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projectial weapons downfall of the original line
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03-10-2009, 01:15 PM
thunderdan19
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You can't help me? That's ok, I wasn't asking for help. I also wasn't making a comparison. The fact is G.I. Joe did not die in 1987. I never said it was as popular in 97 as it was in 86. It probably wasn't. But the line ran for seven years after it's so-called death. And I'm speaking as someone who stopped collecting it in 1987. But just because I was done with it, doesn't mean it died.
Take a stroll over to YoJoe.com and have a look at what the line turned into after '88 or so. I hung in there until about '89 when I could no longer stand it. You are correct that Joe melted away rather than burning out, but it was an ugly process that has not been pretty from (and I'm being generous) '90 to 2007.
GI Joe's popularity still isn't a fraction of what it was in '85-'88, hasn't been any time since and won't be again unless the Joe movie generates a whole new generation of fans.
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