New Era Cap, the leading headwear designer and manufacturer, is proud to announce the release of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero cap series in conjunction with the highly anticipated “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” movie that hits theaters on Friday, August 7th. This new signature 59FIFTY cap collection draws inspiration from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, featured in the upcoming movie and in the popular G.I Joe comic book series.
In total there are four caps in this original 59FIFTY collector’s series available for purchase. Two of the caps feature the trademark COBRA – the symbol of the fictional nemesis of the G.I. Joe team. The first is an all black fitted cap with the iconic red COBRA on the front. The second cap is yellow fitted hat featuring a red COBRA on the front with a distinctive green snakeskin brim. The final two caps in the series are known as the “Snake Eyes” collector’s caps. Each of these multi-colored caps brings to life the classic images and characters of the original G.I. Joe comic series to life in unique design patterns created by the world famous New Era design team.
The G.I. Joe Caps are available exclusively at www.finishline.com and www.neweracap.com (starting August 6th) and will retail for $35.99-$37.99.
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I gotta say, those look pretty cool. I’m really loving the yellow COBRA sigil with the snakeskin lid. Very unique!
About New Era Cap
Founded in 1920, New Era Cap Company, Inc., the leading headwear manufacturer and creator of New Era Apparel, brings to market products that transcend time, culture, sport and fashion. Producing more than 35 million caps per year, New Era is the exclusive manufacturer and marketer of the official on-field cap worn by every Major League Baseball team and their Minor League affiliates and maintains agreements with other licensed entities such as the NHL, NBA and CLC. On the street, New Era is known as the Originator of the True Fitted for its signature cap style, the 59FIFTY. The Company is headquartered in Buffalo, New York and operates facilities in Alabama, Canada, Europe, Japan and Hong Kong. New Era is a ‘Category A’ affiliate of the Fair Labor Association.
For folks who think the new G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA game looks like fun, but they’re not sure it’s worth the $60.00, according to JoeCanuck.com, Dell has the PS3 and X-Box 360 versions of the game ON SALE NOW for $32.99! This includes free shipping! Sale ends tomorrow, so get going, post haste:
I can’t post a review of the game until tomorrow, but it’s pretty fun! A mindless, very arcade-like shooter that ain’t deep and thought-provoking, but so far, it has been fun. More details to come.
Wow…this is a very cool, very in depth, very long video interview that Collider was able to do with G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA director Stephen Sommers. The full article is here, but I am also embedding the video below. A brief wrap up also, so click the “Read the Rest of the Story” link to check out the full article.
Just a reminder that GeneralsJoes is still planning to be in the house for the charity screening tonight, and will be Tweeting my adventures on the way down to Rhode Island starting at about 1:00pm Eastern Time. I’m making a trip of it, fully planning on hitting as many stores as possible on the way down through, just to take advantage of the fact that I’ll be out of the boondocks for one day. If you’re not following me on Twitter, think about it! I can’t promise an insane level of coverage like the guys at HissTank and TNI are promising…after all, I’m going to support a Hospital, see a movie, and have a great time, not necessarily to break down quotes, interview folks, and take a ton of pictures. But who knows what will happen?
Less than twelve hours until the Hasbro Charity Screening airs tonight in Warwick, Rhode Island… ever since I was eight years old, it’s been a dream to see G.I. Joe characters on the big screen, and there were times that I was convinced it simply would never happen.
Throughout the early 2000’s, G.I. Joe came back in a big way and was making a splash in the toy aisles, yet never once did it ever seem poised to be popular enough to warrant a multimillion dollar budget, big name Hollywood producers, and stars that Joe and Jane America would recognize. In fact, I’d argue that the property still wouldn’t be popular enough if not for the huge impact that Transformers made in 2007. Thanks to those pesky robots, G.I. Joe was able to get a clear path to production, and, for better or worse, we are on the verge of seeing our favorite property fizzle or go through the roof.
Sure, there are plenty of folks out there who will never consider this THEIR G.I. Joe, and they have every right to that opinion. But anyone who knows me knows that I’m a diehard Joe fan who stuck with the brand when a lot of other folks jumped ship, all the way through Sgt. Savage, G.I. Joe Extreme, the t-crotch times, and yes, even Sigma 6.
There have been a lot of ups and downs…ironically my biggest “down” time was probably during the Anniversary era, when everyone else considered it “the peak” of recent G.I. Joe memory, but in spite of those mountains and valleys, I’ve stuck with it, and now, I’m about ten hours away from finally seeing my favorite characters on the screen. The backstories are different, the specifics of many of the characters are different, but from everything I’ve seen the “spirit” of G.I. Joe still goes strong. So much more than simply a realistic military story, G.I. Joe has always had on foot firmly in the fantastic, and this movie appears to be no different.
