GI JOE EXTREME INFO

[jamarmiller]

It was ok but they went too far saying cyberton was originally organic in Beast Machines I never read the comic of Beast wars to see what it was like.

ah ha! I didnt seay Beast Machines! I said BEAST WARS!

[Sundance]

Beast Wars and Beast Machines are part of the Generation 1 and 2 continuity. it's just... complicated...

[The Baron]

And irrelevant.

[Red Laser]

What's an elephant got to do with this?

[Ross SC]

looking at the screencaps from the other threads, all i can say is 'yuck'. horrific character designs...

Sunshine has spoken. this is an actual fact, horrific & yuck, actually.

[Ross SC]

that last comment was not my personal opinion, i havent even seen this yet!

[Thundershot]

From what little that I've seen of "extreme", it seems the media & story lines were let down by the toy line itself.
It was a brave break from the older toy line,am I right in thinking Kenners design team had a brief to update Joe & try to compete with toy lines like Power Rangers?

[jamarmiller]

From what little that I've seen of "extreme", it seems the media & story lines were let down by the toy line itself.
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this is 100 percent accurate. the depth that they went to in the story was unpredescent in the animation area of GI JOE. it was like every character ( almost ) had a snake eyes/storm shadow LEVEL of back story to them. it was great

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,It was a brave break from the older toy line,am I right in thinking Kenners design team had a brief to update Joe & try to compete with toy lines like Power Rangers?

yep thats right, read the interview with Ben the lead designer of GI JOE EXTREME and thats exactly what he says

toys crap
Cartoon, best joe ever story and writting wise
comic, not as good as the cartoon, but no where near as bad as the toys

had these guys been done in 3 and 3/4th inch fans would have thought differently

[Thundershot]

Can't remember the name of the book, was it called Toy Wars?, that covered this period of Hasbro's history as well as being good read for fans of G.I.Joe..any way, when they did research with the kids, the children asked knew very little, if any thing about World War 2, but could tell you every little detail about Power Rangers or the X-men..so it's not a surprise the Sgt Savage line failed, shame really 'cause I quite liked the look of them.

[jamarmiller]

I don't know Beast Wars at all - but I get the analogy that this is an alternate take on the GI Joe universe, as is Action Force!

see the thing is about Beast Wars is, it was a part of GI continuity, it tied directly into the old cartoon

thats what made beast wars so brilliant , it was well written, aimed at a more adult audience and tied into the original cartoon series brilliantly