So do many kids buy GI Joe? |
02-17-2008, 12:00 PM
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| | Cobra Viper Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 230 | So do many kids buy GI Joe?
Just wondering, obviously there probably aren't too many kids on this board and its all collectors but you guys must know? I know as a kid I bought this figures on the basis that they looked cool, is it the same with this generation? I mean there is no cartoon to make kids run out and buy the toys, no adverts either....but GI Joe does have, easily the best looking figure packaging ever...
so just wondering if there are kids out there who buy these figs or is it mainly the collectors and big kids  | 
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02-17-2008, 12:03 PM
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| | Stamping out Trotskyism Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: New Castle, Delaware Posts: 1,755 | I think the 25th anniversary line is probably being purchased mostly by adult collectors. No cartoon, no TV commercials, a comic book that is primarily aimed at adults and not tied directly to this line, anyway...these things add up to suggest that Hasbro isn't targeting this at kids. I'm sure some kids are buying 'em...but I know if I was 7 and going into toystores now, I wouldn't be buying toys that I didn't know anything about. | |
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02-17-2008, 12:15 PM
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| | ooo la la Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The Pit, Staten Island, NY Posts: 4,594 | I've seen alot of kids pick up 25th stuff. I think the name GI Joe still has alot of brand recogniton and if parents grew up playing with them and told the tales to their kids, it encourages their offspring.
However I suspect it's mostly adults.
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02-17-2008, 12:19 PM
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| | Elite Officer Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Midland, TX Posts: 731 | Ive seen lots of kids picking these up. I saw one little boy begging his moma to get him 2 wave 1 comic packs. Its nice to see that even without any GI Joe cartoons out, kids are interested in the figures. | |
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02-17-2008, 12:20 PM
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| | Film Viper Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Indianapolis, In Posts: 51 | Kids do buy G.I.Joe!
I deal at collectable toy show and mostly sell G.I.Joes. I have a lot of kids buying from me and iit makes me glad. G.I.Joe was a big part of my happy childhhood (and adulthood) and I'm glad to see the youths of today are enjoying it too. | |
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02-17-2008, 06:00 PM
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| | Cobra Viper Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 139 | ive seen quite a few kids buying the new gi joes. and i imagine if they werent so hard to find more would be buying them too.
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02-17-2008, 06:02 PM
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| | Naked Snake Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Hayward/San Francsico, California Posts: 2,122 | I'm 15. I am a kid in your guy's eyes?
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02-17-2008, 06:07 PM
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| | Warrant Officer Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: I am hungry. Posts: 1,051 | I buy the 25th joes so yeah, I guess. | |
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02-17-2008, 07:26 PM
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| | aka the Funny Man... Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: North Royalton, Ohio Posts: 246 | My little six and five year old nephews are not getting in to GI Joe. I think it manly has to do with the fact they keep looking at my collection and the more they see it the more the like it. | |
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02-17-2008, 07:35 PM
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| | Banned Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fontana Posts: 1,802 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by the_loud_master I'm 15. I am a kid in your guy's eyes? |
Technically your a teenager but to most of us here yeah your a kid lol. Its all good though, im sure most of us wouldnt mind being that age one more time lol | |
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