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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down ten interesting pieces
of trivia that you should know about GI
Joe number ten the first action figures
kicking off our trivia list is the fact
that the original toy series debuted in
1964 he I don’t go on the land on the
air following the success of Barbie
creators Stan Weston envisioned a
military themed Hasbro figure to serve
as a counterpart for boys to distance
the toys from any association with dolls
Hasbro coined the terms action figure
and movable man of action
number nine origin of the Joe name
originally called GI Joe America’s
moveable fighting man the line was
introduced at New York’s International
Toy Fair the brand name didn’t refer to
a single toy but was rather a simple not
the oscar-nominated 1945 film the story
of GI Joe eventually later media
incarnations red conned the name to have
a greater meaning such as in 2009’s film
which explains it as the acronym
globally integrated joint operated
entity number eight immediately
appealing in the beginning only four
distinct figures were released one to
represent each branch of the US Armed
Forces standing at eleven and a half
inches tall the GI Joe action figures
had 21 moving parts and featured full
uniforms boots work caps dog tags facial
scars pistol and m60 machine gun having
found the untapped boys market the
figures sold more than two million units
in the first year alone remember only GI
Joe is GI Joe number 7 war what is it
good for though success was
instantaneous
the Joe’s hit a nerve during the second
half of the 1960’s
with the United States fighting the
extremely unpopular war in Vietnam in
reaction hospira refocused the brand in
1970 making it a non-military
adventure team this is the rugged GI Joe
adventure
now GI Joe fought ecological disasters
and wild animals as opposed to other
human beings
number six major toy design changes in
the franchise’s first decade it gained
popularity with such gimmicks as the now
famous kungfu grip Joe has hands that
grip fingers you hold open and let
closed and but hold on with a cold grip
when the line ended in 1976 it wouldn’t
be until 1982 that another official GI
Joe line emerged reintroducing the toys
as three and three-quarter inch figures
that were rebranded as GI Joe a Real
American Hero this reboot was given an
animated series an animated film and a
Marvel comic book series number five a
new enemy reissued the GI Joe team was
once again given a career change now
serving as a Counter Terrorist team
whose main objective was to protect
innocents from the Cobra an organization
bent on world domination watch her L box
return to the river and attend an GI Joe
as a result each figure was released
with a file card giving it a biography
of the character and his or her
specialties number four the Cobra
Commander after an animated miniseries
the cartoon finally aired regularly on
Saturday mornings in 1985 here Cobra was
portrayed to its young audience as a
bumbling and ineffective group as
opposed to dangerous killers most famous
of all the villains was the leader the
Cobra Commander a mysterious figure who
used ridiculous ploys to achieve world
domination the character was voiced by
actor Chris Lara who gave Cobra
Commander nearly the exact same voice he
used for Starscream in the equally
popular transformers series I nominate
myself number three safety first you
were saying something about fighting
fair Leslie with a constant push for new
characters the animated series tended to
feature a specific character in each
episode from the GI Joe line as a way to
advertise their latest figures
capitalizing on the requirement to
counter the show’s violence with a
positive message these new characters
were often charged with delivering a
public-safety less
at the end of the episode never get in
anything that could close up and trap
you like an old truck or an abandoned
refrigerator now we know and knowing is
half the battle
number two franchise fatigue after the
cartoon franchise was canceled in 1986
it was given a poorly received
direct-to-video animated film named GI
Joe the movie the following year with
interest in the Joe’s diminishing Hasbro
ultimately cancelled the line in 1994
however they regularly tested the waters
with short-lived follow-ups before
targeting older fans by reira leasing
old lines and anniversary collections
number one franchise reboots rounding
out our trivia list are the several
attempts made to reboot the franchise
these began with 1995 s GI Joe Xtreme a
show focused on new Joe’s and a new
terrorist organization called scar
several years later the franchise
finally received a live-action feature
with 2009 s GI Joe Rise of Cobra
reimagining the original 1985 series
while globalizing the once American
based unit in the process are you a GI
Joe fan what’s your favorite piece of
joe trivia for more informative tribulus
–tz– be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
