GIJoe AUS Movie and Toy release dates. (spoilers, perhaps)

[liegeprime]

After seeing the video of the new toys covered at US Toyfair, Im getting the toys, don't care much for the movie.

[Lord_Zed]

After seeing the video of the new toys covered at US Toyfair, Im getting the toys, don't care much for the movie.

I have mixed feeling about the toys, some look nice, others are horrible. As a whole the line looks inferior to the 25th Anniversary line. Although at least they haven't deviated to far from the look of GI Joe, the vehicles are all nice and tough and angular, and some of the figures are more military and less X-men wannabee.

I wouldn't go out of my way to get them, but if they come out here I'll pick up a few, it'll be interesting to see who gets better movie toys out of TF's and GI Joe actauly.

Lots of pics here.
http://i.toynewsi.com/g/index.php?mo...bra%2F&start=0

So far I like the trenchcoat wearing ninjas, Shipwreck, some of the more military figutres, and the Cobra 4WD. the Cobra Drill vehicle reminds me of oldschool GI joe which is cool. The Night Raven is disappointing compared to the original, but still one of the better Jets that have been released for GI Joe in recent history might have to get one if they don't cost to much.


Ninjas in Trenchcoats are cool.

[Soundwarp]

All i care about is them releasing the old cartoons on DVD!

[Lord_Zed]

All i care about is them releasing the old cartoons on DVD!

Some small company did release a GI Joe DVD set a few years back. Unfortunately for those that want the whole series it was just a collection of random episodes though. Although for me that's as much of the cartoon as I can handle.

Mind you the trailer for the new movie is pretty cartoony, diabolical plans involving green stuff eating the Eiffel Tower, and swarms of Submarines is the sorta think I'd excpect from the cartoon.

I wonder if they will release a Christopher Eccleston figure?

[liegeprime]

Zed Im more after the vehicles and the Pit Base. Not the figures. I prefer the 25th line than the movie figures. Still hoping they release a Cobra base for the movie line. Those darn terrordromes are worth a fortune on secondary market.

[GoktimusPrime]

They should reprint the old Marvel comics - they were way better than the toon IMO. I actually have a lot of G.I. Joe (Action Force) comics due to the fact that they were printed in the back of UK Transformers comics!

Here's a question - what does "G.I." stand for? As a kid my friends and I had assumed that it either stood for "General Issue" or "Ground Infantry."

[Paulbot]

They should reprint the old Marvel comics - they were way better than the toon IMO. I actually have a lot of G.I. Joe (Action Force) comics due to the fact that they were printed in the back of UK Transformers comics! "

They are. IDW re-released volume one in January, and three more are available for order.

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-G-I-Jo..._bxgy_b_text_b

Marvel released these trades (and a fifth volume) several years ago which is when I picked them up. They got up to where the TF UK reprints started which was good.

[griffin]

Here's a question - what does "G.I." stand for? As a kid my friends and I had assumed that it either stood for "General Issue" or "Ground Infantry."

I thought it would have some sort of military meaning, but according to this acronym site, the standard term 'GI' stands for 'Government Issue'.

But the site also claims that the name 'GI Joe' for the Hasbro toyline, stands for 'Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity', but could be retconned acronym for the new movie.
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/GI+Joe

I think this article sums up the 'politically' changed meaning of the GI Joe name, from its original US military abbreviation, to an international abbreviation:

Paramount has confirmed that in the movie, the name G.I. Joe will become an acronym for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" - an international, coed task force charged with defeating bad guys. It will no longer stand for government issued, as in issued by the American government.

Ah well, just as long as it doesn't turn out to be nothing more than a big budget version of the 'Streetfighter' movie...

And it must have Cobra Commander as well, somewhere. I can't really see Destro as being the main bad guy, as his character traditionally was just an arms dealer, not global terrorist, or intent on taking over the world. CC was the insane on to keep trying to take over the world, Destro was too intelligent to see how nihilistic the goal of global domination was.