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01-26-2018, 12:11 AM
edgecrusher
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I am however continually amazed at the Great Pumpkin crowd and their hopes for a Cobra-La set from the club.
Hey now, when Hasbro fails an IP like they have with G.I. Joe, and the supposed Collectors Club fumbles its figure choices in past sets as much as they have to leave so many gaps in the line-ups from the first ten or so series, the least they could do is use FSS 8.0 and the 2018 JoeCon figures make it right for the die-hard fans that actually like Modern Era and want good ME versions of the ARAH o-ring figures they had as kids in the '80s. ;)
Much like nostalgic adult Transformers collectors tend to want most of all to acquire modern versions of the characters/toys from the first couple seasons of the TV cartoon and the '86 Movie, so it goes with Joes and the '80s series of the toys which tend to align with the first two seasons of the GI Joe cartoon and the '87 Movie.
Transformers has both official figures and a healthy third-party to support that market. GIJoe doesn't have as much attention except the trickle of 50th Anniversary figures over the past few years, even smaller quasi-official releases through the Club and again at JoeCon, and zero third party support. Despite that, the number of Joe characters/figures released each year for the past few years has been more than enough to fill in the remaining holes in the first ten or so series of ARAH releases up to the early '90s.
But they continue to choose not to do that. Instead of thinking about legacy and actually helping the community complete their collections without having to supplement with o-ring figures or knock-off customs, they waste time and slots with random repaints and off-the-wall stuff that very few people would prioritize over getting the classic figures completed. And while it would cost more to do a few more unique molds, they would have record order quantities and most people would gladly pay a little more to complete their collections.
There's no shame in wanting the remaining two Cobra La figures to be done before Modern Era ends. If we truly don't see any more Modern Era figures for a year or more, or possibly ever, then the incomplete state of our collections that they will have left us with is to
their
shame, not ours.
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