After six seasons ofaction-packed, nostalgic karate action, its easy to see whyCobra Kaiworked.
Arent those guys like 60?
Of course, though, it ended up working out.
See where it all started…Image: Sony Pictures
YouTube Red made the show and eventually Netflix took it over.
A trailer that, until today, had never been made public.
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Its a song the team long wanted to use on the show but was deemed too expensive.
However, by season six, they finally got it into the final set of episodes.
It worked already but now knowing how it ties back here is an even better, full-circle moment.
Its also fun to see how the show evolved a bit from these early ideas.
Here Daniel LaRusso is portrayed as some big-time Los Angeles millionaire living a swanky, lavish lifestyle.
You have to wonder how much that was Ralph Macchio himself shaping the character ever so slightly.
Either way, it worked out.
So its very, very cool to see where it all began.
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