|
Community Links |
Social Groups |
Pictures & Albums |
Members List |
Search Forums |
Advanced Search |
Go to Page... |
|
Thread Tools |
06-28-2012, 03:36 AM | #1 |
VALKYRIE
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Over the rainbow where your mom is at son
Posts: 23,515
|
Pics and info from the Retaliation panel
|
06-30-2012, 10:53 AM | #2 |
Snake Eyes FTW!
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Outside Philadelphia
Posts: 1,891
|
Joecon 2012 - Behind the Scenes of Retaliation Panel - GI Joe News
Check that for real time updates, pics if allowed will come in during and after! |
06-30-2012, 11:01 AM | #3 |
DeceptiGrenadier
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Broca Beach, MI
Posts: 12,187
|
So, no new figures shown for this year at all, like DG/FD figs, etc.?
No Hasbro question/avoid-the answer panel about why this and what's next? Man, if they release that Cobra Officer shown in the what could have been pics, I'm sure they could sell a mint of them easy! That Officer looks perfect! The Stinger Driver too especially if they have a new Stinger based on the PoC/30th Vamp framework. Like the new Eel, grey Viper, Tele-Viper (!), Laser-Viper, HEAT-Viper and the blue Joe Diver alot also. If only they release these even at the dollar stores with plain Arashikage style card art like the first wave has but with better distribution!
__________________
Rest in peace my son, Aaron Michael. You will always be in our hearts and prayers. 9/13/2012 |
06-30-2012, 11:08 AM | #4 |
Banned
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: So. Cal, the Inland Empire
Posts: 5,722
|
I think that panel is coming up later today... if I remember correctly.
|
06-30-2012, 11:13 AM | #5 |
SurveillancePort.com
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: M.A.R.S. EVERGLADES ARMORY
Posts: 21,464
|
We will be seeing "new" product eventually. Whether or not that refers to Retaliation product we've already seen, or something completely new remains unknown.
Stay tuned. |
06-30-2012, 11:16 AM | #6 |
^No Step^
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Argentina
Posts: 9,056
|
Quote:
Let us know. .
__________________
|
06-30-2012, 11:18 AM | #7 |
Hisstank.Com General
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Woodbridge, VA
Posts: 5,420
|
What no panel where the hasbro execs just stand around and laugh manically while we gnash our teeth and wail about the toys we dont get?
__________________
when it comes to aviation i know a lot but im a expurt "ground beef? ground beef? No, Steve. No ground beef. Tonight you get Chorizo!." |
06-30-2012, 11:28 AM | #8 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Terror Dome
Posts: 145
|
Sigh.
This is why this movie BS has to stop. Now, I have NO problem with movies or toy tie-ins, but to STOP the line during the movie is just dumb. Overall, its hurting the line. Look at GI JOE 25th. It was really doing well, selling out in stores, we were getting nice vehicles, the prices were good... Then the movie hit. Hasbro lost ALL the footing GI JOE had gained. The movie toys did mediocre sales at best. Most stores had to clearance it out to get rid of it. 30th was great, but it never was able to match the momentum the 25th line had at it's peak. It was starting to gain some ground, but then got pulled off the shelves so we can get the Retaliation toys. Then the Retaliation toys got pulled cause Retaliation got poor scores at a test screening. Or, as Hasbro calls it, IT NEEDED TO BE IN 3D. No? That isn't being sold to the fans? Okay, how about...we need more Tanning Chatum. (Who, in a recent interview, STILL has NOT been contacted about Retaliation Re-Shoots. Hmmm.) Movie toys get exclusivity, because percentages of these sales are given to top execs and players involved in the movies. More money. Having another line that was NOT movie related going on at the same time would "take money away" from these top players to want to have their cake and eat it too. They know they would "loose" money to the 30th, or Renegades sales, if the movie toys had to compete. That's why the prices have been raised on the movie toys. To pay for this GREED. Sure, the retailers mark the toys up, yada yada yada. Take this thought into consideration. In 2007 GI JOE 25th toys retailed at my local Target for $4.99. That was 5 years ago. Now, that same target it selling GI JOES MOVIE TOYS for $10.99. Now, to add injury to insult, the new movie toys offer us less. Less articulation. No file cards. No stands. No accessories (but oversized dumb rocket firing parts aplenty. By the way, KIDS do not WANT these obese weapons. Watch kids play with GI JOE. They will play with that silly spring loaded rocket launcher once, then disgard it faster than an adult collector. Hasbro says this is what kids want, but this is the same people who run GI JOE. Look at what a horrid job they've done this year alone, as pointed out in this article. In other words, they're full of crap). Let's also point out that Hasbro burned bridges with the Retaliation scandal. Retailers were forced to clearance out their inventory to make room for the movie toys (discussed above), only to have the movie delayed, and future releases of the toy delayed for 9 months. I can understand WHY retailers are pissed. Target said they are going to "cut back" on what they carry on GI JOE because of this. I don't know about your Target, but mine carries 2 pegs of GI JOE. That's it. 2 pegs of figures....2 pegs that are almost always empty. So, back to the movie toys. We're paying over 100% more, getting a LOT less. That's MORE than a 100% mark up from 5 years ago. Inflation does not expand this fast. Not even in this economy. This is nothing short of GREED. GI JOE will NEVER be the toyline is so deserves. Canceling toys that had grown from a double release 5 figure set to Store Exclusives (TRU 5 packs, TRU 3 packs), large vehicle releases (Conquest X-30, Rattler), over 100 action figures made...to a movie line that did BRISK business...to restarting the line....to stoping it for a movie that got pushed back...to NOTHING that we have now. This is why HASBRO is destroying GI JOE. And it's a shame. Look at all the potential it had.
__________________
HISS TANK FEEDBACK: http://www.hisstank.com/forum/buy-se...ml#post3787525 BUY/SELL/TRADE: http://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-jo...ml#post4606572 "I love eBay math. Sellers will say an item is 99% complete...only to find out that it is missing 12 of it's 20 parts. On some planet, somehow, those numbers equate to 99% complete." |
06-30-2012, 11:29 AM | #9 |
EMPEROR, DARTH NAJA
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: CONNECTICUT
Posts: 2,177
|
I am not that disappointed with hasbro this year, for what they are as a dictatorship and monopoly they produced... kind of ?!?!?!
__________________
"THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE COBRA TO RISE UP AND REVEAL HIMSELF" SERPENTOR ARMY PICS!!! http://www.hisstank.com/forum/member...tor-army-1350/ |
06-30-2012, 11:46 AM | #10 |
B and H Comics
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,579
|
"No questions about delay of the movie"
What a crock of crap, this is a movie QnA |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Behind the Scenes look at 2 Retaliation vehicles | W.O. leroy | G.I. Joe Live Action Movie | 1 | 07-10-2012 02:18 PM |
Should Wu Tang songs be played during GI Joe Retaliation fight scenes? Which ones? | Shin Densetsu | G.I. Joe Live Action Movie | 62 | 02-29-2012 10:33 AM |
Saturday Panel / Case Images Joe Con 2010 | Tony_Bacala | G.I. Joe News and Rumors | 374 | 08-09-2010 03:01 PM |
If you could have asked any question to the JoeCon Panel... | dansjoes.com | G.I. Joe Conventions and Get Togethers | 5 | 05-05-2010 10:07 AM |
|
|