Iceberg is coming!

[Mandingo Rex]

The 2013 G.I. Joe Collector's Club figure will be Iceberg!

First peek at the artwork was in this issue of the Club Magazine/Newsletter. Official prototype should be forthcoming and will be added once it's announced.

Part breakdown seems to be:

New head
25th Arctic Snake Eyes torso
25th Spirit legs
30th Airtight arms? (tbd)
25th Snow Serpent fur
25th Hawk shoulder harness/webgear

 

[Falcone]

Hopefully this figure is good enough that I can buy some extras in their store and resell them to pay for my yearly club offerings like I did with Footloose.*


*I hope I can scalp these figures.

 

[Monkeywrench]

I hope he doesn't look like shit

 

[fogger1138]

I'm more interested in seeing the Con figures (and finding out the rest of who is going to be in FSS2) than in seeing Iceberg at this point. We should've seen him months ago.

 

[daremo]

I think they're going with the Arctic SE for the torso and arms. You've got the pocket on the right arm and the spot for the decal on the left. It would make sense that they would want to use parts that they know work together without changing up any tooling. Don't forget Recondo's rifle.

 

[Monkeywrench]

I think they're going with the Arctic SE for the torso and arms. You've got the pocket on the right arm and the spot for the decal on the left. It would make sense that they would want to use parts that they know work together without changing up any tooling. Don't forget Recondo's rifle.

Sounds right too me

 

[YT1]

I'm new to this all, I am thinking about joining the GIJCC to get the discount for the convention, and I would get this figure also, correct?

 

[Mandingo Rex]

I think they're going with the Arctic SE for the torso and arms. You've got the pocket on the right arm and the spot for the decal on the left. It would make sense that they would want to use parts that they know work together without changing up any tooling. Don't forget Recondo's rifle.

I thought that, but the ribbing on the gloves threw me off. And I'd hope they'd go with the newer wrists. I guess they could always do lower arms on the Arctic SE uppers?

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Gosh dang it?!...wheres pics of IB coming?!...that was gunna be so HAWT!

Anyway, parts breakdown don't seem too bad...not super impressed with the SS fur around the neck...pretty lazy

 

[Mandingo Rex]

Gosh dang it?!...wheres pics of IB coming?!...that was gunna be so HAWT!

Anyway, parts breakdown don't seem too bad...not super impressed with the SS fur around the neck...pretty lazy

Yeah, there are half a dozen options from their currently fairly extensive library that could work for the body/arms/legs and still be passable with the appropriate colors and paint apps. He needs a new head, obviously, and the fur collar/webgear/harness is a pretty iconic part of the design.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

I really think a newly sculpted head/cap/goggles and a harness/fur combo shoulda been done no questions...nothing in the parts library do IB any justice...cheap and lazy for a figure that's gonna demand likely twice retail

 

[Mandingo Rex]

Well, it's not asking anything more than what we got with Dial-Tone, to be honest. DT had a retooled backpack happen, and a new head. While we didn't get webgear, there are the two items. Footloose was a little less new parts technically, but "officially" we at least got new lower arms. We also got a head/helmet combo and legs that were previously used only on exclusives, so the parts use was still pretty "new", all things considered.

But at the very least, Iceberg needed a new collar tooled up. His vintage rifle could easily be replaced by anything cast in white, and I don't even recall him having any gear beyond that like a backpack. But that collar would've been super easy to sculpt. Hell, I sculpted one, and it doesn't even look that great, and it'd be better than that big bulky Snow Serpent collar.

The good thing is, at least the SS collar fits on that SE torso, I guess. :yawn:

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Ya know, if they had tooled up new webgear for DT, that woulda went a long way in my desire for him...what they ended up using was sh!t...the torso was an a$$ choice too...

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

What makes us so sure that's the arctic SE torso?

 

[daremo]

Maybe not, but the pockets on the chest are at an angle just like the SE torso plus the SS fur does fit that torso. It probably won't have the skirt piece though as it looks a little ribbed at the waist. Maybe it's a ROC Breaker vest but I doubt the Club would use something else with the SS fur.

