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04-06-2009, 09:28 PM | #201 |
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Will it kill it? I dont know, but what i do know is Hasbro seems to have these willy wonka market researchers that seem to think all kids love spring loaded missiles, 40 versions of snake eyes. vehicles with sound effects and a whole lot of weird nonsense (aka Sigma). If these are the same guys that brought down the joe line in the late 80s i have a funny feeling we'll end up with tons more of these horrible sculps the movie line has already dished out and every one of our loved 80s vehicles having extremely huge spring loaded missiles that can't even be dremeled to look good again.
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04-08-2009, 11:10 AM | #202 |
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I think the popularity of the new 7 packs will ensure that the 25th line goes on for a wee bit more even if it means online exclusives only. Plus they have to release the rest of the Resolute figs eventually, so they will need some other ARAH figs to fill in the waves.
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04-08-2009, 11:21 AM | #203 |
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I think the popularity of the new 7 packs will ensure that the 25th line goes on for a wee bit more even if it means online exclusives only. Plus they have to release the rest of the Resolute figs eventually, so they will need some other ARAH figs to fill in the waves.
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04-09-2009, 02:08 AM | #204 |
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With the recent Hasbro Q&A, it's pretty obvious that the upcoming Vehicle Wave 5 and the two 7-Packs are about all we're gonna get for the foreseeable future when it comes to the "25th" style line.
Yes, Hasbro is focusing on the Movie-Style line. But, no matter how the movie line fares, I think it might mean the end for the 25th style line. If the Movie figures do well, then Hasbro will continue with their obvious plan to simply make figures of characters who do not appear in the film and make them "movie style". I don't know about you, but I'm not really looking forward to Robo-Joe versions of all my favorite Joes. So, if kids buy into the Movie line-- which I can almost guarantee that they won't. I think the movie figures will sit on the shelves till Christmas when they'll be discounted on clearance. But, if kids do but into the movie line-- then Hasbro will think "ka-ching!" and just keep going with that horrible looking line. But-- if the line dies on the shelves and stores are flooded with Joe merchandise that they can't sell, then they won't be looking for new Joe product, and Hasbro will turn away from Joe, thinking that it's an unsuccessful line. That means that the slow-build and rapport that they've created with the 25th Joe line will have all been killed to make way for movie figures that kids just don't care about. Either way, the collectors who love the 25th line lose. If the Movie figures do well, no more-- or VERY limited-- 25th style figures. If the Movie line bombs, no more Joe product for a while-- period. That's just how I'm predicting things. Granted, they've covered most of the major characters that I've always wanted to see in the 25th line-- but there are still some great ones to be made! Airtight, Jinx, Zandar, Zarana... and many, many more that are lesser fan favorites. I just hope that Hasbro does not turn their backs on the 25th line and the collector's base that they've worked so hard to gain faith in again. But, I don't have a good feeling about things.... What do you guys think? i think you should accept that GIJOE is changing for a new age and for new fans...---i am gonna buy them to support GIJOE.
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04-09-2009, 02:36 AM | #205 |
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you're right stinny...no matter what those who love the classic look to joes will lose out. Hasbro just seems to want to shove sigma six style down our collective throats for whatever ungodly reason. And so many people just fall into the oh theres nothing i can do about it so i just have to accept it mindset and that is just so sad cause there is PLENTY that the community can do as a whole if people would just do it and do it consistantly. I know i personally will not see the movie, buy the merch or patronize it in anyway until/unless they bring the classics back in full regular force not just as impossible to get online exclusives or as crappy looking joke repaints..like for instance bbq and "not deep six". those are the biggest slaps in the face since this movie project started.
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04-09-2009, 03:18 AM | #206 |
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I don't think that any of that shit will happen. There's too much money too be made with Joes, whether 25th or movie shit. Hasbro got the drop on us collectors and are probably giggling there little money-grubbing asses all the way to the bank.
Think like this, if you were one of the bigwigs dealing this plastic crack, would you stop slinging and hustling cuz the new batch you have is garbage, and that fire you had is easly available? If that new shit don't sell, you dig in the crates and give 'em that good 'ole 25 joint. Problem solved...at least in my hood.
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04-09-2009, 03:19 AM | #207 |
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I think the popularity of the new 7 packs will ensure that the 25th line goes on for a wee bit more even if it means online exclusives only. Plus they have to release the rest of the Resolute figs eventually, so they will need some other ARAH figs to fill in the waves.
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04-10-2009, 07:01 AM | #208 |
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you're right stinny...no matter what those who love the classic look to joes will lose out. Hasbro just seems to want to shove sigma six style down our collective throats for whatever ungodly reason. And so many people just fall into the oh theres nothing i can do about it so i just have to accept it mindset and that is just so sad cause there is PLENTY that the community can do as a whole if people would just do it and do it consistantly. I know i personally will not see the movie, buy the merch or patronize it in anyway until/unless they bring the classics back in full regular force not just as impossible to get online exclusives or as crappy looking joke repaints..like for instance bbq and "not deep six". those are the biggest slaps in the face since this movie project started.
But I know people would rather bitch about evil-demon Hasbro than try to take a long-term view. Or they'd rather swear up and down that Hasbro is (for some reason) going to treat G.I. Joe differently than it treats any of its' other major action figure brands, despite having shown established business models and patterns. |
04-10-2009, 09:40 PM | #209 |
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they are some who with jump at the chance to defend hasbro at every step of the way.
they are some who will hold hasbro to a higher standard, which honestly hasbro does do a great job along with screwing up to. Gi Joe sells and that is the bottom line$$$. $$$ is the only thing hasbro cares about, before some even start just think about the lame ass answer about steeler's visor "to keep costs down" If the Movie will kill the line , no GI joe has fought alot of things and not even hollywood can kill Gi Joe. As for the 25th line it's gone , over bye-bye but it will be back in a new form after the ROC because Hama may let them screw with the characters alittle Quote:
That’s the role that, ultimately, went to Ray Park, but Tatum says that Snake Eyes remains the coolest of the Joes simply because he never says word, a demand that the film’s creative consultant (and writer of the 80’s Marvel “Joe” comics) Larry Hama demanded resolutely.
“I think that the first and the one thing that he said was, ‘Okay, I’ll do this. But Snake Eyes can’t talk. No matter what, Snake Eyes can’t talk.’ At one point they had Snake Eyes saying one line or something like that at the end of the movie and he’s just like, ‘Never. Never in a million years. I’m never going to let that happen.’ So he doesn’t.” |
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