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12-11-2008, 01:41 PM

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That's maybe the only thing I really hold against the cartoons. Hasbro went so far to make sure most everyone had unique weapons and Joes got the Snow Job "laser rifle" (power cell in the stock?!) and Cobras got the only recently produced German-submachinegun-laser rifle (at least it has a clip, er... power pack).

Well, back in the 80s you couldn't show real guns on kids' cartoons. In fact, for the most part you still can't now. I was amazed that Batman: The Animated Series got away with it!

I always did think it was strange that the folks behind the show gave everyone Snow Job's rifle, though -- I was thinking maybe it was for simplicity's sake, but all the Autobots and Decepticons on Transformers (also made by Sunbow) had their own individual weapons right out of the gate. I guess they figured using a weapon identified as a laser rifle on its figure's filecard would go over better than giving everyone their individual weapons and having them shoot laser blasts. Can you imagine Flint carrying a laser-firing shotgun?!?

However, in the second season, some of the characters were given their unique weapons. For example, Roadblock has his machine gun (but it fires lasers) and Low-Light has his sniper rifle (but it fires lasers). At least they tried... Anyway, my Joe display is pretty cartoon-oriented these days since the 25th line seems to embrace that aspect of the mythos more than any other. So all my 25th Joes are holding Snow Job rifles (with a few exceptions -- Scarlett has her crossbow, for example).

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12-11-2008, 02:02 PM

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Can you imagine Flint carrying a laser-firing shotgun?!?

Why not, Chewbacca had a laser firing crossbow. Laser shotgun would be cool, a bolt would spread out into a couple hundred tiny little bolts. Bad-ass!

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12-10-2008, 09:19 AM	#3
Lava Boss Veteran Offline --> Posts: 3,378 --> Join Date: Apr 2006	I enjoy Sunbow, but sometimes I gotta be in the mood for it. They did get a bit grandiose at times. The water robots are over-the-top (and so effective, but never used again?!). PYRAMID OF DARKNESS has a lot of goofy stuff. A net holding down a space shuttle that's launching? Sky Striker wing slicing through a HISS tank. The slugger as anti-air weapon. The Cobra CLAW, on the ground, being able to shoot down a Sky Striker (A $3 toy being able to destroy a $20 one...or however much they were in 1985). While some episodes were better written than others, you gotta check your brain at the door. It's mostly all tongue-in-cheek. Like how every Cobra could become a master of disguise and would have their mask or glasses on under a rubber mask. How could Bludd even pose as Dr. Van Der Meer when Bludd only has one good eye? If you think those are bad...stay far away from Dic's efforts. GI JOE Extreme is pretty goofy, too. Mayday impresses everyone by driving a limo off a cliff and rolling it in midair then safely landing. Freight jumps out of a plane and shoot his way down, the force of his laser guns shooting at the ground slowing his fall. Uhhhh....sure.

12-10-2008, 09:05 AM	#4
lehsreh G.I. Smurf Offline --> Posts: 3,446 --> Join Date: Jan 2006	once again i say if were going to pick at the cartoon because of it being for kids then we need to pick at the whole joe line. everytime i say this most say but the comic is more realistic then the cartoon, true, but its still nowhere near being realistic. if it were real there would be one big battle and it would all be over because there is nowhere on earth a army as big as cobra could hide from the allied forces. thats another stupid thing, in the comic gi joe and cobra are not known to the public. no way the things cobra has done would go unnoticed. back to the question, was it silly? yeah, the 90's were even to silly for me but tell me what cartoon that has stood the test of time wasnt. everyone talks about the new justice league, i love it also, but it didnt stand the test of time with its hard edged style. heck, it only lasted a few years. i think in one of the other threads about the cartoon i wrote about demographics. this has to be true because the ones who thought it was silly when they were a kid were older then myself. i can honestly say i took it all in without thinking how silly it was. i dont think its silly today either, because if i did, me being close to 30 i would have to stop buying toys because toys are really for kids. one more thing. my buddy and i are wanting to see the new cartoon very badly(i was sigma six too before it came out) but i told him, and i still stand to it, "in 25 more years, the first joe cartoons will be the one everybody remembers, not the realistic resolute. dont believe this, look at how bad extreme did, it was edgy for that time. looking for realism in a cartoon is like looking for beachfront property in Alaska.

12-10-2008, 09:34 AM

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looking for realism in a cartoon is like looking for beachfront property in Alaska.

Alaska actually has 33904 miles of shoreline with tons of beaches, you can even rent cabins on the beach. So I want my realistic cartoon. Just kidding.

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