 

[fogger1138]

I'm new to this all, I am thinking about joining the GIJCC to get the discount for the convention, and I would get this figure also, correct?

Yessir.

 

[Monkeywrench]

I'm new to this all, I am thinking about joining the GIJCC to get the discount for the convention, and I would get this figure also, correct?

Yessir.

correct

 

[YT1]

Yessir.

Thanks guys.

 

[Monkeywrench]

you will also get a crappy magazine that may or may not show up

 

[Mswi]

I really think a newly sculpted head/cap/goggles and a harness/fur combo shoulda been done no questions...nothing in the parts library do IB any justice...cheap and lazy for a figure that's gonna demand likely twice retail

I'm with you Ed! not feeling the snow serpent fur or the parts in general


MVC-114S by mswi, on Flickr

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Or a completely new torso, I woulda been cool with that ...though I'd prefer the webgear at the very least NOT be sculpted onto the figure...

 

[YT1]

you will also get a crappy magazine that may or may not show up

Magazine doesn't always come, huh?

 

[Mandingo Rex]

Or a completely new torso, I woulda been cool with that ...though I'd prefer the webgear at the very least NOT be sculpted onto the figure...

Yeah, that's what I don't like about the KREXX torsos with the webgear sculpted onto it. As much as I love the sculpt work, which is top notch.

 

[lancelot]

Is Iceberg black or white? In the cartoon he was usually white, but would randomly become white, and now this picture on the first post makes him even more ambiguous.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

I think he's Eskimo

 

[Mandingo Rex]

Frostbite was white. Iceberg is definitely black. I always thought it was funny due to the stereotype that black folks hate the cold.

There was a repaint in another country (I think India?) where he was white, though.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

So Cloud has no desire to own a IB huh?

 

[Monkeywrench]

Magazine doesn't always come, huh?

I've missed at least 3 issues in the last 2+ years that just never shipped too me or I guess somebody stole

The magazine is pretty much worthless so I didn't even care lol. I just wish they would go away with the mag and lower the membership price by 10-15 dollars. With the 12 emails I get every month and their website, I don't really feel the need to have the mag.

 

[Mandingo Rex]

So Cloud has no desire to own a IB huh?

Maybe this one:

http://www.yojoe.com/action/int/indianiceberg2.shtml

He won't have to repaint it.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

He's looks like he thinks he's superior/smarter...what a d!ck

 

[nacho]

Frostbite was white. Iceberg is definitely black. I always thought it was funny due to the stereotype that black folks hate the cold.

There was a repaint in another country (I think India?) where he was white, though.

I don't think he was ever meant to be white. In the 'toon he always looked and sounded black to me.

But then I looked at his file card, and he's from Brownsville TX (aka, the hottest place on earth), a place that is 99.999999999% hispanic. So maybe he's of mexican descent, as their skintones vary pretty widely from light to dark (my wife is a hispanic from Brownsville, and she's very light-skinned, but her brother is dark as #$*%).

So I'm sort of on the fence between black and hispanic, but I never dreamed he was a white dude. Maybe his genetic ancestry is meant to be rather ambiguous, as to let each kid imagine him to be whatever he wants.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

I swear there was an episode where he mentioned his Eskimo heritage

 

[Monkeywrench]

Maybe he was drafted?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKBsDQeRxOE

 

[nacho]

An Eskimo from Brownsville TX.... maybe next year's figure can be a Korean from Wyoming.

 

[Monkeywrench]

or maybe the Last N***** Alive starring Tom Hanks

 

[Monkeywrench]

http://generalsjoes.com/2013/01/31/carded-iceberg-to-be-available-at-2013-g-i-joe-convention/

Carded IB's will be at Joe Con.

 

[NSA]

fan tastic!

 

[Mandingo Rex]

That's not far away, considering they're playing like they haven't even seen a finished production sample yet.

 

[MAJOR BLOOD]

I hope they make him white just to hear grown ups cry.

 

[Mandingo Rex]

I hope they make him white just to hear grown ups cry.

Cloud would cry tears of joy.