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01-23-2023, 03:09 PM | #581 |
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01-23-2023, 03:12 PM | #582 |
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Exactly. Officially, according to Hasbro's website the JOE team is this
G.I. Joe is a highly skilled, on-demand, international special missions force of men and women from around the globe, selected for their elite abilities in their chosen disciplines. Officially, G.I. Joe doesn?t exist, and very few know the truth: these heroes fight a secret war, as the first and last line of defense against forces that seek to plunge our world into chaos. And COBRA is this Cobra is a multi-faceted and masterfully coordinated global criminal network. Few know the truth: Cobra's ultimate mission is to bring chaos and their nefarious ideology into the world. However, for the overwhelming majority of the fandom, (especially for American JOE fandoms,) the JOE team and COBRA Command will and forever be this. G.I. JOE is the codename for AMERICA'S daring, highly trained, special mission force. Its purpose: To defend human freedom against COBRA, a ruthless, TERRORIST organization determined to rule the world.
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01-23-2023, 03:14 PM | #583 |
Fartbutt McGillicuddy
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Gijoe is action force outside of the states. It makes sense to call gijoe international.
Doesn't bother me in the slightest. |
01-23-2023, 03:22 PM | #584 |
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I'm only here for the ninjas and the cool Cobra troopers. I don't collect Joes. They've always been too "Village People" for me.
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01-23-2023, 03:27 PM | #585 |
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Off topic. One of the reasons why I want the M.O.B.A.T. to be the next Classified HasLab is so I can get Steeler and recreate this scene from the opening theme, (minus Stalker blocking Shana's face. (LOL)
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01-23-2023, 04:05 PM | #586 |
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We got various versions of Action Force in the UK with Battle Action Force and then the Marvel UK comics, plus reprints of Hama's stories. So I'm probably more flexible on the different takes on characters. For example Storm Shadow in the Battle Action Force continuity wasn't Tommy Arashikage, but a ruthless assassin who killed his brother and then other members of his ninja clan to try and cover his tracks.
We didn't have the cartoon on TV over here, but you could get episodes on VHS. Plus the Action Force International Heroes theme song sounds much better than the original GI Joe version in my opinion. Not because I have a problem with GI Joe being American, it's just the song sounds better! For me in my head canon, GI Joe is American and Action Force is based on the Action Force vs Red Shadows characters. |
01-23-2023, 04:16 PM | #587 |
Fartbutt McGillicuddy
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what team is flint on?
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01-23-2023, 04:52 PM | #588 |
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01-23-2023, 05:31 PM | #589 |
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There's several mentions of this online, but this incident started the trend of removing Joe from the public eye... Duke (v13) was also available as a giveaway to the first 5,000 children for the July 5, 2004 baseball game as part of Armed Forces Appreciation Day. The giveaway sparked peace protests, but the promotion went on as planned. That figure came with no accessories. Hooded CC is forbidden to be produced by Hasbro or licensed merchandisers The marketing's removed references to Joe's pro-USA stance with US flags removed (interestingly Big Ben is exempt from this) We've got "blasters" now instead of guns, no reason for this other than corporations supporting gun control |
01-23-2023, 06:29 PM | #590 |
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But I digress, my main point is that the Hasbro Joe team have been referring to the Joe toy weapons during livestreams as both "blasters" as well as "guns", "pistols" and "rifles" for at least 4 years now. Even on the recent Pulse-Con stream where a bunch of people got triggered when someone on the Joe team started using "blasters", there were still instances where the team also still used "gun" and "pistol" in the same exact stream.
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