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12-27-2023, 04:46 PM | #1 |
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Yo Joe from BotCon!
Wanted to share this from our friends at Night Shining. They are closing up shop at the end of the year and are pulling out all the stops for a FINAL major sale over at https://nightshiningllc.com/collections/all. There is a 50 items for $50 liquidation listing as well as plenty of additional Transformers and now G.I. Joe rarities! In that vein, they wanted to show off something extremely rare in its own right. An internal pitch that was made to Hasbro back in the mid 2010?s. With the brand having direction issues, the current team at Night Shining (who use to work for the official G.I.Joe licensee) made this pitch. It brought together 1970?s Adventure Team G.I. Joe with the concept of the 1980?s ARAH. This concept was pitched as a mix of appeal to the Rescue Bots and Transformers Prime audience. Basically, what cartoons use to be in the 80?s! Obviously it was not used by Hasbro, but what do you think? Would something like this have been a hit? A young Cobra Commander, Destro, and Baroness? Future G.I. Joe?s making weekly guest appearances? Guess we?ll never know. (And never knowing is? the other half of the battle?) https://www.facebook.com/BotConOffic...qN7ttf7GJTYdjl
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12-27-2023, 05:03 PM | #2 |
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This is cool as hell! Thanks for sharing!
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12-27-2023, 05:04 PM | #3 |
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Honestly, do a few character changes and I think you have a solid way here to update Joe that's attractive to kids and parents.
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12-27-2023, 05:24 PM | #4 |
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I love the idea. Would have been a lot of fun to see the usual Joes and Cobras before they were either. Putting the adventure side of Joe back in the spotlight would be great too. I always loved the Doc Samson/Johnny Quest type pulp fiction sci/fi fantasy adventure stories of the Sunbow era.
Some of the Adventure Team needs better codenames though Skip and Rocky are too bland, and The Lost Adventurer/ Man of Evil needs a better name. MARS as the main adversaries is a great idea, sounds like they wouldn't be doing anything overtly evil but operate as the immoral corporation like Cobra was in Renegades, which is a great way to do villains when you can't do much violence. Looks like it would have been a fun and interesting ride and act kind of like a prequel to GI Joe. Quote:
From Facebook. Jesse Wittenrich: The art was based on digital mock-ups of potential 4" figures. Ready to be submitted as a follow up if there was any interest.
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12-27-2023, 05:51 PM | #5 |
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Looks promising. I wonder why Hasbro passed.
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12-27-2023, 06:03 PM | #6 |
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Mis 2010's means this was probably after Renegades and when GI JOE 3 was still a planned thing. Probably were just waiting to see how that would do for the brand.
Personally, I still think something more-akin to Adventure Team is probably the only way to get Joes in any sizable quantity into the hands of kids. Properties like Rescue Heroes and even Paw Patrol kinda hit a vein like that.
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12-27-2023, 07:08 PM | #7 |
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I love the idea but hate the stylized anime look as the toys are likely to be of the same accord. And why dog the term terrorist? Hell terrorism was prevalent as fuck in the 80’s that was the whole goddamned point of gi joe was to stop terrorist asshats. Sure make a noname bad guy legion like skar or something for AT but no need to not use it for joe.
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12-27-2023, 07:21 PM | #8 |
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Interesting concept...
But, if they're not fighting anyone or hunting anything, why do they need camouflage? |
12-27-2023, 07:35 PM | #9 |
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I love the idea but hate the stylized anime look as the toys are likely to be of the same accord. And why dog the term terrorist? Hell terrorism was prevalent as fuck in the 80?s that was the whole goddamned point of gi joe was to stop terrorist asshats. Sure make a noname bad guy legion like skar or something for AT but no need to not use it for joe.
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12-27-2023, 07:35 PM | #10 |
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Hiding from animals?
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