GITrekker wrote:
Honestly, I wouldn't want to see "Worlds Without End", because apart from the storyline differences, and the Baroness apparently preferring contacts to glasses, there weren't really a lot of VISUAL differences between the two universes -- although a three-pack of Dreadnoks in cop uniforms could be amusing.
In a "Shattered Glass" storyline, the Club would be more free to create the character likenesses as they saw fit. Granted, some of this might amount to putting existing Joe character heads on Cobra uniform bodies, but I think they would be more imaginative than that.
I have to disagree with this. I would not overlook the potential involved with expanding the Worlds Without End universe. The premise is already tied into Joe canon (cartoon) and wouldn't need to be shoehorned in by the Club.
If you recall in that episode, a great many of the original Joes are either dead or missing. This would give the Club the freedom\leeway to create new Joe characters\likenesses and have it still fit in. For example, they could potentially tap some of the children or relatives of the WWE alternaverse Joes to join the team.
They could also feed off the schism which the episode left off at between CC and Destro. Or even bring in the Baroness' Athena army from DDP.
It has a lot of different directions to offer and still not feel forced in by the Club.
GITrekker wrote:
...but I do think that at some point, the Club is going to run out of bringing characters from the original Real American Hero line and even the newsculpt line into the modern line that enough fans really want to see to make it worth the effort.
On this point, I couldn't agree with you more. The GI Joe universe has hundreds of characters for potential as modern releases. However, the list is finite. At some point, the club will need to look at other options. I just think the Club should continue to work on releasing those characters before forcing in a completely new concept. There are still way too many existing characters not yet released\re-done.