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05-07-2008, 11:39 AM	#21
Outrider It's been a great ride! Offline --> Posts: 14,302 --> Join Date: Jun 2005	G hit the nail right on the head; the 25th A junk has killed it for me. Plus, I gotta admit, GTAIV is taking up a lot of my time right now! __________________ "The future's uncertain and the end is always near." - The Doors "Roadhouse Blues".

05-07-2008, 03:13 PM	#22
Flatline THEY ARE NOT DOLLS!!! Offline --> Posts: 16,465 --> Join Date: Jun 2007	NO GRAND THEFT AUTO HERE BUT I THINK (CAN'T REMEMBER WHO) SAID IT RIGHT. THERE IS A LIL DROUGHT RIGHT NOW. IT HAPPENS WE GET NEW MEMBERS AND IT'S ALL A BUZZ. THEN SOME NEWBIES FALL OFF GROW UP WHATEVER THE CASE MAYBE AND SLOWS DOWN. BUT IF THE TRUE MEMBERS WHO LOVE TO POST KEEP UP THE CALIBER OF WHAT WE SEE. THEN THERE IS NO WAY IT WILL DIE. I DON'T DO THE FORUMS ALOT BUT DO LURK SO I THINK WERE ALL HERE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. __________________ MY FLICKR PAGE......

05-07-2008, 03:23 PM	#23
Tracker Veteran Offline --> Posts: 8,288 --> Join Date: Feb 2008	i don't understand the lack of interest in the 25th to me they seem to be the best thing since to original Joe line. Hasbro seem to doing the 25th for the fans too.

05-07-2008, 08:47 PM	#24
Dzirhan Veteran Offline --> Posts: 368 --> Join Date: Dec 2006	It depends really, there are a number of joe fans who are not happy with the 25th line because of the sculpt design (which includes myself) and size. The 25th comes in much taller than the classic and there are a lot of us who have a big classic line collection and find that the 25th largely is incompatible with what we have. I personally also dislike the torso design, IMO, a torso does not split into two, it just looks odd and you can clearly see it in a figure like Flash where the body armor splits into two when you turn in the upper torso. Factor in also that the 25th is a rehash of character designs that seems to much like what Star Wars is now, same character in same costume with new articulation design and improved facesculpt. The vehicles are also redone classic vehicles and frankly 25 years later, some are showing their age in terms of what's out there in the real world and again a number of collectors already have these vehicles. Not knocking those who like 25th but just stating why some don't like it or are not too enthusiastic about it.

05-07-2008, 09:49 PM	#25
Tracker Veteran Offline --> Posts: 8,288 --> Join Date: Feb 2008	that cool I'm ok with that I'm not stating what I'm say next to keep an argument going, but I have found that the 25th are scale more correctly to true 1:18 scale figs than the classic line. They fit very well next to BBI and 21 century figs. That not to say i won't get a classic fig I like when i find um heck they are the reason t like 1:18th scaled figs in the first place.

05-07-2008, 10:02 PM	#26
4-Cobra OUTRIDER,Always Remember. Offline --> Posts: 590 --> Join Date: May 2008	I think more people on here like the older style Figure's,and that's why it's not as busy as some of the other's.And like many here i'm not into the 25th Figure's they just look funny to me,i did buy 2 of them a Stom Shadow & Snake Eye's just to see what they was like.And i can say i won't be buying anymore Single Figure's,the only way i'll get anymore of them is when one comes with a Vehicle.And i can say that's the one part of the 25th line i'm VERY Excited about,i can't wait to go to a Store and buy a old school looking Black Hiss!

05-08-2008, 06:16 AM	#27
Stormer Wasss once a man Offline --> Posts: 1,430 --> Join Date: Nov 2006	Dzirhan summed up my feelings towards the current figures very well. The site is getting a hell of a lot more posts and photos per day than when I joined, and for the year or so before that when I was lurking, for the most part. It's not a "GI Joe Central" site like yojoe or hisstank; I always saw the forum as supplementary to the pictures & stories which are the main focus of the site and they seem to be doing fine. If anything, pictures don't get quite as much attention & comments as they once might have because they get buried by new stuff so quickly! __________________ * * * * * Come check out my Flickr account for more pics of my collection and additional shots from my JoeDios photoshoots. Includes my "Class Reunion" and "Foes Of The Joes" sets, exclusive to Flickr! Last updated 2/5/10.

05-08-2008, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Stormer

If anything, pictures don't get quite as much attention & comments as they once might have because they get buried by new stuff so quickly!

This is true - I do a lot of perusing from work, and I usually just flip through a few and leave maybe 1 comment on one picture or two. If there is new stuff (and there usually is) that's the first to go.
I don't think its a bad thing though, as you can go back and look at all the purty pictures that has bombarded the site and then comment/rank then

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05-08-2008, 09:09 AM	#29
Dzirhan Veteran Offline --> Posts: 368 --> Join Date: Dec 2006	I might also add that perhaps one of the reasons pictures don't get so much attention and comments these days could also be due to the fact that because there has been so much great pics on this sites in the past, the pic has to be somewhat extraordinary or really bad to get attention and comments, it's a bit of having too much of a good thing really.

05-08-2008, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Dzirhan

I might also add that perhaps one of the reasons pictures don't get so much attention and comments these days could also be due to the fact that because there has been so much great pics on this sites in the past, the pic has to be somewhat extraordinary or really bad

to get attention and comments, it's a bit of having too much of a good thing really.

That IS true. There is a LOT of Talent on here. the Standards DEFINITELY have gone up since I got here. I remember back in the day, there were a few GREAT veterans on here (Outrider, Luke Ellison, Leonardo T. Dragon, Hammerfel, just to name a few) and Myself, ToneGuns and Shane were just starting out. We would see people come, take some amaturish pictures and we would critique them, give them advice (and I would be listening intently for nuggets of gold I could use!) but they would snap a few bad shot and then never come back. Now, a lot of the "New Jacks" start out better than I was after I was here for a year!

I mean what is there to say to these guys? It's easy to critique a pic that has something wrong, but when there are SOOOOO many good shots, "Awesome Pics" just sounds so vistigial! There is a LOT of talent here. I'd like to see some of you guys try your hand at small dios stories. I Love a good read!

As for the 25th, I think Dzirhan said it. If you already have 99% of the figures Hasbro is "Re-Releasing" then there aint much to get excited over! But the Con Set has my interest! Just hope they don't sell out of the "extras" because I'm not gonna be able to go this year!