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Do You Hate Cobra-La?
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06-01-2023, 05:02 PM
GeoffDes
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This makes me wonder what the marketing reason behind Cobra-la was for Hasbro. Were they trying to compete with other-worldly toy lines like MOTU or Thundercats? Or were they trying to add a bit of "mutant" vibes to GIJoe?
Jason
I think it's been stated that they wanted an origin for Cobra, and Buzz Dixon (I think? Help me out here people) came up with the idea as a variation of Shangri-La / hidden city myths. Cobra-La was his placeholder name, and it somehow stuck.
And let's face it, the Joes against giant monsters was certainly a way to "bigify" the movie a la the Transformers fighting against Unicron in theirs.
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