Yeah Yeah I know a lot of folks in NA don't consider Action Man
to be Gi Joe, but that is the case.
Anyway, I thought that if anyone was interested, I just found
out that there is a pretty damn cool Action Man cartoon on
Youtube. 2 actually, one conventional art, and the other CGI.
Enjoy
Action Man is "G.I. Joe".
Trust me on that. :wink:
There's three action Man cartoons actually; one by DIC is traditionally animated, the other two are CGI.
I storyboarded on the first animated one, back in 1995, for Studio B productions out of Vancouver BC. I was one of the lead 'board artists--first hired in fact, and 'boarded about 9 episodes.
One of the little-known things is that myself and a fellow G.I.Joe/Action Man-collecting 'board artist tried to put in small in-jokes into the boards whereever we could. These jokes were references to G.I. Joe/Adventure Team and RAH--as well as homages to other things like favourite TV shows and movies ( Hard Boiled, UFO, Battle of the Planets etc).
Some of the Joe-jokes were caught and removed ( phooey!), but some survived and were "translated" into the finished artwork (they were all visual gags).
Sorry, but I don't remember any specifics as to which scenes or which episodes, because it was 15+ years ago now--but I do now we put in stuff like the AT Commander's head on a view screen, or a AT logo visible in certain spots. I do recall giving a helicopter a registry number that was "30516" which, if you reverse it, sort of looks like " GIJOE".
So,
unofficially.......at least in
my mind, the two properties have always been linked ( and Hasbro went ahead about 10 years later and added a AM figure into a Joe multi-pack, so it IS official now).