...To be a GI Joe fan? On one hand, Hasbro is launching highly articluated figures and it looks like they may be putting 100% behind their marketing!

On the other hand, all the figures are 1980's remakes.....that have been remade....and remade....and remade...{ad nauseum}.

I'm still ticked about the pulling of the spytroops wave 7.5 (with the last "cool" version of the Viper and Alley Viper (in the same set!!) ) and the cancellation of DTC wave 4 after I was anticipating getting Munitia!

And this crap about the movie? WTF?





On the plus side, it looks like hasbro is listening to fans..they are trolling fan sites and asking for our input, but after all the let downs and cancellations of the best waves and shorting us on the coolest figures when they DON'T cancel the entire wave (Read: Torch v2 and Snow Wolf/Frostbite 2 packs), I kinda think they're gonna listen, take notes, look at us intently and then........rip the notes up, laugh at us and say

"Who cares what you guys want? We know what sells! We have college educated marketing analysts who never had toys as kids to tell us what America Really wants! Why take a chance on giving you what you want when we can run the line into the ground with stupid ideas and blame you for NOT BUYING the CRAP we manufacture? Silly Collectors, Toy lines are for Rich Executives who need to send their kids to private school, and if they don't make us rich overnight, we'll run it into the ground!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Now that I've told you how I feel, what do you think? Are you smiling, or like me afraid to get hurt by big bad Hasbro?