Rocky Silftter Stallone joined the Gi Joe

Yes, this is real. Rocky Balboa, boxer in the weak Philadelphia created by Sylvester Stallone for a 1976 sports movie “Rocky”, was included as a member of Gi Joe. It seems that the strong punches of Rocky- and the ability to take it-made it perfectly suitable for fighting the high-tech international terrorist organization Cobra. As such, he became a team member with divers soldiers such as Blowtorch, Gung-Ho, Snake Eyes, UH, FootLOOSE.

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The Gi Joe version concerned was part of the famous brand rename in 1982. The new brand was translated at the time “a real American champion” and is very familiar to individuals who are now paying 50 years old. It was the huge multimedia institution launched by HASBRO as a way to take over a large part of the game market. A “real American hero” also included a newly released game line, which was proud of new cartoon characters who were standing only three and three quarter (the original Gi Joe dolls of 1964 was 12 inches). This new brand was more Associated with a series of comic books Marvel Of course, the full known animation chain in the 1980s.

This was at a time when an advertisement was still very organized, and game -based TV programs were only. Thus, “Gi Joe” has become a major part of the marketing puzzle. In fact, the comedy preceded the TV series for a year.

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Elsewhere, one of the new exciting game features was a file card, a small collection piece of wallet that came with every movement figure. The file card, such as the baseball card, included the vital statistics of the personality (symbol name, function, file name, hometown, etc.), and the children were encouraged to cut and save it. For those who did not buy every game, Marvel Comics re -printed file cards easily in Miniseries “Gi Joe: Order of Battle”, which was first published in 1986.

Yes, one of the printed file cards in “Order of Battle” was Rocky Balboa.

By 1986, when “Order of Battle” was published, the brand of HASBRO’s “Real America Hero” has already proven that it is very successful. The mutual promotion between comedy, games and TV programs has made many cartoonists many animation as if they were a legitimate important part of culture (if you are in the ninth).

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Likewise, by 1986, Stallone had written and championship in The first four “rock” films (In addition to taking out the second, third and fourth entries), which makes Rocky Balboa a very clear part of the American Zeitgeist. “Rocky IV” was particularly exaggerated, as it was a battle between Rocky and Russian Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundger), as it was a public sexual symbol of the military situation of the United States of America in the era of Reagan. Where the original “Rocky” was sad and strong, “Rocky IV” was strange and ridiculous. That version of Rocky was easily suitable for the dreaded “Gi Joe” world.

As such, the authors of the comic book Larry and Herb Trimpe have published a file for Rocky Balboa in the number 2 of “Order of Battle”. The card wore a drawing of Rocky not like Stallone, as he announced that he was Joes’s personal fighting coach. Al -Maddam said in the card’s personality that Rocky Balboa, a world -famous award fighter, was secretly shining with Joes for the glory of his country. “No private wage, no additional privileges, no advertising.”

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The file card was made while Marvel and Stallone were still negotiating an agreement. In the end, the deal was subjected, but a bad timing is that “the arrangement of battle” No. 2 has already gone to pressure before this happened. As such, Rocky was publicly declared and legally announced. However, the announcement continued only until the next issue, and then Marvel Comics released a decline.

Reading the decline as follows:

“The Rocky Balboa character (the symbol name: Rocky) was incorrectly as a member of G -Goin ‘Gi JOE ranking from the battle“Issue No. 2 on page 10. Rocky is not a member of G -Go“

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The decision to drop Rocky as the Gi Joe has a great relationship with a series of RAMBO games that Coleco put at the same time. John Rambo, another figure who is famous for Sylvester StalloneIt was almost identical to Gi Joe in terms of the symbolism of America at that time. (Like Rocky, Rambo of Stallone appeared in 1982 “The first blood” before his films became exaggerated and JingoStic.) As such, Rambo games were supposed to be a direct competitor to “Gi Joe”. Including Rocky as the “Gi Joe” character that would have simply made things confusing and saturated the market, so Hasbro came out of the road. A representative from HASBRO recorded in a record claiming that Stallone’s agents have become just greed.

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Although people in HASBRO were already designing rocky action characters by that time, the project has been canceled … mostly. In 1987, a year after the Rocky disaster, Hasbro presented Big Boa. Big Boa was the “American Hero” character, and Big Boa was a boxer in a mask that came with removable boxing gloves and a punching bag. (I had one.

Rocky or Stallone did not appear in the movie “Gi Joe”.