Credit to HissTank.com sister site TFW2005 for breaking the news that Advertising Age, a marketing website has revealed some tidbits of information about the upcoming “Hub” Kids’ TV channel that Hasbro is working on alongside Discovery Kids.
The juiciest part of the article states:
“The newest kid on the block, The Hub, also has the added pressure of what will likely be one of the last big cable network launches ever — second only, perhaps, to Discovery sibling the Oprah Winfrey Network. But Margaret Loesch, CEO of the joint venture, is banking on more than two decades of experience in programming to children from her days as a producer of Hasbro programs such as “GI Joe,” “My Little Pony” and “Transformers,” all of which are expected to appear in revamped form when the network launches Oct. 10.”
Wow. October 10th? And we haven’t seen a single character design or heard a hint of story? That seems a bit far fetched, but I guess anything’s possible. It wasn’t real long ago that we heard some rumors about voice actors, and that is really early in the production phase. I guess time will tell.
Personally, I’m not getting my hopes up real high. Let’s face it, if they’re going to try and gear a hard-edged special forces military team to kids…well… it’s not going to be a hard-edged special forces military team. Not sure what the end result will end up looking like this time around, but it will be cool to have a G.I. Joe cartoon on the air again.
Time will tell what the end result is. More often than not, they’ve been misses, not hits.
You didn’t think I’d forgotten about the “Take Back the Pit” contest starting today, did you? Of course not. The first installment, and the first clue is below!
Dr. Venom still remembered the dubious look he got from Cobra Commander when he made his return. Certainly he didn’t expect a genetic mastermind like Venom to be so easily destroyed? Sure, it has been over two decades, but these things take time.
The Commander had looked even more dubious when Venom told him his plan. Yet, he still donated a trio of Python Patrol Stuns and the use of a squad of one of his most unique troopers that would prove useful to this Cobra agent.
Slipping over the desert sands, Venom remembered what the last location of the G.I. Joe Mobile Command Center had been in the Utah desert. Could he hope G.I. Joe still had a presence there? Cobra intelligence had said that G.I. Joe was possibly testing a new mobile headquarters in this region of desert…a state of the art mobile version of their underground bunker, The Pit. He wasn’t convinced, but he made the trip anyway. Turns out Cobra Intelligence had improved in the last twenty-five years…looming before them was the mammoth slant-armored behemoth that he instantly recognized from the stolen documentation…he had found The Pit.
He and these Cobra Troopers silently disembarked from the stealth cloaked vehicles and moved towards the mobile base as it rested atop four trios of monstrous rubber tires. Security was slim…after all, this was just a test run, and nobody was supposed to know, right?
Venom gathered together his mysterious Cobra squad…
CLUE #1
Like the Mass Device Element, they’re not light.
But you see them best when it’s not bright.
Who are these Cobra Troopers, and what does General Hawk think of them?
It’s less than a month until Iron Man 2 hits the big screen, but you can go ahead and stock up on all your Iron Man 2 figures early! Find all the great new armors like the Mark VI, Mark V Suitcase Armor, and War Machine in our huge Iron Man 2 section.
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Remember a few days ago when I mentioned that it looked like the floodgates might be opening? Well, they’re still open, and Gyre-Viper is there collecting it all. He posted a few updates at HissTank here and here with some very cool pictures of upcoming items, and cancelled items.
I’m especially loving that Alley-Viper. LOVE the fact that he has the Resolute headgear as well as the more standard stuff. Very cool looking items here. Three more weeks from today and we should be seeing a lot more at JoeCon. Check out the mirrored images below, and once again, a huge thanks to Gyre-Viper for keeping the “dead time” between toy releases fairly eventful.
G1 fans should absolutely love this.
I have loved pretty much everything I’ve seen from Transformers: War for Cybertron so far. Everything from the updated designs (which still retain a lot of the great classic elements) to the mid-game transformations, to the cinematics. I even got to see some gameplay at Toy Fair and loved that, too.
But this goes well beyond the level of coolness that even War for Cybertron has achieved so far. Some enterprising YouTuber, Grimbot the 3rd has actually taken the footage from the initial trailer for War from Cybertron and mashed it with sound effects, dialog and music from the Generation 1 cartoon. Yes, it is much, much, MUCH cooler than it sounds. This just rocks!
Someone hurry up and make a G.I. Joe video game worth playing so we can do this with the Sunbow stuff! Check it out embedded below.