Without spewing too much hyperbole, I don’t think I’ve been looking forward to seeing a film this much in a long, long time. The best thing is, I now know what to expect, and I’m still excited, and that’s not something I could boast even two weeks ago. This is a great time to be a G.I. Joe fan, in spite of what many folks would have you believe, and I’m ready to jump foreward with a property that might possibly reach the heights that it reached twenty-seven years ago.
After more nearly 14 months of waiting (thanks BotCon!), it is our time. It is time for JOE CON.
I’ll tell you what, the last year has been a challenge. Personally it has been hurdle after hurdle. Anyone that knows me knows that I could have easily thrown in the towel at any time and said, “Ya know, I’ve had an impressive 6 year run, but you can’t make them all.” Karma, fate, luck, club anger – you name it – if it was a variable NOT go to the con this year, it has been presented to me. In fact, as little as a week ago, we found out we had to take our daughter. Granted, there is nothing wrong with including the entire family. This will be her 3rd con in person – 4th if you count the womb. We are going to have a GREAT TIME! Nothing is going to sidetrack my convention experience this year – Not a sub par con set; not the non-responsive and out-of-touch club staff; not the economy; NOTHING!! In the famous words of David Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay – “DAMN THE TORPEDOES, FULL SPEED AHEAD!!”
The G.I. Joe Collectors’ Club website for the upcoming JoeCon in Kansas City has been hacked! Nefarious COBRA agents have apparently taken over GIJoeCon.com and converted it to COBRA Con!
EDIT- Apparently Dataframe and Dial Tone got things back on track, but COBRA won’t let anyone forget what they did!
IESB.net has a great interview with G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA director Stephen Sommers, covering many different angles and talking about all facets of the film, but near the end, he finally reveals Brendan Frasier’s role in the film. The quote in question is below:
“IESB: It will, the universe has been established and you don’t have to do too much of the origins anymore of who’s who you can just go right at it. Now, we all knew Brendan Frasier had a cameo and I tried to catch the name, who is he playing?
SS: It’s Sergeant Stone. There’s a half a dozen actors in the film that I’ve worked with before, at least 4 or 5 from the Mummy movies, I like to work with nice people. I don’t work with assholes. They are all nice, there are a lot of other actors I’d like to bring in, there are a lot more G.I. Joe characters to go!”
Some folks thought this was a certainty already as it was, but it’s nice to hear some final confirmation from the film’s director as well. Click here for the full interview.
The many military veterans and family members who were eagerly anticipating a special premier for G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA at Andrews Air Force Base got even more than they bargained for as cast members Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, and Marlon Wayans all made surprise appearences.
Country Music Television goes Hollywood and gives some nice publicity to the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA motion picture. Focused on heavily on the CMT Insider feature for July 22nd, there’s some footage shown (though none of it new) and nice, brief interviews with Sienna Miller, Dennis Quaid, and Channing Tatum. Check it out here, or embedded below.
As release date nears, more and more reviews are starting to crop up for G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA, and surprise, surprise…most of them are positive. Here’s the latest round up:
Merrick, AintItCoolNews; When reading this review you need to keep in mind, that Merrick has spent the better half of the past 18 months slamming the movie, slamming the director, deriding pretty much every angle and everything to do with the production of this movie. Pretty much all of it, soup to nuts. Here is his first line:
“This said, I’m unable to keep my mouth shut about G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA – primarily because I’ve spent the last year and a half kicking the film, knocking Stephen Sommers (whose VAN HELSING I still regard as one of the most overwrought, self-indulgent pieces of pap to hit screens in many years), and negatively prejudging the capabilities of nearly everyone involved with this project.
I was wrong. I’m here to say it, and I’m happy to admit it. I was wrong.
G.I. JOE is big, OTT, intellectually challenged, and idiotic as they come – which could certainly describe nearly ever other Stephen Sommers film to date. But it’s also a helluva lot more fun than they are, and here’s why…”
Yeah, I’ll take that as hefty praise from someone who is absolutely not a plant, a blind G.I. Joe fanboy, or someone with mysterious alterior motives.
“Well, it’s time to let Sommers out of director jail, folks, because his latest film “G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra” is big, ridiculous, and way more fun than I would have thought possible. It is a summer movie, through and through, pure pulp preposterousness, and it is one of the most successful little-boy adventure movies I’ve seen in a long time.”
More good words… Also, movie ratings site RottenTomatoes.com finally has G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA on its radar, and it currently as a very fresh “83%” with 5 out of 6 positive reviews to show for it. Check those reviews out here.
I’m sure the bad words are coming, but until then, it’s just damn nice to see some positive buzz for a change, especially considering the fact that it’s coming from people who have actually, shock of all shocks, SEEN the film.
