhere else in my Joe verse. But now, the gyros would go perfectly for my Air Vipers to pilot!

Chap Mei has come up with some nice playsets but I decided to try my hand in scratch building one. I decided to start with a mad scientist's lab which would be perfect with my new Dr. Mindbender -- Cobra's resident mad scientist. I got the 7 figure pack "Defense of Cobra Island" set as a gift and picked up a couple of Battle Android Troopers (BATs) as well as a few T-800 exoskeletons and the lab would be perfect for a playset diorama for these figures. Shown below is ny cubby for my Cobra figs. The boxed set was used as a riser. Poo ole Destro toppled over when this shot was taken and I was too lazy to take another one...