Classic G.I. Joe and Transformers Animated thoughts

[Rarewolf]

"Spider-Man and Zoids", before later starting "Incredible Hulk Presents" which ran a hodge-podge of US material.

Now that you mention it, I had those two. Completely forgot/ignored the Spidy for the Zoids, of which I still remember some storylines.

Incredible Hulk Presents also had one UK element - a UK Doctor Who strip in Black and White. Only ran for 12-13 issues.

I never had the Marvel Star Wars ones though, its heyday must have been just before my collecting days (December '85)

I never had any non-marvel ones either.

 

[timothy]

star wars
transformers
g.i. joe

those top three I stayed with no matter what company they were at and I have every issue well except the uk versions.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Well Cobra Commander did appear on Transformers,though he wasn't called that instead he was called Old Snake but it was clearly him and he almost did the Cobra scream but started coughing and the Transformer's character Marissa Faireborn is supposedly the daughter of Flint and Lady Jaye.

If I remember right, Flint and Lady Jaye are shown in a flashback of Marissa as a baby.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

They just showed the one with Old Snake on The Hub, pretty funny. On one hand they're coy about it being CC but on the other it's absolutely unsubtley obvious.

 

[Hober Mallow]

They just showed the one with Old Snake on The Hub, pretty funny. On one hand they're coy about it being CC but on the other it's absolutely unsubtley obvious.

"COOOO-BR... (cough, cough)!"

 

[timothy]

I loved that episode, unoffical g.i. joe crossover.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

They just showed the one with Old Snake on The Hub, pretty funny. On one hand they're coy about it being CC but on the other it's absolutely unsubtley obvious.

"COOOO-BR... (cough, cough)!"

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDwTDndm4b8[/yt]

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I dig Old Snake's trenchcoat.

 

[Hober Mallow]

I can't remember, though -- wasn't Cobra Commander transformed into a snake in G.I. Joe the Movie? That would be before the events of the Transformers episode, which took place in the then-future of 2006. Was CC ever resurrected in the G. I. Joe continuity?

 

[John Dunbar]

I grew up watching these two shows, I loved every bit of it. I so wish the movies could have been better, more like the cartoons as far as the look goes. It does look like the new Joe movie will feature a Cobra Commander with a mask.

 

[captcalhoun]

I can't remember, though -- wasn't Cobra Commander transformed into a snake in G.I. Joe the Movie? That would be before the events of the Transformers episode, which took place in the then-future of 2006. Was CC ever resurrected in the G. I. Joe continuity?

yes and yes.

 

[Disruptor]

I can't remember, though -- wasn't Cobra Commander transformed into a snake in G.I. Joe the Movie? That would be before the events of the Transformers episode, which took place in the then-future of 2006. Was CC ever resurrected in the G. I. Joe continuity?

Yes. He became snake.

The Sunbow toons didn't continue, but his return was planned for the season 3 story arc pitch, which never happened.

A couple of years later, the Dic produced GI JOE cartoons followed the Sunbow series' story (though loosely) and Cobra Commander was restored to humanoid form in OPERATION: DRAGONFIRE via mystical "dragonfire" energy by the Baroness who was pissed off at Destro and Serpentor.

 

[Unicron]

I always got the impression from Snake's comments about "They don't make terrorists like they used to" that the presence of the Autobots on Earth could have made it much harder for an organization like Cobra to function, since they would be a viable ally to the Joes and had superior technology. Just an idle thought.

 

[timothy]

well all you have to do is look at season 2 of g.i. joe their tech on both sides jump forward a bit. I mean the joes use robot walkers cobra gain andriods. you have to figure megatron or at least starscream would help an organization like that.

now does anyone know which human city was used to make triptacon?
and by the way I have him never was able to get a metroplex.

 

[Hober Mallow]

now does anyone know which human city was used to make triptacon?

The scene as I recall was so fast and so weird -- a human city just suddenly and inexplicably transforms into Trypticon -- and the animation at this time is so horrid it's hard to know just what the intention was. There an episode that was made in and shown only in Japan called "Scramble City," which was supposed to be a bridge between season two of the series and the movie. In that episode, the Autobots on earth are just finishing the construction of Metroplex to surprise the attacking Decepticons. But the Decepticons have a surprise of their own -- Trypticon, who emerges from the ocean. It's not explicitly stated, but it seemed to me the idea was that the Decepticons had constructed him from their crashed ship (or that he was the ship and transformed into Trypticon). That would make more sense than the Decepticons somehow transforming an entire human city without anyone's knowledge into a giant dinosaur.

Oh, and here's what Wiki has to say about Marissa Fairborn:

When abducted by the Quintessons in the animated series episode, "The Killing Jar", Marissa is duped by a hologram of her father—Commander Faireborn. For a long time, fans have suspected the G.I. Joe character Flint (Real Name: Dashiell R. Faireborn) as being Marissa's father. He is never actually identified by name in the episode, but aside from the obvious connection of sharing a last name, he is voiced by the same actor, Bill Ratner, and is visually designed to look like an aged version of the character. Consequently, it is theorised that Marissa's mother could be Flint's paramour, Lady Jaye. The 20th Anniversary edition DVD of The Transformers: The Movie provides a commentary that confirms this fact—Sunbow's writers had indeed always imagined her as the daughter of the two G.I. Joe characters.

 

[timothy]

very cool I like marissa she's a hottie just like her mother lady Jaye <(which I all ways thought was a weired code name for her.) though I did perfer her to scarlett.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I thought Scarlett was with Duke...

 

[timothy]

nope scarlett had a thing for snake eyes but I think thatt was just in the comics.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I didn't read the comics. But I remember the animated series and I think Scarlett liked Duke in the series.

 

[captcalhoun]

it was Duke in the toon, Snakes in the comics and then in Resolute, apparently she'd been with both and chose Duke and in ROC, she and Ripcord flirt.