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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2018 5:43:59 GMT -5
Too many to name......so many.....so good.......... ;p 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. As someone who was introduced to GI Joe thru the cartoon first, before the comic, this only made the comic & the characters more badass and awesome. The cartoons created characters I could enjoy, the comic said "Yeah, but this is who they really are" and created such a distinct world that I was ok with both interpretations as they clearly were 2 different places. You left out 15 S's in that sentence, FYI.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Oct 22, 2018 12:48:42 GMT -5
I was about to say Carbombya, but that was Transformers Yikes.
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Post by andrew8798 on Nov 4, 2018 1:39:46 GMT -5
The DIC series while not great they were smart to bring back CC
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Post by Schizo on Nov 4, 2018 1:43:18 GMT -5
Favorite GI Joe memory?
PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!
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Post by Clint Bobski on Nov 4, 2018 5:26:48 GMT -5
On a separate note to this, anyone know where you can get the complete series on DVD? I'm in the UK and you can't find it anywhere.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Nov 4, 2018 6:45:22 GMT -5
On a separate note to this, anyone know where you can get the complete series on DVD? I'm in the UK and you can't find it anywhere. We've never gotten a DVD release in the U.K., and I believe both the Rhino and Shout Factory releases are out of print. An import of the U.S. releases is your best bet, though the prices for sealed copies tend to be quite extortionate - the top Google result has the 17-disc season one box set priced at £30 with an additional £42 for delivery, for example.
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Post by Clint Bobski on Nov 4, 2018 6:58:51 GMT -5
On a separate note to this, anyone know where you can get the complete series on DVD? I'm in the UK and you can't find it anywhere. We've never gotten a DVD release in the U.K., and I believe both the Rhino and Shout Factory releases are out of print. An import of the U.S. releases is your best bet, though the prices for sealed copies tend to be quite extortionate - the top Google result has the 17-disc season one box set priced at £30 with an additional £42 for delivery, for example. Many thanks - like you say pretty expensive. Is there not an issue with playing US discs on a UK DVD player though, or am I still living in 2004?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 4, 2018 8:05:04 GMT -5
We've never gotten a DVD release in the U.K., and I believe both the Rhino and Shout Factory releases are out of print. An import of the U.S. releases is your best bet, though the prices for sealed copies tend to be quite extortionate - the top Google result has the 17-disc season one box set priced at £30 with an additional £42 for delivery, for example. Many thanks - like you say pretty expensive. Is there not an issue with playing US discs on a UK DVD player though, or am I still living in 2004? You need a region free player to do it. You can get a cheap one on Amazon for $30. Although that’s the US site, Amazon.co.uk probably has something similar. Alternatively you can set a computer that plays DVDs to different regions though they tend to limit how many times you can do this.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2018 10:10:52 GMT -5
This intro specifically. I remember watching the show early in the morning, before my parents would take me to school. The Bozo Show would air GIJOE shorts at 7:30. Grand Prize Game at 7:45. If you stuck around too long and caught the Transformers intro at 8, I might miss the bus.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2018 10:16:25 GMT -5
-Cold Slither. That song is in my head to this day. You win this round Cobra Commander.
-Cobra Commander destroying the worlds money and inventing Bitcoin.
-The Baroness.
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Post by RI Richmark on Nov 4, 2018 15:39:18 GMT -5
My brother and I used to drop the figures in glasses of water and place them in the freezer, pretending that they were frozen by Cobra.
The real fun was when my dad would go into the freezer to get dinner and be like "What the hell!?!"
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Nov 4, 2018 16:58:47 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). That or it was a takeoff of another popular TV show of the time. Note that Kai and Martin wore golden outfits.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Nov 4, 2018 21:03:38 GMT -5
Favorite GI Joe memory? PORKCHOP SANDWICHES! Body Massage!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2018 8:21:51 GMT -5
I buried a Cobra Crimson Guard and Snow Serpent action figure in the front garden of my childhood house, circa 1986 or so.
A few days later I forgot exactly where they were, stopped myself short of digging up the whole thing to find them.............and God help me I can only pray they're still there to this very day.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Nov 9, 2018 22:39:23 GMT -5
I buried a Cobra Crimson Guard and Snow Serpent action figure in the front garden of my childhood house, circa 1986 or so. A few days later I forgot exactly where they were, stopped myself short of digging up the whole thing to find them.............and God help me I can only pray they're still there to this very day. That reminds of another childhood Joe memory. We had a little tool shed in the backyard and at some point I became convinced one of my Joes was lost somewhere in it. I didn't even know which one it was, but I just suddenly remembered there was one in there...somewhere, and the whole thing was almost completely full of bricks. Near the end, before we moved out, that shed got cleaned out and sure enough, that's where my Stalker figure had stayed for some five years, buried under literal tons of landscaping bricks.
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Post by ERON on Nov 9, 2018 22:51:37 GMT -5
I was pretty thick-skinned as a kid (Watership Down was my favorite movie, which I watched over and over) but there were a couple of GI Joe episodes that really did a number on me - the one where three of the Joes went into a parallel universe and saw their own skeletons, and the one where Shipwreck's wife and kid turned out to be protoplasm clones that melted down in front of him. What the hell, man?!
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Post by montee916 on Nov 10, 2018 15:34:19 GMT -5
I got pretty lucky a couple years ago, Larry Hama was a guest at our local comic con type event and I got his signature on my copy of The Silent Issue, and the the blade of my replica Snake Eyes sword from the first movie.
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Post by cobrabubbles on Nov 10, 2018 16:32:13 GMT -5
Can't remember the name if the two part episode but when Flint was hooked on drugs and the Joe's had to take on the drug dealer known as the Headman.
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 10, 2018 18:09:30 GMT -5
Can't remember the name if the two part episode but when Flint was hooked on drugs and the Joe's had to take on the drug dealer known as the Headman. It was actually Falcon who got hooked on drugs. Headman actually died of an overdose at the end of the episode, the ONLY time someone died on any incarnation of the cartoon.
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Post by andrew8798 on Nov 18, 2018 1:32:15 GMT -5
Why has no one brought up the greatest intro ever
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