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10-16-2007, 11:57 AM	#31
viper08 Veteran Offline --> Posts: 209 --> Join Date: Sep 2007	For me, it's army building!

10-16-2007, 02:01 PM	#32
Sonneilon aka 'Paul WS Anderson' ;) Offline --> Posts: 7,751 --> Join Date: Jul 2005	Personally, I think it's the people who are working GI Joe that are keeping it from reaching its full potential. Harvard educated businessmen and marketers? Maybe, but from what I've learned since I got back into the line in 2002, each head of GI Joe wants certain things. Some guys are into the nu skulpts and probably have some anime influences (Sand Viper, for example). But there are guys who grew up with the classic line. Unfortunately, SOME guys jumped on in 1986, some in 1982, some in 1993, y'know? I'm guessing whoever thought up the DTC era stuff was trying to bring back a semi-classic look. It's possible the boyz at Hasbro DON'T know what we really want. There are ton of online fans who love the classic ARAH and want to go back to that. There are others who were cool with the expansion themes starting in 2002. Fred and Justin might be able to back me up on the fact that each sculptor has their own ideas and each director has their own ideas. It might be backwards. It might be forward thinking. In the end, I believe there's a lot of butting of heads on how to handle the franchise.

10-16-2007, 02:08 PM	#33
Agent Viper Legendary Offline --> Posts: 2,220 --> Join Date: Aug 2007	Hmm, I'm staying on on joes cause I like them. The 25th Rock, ( at least in my opinion ) they are just giving us newcomers a chance to catch up in what we missed! __________________ This is war, survival is your responsibility.

10-16-2007, 03:00 PM	#34
Da Talent That Light Dude Offline --> Posts: 4,845 --> Join Date: Sep 2007	so i know I said I don;t like the new 25ths but, Agent has a good point, it is giving the younger gen. new toys to explore and get them into the line. I know I wouldn't give my son my classic joes because he is still a boy who will do what i did and throw them up in the air as high as he could. And lets face kids don't have loads of money to ebay all the classics when they just wanna play with them in the dirt. So that is one good thing these seeming crappy figs do.... they let kids enjoy the same thing we all played with as kids, instead of pokemon crap on a side note.... I actually bought a 25th today, I'm sorry. I had to go to target to get some poster board and they had one firefly. I bought it. 25th haters like myself, please don;t call me a hipocrit, I just thought his gear would look really good on the firefly custom i have! please forgive! __________________ All my customs in one place....Da Talent's Customs

10-16-2007, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by fireflyed

on a side note.... I actually bought a 25th today, I'm sorry. I had to go to target to get some poster board and they had one firefly. I bought it. 25th haters like myself, please don;t call me a hipocrit, I just thought his gear would look really good on the firefly custom i have! please forgive!

Eh...no biggie..I bought all but the hooded commander for the first wave..I HAD to at LEAST give them the chance to impress me....

And I bought Serpentor (Despite his saggy faced expression) because he has the new DD type uniform!

10-16-2007, 06:10 PM	#36
Flatline THEY ARE NOT DOLLS!!! Offline --> Posts: 16,465 --> Join Date: Jun 2007	FOR ME ITS THIS SITE I LOVE MAKING SETS TACKING PHOTOS AND LOOKING AT EVERYONES SHOTS. IT GOT ME BACK INTO COLLECTING OLDER FIGURES THAT I DIDNT HAVE. ACURSE REALLY CAUSE NOW IM TRYING TO COMPLETE ENTIRE LINES THE 25TH ARE GREAT FOR MY SON HE'S ONLY 6 SO I DONT LET HIM TOUCH MY RAH. AND AS IVE SAID IM NOT MUCH OF A FAN THEY DO HAVE A WAY OF GROWING ON YOU SO I HAVE TWO OF WVETONE THATS COME OUT

10-16-2007, 07:55 PM

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THE 25TH ARE GREAT FOR MY SON HE'S ONLY 6 SO I DONT LET HIM TOUCH MY RAH.

