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[Release] G.I. Joe
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RE: [Release] G.I. Joe
The skin itself is extremely nice done... (y)

but.... but... but....

I am HUGELY dissapointed in the look and feel and the tie-in with the (toy) brand name GIJOE. (n)

This skin doesn't look and feel at all "GIJOE"-ish (old school). Everything is wrong.

More to the point, the upcomming movie is extremely discussed in GIJOE-fanclubs and isn't seen as something very good as it is too modern and kills all the good childhood memories....

As an old GIJOE-collector myself (yes, I have a collection of vintage figures and vehicles (mostly of the first series from the 80's)) and extremely big childhood fan of GIJOE, I hope you can understand that I don't like this skin at all (the tie-in with the name GIJOE that is)...

So from a GIJOE-fan point of view from the 80's, a real blasphemy which doesn't look and feel old school GIJOE-ish in the slightest way. (n)

On a sites like smalljoes.com you can have an idea of the look and feel I was expecting (I mean the boxes of the toys and the covers of the comics, not the site and the -ugly- background itself) when I got the notice of this new skin.

From a pure graphical standpoint, extremely well done (as usual) and it does look and feel like the new GIJOE movie stuff; which was of course the purpose of the skin (y)...

PS: isn't there a star missing in the (new) GIJOE logo of "Rise of Cobra"?:
http://smalljoes.com/images_gen/GIROC-PREV3PK-00002-00098_large.jpg

This post was edited on 06-26-2009 at 11:15 PM by CookieRevised.
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[Release] G.I. Joe - by Willz on 06-25-2009 at 02:02 PM
RE: [Release] G.I. Joe - by NanaFreak on 06-25-2009 at 02:09 PM
RE: [Release] G.I. Joe - by foaly on 06-25-2009 at 03:31 PM
RE: [Release] G.I. Joe - by Patchou on 06-25-2009 at 10:45 PM
RE: [Release] G.I. Joe - by CookieRevised on 06-26-2009 at 11:03 PM


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