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gi joes only in america..why?
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12-29-2008, 07:50 PM
Blot
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BadWolf
Who Will Be the next Doctor?????
I hear a rumour it might be this guy;
Paterson Joseph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He's very good.
As for Doctor Who toys, I think it actually costs the same for me to order them from BBTS and have them shipped here...
As for Joe in Europe, I think you've got to look at public opinion regarding war and war toys. Action Force was really big here in England during the early 80's, and Action Man was huge. If you read any old Battle or Battle Action Force comics by Fleetway, you get a very different tone to the Marvel Comics and the cartoon, mostly black and white grainy artwork of stories where bad guys (and good guys!) get slotted on a fairly regular basis, interspersed with comics based on events that actually happened in WWI and WWII.
Action Force died the death here in 1987, primarily, I think due to the tone of Cobra-La (a huuge step away from the very stiff upper lipped, drenched in reality, Militarily
fairly
accurate media we'd been used too). I think as well, it was a little too close to home for some of us, as we were essentially engaged in a 'war on terror' with the IRA, who were (for whatever particular political reasons I wouldn't want to dredge up!) engaged in bombings and terrorist activities throughout that period.
When Joe was re-branded in 2000, it got off to a good re-start... but then we got real sick of repaints real fast. Kids had no idea who Snake Eyes and Cobra Commander were - there was no cartoon or comic - and the one thing that would have sold - Army Builders - didn't appear over here. Just repaints of CC, SS, Duke, SE and Ripper...
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