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Originally posted by: segaflip
I thought for sure this thread would grow much bigger and faster then this.
Anyone got those new DVDs of the show? How are they?
I too am surprised how little action this thread is seeing.
Got Season 1, Part 2 (the second half of hte first season), which comes with three different audio options (5.1, 2.0, and "Original Broadcast") and interview with voice actors Bill Ratner, the man who gave us Flint (the guy with the beret) and Mary McDonald-Lewis, the woman who was Lady Jaye, and they talked about how the auditions for GI Joe were like an old Hollywood cattle call, with hundreds of voice actors lined up with scripts in "shaky hands". Mary McDonald-Lewis said she was originally reading for a much smaller part, but the voice director Wally Burr liked the sound of her voice and asked to be Lady Jaye, which she claims she got because Wally was impressed with how passionately she screamed "Yo Joe!" into the microphone. Bill Ratner said the key to his winning the role of Flint was his ability to grunt and groan and do various throat punishing straining noises, which proved to be a big part of the acting in GI Joe, since the Joes were forever getting into fist fights with Cobra operatives and what not.
The DVD for GI Joe the movie comes with retooled sounds, 12 GI Joe public service announcements (in which various GI Joes explain to kids the true meaning of life - or how to survive it) and two TV spots advertising the original GI Joe miniseries GI Joe: A Real American Hero (better known as "The MASS Device").