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View Poll Results: What does GI joe need? | |||
Should Hasbro/Paramount just have rebooted the GI Joe franchise? | 16 | 29.09% | |
Should GI Joe establish a good cartoon series before looking at doing live action movies? | 40 | 72.73% | |
Should Hasbro "stand down" GI Joe for a few (4 or 5) years, maybe keep the "Collector's Club"? | 6 | 10.91% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 55. You may not vote on this poll |
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05-27-2012, 08:55 PM | #1 |
Cobra Viper
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Been looking at all the chatter and thought I would pose this poll.
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05-31-2012, 04:53 PM | #2 |
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Not a cartoon, a comic! But times have changed I fear and comics aren't what they used to be (in terms of popularity with kids) :(
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05-31-2012, 05:00 PM | #3 |
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Cartoons. A modern cartoon, keep Renegades but bring in more ARAH Joes in uniform. And continue the classic cartoons. And commercials to promote the toys.
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05-31-2012, 05:02 PM | #4 |
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05-31-2012, 05:08 PM | #5 |
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lol this is what I was thinking. And I doubt we can all agree on what makes up a good cartoon, so we're screwed there too. If this movie sucks a reboot may be in order, but I'm holding out hope that they'll right the ship and get this franchise back on track.
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05-31-2012, 05:14 PM | #6 |
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Fans who complain more!
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05-31-2012, 05:27 PM | #7 |
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One continuity would be so cool.
If anything, have a comic aimed at more mature audiences, and an animated series for the younger audience; but make it the same continuity. Just as the live action Star Wars films and the animated Clone Wars series share the same universe. You could have a comic focusing on the early exploits of GI Joe featuring a young Snake Eyes and the rest of the original 13. Then an animated series set in the same universe (but in the future) where an older, more seasoned Snake Eyes in training Jinx & Kamakura. The comic could have the enemy be human cobra soldiers where as the futuristic kid friendly cartooon would have the enemies be B.A.T.S. and BioVipers. |
05-31-2012, 06:01 PM | #8 |
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Has anyone read thier May collectors club magezine and read the GIJoeCC interview with Jon Chu and Lorenzeo Di Bonabuttface?
I find one quote from DiBonnabuttface intriguing: GIJCC: It sounds very exciting and the previews we've seen look really impressive. In closing, if you could send out one message to the HARDCORE Gi Joe fans, what would it be? Lorenzo Di Bonnabuttface: The message would be that Jon made the movie they were HOPING for... WTF? WAY TO GO PARAMOUNT! i f'in swear someone goes out on the limb and even aknowledged by the biggest hater of all time of Gi Joe (DiBonnabuttface) and actually aknowledges Jon's awesome work just to THROW IT BACK in our faces as well as Jons by delaying it for the most assinine reason to put in in 3d? incredible...
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05-31-2012, 06:04 PM | #9 |
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Rebooting the movie franchise isn't going to work - they sorta half-rebooted for Retaliation, and it's clearly backfired on them. If they reboot now, say for a third movie, they're just going to confuse people. Better to go a good half-decade at least between movies before trying again with a new continuity (like Spider-Man).
A Cartoon's not going to work either, because Hasbro's only going to show it on The Hub, which limits the viewership something awful. And since they're limiting other ways of viewing it in other sources, half the actual fandom won't be able to watch it, and it's not really going to grow the fandom any. If they were willing to get it on Cartoon Network, they'd stand a better chance - if Lucas wasn't willing to start his own network for Clone Wars, Hasbro should've followed his lead. Comics aren't going to do much better, as the current line proves. If the sheer number of Joe comics IDW's throwing out each month can't get more Joe fans, no other comics are going to do better. Finally, ending production of the line seems inevitable now. The push-back for Retaliation will drop Joe from just being a movie tie-in line to a FAILED movie tie-in line! And if you can't move units when you've got a movie, a line as small as Joe isn't going to survive. With that in mind, Hasbro BETTER keep the Club around, because otherwise we might be looking back at the 94-98 years as a "good time" for the Joe line in comparison to what's coming Summer 2013. If the Club isn't putting out new figures, no one else will. :( |
05-31-2012, 06:13 PM | #10 |
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Apparently GI Joe needs a dude in an Iron suit that fly's, a big green guy, a God and an all American hero!...in all seriousness for the many, many people on this sight that have said GI Joe wont work or translate because of the cheesy costumes...see above comment and watch the Avengers, Spider-man, and Batman...seems costumes work? just saying.
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