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New G.I. Joe Cartoon Series: "Renegades"

C.E. Evans

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As expected when Discovery Communications and Hasbro Toys joined forces to relaunch the Discovery: Kids network into their new joint venture "The Hub," a new G.I. Joe animated series was one of the projects being developed and was officially announced at the 2010 G.I. Joe Convention:

Jay Cochran at the Hasbro Panel said:
[Renegades] is going back to the beginning. They loved Resolute and thought it was great, but they wanted to go back and do a "G.I.Joe Year 1". G.I.Joe will start out in the beginning on the run from someone or something, that may not be a snake.

The show will not use American Animation, but a different style from what everyone else does...From what I saw it did look fairly similar to what we saw in Resolute.

Things are not what they may seem, Cobra might have a public and private face...

...The story will be very linear, meaning what happens in one episode will effect the next one, and there will also be self-contained stories. The pilot is 2-part and the 1st season will be 26 episodes. Hasbro's has a real game plan, and already discussing what will happen in season 4 and 5. It helps when the company doing the show owns part of the network.

There will be a core team of Joes that you will really be able to get to know. There are a lot of hard-core "Geeks" and fans on the writing staff. The show is not CG because they wanted to be able to introduce as many characters and vehicles as possible, and CG would be to expensive to do that.

You will have stories where we will see characters joining the team as they go along, and there will also be characters already on the team like Snow Job, but won't show up till there is a specific need, like a mission that requires going to the arctic. This is really going to be "G.I.Joe Year 1" so the team will start small and grow big over the years.

The TV rating will be TBD, but it wont be as dark as Resolute. They will push things as much as possible, but they still want it to be watchable by kids. The stories won't be dumbed down. They will be written as if the writers were writing it for themselves. That will be for all the shows that they do on the Hub (Take note Transformer fans)...

...Bullets are a no, it is a kids network, but they have made creative solutions and got away with some things in one episode. Things like no bullets won't detract from the show. Anything a kid could find in his parents gun cabinet, they tried to stay away from.

Full story here (including new toyline news)
http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=9&itemid=15814
 
The line about "American Animation" is a bit odd, I wonder what they mean exactly. It's not like much is actually animated in America, I assume they mean the visual style.
 
The line about "American Animation" is a bit odd, I wonder what they mean exactly. It's not like much is actually animated in America, I assume they mean the visual style.

Probably. The original GI Joe wasn't animated in America, I'm pretty sure the animation was outsourced to Korea and then the GI Joe Movie was done by Toei in Japan with some further work with the Korean company that animated the series.

I'm not really sure how much American input was in the show, character designs? Actual story-boards? Dunno.
 
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