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  1. Any feedback, thoughts or questions? Please let me know. This project obviously goes well beyond just the amazing sculpts by the Four Horsemen. We are hoping from your support!
  2. I managed to bury the most important detail of our Kickstarter, at leats for this audience. The Four Horsemen are sculpting our figures. https://www.kickstar...and-toys-for-bo
  3. Hi - I just joined this forum, but I am trying to get the word out about a new toy brand that I have up on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstar...and-toys-for-bo Let me start, though, with why it's relevant to the GI Joe forum. I grew up in Rhode Island in the '80's, and my aunt was a toy designer at Hasbro. She used to take me to work, and I got to see Joe's being made. I became a huge GI Joe fan, reading the comics from the very beginning. After college, I joined the Marine Corps, serving as a infantry officer in many places around the world. There were many influences on my decision to become a Marine, but GI Joe was obviously one of them. I love comics, games and toys. They are such a part of my life that after serving in Iraq in '03 and earning my MBA, I joined the industry, working at Mattel and Activision-Blizzard. Earlier this year, I started my own company, with the mission of developing brands and content that would improve boys' literacy and help them to lives of leadership, creativity and excellence. INVICTA Challenge, our first brand, combines comics, games and toys to tell true leadership stories. Our content is very unique. The best way to get boys to read is not to give them a book, but to give them something they will want to read, like a comic or a game. Our graphic novel games, called Leadership Decision Challenges, actually involve boys in decision-making. The games allow boys to walk in the foot steps of exceptional leaders through a choose-your-own adventure style experience. Our first story is a true account of a Native American paratrooper on D-Day, Turner Turnbull. Turnbull and his platoon held a key French village all day on June 6, holding off fifty times their number in Germans. There are a lot of amazing elements to this story. For instance, Turnbull's platoon sergeant was Bob Niland; the Niland family is the inspiration for Saving Private Ryan. Every graphic novel game comes with a four inch figure or model kit, because boys are more inclined to read something tied to an activity they enjoy, like collecting or building. The Four Horsemen are sculpting our figures, and the first story comes with a four inch Turnbull paratrooper figure. (Our next story is about Teddy Roosevelt, and you can see some prototype sculpts on our Kickstarter page.) This brand and story is up on Kickstarter right now, and I am hoping to get people's feedback, and, if they like what we are trying to do, their support. You can post here or you can email me directly at jfmurphy@invictachallenge. Here is the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstar...and-toys-for-bo Thanks for your time and attention, and I look forward to hearing from the community. Jim
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