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Complaints about costume change = illogical
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02-06-2009, 12:32 PM
Ixz72
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Why can't alot of people in this forum realized that this movie is not targeting you specifically....it's trying to target a new audience!!! A new following. Members of this forum or any other GI Joe are already followers of the line and we already have some sort of brand loyalty to the GI Joe brand.
Think about it...why are there so many peg warmers. Because the same people are buying GI Joe 25th stuff and the peg warmers are usually stuff we already have.
What if a new generation was exposed to the stuff we were exposed to as kids with the cartoons, comics and commercials? Hasbro is trying to do that with the movie. Then these kids will know who GI Joe is. And maybe more people aside from collectors will start buying GI Joe products. Admit it, the current 25th line has been marketed to collectors and there is very little advertisement to promote it. We all have talked about, vehicles and figures not having any gimmicks like sound or firing weapons. To the new generation of collectors (kids who might actually play with these toys) the GI Joes we know have very little playability. Remember they (HASBRO) are competing with not just other actions figures and toys but also video games, movies, sports, etc. And of course you'd want something that will catch attention and make it more playable.
In another topic of this forum, many of us agreed that the story lines of the 80's cartoons were cheesy and unrealistic. And then people are complaining that the movie is not like the cartoon? Some suggested "Why can't they use the the original costumes from the cartoons and maybe just tone it down?" Becasue it does not work. If you are an outsider looking in and don't know what GI Joe is wouldn't the 80's costumes look cheesy? Think about it...if you saw a trailer with those costumes would it catch your interest. Maybe the fan boys, but not the rest of the world.
Why did they make Ripcord black? I don't know...why did they make Nick Fury black? Why is Kingpin black?
Why didn't they just make him Stalker? I don't know...maybe they have plans to bring Stalker in the sequel and give him a more substantial role.
There are alot of what if's, but the point I have been trying to make in this posting and all the other movie related postings that I have put up is....most people in this forum is excited to see the movie and is hoping the movie will reinvigorate the Gi Joe brand. People who just come on this forum and say it will suck or just bitch that it's not the same...well I have this to say to you. When you say...it's not GI Joe, who are you to say that? When the creators of GI Joe itself (HASBRO and Larry Hama) are fully involved with the movie. It's not the GI Joe you know is a more accurate sentence. Just be happy that the brand will go on and like I said in a previous post, we're getting new stuff, big stuff, stuff we have been asking for. We haven't even seen most of the stuff that's coming out and already some people are saying the toy line will suck. How do you know? Have you seen the new Night Raven? The new Base?
Nobody is forcing you to watch the movie or buy the products. But for every fanboy who decides to skip the movie because to them it will suck, 10 new people will go to see it and be introduced to the GI Joe brand. And that is what HASBRO is counting on.
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