fighting for freedom over land and air
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down ten interesting pieces
of trivia that you should know about GI
Joe number ten the first action figures
kicking off our trivia list is the fact
that the original toy series debuted in
1964 he I don’t go on the land on the
air following the success of Barbie
creators Stan Weston envisioned a
military themed Hasbro figure to serve
as a counterpart for boys to distance
the toys from any association with dolls
Hasbro coined the terms action figure
and movable man of action
number nine origin of the Joe name
originally called GI Joe America’s
moveable fighting man the line was
introduced at New York’s International
Toy Fair the brand name didn’t refer to
a single toy but was rather a simple not
the oscar-nominated 1945 film the story
of GI Joe eventually later media
incarnations red conned the name to have
a greater meaning such as in 2009’s film
which explains it as the acronym
globally integrated joint operated
entity number eight immediately
appealing in the beginning only four
distinct figures were released one to
represent each branch of the US Armed
Forces standing at eleven and a half
inches tall the GI Joe action figures
had 21 moving parts and featured full
uniforms boots work caps dog tags facial
scars pistol and m60 machine gun having
found the untapped boys market the
figures sold more than two million units
in the first year alone remember only GI
Joe is GI Joe number 7 war what is it
good for though success was
instantaneous
the Joe’s hit a nerve during the second
half of the 1960’s
with the United States fighting the
extremely unpopular war in Vietnam in
reaction hospira refocused the brand in
1970 making it a non-military
adventure team this is the rugged GI Joe
adventure
now GI Joe fought ecological disasters
and wild animals as opposed to other
human beings
number six major toy design changes in
the franchise’s first decade it gained
popularity with such gimmicks as the now
famous kungfu grip Joe has hands that
grip fingers you hold open and let
closed and but hold on with a cold grip
when the line ended in 1976 it wouldn’t
be until 1982 that another official GI
Joe line emerged reintroducing the toys
as three and three-quarter inch figures
that were rebranded as GI Joe a Real
American Hero this reboot was given an
animated series an animated film and a
Marvel comic book series number five a
new enemy reissued the GI Joe team was
once again given a career change now
serving as a Counter Terrorist team
whose main objective was to protect
innocents from the Cobra an organization
bent on world domination watch her L box
return to the river and attend an GI Joe
as a result each figure was released
with a file card giving it a biography
of the character and his or her
specialties number four the Cobra
Commander after an animated miniseries
the cartoon finally aired regularly on
Saturday mornings in 1985 here Cobra was
portrayed to its young audience as a
bumbling and ineffective group as
opposed to dangerous killers most famous
of all the villains was the leader the
Cobra Commander a mysterious figure who
used ridiculous ploys to achieve world
domination the character was voiced by
actor Chris Lara who gave Cobra
Commander nearly the exact same voice he
used for Starscream in the equally
popular transformers series I nominate
myself number three safety first you
were saying something about fighting
fair Leslie with a constant push for new
characters the animated series tended to
feature a specific character in each
episode from the GI Joe line as a way to
advertise their latest figures
capitalizing on the requirement to
counter the show’s violence with a
positive message these new characters
were often charged with delivering a
public-safety less
at the end of the episode never get in
anything that could close up and trap
you like an old truck or an abandoned
refrigerator now we know and knowing is
half the battle
number two franchise fatigue after the
cartoon franchise was canceled in 1986
it was given a poorly received
direct-to-video animated film named GI
Joe the movie the following year with
interest in the Joe’s diminishing Hasbro
ultimately cancelled the line in 1994
however they regularly tested the waters
with short-lived follow-ups before
targeting older fans by reira leasing
old lines and anniversary collections
number one franchise reboots rounding
out our trivia list are the several
attempts made to reboot the franchise
these began with 1995 s GI Joe Xtreme a
show focused on new Joe’s and a new
terrorist organization called scar
several years later the franchise
finally received a live-action feature
with 2009 s GI Joe Rise of Cobra
reimagining the original 1985 series
while globalizing the once American
based unit in the process are you a GI
Joe fan what’s your favorite piece of
joe trivia for more informative tribulus
–tz– be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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