How'd I miss this forum? Anyway, I post at yojoe.com under a different name (Bravo) (most other forums bore me, too much spamming and cliques). Actually, I was gonna use that name, but it said it was taken here, and I never remember registering here. So I thought of an old user name I used at a Masters of the Universe forum years ago. Lava Boss sound silly. But oh, well.

It's nice there's a site for plain ol' diorama pictures. Long ago (by internet standards) there was the Bivouac, but it changed hands became all about customs. And I used up all my yojoe.com photos space very quickly, too.

Y'know, I've asked around why more people don't take pics of their Joes or do dios. The general consensus was that it's not canon or official GI Joe. Just as fanfics dont' cater to e'eryone for the same reason. Which I think is a bummer. I would've thought that doing dios would be the ultimate medium for GI Joe collecting, y'know? Moreso than writing stories because it's visual. It's just a different medium in the end, but when I've posted my dios elsewhere, it's been a hard sell to get people to even look twice. Kinda weird. I would rather much chill at a place where people have a common interest. Sure, the JBL and JS are nice and all, but man, I dunno sometimes.

But everyone has their own interests in GI Joe and picture-taking for some just ain't their thang. But it is fun!

Funny. I'm much more interested in fan made dioramas and dio-stories than the current official comic book or the Sigma Six cartoon. I have almost no interest in written fan fic, I'm too much of the television generation, I guess. Gotta have pictures. Sometimes when I'm bored I'll do an image search on yahoo or google and I've found some obscure diorama/collection pictures. Like this guy's Goblin Cave's collection

You should see his other toys. Dude has just about everything under the sun.

Another interesting one was this

My World (Star Rome)

Reminds me of what my brother and I used to do, integrate all these action figures into one strange world.

My problem with fanfic is that people get really technical. If you get 10 people on a JOe team, the writer has a tendency to tell us (the reader) what f'n weapon they are, the history of the weapon, what it looks like... I mean, it drives me bonkers sometimes. I tried writing my own, made it a few chapters and then lost energy. I would rather play and pose my Joes and make stories (you gotta figuer, when we played with them as kids, we had stories in our heads, even if they were incredibly lame and/or simplistic).

I guess I'm more interested in people's universes and how they do stuff than seeing the written word in black and white.

I've always enjoyed doing dios and taking pics of Joes, and I've always enjoyed looking at other people's pics. Taking Joe pics has been a hobby for a lot of years. It always makes me laugh when I recall how, when pre digital camera I would take my films to the one hour photo place, and get weird looks from the staff when they would pull out the pics to check if it was the right film. I felt like asking, "What, you never seen little plastic men fight a war in someone's back yard before?"

I can understand you man. Sometimes I'm around my backyard or on front of my home and neighbors or just someone walking stay looking at me as I'm from the outerspace. Huahuahuahuahuahuahua!

Luke gave me on one of his posts a nice idea for answear any question. "I'm shooting a catalogue."

Believe me, I've used that one too. "I'm shooting a catalogue." OR, "I'm a photography major." OR, "It's for class..." Course, any semi-smart person walking by would say, "and you are using a 5.0 megapixel kodak z730 why? Shouldn't you be using a (insert $3000 camera)???"

lol

I've had plenty of weird looks, but no-one has actually asked yet what I was doing. It's funny you should mention that catalogue excuse, because that's the one I always have at the ready. I guess it's just one of the things us Joe people have to put up with...all our neighbors think we're kooky!

I enjoy having a big back yard XD
Allthough my parents think I'm weird/sad... and I get funny looks/comments/insults at school when I'm reading Dio stories. I've never really had need to defend myself, and if I did... I'd end up standing tall and proudly saying "I am making comics with G.I. Joe figures!"... and then the people will ask "what's G.I. Joe? Oh it's the suped-up Action man!" (like they do at work, heh).

If I did venture into the outdoors, I don't think "I am doing a catalogue" would work for me, as I'm only a young-un