What has been my greatest delay is room and money. I've got these great big plans but lack the space and resources to carry them through. I've been adapting and adjusting a central idea to meet the resources I have. As Sonnelion has indicated, looking at the other dios begins a train of thinking and adjustment.

did i forget to mention that my mom will very rarley let me take the cam out of the yard. it also dosen't help that my community is on a peninsula and has no "forests." that's why i use my bedroom for most pics. but i have struck pure gold by my garage door........

I have written and rewritten a story that I want to do about 4 times now. I take some test shots, build a set, and then go back to writting. It doesnt help that I always seem to be short on a figure or a set piece that I want. Now with my newborn around the house I have had even less time to photograph anything. 10 pictures in the last 3 months and I wansnt happy with but 2 of them. I think my main problem besides time is I tend to think too big. I story that I am writing is like one of the joe cartoon Mini Series' from way back when. I want to write the big epic. Then I come up with something and one of you guys have already done it, better, I might add. It's all or your fault. Thats my story. Its your fault. :p

I must've missed this thread the first time around. I have two dio-stories that never really "took off". One, I believe I've described on here before. I actually started, but never finished it. It was called "General Recommissioned" and involved a group of Joes (Major Storm, Steeler, Grand Slam, Clutch, Short-Fuze, Rock n' Roll, Roadblock, Mirage, and Dial-Tone) pulling the General out of mothballs after it had been shut down by military budget cuts years before. But Cobra got wind of this and decided to test some new armor-piercing missiles Destro had designed on it. I had just gotten to the beginning of the action when for various reasons I had to stop and never got back to it.

The other one, which I don't want to describe in too much detail in case I ever get around to it (after my Transformers series is done of course), actually wouldn't have had any Joes in it. It would have been called "Blades of Vengeance: A Slice and Dice Action Thriller" and as you might guess, the protagonists would've been Slice and Dice.

Before I explain the premise, I'll let you know that I don't own the Vypra figure that came with the Cobra Rattler 4x4, but I have the two Vypras from the Cobra Ninja 6-pack, and I like their backstory as the twin daughters of Onihashi. However, I decided that in my world Onihashi had one daughter, who joined the Red Ninjas and became Slice's apprentice.

Anyway, as the story starts, Slice is training Vypra in the Red Ninja dojo on Cobra Island when someone shoots at him with a crossbow. But Vypra is hit instead and nearly killed. Slice chases the would-be killer out of the dojo, but he escapes. Back at the dojo, he finds that the crossbow bolt in his apprentice's back is of Night Creeper manufacture. But Cobra Commander pays the Night Creepers a regular stipend specifically so they won't take out contracts on any Cobra operatives! So Slice and Dice head for Night Creeper headquarters in Thailand and from there embark on a globe-trotting adventure to learn who either hired or impersonated a Night Creeper in an attempt to kill him.

Meanwhile, back on Cobra Island, Scalpel and Dr. Mindbender struggle to save Vypra's life, as Slice warned them that if she dies, they'll soon follow at his own hands. And while all this is going on, Red Ninja field commander Slash starts a coup to wrest control of the Red Ninjas away from Slice during his absence.

I really think this has the potential to be a pretty good story, so I want to get around to producing it someday. I know a lot of folks around here are anti-ninja, but I hope if I ever get around to this, they'd give it a read anyway. The aim would be to give it more of a James Bond feel than anything else.

Self-Modifier thoughs both sound like awsome stories and if/when you ever finish them I will be glad to read them both :D sounds like great stuff

Self-man, you should try make a movie out of that. Even the most anti-ninjas would spend some time reading this great diostory.

I'm one of the anti-ninja, but anti-superpower-ninja. The one who beats everybody and seems to use the FORCE to sense others.

But still your story looks very real.

The only time I'd ever be anti-ninja would be if one was trying to knock me off.
:D

As you should be! :p

Put it this way, if a ninja just happens to be doing his own thing ie. slicing, dicing, taking a slash etc. without harming innocent civilians I'm not going to interfere. If however he turns destroyer and begins randomly chopping heads, he's going to force me to pull out a 45 and bang, settle it.

i've been toying with the idea of a somalia dio story but i've been lacking most of what i'd need : time, figs, sets and software :rolleyes: