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Dear Hasbro
Last session we at JoeDios popped a question about playset quality and if we could expect a return to the playsets of yesteryear such as the Terrordrome and the Mobile Command Center to name a few. You twisted this question around into a plug for your PIT playset, which most fans find repulsive.
Essentially, the problem with this PIT, much like the Conquest Of Cobra Mountain playset, is its fragmentation. The Cobra Mountain set had things like a throne and a prison, but they weren't linked to anything (no ladders, stairs, elevators... did Cobra Commander paradrop every time he wanted to sit in his throne?), and likewise the PIT features such mind-boggling ideas as bunk beds hanging off the outside of the playset (better hope it doesn't rain!), an infirmary located in the trunk with no way to reach it other than walking out of the vehicle, around it and then Super Mario jumping onto the infirmary floor. Either that or paradropping off the top of the vehicle. We can understand the need for the playset to "close up" and be mobile, but seeing it was done better twenty-two years ago with the Mobile Command Center, it's simply staggering how bad (and expensive!) this playset is.
So the question that was left at the last Q&A remains standing... Will we ever see a return to "complete" playsets of GIJoe's glorydays (which could be done at a similar price point, hell the 2003 reissue of the Mobile Command Center retailed for less!) or will we forever be stuck with overgimmickized, fragmented "playsets" like the PIT and Conquest On Cobra Mountain?

PS: it's astonishing how time-consuming one must word his questions just to get around the corpora-speak your answers usually end up being.

06-30-2009, 01:35 AM	#2
Jay Still 100% Twitter-free. Offline --> Posts: 2,411 --> Join Date: May 2006	Dear Hasbro Last session we at JoeDios popped a question about playset quality and if we could expect a return to the playsets of yesteryear such as the Terrordrome and the Mobile Command Center to name a few. You twisted this question around into a plug for your PIT playset, which most fans find repulsive. Essentially, the problem with this PIT, much like the Conquest Of Cobra Mountain playset, is its fragmentation. The Cobra Mountain set had things like a throne and a prison, but they weren't linked to anything (no ladders, stairs, elevators... did Cobra Commander paradrop every time he wanted to sit in his throne?), and likewise the PIT features such mind-boggling ideas as bunk beds hanging off the outside of the playset (better hope it doesn't rain!), an infirmary located in the trunk with no way to reach it other than walking out of the vehicle, around it and then Super Mario jumping onto the infirmary floor. Either that or paradropping off the top of the vehicle. We can understand the need for the playset to "close up" and be mobile, but seeing it was done better twenty-two years ago with the Mobile Command Center, it's simply staggering how bad (and expensive!) this playset is. So the question that was left at the last Q&A remains standing... Will we ever see a return to "complete" playsets of GIJoe's glorydays (which could be done at a similar price point, hell the 2003 reissue of the Mobile Command Center retailed for less!) or will we forever be stuck with overgimmickized, fragmented "playsets" like the PIT and Conquest On Cobra Mountain? PS: it's astonishing how time-consuming one must word his questions just to get around the corpora-speak your answers usually end up being. __________________ RIP Minouche, 1994-2009.