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Boredom Breaker Sunday: G.I. Joe vs. The Thing

by Paul

For this installment of the highly infrequent and oft forgotten Boredom Breaker Sunday, there’s a toy related video that’s been making the rounds on the interwebs lately and it’s quite fantastic. In fact, it’s goddamn cool. It’s a music video by a band called Zombie Zombie and it’s an homage to John Carpenter’s version of The Thing using G.I. Joe figures. I say homage, because it isn’t a direct rip of the film using Joes, rather it’s a new story of sorts.

This video is kick ass in a variety of dimensions, but one of the things that really brings it to the next level of greatness is the super high production values. It looks like a real friggen movie. The cool electronic soundtrack doesn’t hurt either. I’d even dare to say that it’s a hell of a lot better than John Carpenter’s shitty music. Oh yeah, I went there.

Thanks to: Nick from Texas

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Posted in G.I. Joe, Videos on August 3rd, 2008

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6 Responses to “Boredom Breaker Sunday: G.I. Joe vs. The Thing”

  1. Metal Misfit Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    Oh that’s cool!

  2. Michael Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    Your ability to find things like this is the reason I love reading your page so much. This really made my day.

  3. PJ Says:
    August 4th, 2008 at 3:34 am

    Wow. Stunning. I’ve followed 3&3/4″ dios for a long time and this is one of the best. . .if not the best. The animation is SO smooth! And when I saw the arcade game I freaked. Very impressive.

  4. Toyrant Says:
    August 4th, 2008 at 7:39 am

    Omg, that’s awesome! I wonder if my G.I. Joes do that while I’m sleeping…

  5. yo go re Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 3:10 am

    Nick from freakin’ Texas? On behalf of OAFEnet, we feel unloved!

  6. Barack And Roll Says:
    August 11th, 2008 at 2:29 am

    Gasp! John Carpenter’s shitty music? Blasphmey. Besides Ennio Moricone did the score for “The Thing”,not Carpenter.

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