My groups


The JOES have allies in:
MASK: A Private Company that works on fighting Vehicles
COPS: An FBI Taskforce Led by Agent Baldwin "Vest" Vess
SHEILD: A CIA Operations Team Led by Col.Nick Fury
NEST: A NATO Joint Taskforce which liasons with the exterrestrial race known as the AUTOBOTS, led by Col. Will "The Kid" Lennox
EAGLE Force: NATO Peace-keeping Task Force led by Capt. Eagle
STREET FIGHTER: UN Criminal Investigative team lead by Col. Williaam Guile
OUTTER WORLD INVESTIGATION AGENCY: Ex Soldiers, X-FIles, Exiting Action: Led by Major Jackson "Jax" Briggs
The CORPS: Mercenary Army led by General "Fox"
BRONZE BOMBERS: African Union Task Force Led by Marc "Kaboom" Walters
Danger Girl Freelance Limited - Private Investigation Firm

Other Criminal Organizations:
VENOM - MASK's rival
Shadowloo - Southeast Asian Crime syndicate
PSB- African Extremist group
Pyro's Gang - Other African antigovernment group
RIOT: Terrorist organization
HYDRA: Terrorist Orgnaization
AIM: wEAPONS DEVELOPERS
CROOKS family - COPS current Target
Marauders Inc.: Corps compettion
Lin Kuei - Just another assasins guild with almost supernatural powers
MAD - Tech Development team under Doctor Klaw with ties to the IRON army
HAMMER: Rouge Government Team

Groups already in the GI Joeverse to me (As in i didnt think to add them to the list):
Joe:
THE ADVENTURE TEAM: Led by GI Joe - non military adult boyscouts
THE SCREAMING EAGLES: Sgt Savage's Security Team
EXTREME: Lt. Stone's Executive Escourt Team
SIGMA-6: Hi Tech's sweeper team that cleans up old cobra facilities
SPECIAL ACTION FORCE: EU's version of GI Joe Lead by Col. Skip Campbell
OKTOBER GUARD: Warsaw Pack's version of GI Joe lead by Col. Brekov
COMMANDOS HERROCIAS: South American Strike Team Under GI Joe lead by Shimmick

COBRA:
Force Naja: South American Branch of COBRA
IRON Army: Central European Mercenary Army - Robotics based under teh command of "General Blitz"
SKAR: The underground military unit of the small country of Mkalvia that acts as a mercenary army under the command of "Iron Klaw"
The Red Shadows: European Terrorist group Under "Baron Ironblood"
The Night Creeper Clan: Mercenary ninjas, ussually attack targets related to bussiness
The Red Ninjas: Rouge Arishikaga Ninjas
The Koga Clan: Anarchists
The Black Dragons: Mercnary Ninja Clan and Information dealers
ATHENA: Baroness's Private Army
Skull Squad: Major Bludd's Merc Team
Iron Greniders: Destro's fighting force\
The Head Hunters: COBRA's Drug Trafficing Arm
The Coil: Serpentor's Private Army
The Intruder's: Think Evil Adventure Team
Blackstar's Brigade: Merc Pilots lead by Blackstar

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I've done some C.O.P.s-inspired character translations and have been working on Resident Evil figures that will be a part of my main 'verse.

But the project I keep coming back to is both the most exciting and e most daunting.

A while back I introduced my idea for a post WWII version of the Joe team, led Nick Fury and consisting of a mix of Marvel, Joe and original characters who are trying to snag back paranormal tech from Hydra.

The idea behind this team was that it was an experiment, loosely organized and run on a shoe-string budget. Nick would ultimately leave to head S.H.I.E.L.D. and enjoy a much larger budget as well as access to A-list talent. But his nephew, Joey Colton, would stick with the original team through several iterations over the years.

I've got a twenty-something Colton custom that will be fighting Russians and The Red Shadows in the 60s and, after he gets back from 'Nam, a bearded thirty-something Colton that will lead a team including Doc Venture and Brock Samson in the 70s.

In the 80s a forty-something Colton will spend some time with The Adventure Team before he's asked to come out of retirement to head a black ops unit with a young Captain Clay Abernathy as his right hand. They'll spend most of their time squaring off with the Oktober Guard and A.I.M.

The 90's would see the Joe team we know coming into shape (as it appears in my long-neglected dio-story continuity) and starting to fight a fledgling Cobra organization.

But the 2000s I'm thinking will become the no-holds-barred age in my continuity, bringing back the Marvel characters who are still around and incorporating some of the DC customs I've been working on.

In the end, it could turn to a huge story/continuity mess. But the displays will be fun to set up.

