Well, actually, my apartment complex has two very decent swimming pools, and I have had a bit of Joe-related fun at them in the past. When I reviewed the G.I.Joe Piranha Attack Boat (the post 2002 model, not the Cobra one), I got several very decent photos of it in the pool.
On another occasion, I decided to see if the working outboard motor that came with the 12" scale G.I.Joe raft worked worth a darn. It did -- right up until you put a 12" G.I.Joe into it, in which case it was generally too heavy or misbalanced the raft (quick -- where's the pool net?!). Amusingly enough, though, that raft did work quite well as a sort of "transport raft" for a group of 3-3/4" figures.
And as far as arctic items are concerned, we do get snow here, admittedly mostly in the mountains. However, we did get snow down at "city level" a number of years ago -- on Easter Sunday, no less. I dragged out every arctic figure I had, including a 12" Star Wars Snowtrooper and a 12" arctic-equipped G.I.Joe, for photographic purposes.
What was really funny was that someone built a rather large snowman near the entrance to the apartment complex, that well outlasted the rest of the snow, which was pretty much gone by noon. I would've loved to have seen the look on the faces of anyone who slept late, didn't realize what had happened, and went out for Easter dinner and saw THAT thing sitting at the entrance...
I just said a post by Dark Jedi makes sense. I am going ice-skating in Hell tomorrow.
