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Originally Posted by Sonneilon
The Hasbro guys aren't thinking about how GI Joe fits into other toylines. They could care less. Check this thread out to give you some hints at things...
http://joebattlelines.com/phpBB3/vi...&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
BTW, the Snake Eyes in question isn't a straigt up repaint. It's another version that comes with butterfly knives. Hasbro's SEv4 is different than yojoe's definition of SEv4, I believe.
I never said Hasbro wasn't trying to make GI Joe a cash cow. I can totally understand the change of scale. But I've come to the conclusion that GI JOe is NOT hard military. It may have started closer to that but now... GI Joe is a monster. It's not like you'd ever see BBI do a VvV sort of thang!  |
Oi! Looks like I need to start a BBIDIos website......
Man, it sucks that big business makes these decisions....what right do boardroom stiff have to decide what characters get offered? Sounds to me like WalMart and Target want to run GI Joe into the $hitter so The Corps and Forces Of Valor don't have any competition......
What was funny was when Star Wars came out in 1977, if you missed the first wave of figures, you missed Darth Vader....and a lot of people were upset about that....now,it's just the opposite...WHAT??? Neon Pink, McQuarrie Alternate Universe Darth Vader? God, don't we have enough! I mean every so often, I remember Kenner putting out Wave 1 Charatcers again, but they were pretty good about not flooding the Market with 5,000 versions of the same Character until "The Power of The Force " collections came out.....
It's getting silly.....GI Joe is gonna die soon unless Hasbro decides to get some Gajones and TELL companies what they will produce. In the old days, didn't manufacturers go to the company with..."this is what we got...you want some to stock your shelves?" Now it's like...."Hey, Walmart....what can we
make for your board members that they will approve for sale"? WTF? When did retailers get to tell manufacturers what to produce?
Gee....hmmmm, I'm gonna take Duke, Snake eyes, Gung ho and Duke...and Snake eyes and Snow job to attack the Cobra Base and I'll have Duke and Duke and Stalker (how did he get in there???) around back to link up with Scarlett and Snake eyes and Snake eyes and Duke....and they will take out Cobra Commander and Destro and Destro and Storm Shadow and Storm Shadow and the ONE CG I was able to find that had the Doc sticker taken off at Target....While Zartan and Buzzer and Storm Shadow and Cobra Commander and Cobra Commander and Cobra Commander and Destro and destro hold the front.....Thank God I got one Air Trooper single pack for Cobra Air Support. I'll have him cover Storm Shadow, Cobra Commander and OH HELL, WHAT's THE USE?!?!?!
I might as well buy Star Wars! :P