Wait. I don’t recognize any of these names. Which one is the one with the Gung-Fu Grip? Which one is the African-American one? The last Joe I remember before he died in a horrific spray-paint can induced inferno had a fuzzy crew cut and beard. Was that Chuckles?
That would work.
And it may be that I’ve seen him in all the wrong movies, but Sean Bean as Destro.
Is this a whoosh, or are you serious? As a toy collector, I am well aware of the G.I. Joe 12" figures of the '60s and '70s, as well as the spinoffs: Adventure Team, Action Man, and so on. They had cloth uniforms, fuzzy flocked hair, and some of them had that famous “kung fu grip.”
But in the '80s, Hasbro resurrected the G.I. Joe trademark and created a line of 3 3/4" action figures called G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. They were a paramilitary antiterrorist strike force with unique characters and code names and different specialties, and they fought COBRA, “a ruthless terrorist organization bent on world conquest.” The toy line included hundreds of figures, vehicles, and playsets, and ran from 1982-1994, and restarted in 2000 and has been going strong ever since. There was a 155-issue comic book series published by Marvel Comics that started in 1982, and a long-running cartoon series that most children of the '80s fondly remember. BTW, Chuckles was an undercover agent who wore a Hawaiian shirt, a real standout amid all those camouflage-clad military types.
Heh, Jet Li is definitely the one with the Kung-Fu Grip.
In reply to other posts, yes, Bruce Campbell would be a great Shipwreck, and Nathan Fillion could probably pull off Lt. Falcon, but he’d have to swagger more. He is already good at playing the hard-luck kind of situations that Falcon tended to get himself into
“Look, nobody could get into this base unless they managd to get past 8 high-tech and highly bizzare and random security systems, and three secondary characters from the TV series.”
alarm blares
“Huh.”
I’d kinda like to see Adam Baldwin as Shipwreck, but his voice is a bit too deep and western for it. Plus, I can’t picture him in a Navy enlisted man’s uniform without giggling.
This is a reference link
http://www.yojoe.com/filecard/
Click on the year the figure was produced in
Example filecard
This is a reference link
http://www.yojoe.com/filecard/
Click on the year the figure was produced in
Example filecard for the Baroness
http://www.yojoe.com/filecard/97/baroness2.shtml
Ah, see, there is the disconnect. In the 80’s I was too busy trying to get laid to have noticed the G.I. Joe renaissance.