andrew8798
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 20, 2018 23:04:21 GMT -5
So this weeks Retronauts is doing a episode on the franchise. What are some of your favorite memories? Me really I remember the great toy commercials from the 90's including the Street Fighter ones
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Oct 20, 2018 23:11:00 GMT -5
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 21, 2018 0:38:22 GMT -5
Recording the 1am Cartoon Network reruns of the 80s cartoon back in 2002 and 2003, as I had gotten into the 3.75" line around that time.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 21, 2018 7:44:57 GMT -5
I remember being displeased with the way they portrayed all of the villains outside of the Baroness (she was important for my development).
Cobra Commander was supposed to be a pure, unadulterated badass who had people flock to his side.
Zartan was supposed to be a somewhat unhinged mercenary.
Destro was cold and calculating, but was only supposed to be in for Cobra’s cause for the money they spent buying weapons from him. Instead, Destro and Zartan were loyal lieutenants to a bumbling moron.
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Post by CMWaters on Oct 21, 2018 7:59:46 GMT -5
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Post by Paul on Oct 21, 2018 8:22:09 GMT -5
The PSAs at the end of the cartoons.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 21, 2018 8:44:49 GMT -5
...I WAS ONCE A MAN!!!
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 21, 2018 9:12:11 GMT -5
The two part episode "Worlds Without End" is more or less responsible for my continuing fascination with parallel universes and alternate histories.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 9:20:52 GMT -5
I remember being displeased with the way they portrayed all of the villains outside of the Baroness (she was important for my development). Cobra Commander was supposed to be a pure, unadulterated badass who had people flock to his side. Zartan was supposed to be a somewhat unhinged mercenary. Destro was cold and calculating, but was only supposed to be in for Cobra’s cause for the money they spent buying weapons from him. Instead, Destro and Zartan were loyal lieutenants to a bumbling moron. Cobra Commander made Gargamel look like a tactical genius. |
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 21, 2018 11:21:02 GMT -5
"There's No Place Like Springfield" is one of my favorite cartoon episodes ever.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 13:57:41 GMT -5
I'm actually in the middle of re-reading the original Marvel series right now and it's still pretty good.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Oct 21, 2018 14:10:10 GMT -5
To me it was all about the action figures and vehicles themselves. Playing outside summers of 1987-1990 and looking over the catalogs that came with the vehicles. It wasn't until like '92 that I started to give the cartoon or comics any notice.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Oct 21, 2018 15:12:45 GMT -5
Collecting the trading cards.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Oct 21, 2018 16:22:58 GMT -5
Was more a Transformer guy. But the Joe figures were great for my Hasbro WWF ring. A friend of mine agreed apparently, as he did the same with his Joe's, complete with titles and rankings.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Oct 21, 2018 18:04:32 GMT -5
This intro specifically. I remember watching the show early in the morning, before my parents would take me to school.
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Post by sychobeetle on Oct 21, 2018 22:05:10 GMT -5
Chatting with Larry Hama at a convention.The guy HATES Cobra-La with such a passion(understandibly so)that when I brought the Lt.Falcon vs Nemesis Enforcer comic pack issue to get signed he started to protest,until he looked inside and saw his name in the credits,the look on his face was priceless
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Oct 21, 2018 22:14:40 GMT -5
Can't remember episode titles, but there was one in which the Joes kept receiving messages that "The Viper" was coming soon. At the end of the episode a guy shows up to "vipe their vindows".
One episode had a handful of Joes turn into little kids, and little kid Lady Jaye loses her shorts while they're being chased by some dude. At the end of the episode, she's back to adult Lady Jaye and they do a male gaze shot of her in a sweater and no pants.
Also the one episode where Baroness wears a bikini the whole time. I think some Joes and some Cobra peeps team up to fight like, the Gamesmaster or somebody. Mostly just Baroness in a bikini, though.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 21, 2018 22:21:41 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 22, 2018 1:36:27 GMT -5
I *may* have helped create the character Tunnel Rat.
If you read the comics in the first handful of years, you'll see that the letters column occasionally had fans include suggestions for new characters (which, looking back at it, was ill-advised from a legal standpoint). Somewhere in '85 or '86, I sent in such a letter and in it I suggested a Cobra saboteur named Tunnel Rat who specialized in traveling through sewers and such, preferring to do his work from underneath his targets. Basically an even more niche version of Firefly. Anyway, in 1987, the Joe with that name and similar persona would debut. I've always been convinced that Hama saw my letter and reworked the character into what we know. Or maybe he and a 9-year-old in Texas just had the same idea at the same time.
Anyway, By the end of the original line, I had over a hundred different figures from the line, around 30 of the vehicles and tons of other stuff. My very first ones were Snake Eyes and Scarlett, who I found in a small department store in 1982, just as the line launched. I got them because they looked different from the rest of the figures, who all looked same-y. I did end up getting a few of the others in Wave 1 (Breaker became my all-time sentimental fave, loved that figure as bland as he was), but by Wave 2 I was all in. The comics, the cartoon, all of it.
Some of my favorites over the years - the previously-mentioned Breaker (mine eventually broke, and I ended up replacing his torso with Recondo's and he looked pretty damn good), the original Rock N Roll (as well as the bitchin' 2.0 of him), Snow Job (dunno why but man I love how that figure looks, just so simple and sleek), Copperhead (especially his Python Patrol look - apparently I'm its only fan), Croc Master, all of the Dreadnoks...
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Post by petef3 on Oct 22, 2018 1:40:05 GMT -5
There was a really freaky episode called "Glamour Girls" (where Cobra teams up with a perfume/fashion auteur to create a machine that steals people's youth) that apparently first aired in late '86.
I wonder if someone from the WWF was channel-flipping one morning and nicked the name for Martin & Leilani. It wouldn't be the first time that happened (Hawk took the name "Legion of Doom" directly from the SuperFriends cartoon).
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