Wednesday, Jul. 1 2009 @ 11:30AM
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What you're looking at are four Slurpee straws promoting the G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra movie. Now, I know other movies have done this exact same promotion before, so I really can't say that Paramount and Hasbro are trying to subtly get the general populace ready for the movie to suck. (Straws? Sucking? Get it? Hee hee hee!) But, if you examine the straws closely, you'll see that the straws might be more indicative of the movie than you'd think. Notice the characters include Snake Eyes, Duke, Storm Shadow and the Baroness. Well, please take a closer look at these magnificent toys:
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Yes. Unless the movie itself somehow rocks my world, I believe this image will be the entirety of my G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra review.
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krockafella said:
My god that's nightmarish.
ArtF said:
Damn. Stormshadow looks like Kinnikuu Man dipped in frosting.
EJade said:
*laughs* I want these.
MasterOodFan said:
For a moment there I thought that he was holding bowling pins and dancing... which would be interesting. Also, I thought the first one was begging until I looked very closely... and am still not convinced that he isn't begging!
Very amusing at any rate!
Kevin said:
I was excited for this movie when I first heard it was going to happen... I think that's where my interested stopped though, since I haven't had much enthusiasm for anything else related to the film since. I AM excited for a slurpee now though!
Oh, and I think the psuedo-anime G.I. Joe that Warren Ellis wrote for probably took some wind out of the sails for the live action. Now I just want more of the cartoon.
Greg Easton said:
Hasbro should have never allowed them to make everybody black. They all look the same and they all look dumb.
'Cept Storm Shadow. That's the best looking version of the movie costume I've seen yet!
Archer said:
ROFL! Duke (i guess) looks like he just shit his pants in public.
The Yellow Dart said:
the Duke figure looks like he's praying to Evil Zombie Jesus that people go see this movie.
meantime, Storm Shadow looks like he's re-enacting that kid going crazy about his canceled WoW account, substituting a remote control with a katanna.
classy.
Matt said:
Perhaps they're trying to hint that the GI Joe film will be "stirring".
Dorky Tough Guy said:
Check out Snake Eyes.
He seems poised to commit harakiri on his crotch if this shitstorm of a movie ever sees the light of day.
jestergoblin said:
Baroness comes with her own stripper pole!
Best accessory ever? Probably not.
Hachiko said:
Were Storm Shadow's lips stung by wasps or something?
Hachiko said:
A cool G.I.Joe movie tie-in would be to make Golobulus (I know, I can't believe I typed his name and cool in the same sentence) with his tail wrapping down the straw.
God these things are awful. You can get ninja figures at 99 cent stores cast from better molds than these...
chad said:
those just prove the merchidising machine is in full care hasbro hedgeing all its bets on the sucess of the film even though storm shadow looks like he had a run in with one of zartans pets. and baroness will pass on that one
Joe said:
ok the straws suck, alot of the posters are bad but at least this maes Scarlet look hot
http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=190&itemid=15389
and i mean it, not just saying that cos i have a weakness for red heads
Orangutan said:
"Hachiko said:
Were Storm Shadow's lips stung by wasps or something?"
He's wearing the Twilight lip venom.
Snoodle said:
That's just...well I don't know what that is. But their expressions are priceless.
Leppy said:
These are almost as awesome(very bad) as the Wolverine ones.
pumpkinguts said:
par for the course I suppose
DJ Maniak said:
I preferred the Wolverine tie-in 7-11 did a few months ago, actually got all the cups and figures, plus an extra Gambit cup, which I now use for paint. Would it have killed them to make a Wade Wilson cup? 4 straws, 3 cups, not a smart equation.
