I understand where you guys are coming from, and mostly I agree. Unfortunately for me, I don't have any choice but to buy the 25th anniversary figures, because that's all the new stuff available. I don't have many Joes at all, and I can't afford to go on ebay and buy classic figures, so I have to save up and buy what I can, which is whatever is on the shelves when I walk in the store. I prefer the o-ring figures, but if I want joes, I have no choice but to buy the new figures. :(

I can understand that. The ones that kill me are the guys who were collecting since 2002 or so and passed on every version of the figure they are now saying they DON'T have. I can understand wanting a V1 Flint if you had one as a kid, but come on! The Comic Pack was a closer imitation than these gangly legged dainty museum pieces! Why these people passed on comic pack figures, VvsV, Spytroops, JvC and the 2000 Collectors versions to wait for these pale replicas, I have no idea. If you like them, fine, but to me, these are like Sigma six....they're just not REAL GI Joes!

I'm interested in seeing a remake of the V1 BAT. Now that is one figure that this mold might do justice! I could see a BAT being 6+ feet tall and slender. But I hate the fact that these figures don't fit all the old vehicles! It's like Hasbro is saying to us, thanks for all your support all these years, but you and you heros are uncool...you have to buy our new stuff to be in the club! Well......F*%k Them! I'm not buying another thing until they get the ARAH molds back...or even NuSculpt!

See, this is what I worry about. NOt so much if they are lawyers and politicians, but guys who are really narrow-minded about GI Joe. These guys are creating the JOeverse as they see fit. You get one head guy who is into the cartoon. You get another head guy who loves 12". You get another guy who came from Care Bears or whatever, y'know?

And just how hardcore are these guys? WHen did they come into the toy as a kid? If you've read old Josh Blaylock interviews, he said at one time that he favoried Lifeline over Doc simply because when he came into Joe, Lifeline was more prominent. And iirc, Blaylock and most of the crew were cartoon fans, not comic fans. So they had to 'reference' the Marvel series for things.

So when you get to the guys working at GI Joe Hasbro, I question just who their favorites are. It's entirely possible they are huge Duke and Snake Eyes fans, ya dig? Hell, you gotta wonder if the guys working there during the theme years weren't CORE fans. We can try and blame the Big 3 for half the figures made, but man...

Anyway...

Great idea!

Well, I just went on Hasbrotoyshop.com and looked for GI Joes. For a dying Line, Sigma Six seems to still be going strong! Out of 26 listings, 24 of them are Sigma Six! ONLY TWO of the 25th Anniversary Joe line sets...and they are both sold out! Maybe that shows how fast the stuff is selling out...or maybe it shows what I knew all along....if you want a line to die...offer it ONLY on your obscure website!

I see it this way, if the 25th is Suceeding, it because of the impulse buyers in the action figure aisles in the big three.....maybe if they had done this with the DTC line, I would be sporting my Munitia Figure and Cobra Officer right now!

Even if I WANTED their crappy 25th figures...where could I get them? I have 16 Walmarts, 7 Targets and 3 TRU's within 30 min of my house and all only have the 5 packs and a few hooded Cobra Commanders. (I know, because I've been looking for a IG Destro to do a head swap on my Pimp Daddy..LOVE that Golden Noggin!!!). I mean they're already on WHAT? Wave 5? 6? and If I WAS gonna Collect them, I'd have missed out on 95% of the single carded figures!

I hate Hasbro...I really do!







Oh, and checking Amazon.......

http://www.amazon.com/G-I-Joe-Anniv...9125809&sr=1-93

http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Joe-25...9125853&sr=1-97

http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Annive...125878&sr=1-110


Hmmmm...bad guys sell for more than good guys..interesting.....

And Smalljoes.....


http://www.smalljoes.com/gi-joe-gij...n-figures.shtml


Hmmmmm...most Army builders are going for $12.99 whereas regular figures (With the exception of Flint (WTF???)) are less than $10. Hmmmmmm.....Could it be that Army/ Troop builders are more in Demand??

Nah! THEY WANT COBRA COMMANDER, DUKE, STORM SHADOW AND SNAKE EYES!!!God, with that classsical bounding leap in logic, I should work for Hasbro!!!!

Yeah, your obscure web site that isn't interested in selling to anyone outside the US, forcing me to buy at inflated prices from third party sellers, should I be stupid enough to want to buy the 25th anniversary junk Hasbro now makes. So much for being "global". :mad:

I hear you there Outrider, the only thing I can seem to find anywhere are two year old Sigma 6 figs that haven't left the shelves yet, and at TRU, a few of the 'new' Commando Joes (Rebadged Sigma 6). What did they think that nobody else outside of the US would be interested in buying the new line? I probably would have initially, now that I've read more about them, and actually seen a couple from a buddy of mine who bought a couple of E Bay. I won't buy them now, even if they do start selling them internationally.

Hasbro has always ignored Australia as far as GI Joe goes. Even when the line was at it's peak in the 80's, we only ever received limited releases over here; mostly the single carded figures and a few of the small and mid sized vehicles, and only then between 1987 and 1993. Any of the larger vehicle sets, forget it! The only biggie they ever released here was the USS Flagg, and from what I saw, that was only in very limited numbers. :mad:

You guys got the Flagg down under? Weird. I only ever saw 1 in the UK, and it was a store display for a competition to win one of like 7 the national chain had imported specially. We got most of the line (with a few odd omissions like Low-Light, Sneak Peek and Crystal Ball) and the larger 'planes, plus the MCC, but Hasbro apparently thought British kids had no use for a GI Joe HQ (I guess Palitoy didn't shift enough Z-Force ones), USS Flagg or Terrordrome.

And now, as with everywhere outside the US, the 25th line is deemed inappropriate or something, since it's collector-oriented and only the US has enough toy collectors to warrant releasing anything that isn't meant for kids to actually play with.

It's a good job the line is flimsy crap incompatible with the 25 years they claim to be celebrating, otherwise I might care.

Surely not!
 

"Here here.. Sacrilege" shouts I...your not suggesting hasbro are ignoring us in the UK are you? :o
In all fairness i'd stand in line and defend hasbro.. but i can't.. from what we were promised in January.. they just simply haven't delivered.

And Stormer your right.. considering these figures are supposed to celebrate 25 years they've certainly made a complete goof up on it.

That's weird all right. We were deemed unworthy of vehicles like the Maggot, Mean Dog, Desert Fox, and too many more small and mid sized ones to mention, but they gave us the Flagg. I've never figured that one out! :rolleyes: :confused: