Shame on me for not noticing this earlier, but a huge thanks to “Mac” a GeneralsJoes commenter who set me straight. I know a lot of folks have been focusing on how cool it is that the Renegades production team are including Michael Bell and BJ Ward (who voiced Duke and Scarlett in the original Sunbow series) as parents to the Renegades Duke.
Well, that’s not the first Sunbow tribute we’ve seen in Renegades. In fact, just in the past “The Return of the Arashikage” 2-parter, if you thought you recognized the Hard Master’s voice, that’s because you probably did. He was played by Keone Young, who was none other than Storm Shadow himself in the original Sunbow series!
THAT is awesome. Kudos to the folks behind G.I. Joe: Renegades for working these terrific tributes into the show.
No problem, and its cool to see how they’re working in these original voice actors in the show.
It’s funny… with the Transformers, when an original voice actor returns to the franchise for nearly ANY role (I’ll reference the original G1 Shockwave returning as Animated’s Shockwave in this case) their fans go wild.
Ours don’t even notice. : (
i wouldn’t fault joe fans too much cause this is the first its really been done. sigma six didn’t feature any of the original sunbow voice actors and neither did gi joe resolute. but with transformers there have been many instances where former voice actors have returned. in transformers animated you had judd nelson as rodimus, john moschitta as blurr, corey burton as shockwave. also g1 voice actor peter cullen came back to do prime’s voice for the live action and the tf prime series, and frank welker provided soundwave’s voice in the live action film and megatron in tf prime. lastly you had wierd al playing homage to his song from transformers the movie by playing wreck-gar on tf animated. tf fans pick up on this type of stuff its cause it happens alot. this is our first go around and i’m sure more fans will catch on. i knew about michael bell and bj ward but i didn’t know about storm shadow, which is pretty cool.
Now that’s pretty damn cool. Kudos to the Renegades team.
For me, I watched a few episodes of the Sunbow series, but I ended up watching the DiC series and I’ve always been more into the G.I. Joe comic book. I was also watching other cartoon shows like The Real Ghostbusters and TMNT.
One of the reasons why most Joe fans didn’t notice is because there complaining about shit… stuff that doesn’t matter…