{"id":699,"date":"2007-11-05T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T00:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/alertnerd.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2007-11-05T17:14:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T00:14:20","slug":"hasbro-to-fans-gi-joe-v-cobra-fans-to-hasbro-no-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Hasbro to Fans: GI Joe v. Cobra. Fans to Hasbro: No duh."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this is complete non-news<\/a> – thanks Hasbro.<\/p>\n

“Hasbro would like to clarify a few things. The GI Joe brand stands for honor and bravery. And the new movie will be GI Joe versus Cobra.”<\/p>\n

“Uh. OK. That was a given, we thought.”<\/p>\n

“We at Hasbro didn’t want people to be confused and think that the new movie was about the original GI Joe line of dol… action figures.”<\/p>\n

“Couldn’t we pretty much think of every WW2 and Korean War movie ever made as definitive Original Joe movies?”<\/p>\n

“Um… yes, that’s a possibility.’<\/p>\n

“So, it would therefore make more sense to base the new movie on the 80s figures, since we’ve only seen them in action in a cartoon.”<\/p>\n

“ahem… I’d like to thank you all for…”<\/p>\n

“Ergo, this is a no-duh ploy for free press.”<\/p>\n

“…”<\/p>\n

“And now you know, and knowing is half the battle! Yo Joe!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this is complete non-news – thanks Hasbro. “Hasbro would like to clarify a few things. The GI Joe brand stands for honor and bravery. And the new movie will be GI Joe versus Cobra.” “Uh. OK. That was a given, we thought.” “We at Hasbro didn’t want people to be confused and think that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}