And I respect your opinion on the matter, Outrider. :D


See? Friendly disagreement!

Absolutely Self Mod, and that's how it should be. We should all remember, at the end of the day, a toyline isn't worth getting upset over. There's plenty more important things to worry about! ;)

well said! I love the community of the joe world thats what keeps me in it


edit: and I like to paint. :) Its very soothing and releases alot of stress for me to sit and really cocentrate on something besides college and work.

Second thoughts...
 

My second thoughts are that I probably only pay attention to customs and ARAH figures. Especially the Firefly in the forest/camo design.. He's really good.

gee i guess hunting down older figures i never got as a kid or just trying to get figures to replace older ones is what has kept me in the hobby, also the comics i like what ddp is doing with the team and making Cobra a real threat again and last but certainly not least is joedios this site has let me create things and explore doing stuff that is just really cool being able to see everyones work gives me ideas and inspires me to do better :D

Just FYI, Urban Saboteur DID make that statement before his "Rampage" (This is a little good natured ribbing, not a flame attack...I just know you can't see my chubby lop-sided smirk as I write this!! ;) )

I agree with you whole heartedly U.S. . It seems like we've kinda polarized here....Love the 25th or hate them, seems to be NO middle ground. (Kinda reminds you of S6, huh? ) But that's cool....like was said, we all have a right to our opinion.

What I DON'T like, and again, this is MY OPINION, is people who say "Yeah, I don't like (Sigma Six or the 25th) I just buy them to keep the line alive...I mean, what can you do?" And then Chastise me for not jumping on the Hasbro Bandwagon and accuse me of not being a REAL fan! (This doesn't happen on THISforum, but it has happened to me! )

It's like Reality TV....YOU CAN STOP WATCHING IT !! (OR IN THIS CASE, STOP BUYING CRAP!!) I hear people say all the time "Reality TV sucks, but it's all that's on". Well...quit watching!! If you don't, you add to the neilson ratings of who's watching, the @$$-Clowns in holllywood see the numbers and cancel good shows to put more crap on, because they think that's what YOU want!!!

Don't like the 25th? Don't buy it! Don't do it just for the sake of the line, I'd rather see it die strong than go down the 1992-1994 path it did last time, jumping on every desperate bandwagon trying to boost sales! The more you buy the crap they put out, the more they say "Eh....fixing the 25th line will cost thousands and take weeks away from productivity, let's just keep making B.S. promises and shoving sub-standard crap down their throats!" I'm so sick of seeing hasbro do things like when they cancelled wave 7.5 of Spytroops with the cool viper/alley viper 2 pack and rushed to VvsV and had Coil Crusher/Wild Bill warming the pegs in TRU and whining about slow sales!

I got back into GI joe again big time in 2001, and after about 2 weeks of being on the forums, I KNEW exactly what collectors would pay for....and what would make money....are you telling me their harvard educated sales team isn't as smart as a Marine with a Degree from a state school? What a bunch of idiots.....

I HONESTLY think they just wanna run the line into the ground so they can go back to making money on Star Wars and Transformers!

Do you know how hard it was to pass up a "Cobra Legions" 5 pack to keep my integrity? I could have used the excuse, "I just wanted to see what they were like" but I used that excuse for the first two packs.....no more..I'm only gonna buy single packs and only if they are new Characters or new updates (like Serpentor in the DD attire) .

I could not agree more. I have bought ONE 25th fig. And I guess I'm in the middle, I don't hate them, but there just not for me. I just don't think they look as cool in a good photo with a good setting.

But I too just got back into joes in June. I'm just an Airman about to get his degree from a state school in May. (yes we beat the #1 team in the nation this week, and it was incredible.) But I know...I KNOW, I could (and do)create better figs than the crap they put out and re-put out. lets all hope I get my internship at Hasbro this spring. Cross your fingers!

This is really what I believe.
 

You know man this is exactly what I believe., Hasbro know's what we want, and as long as people go out buying the junk they release that's all we are bound to get in the future because of it.
I'm airing more towards keeping a boxful of joes and some cool vehicles. As an assault team to counter attack my ARAH cobra forces.
Some of my members will be customs (LBC's mainly) and so I will be staying in GIJOE for a while. The answer to the question I guess is that it's only my own view of GIJOE that's keeping me interested, Hasbro certainly doesn't have my attention with the 25th line, the film sounds to me like it's going to stank really badly...

As i reiterated in my first post, I do have strong feelings towards the GI JOE releases and my opinions aren't meant in any ill way.
I do retract anything I may of said in a harsh way that could of offended any of the readers of this thread.
Rich

Hmmm... I missed that when I read the post the first time. I guess I just skipped down to the negative parts. Sorry, U.S.!



The only thing that offended me was the statement that I was "deluded" for liking something that I genuinely think is really cool. Other than that, as you said (and as I missed), everything else was your opinion, and though I disagree strongly with it, I do respect it.

Exactly the reason I won't but any more 25th anniversary figures. ;)