Worst Concept of All Time...
 

I was just over at JBL and they had a thread titled "Worst Concept of All time". A lot of guy were stating Cobra-la, others were saying Ninja force....what do you think? What concept in the GI Joe Universe is the absolute worst of the worst?


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Worst concept
 

Having thought about it, alot of them do have possibilities.. i mean when you look at all the concepts anyway.. and look at GIJOE how it started and grown into what it is today.. a regurgatated mish mash of its former self..
there all pretty bad.. and none of them come close to the original GIJOE highly trained special forces team..
I think the main issue is that they started out a codename group to battle terrorism.. and throughout their evolvement went through so many different concept changes they lost their identity..
Star Brigade, Eco Warriors, Ninja Force.. Cobra La.. they are all concepts of the GIJOE Universe.. each of them has a following and fanbase.. and each of them has it's critics.. and haters..
The only one I really dont seem to criticise is Night Force.. those guys seemed to do ok. They still appear to be popular in collections today.

Lets see..
Special Missions (86)
Sgt.Slaughters Renegades (87)
Cobra La Team (87)
Tiger Force (88)
Night Force (88)
Python Patrol (89)
Slaughters Marauders (89)
Sky Patrol (90)
Sonic Fighters (90) & Super Sonic Fighters (91)
Eco-Warriors (91)
Air Commandos (91)
Talking Battle Commanders (91)
DEF (92)
Ninja Force (92)
Battle Corps (93)
Dino Hunters (93)
Mega Marines (93)
Street Fighter (93)
Star Brigade (93)
Shadow Ninjas (94)
30th Anniversary (94)
Oktober Guard (98)
The Real American Hero Releases (00)
Manimals (01)
GIJOE Vs Cobra (02)
Spy Troops (03)
Valor Vs Venom (04)
Comic Packs (04)
Desert Patrol/Team Packs such as Cobra Night Watch and Anti Venom Task Force (04)
Direct to Consumer (05)
25th Anniversary (07)

Ok.. so we have more than enough concepts and versions to shake a stick at, and as I said before, it's difficult to pick one.. the sonic fighters I always thought were pretty out there.. but then again.. cobra la isnt exactly on your doorstep military either is it?
Mega Marines werent bad in all fairness, i just didnt like the colours.. i bought them though right, right? it's what hasbro wanted and what i liked at that age.

How does everyone else feel about this?

I've gotta give it to Star Brigade. As you all know, I have no problem when G.I. Joe gets a little crazy sometimes, but turning them all into astronauts is a bit much even for me!

Cobra La, Manimals, and all the ninja cr@p. :rolleyes:

There's more concepts than that.

Ones I didn't like at the time:

Action/Vehicle Packs sucked., big backpacks that had wind up features and cost as much as a figure.

And any deluxe figures sucked in some way, because really, I wanted the figure not the gimmick.

Air Commandos, buying gaudy gliders to get new figures. $8 each

Battle Copters, had to buy a useless to get a figure, $8 IIRC

Super/Sonic Fighters. Most were repaints. $6 to $7 for a repaint and there were 8 different sounds but 12 figures.

Shadow Ninjas are awful. $5, I think.

Star Brigade Armor Tech was less articulated figures with gorilla proportions. $5.

Eco-Warriors, you know...$5 each

$5 isn't that much today. But remember figures like Big Ben were $3 U.S. at retail.

So would you rather buy 5 figures or 3 eco warriors? Or two Super Sonic Fighters?

I really liked Special Missions. I found them to be more grounded in reality, which is when I think GI Joe is at it's best. But of course there were a few duds. At the time I liked the regular series more but now when I read the back issues I'm starting to like SM more.

Cobra La is the most obvious choice for worst concept but I'm gonna make a prediction and say the up-coming live action movie.

What was wrong with the special missions concept? Because it started to cross over with the main title?

Hasbro's crappy and thankfully shortlived policy of not making characters who died in the comics.