I'm working on customs of Big Jim and the PACK to bring in as a CIA counterpart to the DoD's GIJoe/Adventure Team projects of the 60s and 70s. Action Force is a UN unit, and Action Man and the supporting cast from his various shows are part of an MI6 offshoot known as ATOM ( Anti Terrorisim Operations Ministry ). I know nothing of Max Steel and have no affinity for the character, but the decision to make him Big Jims son makes him tempting to incorporate as well. GI Joe Extreme and Savage and the Screaming Eagles are around, and I'm trying to come up with purposes for the Bronze Bombers and the Corps. Might also bring in Stony Smith and Action Jackson, but I'm resistant to anything that didn't begin life as a toy line.

Matt Trakker and Tony Stark are both weapons suppliers/designers who supply the Joes with all their neat wiz-bang toys to field test before it might go to the regular military. Howard Stark, along with helping to start SHIELD, helped to start the Joes as well. What the Joes are to the military, SHIELD is to the FBI, CIA, etc. They work together and share Intel. Hawk and Nick Fury are on even ground.
Since SHIELD is involved, the small core group of The Avengers is as well, tho they never interfere with each others operations.
Frank Castle served with Mainframe in Viet Nam. The two are friends and the Joes have called upon The Punisher's special talents when needed, but won't make him a member of the Joes because of his criminal record. He usually assists the Joe's urban team since that is his home turf. When working with the Joes, Hawk keeps him on a short leash and off the record, but sometimes he's let off the leash when prisoners and evidence isn't needed.
I also incorporate other military lines like CORPS, bbi, PTE, etc as normal troops the Joes might work with.
Really the only other figures I use is an Annika figure from Guru-planet. Het name is Gretchen, aka Susan B. Anthony. She was Army intel. On one mission in the middle east, she was captured and held hostage. When a team of Rangers came to rescue her, she made things more difficult by breaking away from her cell. The Rangers had a hard time locating her and some were killed. The rescue was a failure and she and some captured Rangers were tortured, some of the Rangers were killed right in front of her, adding to her misery. Shortly there after, another rescue was staged and she and the remaining Rangers were brought back home, but Gretchen was never the same. She became violent and psychotic. She was then taken under wing by a man she knew only as The General. He was show to focus her anger and violence and use her on his special team. Later she gave birth to his daughter. She was succesful in her duties to The General. She was tasked with retrieving information from a man in a South American prison. This ended up leading to a series of events that let to The General's "Company" being taken down and him being put to death. Gretchen then struck out on her own, becoming a mercenary for hire, specializing in Intel gathering. Like The Punisher, she is kept on a short leash when she is used, but she has never betrayed her country. Before she takes any job, she uses her resources to check out the potential client. Sometimes this uncovers info that she turns over to the Joes or SHIELD, for a price, of course.

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For me, really any game/gaming "Earth" based line will fit. Whether be it the espionage, adventurer, post apocalyptic or the virii/zombie ken, doesn't matter. Guns/tech weapons...throw it in my existing Joe pile. Probably would do the Joe world a bit of good too, moving it away from all the campy.

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That would be so sweet.

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NInja Master Harry and the ninja Force, I like that.

I'd add James Bond to the roster. Make him a part of Action Force.

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I'd want to see Sterling Archer in the GIJOE universe, just to see him try and hit on the Baroness.

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Ever since I was little I've merged toy lines. I do it to this day, though I'm a bit more of a stickler on scale than I used to be.

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Yeah, I can go along with that. If I collected MASK, Transformers or He-Man, I couldn't mix them (Specialist Matt Trakker being the exception)

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The scale between MASK and Joe never occurred to me. He-Man were just giants.

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I used to mix Super Powers, Secret Wars and TMNT figures with my Joes. I didn't care about scale back then.
Now, I can't even mix ARAH with the newer figures in the same storyline. Being older sucks, it ruins the imagination.

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Sky Commanders could work. Not so sure about Spiral Zone. Awesome concept, superb animated series, very well done, and some very impressive action figures, but the concept was so planet-encompassing that I don't think it could fit into continuity all that readily.

Forgot about the CORPS. Yeah, some of them could be worked in readily enough. And for that matter, the second series of Bronze Bombers. What the heck, they used Joe bodies.

With few exceptions like having a giant Sectaur bug eating my Joe's I never mixed the lines. My Air Raiders were only played with Air Raiders, GI Joe with GI Joe, Transformer with Transformer, etc.

One thing I did, however, was use my Joe's a Star Wars characters. I hated the Star Wars figures, but liked the vehicles, so I used figures like Destro to play a Sith Lord, Gen. Flagg as Han Solo, Mortal Kombat Sonya as a young jedi in training, BC Muskrat as the galaxies most dangerous human bounty hunter, and more!

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Ghost Rider was my Han Solo and Blowtorch was Luke.

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