In what can only be described as one of the more bizarre licensing deals I’ve seen recently, G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA and Norton Antivirus (by Symantec) have teamed up in a new campaign to sell Norton Antivirus software. It’s got a spiffy Flash intro and lots of Snake Eyes in your face.
Check out the site at gijoe.norton.com and check out some screen caps below.
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I know I’ve been dipping a bit into “non toy” land with the reviews lately, but rest assured, the toy reviews are coming and coming STRONG. Expect to see some either this weekend or the beginning of next week!
Until then, I’ve posted a full blown review with video clips and all for the upcoming Shout! Factory Season 1.1 DVD boxed set! Check it out right here.
We’ve seen a lot of these images before, but not quite at this level of photo quality, so I thought it was worth posting again…mostly because nearly this entire wave is great! Agent Helix, Flash, Pit Commando, and General Hawk are absolutely ass-kickingly awesome. In fact, I’ve found quite the opposite from my normal opinion, I’m liking the Joe figures in general a heck of a lot more than the COBRA ones. A bizarre reversal.
Anyway, you can check out the images here, and I’ve also mirrored them below:
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Big thanks to Shinnobi of JoeBattleLines for the info.
Another little tidbit I got in my box of goodies was a comic book that looks to be the one that comes with the G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA video game. There are only seven pages of new story in it, and these pages were also featured in Issue #1 of the Rise of COBRA movie adaptation, but I haven’t seen much chatter about it, so I figured I’d bring some attention to it. Maybe it’s just because I love the Marvel Comics character “Taskmaster” so much, but Helix is really resonating with me. I love the character, I love her look, and I really like the concept a lot. She’s apparently going to be a fairly core component of the upcoming video game (which really excites me), but I hope she kind of indoctrinates into the regular IDW universe as well. Perhaps the Helix special being released in August will touch on that a bit.
The story basically involves General Hawk giving Duke a rundown of her abilities as we watch some video of her in action…then he finishes the story by saying that they believe COBRA has her, which I would imagine leads directly into the video game itself.
Here are some of the panels below…a pretty good read, even for only a few pages.
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Picking up right where they left off, One-18th.com has posted the latest review in their weeklong G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA release event! Some great images and interesting insight from Smokescreen, the admin.
Check out the full review here, and I’ve also mirrored a number of images below.
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With thanks to the Facebook page of the MSgijoeCollectorsClub, and the folks over at The Terror Drome, we’ve got a new toy commercial to check out, this time featuring the 12″ Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow:
Also, courtesy of the same group, better video for the previous commercial as well:
So I’m toiling away at work, putzing around one of our small “drop sites” as I wait for Comcast and a local wiring contractor to finish some work so we can get this little office online and connected to our central database server. I’m sure this sounds like a thrilling occupation, but hey, it pays the bills.
Anyway, late in the afternoon, I catch this post on HissTank.com… eh? Wow. Obviously those boys are doing something right… then there’s this post on UGO about Destros “final masked look being revealed” which is, of course, rediculously out of date and old news to the Joe fandom, but more curious was the fact that they had also apparently received some large magic box.
Finally, just before wrapping up, MTV.com joined in the fray with this article.
Hrmph. Now I’ve been a Joe fan for twenty-five years, and I’ve been deeply involved in the online Joe fandom for ten of those years…how do these guys get these magic boxes of goodies and I don’t??
Well, I got my answer when I pulled in my driveway…
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I know it’s easy to sing one’s praises when you’ve got a freshly opened box of free crap sitting in your living room, but I just wanted to extend a big thanks to not just Hasbro, but Hasbro’s invaluable PR Agency, who has been more in touch with the fandom than I ever remember in my ten years in this “business”. From the Q & A’s to the special Collectors Events at Toy Fair and San Diego ComicCon, these guys bust their humps and bend over backwards and sideways for all of us. Newcomers to the hobby may not realize what it was like even 5 years ago, but this is something to not take for granted. It wasn’t always like this.
Just wanted to send that thanks along… although now that I’ve got this huge box of stuff, I gotta figure out how the hell to start doing reviews… the nursery can wait, I guess…I’ve still got a few weeks. :shifty:
Comic-Con.org is reporting their Thursday schedule for the upcoming San Diego ComicCon, and announces that Hasbro has a panel on that day covering The Rise of COBRA. Full details are as follows:
11:30-12:30 Hasbro: G.I. Joe— The Hasbro design and marketing teams—Aaron Archer and Michelino Paolino (Hasbro Design), and Jeff Labovitz (Hasbro Marketing), discuss the upcoming release of the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie, the new toy line hitting shelves, the new video game, and much more! This panel will include special guests that you won’t want to miss, plus Q&A time. Room 7AB
Click here to check out the full Thursday schedule.
I’ve heard mention around the ‘net of a new toy commercial for the G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA action figures and vehicles, but no one seemed able to provide a link to actual viewable video. Well, that’s all changed! Thanks to the guys over at The Terror Drome for pointing out that this brand-spanking new toy commercial is now posted up on YouTube! Check out the embedded coolness below:
Scoring Sessions has revealed some details about the upcoming orchestral score for G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA, composed by Alan Silvestri. They’ve even got some neat behind the scenes images of the process of making the score, which is pretty fasincating. Most interesting quote is as follows:
“Conducting a 90-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony, Silvestri’s music contains strong heroic brass themes, big and epic moments, driving action, and even some contemporary rock elements with electric guitar, percussion and synths. The orchestral percussion was so loud that most of the time they had to record them separately from the orchestra, with different passes for the various instrumental groups. Eight French horns, two pianos and two harps added to the walloping soundscape.”
The Examiner also has come through with a track listing, which I’ll reveal after the “jump”: