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02-27-2013, 08:35 PM | #31 |
Ninja Commando
Join Date: Nov 2007
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You can always just say the Vietnam war happen in the last decade if you wanna keep them as Nam vets.....or just say it is still the mid 80's.....but if it were the mid 80's Joes would be less than 2 bucks, and they would be stacked floor to ceiling in every store!!!!
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02-28-2013, 05:13 PM | #32 |
Crimson Guard
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Location: South Dakota
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Well I still go with GI Joe members being former Vietnam soldiers such as Stalker, Rock and Roll, Hawk, Snake Eyes, Wild Bill and Storm Shadow.
Im still old school. I still go with the 1980s GI Joe expanded backstory of them being former Vietnam war vets combined with up and coming Cobra guys like Bludd and Destro and M.A.R.S. If I still want my Snake Eyes to be a 50 year old vietnam war vet going around still acting like a ninja that's how its going to be. That's why Dice and Budo and Jinx came along so Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes could train the new young folk to be ninjas and whatever else |
02-28-2013, 06:12 PM | #33 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Northern Virginia
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I didn't know that about the James Bond franchise - interesting.
I think I'd prefer to have the ARAH G.I.Joe universe exist in a never ending early-80s to early 90s timespan. That seems to make sense on so many levels. You can have goofy international terrorists in silly outfits without having to deal with the whole post 9/11 world reality. The new IDW reboot makes sense to do in the post 9/11 modern age, and I'm OK with that. Because it's been officially rebooted. |
03-01-2013, 03:44 AM | #34 |
Commando
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Britain
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one other thing that says JB is the same guy is Lazenby clearing out his desk in OHMSS and pulling out mementos from Connery's films. forgot that.
like i said, though, the line 'this never happened to the other fella' was a Lazenby ad-lib that should've been cut. |
03-18-2013, 07:39 PM | #35 |
EQ-Viper
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Location: Canada
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This isn't a hard and fast rule for me of course, some properties translate easier to being updated for contemporary times than others, particularly properties that aren't really tied to an era's specific history or culture/aesthetics in any significant way. EDITED to add: This isn't to say that the GI Joe brand should just be for us fogeys who grew up during the 1980s. I just think that, if Hasbro wants to refresh the property for contemporary times, they might get better traction with new audiences by coming up with all-new characters that speak to today's concerns and trends, instead of forcing a 1982-shaped property into a 2012-shaped market. Last edited by zuludelta; 03-18-2013 at 07:56 PM.. |
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