Sunbow Season 3. What could have been??

[King Kahn]

i keep hearing talk about what sunbow would have done after the movie with season three. sort of like how they continued Tf after the movie.


anyone know what they had planned? i never heard anything about this.

[Troynos]

Duke was supposed to die and Falcon becomes the new Duke.

Beyond that, don't know.

[blayze5150]

I think Lion-O was supposed to get the matrix of leadership and Cobra was going to enlist the help of a giant robot made of lions to fight GI Joe called Lion Force. I may be thinking of something else. It couldn't have beem much worse than the DiC cartoons.

[Chief CWO]

CC was turned back into Battle Armor Cobra Commander and was going to start a new faction. They would battle with Serpentor and eventually CC would take his rightful place as the head of Cobra again.

[bigdaddyblue73]

Cobra would get all peaceful and nice and the dreadnoks become Later Day Saints. Then the real enemy would show up--liberals!

[Headman]

It was going to be exactly like Dinosaucers. Only more Dinosaurs.

[Monkeywrench]

Cobra was going to be a much smaller org. run by the Twins with CC lurking in the background changing back into a man towards the end of the season. Not sure if they were going to have Serpentor around or if he was "killed" in the movie. The Joes would have been led by Falcon and Slaughter and the main group would have been the rawhydes and the renegades. I'm sure they would have kept a few guys around from the 86 line like Hawk, BH, Dial Tone and mainframe.

[rob0213]

Joes
In
Space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigdaddyblue73]

joes
in
space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol lol

[Monkeywrench]

To go even further, imagine a season 4. This would have featured Destro and the IG's. Cool Joes that get no respect like Lightfoot and Muskrat and the TF!

[zenfakor]

I heard they were going to battle people hurting the environment, serious, but I would have gone with " SNAKE-EYES AND THE GREEN SHIRTS ".

[Blaster'spunchingbagg]

You'd probably have to look at the action figures, toy companies always get inside info prior to releases of cartoons/movies so they know what and how many to design.

[Prince of Fire & Thunder]

Cobra was going to be a much smaller org. run by the Twins with CC lurking in the background changing back into a man towards the end of the season. Not sure if they were going to have Serpentor around or if he was "killed" in the movie. The Joes would have been led by Falcon and Slaughter and the main group would have been the rawhydes and the renegades. I'm sure they would have kept a few guys around from the 86 line like Hawk, BH, Dial Tone and mainframe.
Also, the subfactions of Cobra were to be more autonomous. If you ran into the Dreadnoks for example, they'd be working for themselves rather than Cobra Commander or Serpentor. They wanted to lean away from a military feel & more towards crimefighting.

[Funky Munky]

Wasn't DIC = to Sunbow Season 3?

[Robowang]

Wasn't DIC = to Sunbow Season 3?

Supposedly it wasn't the original plan for a season three, but since there wasn't a Sunbow season 3 and DIC pretty much successfully bridged the continuity, it is essentially "GIJoe seasons 3 and 4" (DIC was two seasons, plus a miniseries before DIC season 1 that may as well count toward DIC season 1). It's not Sunbow GIJoe season 3, but you're right, as it fits into continuity, it is effectively GIJoe season 3 (and 4).

And for those who will argue against this, keep in mind that just because a show makes subtle (and eventually drastic) changes in tone doesn't make it out of continuity. Operation: Dragonfire successfully bridged the continuity between the Sunbow series' ending, GIJoe the movie, and the DIC series. And I don't mean that as my opinion, I mean that as in there are specific instances that link events in the two series.

That's all!

[Troynos]

You'd probably have to look at the action figures, toy companies always get inside info prior to releases of cartoons/movies so they know what and how many to design.

This is G.I. Joe, the toys came first and the cartoon was modeled after the toys of the time.

[RoadShlock]

wasn't a proposed plotline involving the Twins formation of the Coil crime syndicate?

[Funky Munky]

So how would Sunbow do post Season 2 differently than DIC then?

[chuck x goren]

Here's an interview snippet from Buzz Dixon concerning a propsed Season 3:

Mike Hill, who was on staff at the time, made a brilliant proposal to send the Joes off after a somewhat new foe called The Coil for the never made Sunbow season three (there was a DIC season three, but they never bothered to ask for any input from me or Flint or Steve and frankly, we were just as glad). As I recall, Mike's idea was that following the Movie, Cobra would be shattered as a world-wide organization. Under the guidance of Tomax and Xamot, a new organization called The Coil (much more criminal in nature than military) would be formed, picking and choosing among the best of the surviving Cobra units. Cobra-La was utterly wiped out, no survivors, except for Cobra Commander, who would be slithering about in the background for the first half of season three as some sinister character of shifting alliances, then be revealed in severely mutated form in the second half. He would be playing the Joes and The Coil against one another in an attempt to destroy both and rebuild Cobra.

Sunbow season three was never made. Hasbro had been funding G.I. Joe out of their own pocket; they got a ridiculous deal from DIC to take over the series and they pretty much let them. The story behind DIC is much too long to go into here; suffice it to say these guys may not have been 100% responsible for the destruction of the animation industry in the late eighties but they sure helped!
From this site:
www.joeheadquarters.com/interviews_dixon.shtml

It's not always available, so I used a cached version and a copy n' paste job.

I could see how "severely mutated form" could lead Cobra Commander to prance around in his new blue/sliver battle armor.

[Funky Munky]

The only DIC episode I cared for was the one where Grunt finds greedy spirits who believe the gold is theirs. The Joes release the chief and the greedy spirits are defeated.