chuckdawg1999 wrote:
A few things:
1) The animated movie is AWESOME!!!!! COBRA LALALALALALALALALALALA!!!!!!!!
2) Also the Joe movie was done before the TF movie but because Transformers was more popular it was released first. The poor returns and out cry over the death of Optimus Prime led to the Joe movie being shown on TV and direct to VHS with Duke NOT dying.
1. Fully agree with ya!
2. Here's a little bit more info about it in an interview with Buzz Dixion on
www.Joeguide.comQuote:
DT: When were you informed that G.I.Joe: The Movie was not going to be released to the movie theaters but going directly to video and aired on TV in a miniseries format?
BD: We got one theatrical screening at that year’s San Diego Comic Con but that was it. As I recall, the deal with Dino DeLaurentiis came apart because Dino was supposed to book Transformers for four shows a day on weekends and instead booked it for only three. Everybody later agreed the films should have been released in reverse order, with G.I.Joe: The Movie hitting theaters first, then Transformers, then My Little Pony. When My Little Pony could only sell three matinees a day, DeLaurentiis cut back on Transformers. Then there was the whole "Optimus Prime is dead" business which was purely wrong for Transformers (but not for G.I.Joe where the idea of death was much more central to what the Joes were, even if we never actually showed anybody dead on camera). So the whole thing fizzled out when they couldn’t find another distributor.
I was bitterly disappointed then, but have learned to be philosophical about it.
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