exactly my point, it gives my son something to play with, very similiar to what i played with, without damaging the real goods

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10-17-2007, 07:39 AM	#38
Uncle Flint Veteran Offline --> Posts: 168 --> Join Date: Mar 2006	JoeDios Joedios is keeping me into GI Joe at the moment. I've been taking more photos lately, working on a longer story. I may never post them. It may never see the light of day, but I enjoy taking the photos and this site gives me a place to let people who will appreciate it see them. And I love seeing what others are doing with their stuff. I don't want Hasbro to attempt another cartoon. I don't think the studios of today are capable of producing a cartoon as good as the 1980's cartoon. The movie may be cool. We've got to all remember that a lot of what we are hearing about the movie is unsubstantiated rumor that was started to gauge our reaction. The 25th stuff has no appeal to me. Hasbro is pushing crap and they know it. What kills me is that kids and adults are eating it up like it was ice cream. Hasbro recognizes that the golden age was 1982-1986. They said so in the original announcement regarding the 25th stuff. Sculpting technology had come a long way by the time the line died in 1995. Why did Hasbro feel the need to jump to yet another and inferior figure construction? I just don't get it. Hasbro's approach to GI Joe compared to how they handle Star Wars or Transformers tells you what they really think of us, what what they want to succeed.

10-17-2007, 08:00 AM	#39
General Jones Veteran Offline --> Posts: 345 --> Join Date: Jan 2007	I first got back into G.I. Joe to collect all of the Joes that I did not have as a child, and to fix up all of the old ones that I had that were really loose. I am pretty close now thanks to this site, and I had originally not wanted to get new vehicles or fix up the old ones that I had that were broken, but again this site has sparked my interest in taking pictures of Joes, so now I am trying to complete some of the vehicles that I already have. I have bought some of the 25ths, I was really against them in the beginning as well, but I am warming up to them. __________________ Chuck Norris doesn't Tea Bag. He Potato Sacks.

10-17-2007, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Uncle Flint

Joedios is keeping me into GI Joe at the moment. I've been taking more photos lately, working on a longer story. I may never post them. It may never see the light of day, but I enjoy taking the photos and this site gives me a place to let people who will appreciate it see them.
The movie may be cool. We've got to all remember that a lot of what we are hearing about the movie is unsubstantiated rumor that was started to gauge our reaction.

i agree. if not for joe dios i wouldnt know anyone other then myself who does anything with joes anymore. so i would not be nearly as into it.
as you say, the movie could be cool. i think were just expecting the worst, which is what we should do. that way if its any good, well think it to be even better. and most of what i have herd on here i have read interviews from hasbro that state something different.

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I first got back into G.I. Joe to collect all of the Joes that I did not have as a child, and to fix up all of the old ones that I had that were really loose. I am pretty close now thanks to this site, and I had originally not wanted to get new vehicles or fix up the old ones that I had that were broken, but again this site has sparked my interest in taking pictures of Joes, so now I am trying to complete some of the vehicles that I already have.

sounds so much like my story. i bought a few joes in 2000, not many because i was the only person i know that had any interest in them. still had 10 or 12 from when i was a kid. then i found joe customs one day just wanting to look back at the greatest toy ever. it eventually led me here. now im trying to get the old joes that i loved so much, not every joe, but at least the ones i had as a kid. as a kid neither i nor any of my cousins collected vehicles, but with this site im wanting them more and more. i will never have a fulfilled collection anywhere as close as frank or probably any other on joe dios, but having what i had as a kid and some new stuff will be a life dream come true.

the worst thing i have to say about the 25th is this. the figures are ok with me, i do like the oldies better but still. so many others hate them, that i am starting to worry if we will lose so many more people on here. ive been here right at 2 years, longer then a lot. but so many of the ones who i got use to seeing post and pic from have left. now im worried that with the 25th people that im use to seeing on here, even if i dont talk to them may be gone.