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03-19-2009, 11:21 AM | #41 |
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Gijoe will only die when We stop buying them. Hasbro will tease us by taking them of the shelves from time to time. They will try out new products like combat heros and six sigma. The movie may be designed to bring in more younger consumers to the market. Have you walked down the toy section in your local toy store. They are filled with battling monsters, super heros, animated transformers, and clone wars. I believe that Gijoe may never die because as long as the US has conflict and war we will need to have a need for the Joe team.
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03-19-2009, 11:35 AM | #42 |
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But its only at 5 pages. Surely we can re-re-discuss this.
One more time... from the top! The 25th line might end. Discuss...
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And apologies for all the assholes on the board who have a problem with people having opinions and trying to feel like experts on marketing like many on the site pretend to believe themselves to be. Nobody knows what will happen, and I say speculate all you want to, and beat that horse into the next life if you have to. One way or the other someone is going to be right in the end. |
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I don't think it'll f()ck up the line. Its gonna make it stronger. Its now a waiting game.
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03-19-2009, 12:56 PM | #46 |
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I for one don't dislike the movie because the plot's different or probably lacking altogether... I dislike the designs simply like I disliked the Transformers movie designs and still do. The movie will be 100% enjoyment and full of fluff, but it won't be the GI Joe I wanted it to be.
I wanted it to be semi-serious, without most of the goofy sci-fi shit that the 80s had (which is change people, I want change, but for the better) and with realistic designs. The RoC flick just replaced old silliness with new silliness, and replaced old bad designs with new bad designs, and kept a few familiar elements so they could still call it GI Joe. They did the same thing with Transformers. Best case scenario, we got a Dark Knight or Spider-Man or X-Men 2. Worst case, we get Masters of the Universe, complete with Dolph Lundgren. The movie itself will do quite well, whether it's good or not. The toyline I still feel will behave much like other movie franchises, where the movie did really well, but the toy line sort of just sat. They'll sell like hot cakes and be a royal ass-pain to find until they get evenly distributed, and then the toy aisles will be up to their necks in the worst figures of the line, with some better sellers peppered in, still hanging on to the pegs for their foreseeable future. Whatever happens, I agree with the thread-starter in the fact that no matter how well the movie itself performs or how well the toy line sells, I think the 25th line has peaked and we won't be seeing it again as it currently is. If it returns at all. I feel that, just like TF Classics, if it does return in single-carded format, it will be in some new packaging and under a new name, and will be somewhat of a hybrid of the movie look and the Resolute style. Which will annoy the hell out of me for consistency's sake if the packaging isn't very similar to the existing 25th/ME/classic look. My one edit to the thread-starter's wording though is that I consider "fail" or "win" to be relative to the production. Whether the line meets or exceeds production expectations is what determines if it "did well" or not. If they way overestimate and produce too much and the kids don't like the toys even if they loved the movie and saw it 10 times in the theater, the items will sit on the shelf. Sure, there will always be those peg-warming "WTF" (I liked that title) figures, but if the line does well, those will be the few that we end up seeing clearanced. Otherwise, we may see fan-favorites and hard-to-find guys alike with pink stickers on them come Christmas. Scenario A: Movie line doesn't exceed expectations, independent of the film's success, and Hasbro decides to drop further new Joe production at all. Meaning we may see a shit load of repaints to make up for the molds' costs, but not much new. Scenario B: Movie line does so well, we get thrown a few "classic" bones occasionally or none at all, and Hasbro turns their entire attention to pumping out movie stuff, continuing releasing "new" movie product even a year or more after the film was in theaters. Scenario C?: Now, if we do get so much as a small taste of Classic Joes in between the films, I bet it's only a wave or 2 max in the stores—if that—as more than that wouldn't fit in time-wise with the 2nd movie's release. (Very similar to the TF Classics? I don't want just 3 figures and then 3 repaints of those 3 to make up all that we get, but I guess some is better than nothing.) I'd be happy if the classic stuff never went back to store shelves and remained online-only, but I understand the cost issues with that may either drive the Classic prices way up due to lower production run, or make them not sell well in that format and thus kill the line there as well. Yo Joe? Last edited by Mandingo Rex; 03-19-2009 at 01:02 PM.. |
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03-19-2009, 01:03 PM | #48 |
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03-19-2009, 01:32 PM | #50 |
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I for one don't dislike the movie because the plot's different or probably lacking altogether... I dislike the designs simply like I disliked the Transformers movie designs and still do. The movie will be 100% enjoyment and full of fluff, but it won't be the GI Joe I wanted it to be.
I wanted it to be semi-serious, without most of the goofy sci-fi shit that the 80s had (which is change people, I want change, but for the better) and with realistic designs. The RoC flick just replaced old silliness with new silliness, and replaced old bad designs with new bad designs, and kept a few familiar elements so they could still call it GI Joe. They did the same thing with Transformers. Best case scenario, we got a Dark Knight or Spider-Man or X-Men 2. Worst case, we get Masters of the Universe, complete with Dolph Lundgren. I snipped your speculation as to the future of the toy line, but I have a genuine question for those decrying the movie as the death of classic Joe: Hasbro has shown time and time again with their other (more successful) major boys' toy lines (Transformers and Star Wars) that they are willing to dip back into the "classic" well despite the success of more recent media tie-ins. Why does everyone (or at least a good chunk of the "naysayers") assume the worst and automatically believe that they won't employ a similar business model with G.I. Joe? To be clear, I do NOT believe that Hasbro will go back to classic style cardbacks anytime soon. But I do believe Hasbro will produce Classic-inspired and movie-inspired toys (and possibly Resolute toys too), but likely in an alternating fashion much like Hasbro does with its' Star Wars line (Alternating Prequels, Originals, and Expanded Universe). Last edited by Jmacq1; 03-19-2009 at 01:39 PM.. |
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