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G.I. Joe- 3.75 Division Episode : 30 "Dreadnoks: Toy Scalpers"

What? More Dreadnoks hijinks with Road Pig and Cyrus Borg?? Don't threaten me with a good time!

We find Road Pig and Cyrus entering the Flight Hanger of The Deep to go out in search of more living toys to capture. 

More Director's commentary information after the last panel and make sure to click each image to expand it for easier reading!










There was a BUNCH of things that got clipped off due to the square frame of Instagram, like the Aero-Viper working on the front module of the Cobra Condor Z25. I didn't show any more of it as, well if you have never seen the Cobra Condor up close the thing is like a pickaxe. It's HUGE. The entire jet would have eclipsed the hanger set, but as I wanted to show some of it, I opted go show just the front half. 

Here is an unused shot of the Aero-Viper possibly talking to Road Pig and Cyrus as they walk by, but it was cut as it really wasn't necessary. 

I ended up selling the Cobra Condor Z25 off in 2022 because it just didn't "fit" in Cobra Commander's army. Yes it is a flying vehicle and therefore useful to Cobra, but it really is HUGE and easily spotted by humans. Hell it might as well be a drone or remote controlled air plane since it's so big! The above deleted scene and the shot of it in the first panel ate the last time it will ever be seen in the series. It's a great, fun G.I. Joe Toy but just not practical for a living toy to use.

Next up is a little video I recorded of Cyrus flying up into the air with Road Pig on the Jail Bird Air Speeder.

And lastly another shot with me holding them with my hand totally visible making this photo not really usable. 

What's fun about that photo is you can see that the Aero-Viper got inside the cockpit of the Cobra Condor and in the background you can also see the Night Vulture working on his Cobra Jet Pack. You see parts of the Jet Pack in Panel 1 and Panel 3, but not the Night Vulture. So it's funny to me how he's there but no one who read the comic over on Instagram even knew.

Oh! I almost forgot. In that last panel there is some dialgoue bubbles that pop up in a brownish sort of color. Those belong to Zanzibar, the last member of the Dreadnok Toy Scalpers team. At the time I shot this episode, I had bought Zanzibar off of eBay with his Air Skiff vehicle and it just didn't arrive in the mail yet. 

Here's the shots of him from the eBay auction:


The seller originally was asking $33.49 for him, I offered him $28.00 and he accepted. Zanzibar is notorious for being not very popular with most G.I. Joe collectors and I don't understand why. He's another Dreadnok to add to the gang and he's got his own little flying vehicle, AND rooted hair! What's not to love?

I opted to get this one as it also included the instructions/blue prints and at least one of his 3 accessories. He came with a pistol, a spear and a mallet but as I have a brown version of Monkeywrench's Harpoon Gun, I opted to give it to Zanzibar. It works because it kinda combines the stabbing spear with the ranged combat of the pistol and it worked pretty well with him:

His Air Skiff also has slots on the side to hold the mallet, so the Harpoon Gun leaves Zanzibar one at least 1 hand free to control the vehicle. What made him sor perfect for my Dreadnoks Toy Scalper team is that he's A) An obscure character, B) He's a Dreadnok and C) He came with a flying vehicle. This means him, Gnawgahyde, Road Pig and Cyrus Borg can all hop on their flying vehicles and run down living toys on Earth to capture. 

Not gonna lie, that all makes me really excited for them as bad guys. 

That's it for the deleted scenes, but there is another shot of a group of B.A.T.s running to attack buuuut this got cut for time AND will be useful in a future episode (hence why you arent seeing it here). 

This entire set I put a decent amount of time into constructing (using old paper towel tubes to make "support columns" for example), but I couldn't keep it set up in-between shoots. So, it got dismantled pretty much immediately after I snapped all the photos for this episode.

Stay tuned for more episodes gang!


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