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[mercy]

sounds like the moble battle fortress from 1987

[Jester]

good lord that thing is huge! The one I was talking about is the one Ingo had. I don't even think I remember the bigun

[Ingo Monk]

sounds like the moble battle fortress from 1987

Nah that's not it.  The one I had was about as wide, but not as tall, maybe half as much.  It was longer though, maybe another few inches.  The body was green and the top part opened like bomb-bay doors in a bomber, that part was colored an off-white I think, maybe a little beige.  

[Ingo Monk]

%!*(^%*&!
I found it!

http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/88/rollingthunder/

Rolling Thunder from 1988

Yeah...bad-ass!

[mercy]

ah but thats not a icbm

[Ingo Monk]

I remember I had this one vehicle, it was huge.  It was army green, and inside it had 2 white ICBM style missiles on a rack that would rotate vertical for 'launch mode' after the top opened up.  I remember the sides would fold open and there'd be this ramp style piece that would fold out for the joes to run up or drive up.   I remember it had 6 huge wheels, maybe 3" in diameter or so.
For the life of me I can't find a pic of it or a reference of it anywhere, but I'm positive it was GI Joe.

I dunno, maybe a knock off or wannabe?

See that?  It says 'ICBM style missiles'  I didn't say ICBMs deng it!

[mercy]

saved some of the blue prints thought they would make good run locations

[Gabriel]

You realize this is going to be the next "Elektra" movie, right? Or, if they are REALLY lucky, it might be as good as that paragon of cinematic excellance "Catwoman".

Gabriel

[Jester]

that's what I'm afraid of. I don't think it will be anywhere as good as Transformers

[Gabriel]

I doubt it. After all, G.I. Joe (both the toys and TV show) got pretty stupid near the end. It all started out as accurate potrayals of current, real life military hardwar (at least for the Joe's) and then got into stuff like the five-part battle tank and the wierd-hood figures like Sci-Fi and the Ninja Force. If a movie tries to bring stuff like that into it, well it will look as dreky as if they had put Wolverine in the yellow spandex in X-Men.

Gabriel

PS - And G.I. Joe had a NUKE??? WTF??

[kv]

Yeah, but you could have said the same thing about transformers- I mean, they included the one that transformed into a boombox. What the hell is up with that?

No one might think "Wow, who brought thier boombox with them onto Air Force One?"

They're blending the happy shiny memories of the Gen-Xers with modern technology, to make movies that only really appeal to one small crowd. Of course, that crowd has spending power at the moment, so who can fault them? I expect a GI Joe movie to look like Die Hard at this point, with sweaty soldiers horribly outgunned (Cobra always did have the cooler weapons), yet still fighting to win.

  -kv

[Ingo Monk]

I'll be happy as long as Cobra soldiers shoot red lasers.  Then when a Joe punches his lights out and takes his gun the laser shoots blue.  They GOTTA have that!

[Jester]

lol! The sharks have laaaazers on their heads

[Gabriel]

LOL, personally, I'm hoping to see then all decked out with weapons that they never use. Ever notice how many Joes had gernades as part of a "uniform" and never used them? Or better yet, I want to see Scarlet and Lady J going against AK-47's LAWs Rocket Launchers and RPG's with a crossbow and a sack full of javelins.

Gabriel

[kv]

Hey, they used weapons based on coolness, not on effectiveness!

If they wanted effectiveness, you'd have 40 GI Joes with .50 Cal sniper rifles with those really cool imaging scopes, and one Goe (fat and balding) with a nuclear launch button. Or, for a non-nuclear option, he'd have the launch codes for the 40,000 tomahawk missiles, and he'd be bombing non-stop a la Saddam.

Real combat is not as cool as advertised. So you make characters like Snake Eyes, who doesn't say anything, and the ones that use archaic weapons rather than the most effective ones.

Personally, I look forward to seeing some hot young actress stuffed into the costumes that Scarlet and Lady J wore, just for a personification of pre-adolescent sex fantasies.

  -kv