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10-18-2019, 09:59 AM | #21 |
Cobra Viper
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They were... and worked fine for other lines, because they were designed around it all. Hasbro just shoved some ugly toys in the GI Joe range without any commitment to making them "fit".
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10-18-2019, 01:11 PM | #22 |
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Well said. Very, very well said.
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Except it's just as arguable that they kept the line on-shelves longer than it otherwise might have been. Folks deride the neon and gimmicks and all that, but seem to forget that those are the things that were "in" at the time.
And of course, I think it's relatively common knowledge (at least among Joe fans) that what REALLY killed Joe as we knew it in the mid-90's was the Hasbro-Kenner merger and specifically the desire of the folks from Kenner that survived the merge to "do Joe their way" (which got us EXTREEEEEEME). Sales-wise, Joe was slowly shrinking but was still doing well enough to continue for at least a few more years as-was, and ironically the plans for the "year that never was" ('95, I think it would have been) included at least one subline that started to veer away from the neon and gimmicks (Battle Rangers) though there was still going to be plenty of Ninjas and other such 90's favorites mixed in as well.
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