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Why would Destro/Baroness/etc.. go along with Golobulous' plan?
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01-09-2009, 08:40 PM
Crimson Bludd
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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tna2k
this is out of character for all joe collecters, that cartoon and movie whether it was the best mini series/movie or not it started all this and the figures are sweet. i bet most of yall talkin trash about the movie have every new figure made for it (cobra la ,renegades) and want a pythona as i do she was awesome
I would urge you not to make that bet. I don't, and won't, have anything movie related.
Some of it definitely has to do with age as well. The movie came out when Joe fever was starting to wane a little bit anyway, at least for most kids that were my age, that I knew. I'll be 33 in a couple months, so I was the perfect age for the first run of ARAH series. I was 6 when the first wave hit and was very into them through all of elementary school.
But I was 11 by the time the movie was released and entering middle school. Out of all of my friends that I grew up with at that time, most of whom I played Joes with as a kid, I only know 1 that collected any of the movie figures.
It was a big let down.
Hasbro had a few years of f-ups there when you think about what they tried to do with the Transformers line and then the Joe line. They could have milked us for a few more years at that age, but post-movie TFmers and post-movie Joes had no interest for me. They basically just decided that the characters that I had grown up with were obsolete (or in the case of TFmers, dead).
In fact, it wasn't until just last year that I finally went back and watched all of the final season of Transformers. There's actually some decent episodes, but I'd be damned if I was going to wake up at like 6 in the morning to watch them back then, after they killed off Prime, Wheeljack, Starscream and replaced the somewhat effeminate Spike with the super-whiney and irritating Daniel.
We were a little younger for the Transformers movie though and I did know some people that bought post-movie TFmers. I even bought 1 or two myself, but couldn't get into it.
For Joes, I honestly didn't buy anything after '86. The BATs and Beachhead were pretty cool, and I loved those, but it was starting to already look a little fishy to me with Zandar, Zarana & so much neon.
Perhaps I was even looking for an excuse to get out of Joes at that age, as puberty was fast approaching...well, the movie certainly gave me all the excuse I needed to make a hasty exit.
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