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05-24-2012, 08:29 PM
blackman2005
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Viper6
not just the movie bro, fer fuck sake, no articulation, back to spring weapons, no stands, and DG distron=bution is horrid not to mention NOTHING worth a SHIT ever avaialable on the companies very own website. they SUCK, i'll still buy the rare offerings remotely worth a damn, but they are far and few and even then i customize the damn things to improve on what could have easily been factory. stop making excuses for this short sighted soulless corporation, i love GI Joe but i have only an abundance of nerd rage for hasbro because they just dont deliver.
arah was sweet, but they even fucked that up, and in true fashion made the same mistakes which went toward largely ruining the new line.
I'm about through with any further offerings from Hasbro if this is a sign of things to come. Reducing articulation to Joes after advancing it with PoC and 30th Anniversary is backasswards and straight retarded. Cost shouldn't be a driving factor to reduce quality of figures. F@#k it, how many of us wouldn't buy an awesome fig based on the artwork of the card it comes on? No one! So why not make that and spring loaded weapons the easiest things to cut back on? Additionally, for the first time in thirty f#ckin' years they decided to cut articulation specifically on vehicle drivers and no longer include figure stands? F$%k this brand then!!!
I can understand the appeal towards kids but just doesn't work for today. Renegades, Rise Of Cobra and now Retaliation have failed at grasping kids interests while PoC, the least distributed Joe brand in many years sold exceptionally well only leaving behind Arctic Destros because it was a RoC figure being passed off as something new. I think kids won't come around until they place a damn cartoon on air that will remain on that station for some years.
As far as distribution, Hasbro will royally F&*# themselves if they do not release the entire toyline for Retaliation as originally planned. Retailers are expecting new Joe product Monday and have placed it on their automatic re-order method on their systems. For this to suddenly be discontinued just like Marvel Legends and Star Wars Vintage makes Hasbro appear to be too much a risk, which is a vendor that cannot meet retailer expectations and customer demand.
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september_death
Ran to Columbia on my lunch, hoping to grab some Retaliation figures at TRU since apparently the order went out to stock the shelves...no such luck. Only Retailiation stuff was the motorcycles and a 12" Snake Eyes. They did have about 50 pegs of Iron Man 2/Thor movie figures though *eye roll*
Target was well stocked on Marvel stuff, but nothing new.
Target in Laurel has half of the action figure isle cleared with signs that the reset is coming. Pegs were for Spider-Man and Dark Knight...no other new stock (no surprise).
Columbia hasn't had anything since last year when Transformers MP Rodimus hit shelves at TRU. I mean this place doesn't even pretend to re-order stock for action figures. Target and Walmart are busts since both places have one manager for the Toy and Electronics sections which the toys get looked over until Christmas season.
I'm saving moolah until Hasbro can work out some agreement with retailers to make more product available more often. For half of the year to be up and stores look just as barren as they did before Christmas is a bad sign.
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