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Way better than the Transformers version. Shipwreck was awesome in the cartoons.

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Oh, God. Wild Bill makes the whole thing.

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No Shipwreak in GI Joe and no Grimlock in Transformers 2. They’re 0 for 2 on the big summer toy movies.

I mean, seriously, Shipwreak was the star of the only episode that made enough of an impact that I still remember it from when I was a kid. He’s literally the only non-Cobra character I’ve deemed worth remembering.

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“I mean, seriously, Shipwreak was the star of the only episode that made enough of an impact that I still remember it from when I was a kid. He’s literally the only non-Cobra character I’ve deemed worth remembering.”

Fucking “There’s No Place Like Springfield”. Jesus.

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Like adding Shipwreck would have saved that train wreck of a movie.

I’m glad they didn’t bastardize Shipwreck in that Power Ranger movie. The producers who made that shit probably wouldn’t have seen anything wrong with making Shipwreck into a female army doctor who just happened to like pictures of boats.

Whereas any decent portrayal would have had Bruce Campbell playing the role.

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You would think that Sergeant Slaughter would have the show on Fox.

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Best use of Shipwreck since the series ended (no, I don’t count what DIC did as part of the G.I. JOE universe).

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Yeah, “There’s No Place Like Springfield” was pretty fucked up.
Freaked me out for like a week.

Written by Steve Gerber. Yes, that Steve Gerber.

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I’m ashamed to admit that if FOX hired Bazooka, I’d actually watch an episode.

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I love when Damon Wayans’ character smacks The Baroness in the tit and says, “Homey don’t play that!”

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“Best use of Shipwreck since the series ended (no, I don’t count what DIC did as part of the G.I. JOE universe).”

I don’t fucking count what SUNBOW did as part of the GI Joe universe.

The only difference between Sunbow and DIC’s cartoons was a minor drop in animation quality. As bad as DIC may have been, it never unleashed the god awful horror that was Cobra-La.

But whatever, they should have just made a 1 to 1 live action remake of the MASS Device miniseries to make the nostalgia blinded happy.

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What the hell era of toys are these? I had the little ones held together with screws and a rubber band for a spine. We used to disassemble them and make our own hybrid Joes.

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I think I had a Breaker figure when I was a kid. Or was it Clutch? I do know they both stayed in the alternate Cobra-run world with Steeler in the animated series.

Zenrage . . . are you hoping for more OSI stuff in the new season? Shore Leave/Holy Diver was funny.

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At one time I owed nearly 200 figure, Joes and Cobra combined. I wasn’t one of those ‘leave in the box’ guys either. I had elaborate battlefields dug throughout my back yard, rope and pulley systems with aircraft hung from them for aerial battles. I even created a small lake so my hovercraft could be used.

I used the heck out of those toys. I even made a soundtrack for each side. The Joes had their theme song blaring away and Cobra had their song ‘Cold Slither’.

I was a sad pathetic only child.

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Bit of trivia: In that “There’s No Place Like Springfield” episode, Shipwreck’s new house with the Synthoid family is located at Number Six Village Lane.
The classic Shipwreck moment is him standing on a pickup truck, throwing apples at a colossal amoeba that’s devouring a wheatfield in the Heartland, which has to be one of the more effed-up appropriations of Americana ever.

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