Couple of questions

[lazlo76]

I went out of the country in 1986 and didn't come back till November of 1990 so imagine my surprise when I find out there was a G.I.Joe animated movie in the discount bins at Kaybee and suddenly the newer Joe cartoons seemed different and sounded weird, so I go:

1) According to various sources G.I.Joe The Movie skipped theaters and was aired in April 1987, but how did kids know when to look for it? was there an ad in TV Guide? was it aired during the weekends?

2) When were the Sgt.Slaughter live action intros and commercial bumpers added to the reruns? was it around the same time as Transformers when they added a puppet Powermaster Optimus Prime introducing episodes alongside a kid for their season 5?

3) Same thing with G.I.Joe The Movie, how were kids aware of when to watch Operation Dragonfire? was there a voiceover during the regular Joe cartoon saying "hey kids after 2 years of reruns get ready for 5 additional G.I.Joe episodes before going back to reruns again"

[Troynos]

Same way we found out about the MASS Effect and such.

One day I turned on the TV and there was Operation: Dragonfire

[Crossbones]

Same here. I remember turning on the TV on a Saturday afternoon and saw the beginning of the GI Joe the Movie at like 1 in the afternoon. I just sat there in awe and watched the whole thing. My friend at the time mentioned that the local Philly station had run promos for it all week during the afterschool 3p-6p daypart that it was going to be on.

[Xenos]

There must have been ads leading up to the movie's first showing, because I remember having the VCR ready to go to tape it. I watched that video so many times.

[CornDog_The_Ninja]

1) According to various sources G.I.Joe The Movie skipped theaters and was aired in April 1987, but how did kids know when to look for it? was there an ad in TV Guide? was it aired during the weekends?


I saw it at the local video store. That was the first place I had seen or heard of it.

[lazlo76]

Kind of like with the 5th season of Transformers were there any special made intros to G.I.Joe for the '87 and '88 seasons, I know by this point they were in constant reruns so I'm thinking the Sgt.Slaughter openings started.

[Ford]

Yeah, there were commercials advertising that it would be coming on. I had my VCR ready for it too. I even kept that tape up until a couple years ago.

I wasn't able to buy a copy of it until the late 90s though.

[Colonel Bludd]

there was commercials for the movie on whatever channel gi joe came on and i remember it coming on like 7 or 8pm. as for dragonfire, it was just on one day and but i had to go to school. To this day, i never seen all of dragonfire.

[Xaven]

Same way we found out about the MASS Effect and such.


I found out about Mass Effect from my Xbox dashboard. :)

[r3v3n63]

I saw it at the local video store. That was the first place I had seen or heard of it.

This for me too.

[sithlordsmart]

I remember it was on USA network and duke and Scarlett used to sit on the cartoon train before the episodes.