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04-30-2008, 04:55 PM | #31 |
SurveillancePort.com
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You call this fracking banter "substance"?
I don't see how you can relate "Substance" with "personal attacks". Calling someone names and threatening to burn their toys is substance? Since it seems as though this is romper room, kiddies, let's go over the rules again: #1 Keep your finger outta your nose. #2 Nap time isn't optional. #3 NO NAME CALLING. What was Aretha jibbin' about...oh yeah, RESPECT. Why not trying some for one another. |
04-30-2008, 04:56 PM | #32 |
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The thread is going to stay open but the personal insults and finger pointing need to stop. Debate all you want but respect one another, bottom line.
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04-30-2008, 04:59 PM | #33 |
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If you want the cool figures on your day off you need to wake up early with your son and go to the store when it opens. otherwise you have to settle for the left-overs.
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04-30-2008, 05:00 PM | #34 |
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It Was Good Natured Name Calling. No Harm Was Meant.
#3 - No Name Calling. "roger Roger" |
04-30-2008, 05:06 PM | #35 |
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No I was referring to my original comment, the overall effect of collecting on the future of G.I. Joe. Thank you for keeping the thread open though.
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04-30-2008, 05:12 PM | #36 |
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G.I. JOE toys will be much easier to find when the movie line hits stores. The 25th Anniversary selection is a collector-driven line, though. The Hasbro reps at JoeCon in Atlanta said it themselves. It was designed with collectors in mind, and (as someone else mentioned earlier) only because the collectors bought so many has the line continued beyond the original five-packs. The people who buy up all these figures afforded you the chance to buy more characters in the first place.
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04-30-2008, 05:14 PM | #37 |
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I actually did do this, and it is really why I decided to come here and start this thread. I went to Target at 9, and as I was walking to the toy section with my son, a guy was leaving the section with about 15-20 single carded Joes. When I got to the Joe section, sure enough, Buzzer, Hooded Cobra Commander, and some comic packs we already had. The guy must have been at the doors as they were unlocked. Did this guy have the right to do it? Sure, of course. Was it very nice, no, not really. It made me sick to my stomach and it took a lot not to approach him.
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04-30-2008, 05:17 PM | #38 |
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G.I. JOE toys will be much easier to find when the movie line hits stores. The 25th Anniversary selection is a collector-driven line, though. The Hasbro reps at JoeCon in Atlanta said it themselves. It was designed with collectors in mind, and (as someone else mentioned earlier) only because the collectors bought so many has the line continued beyond the original five-packs. The people who buy up all these figures afforded you the chance to buy more characters in the first place.
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04-30-2008, 05:18 PM | #39 |
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As someone who army builds I'm not going to apologize for my habits but I do agree in terms of the 25th line there has been a serious issue in terms of how little product there has been.
However like many others I feel that is owed to other reasons and not the major fan collectors. Rather it's due more likely to a combination of a shrinking interest in boy's action toys due to the video game market, Hasbro's mistake in undervaluing such a popular and wider appealing franchise, major retail chains (Walmart anyone) who also underestimated the appeal of this new line of Joe figures and still have not taken steps to stock their stores to even adequate levels of demand, and of course the latest big factor being the price of oil and the increased costs of manufacturing and distributing. I'm still hopeful Hasbro and the major retail chains will get their acts together and hopefully every store in the country which sells the 25th G.I. Joe line will have the kinds of 40 peg wall displays chock a block with Joe figures that the stores used to have when most of us were kids. It's just unfortunate that Hasbro would return Joe to such a tremendous state of glory at a time when our country is in such economic turmoil. |
04-30-2008, 05:23 PM | #40 |
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Then again, there's always the we can't always get what we want lesson. There were several G.I. JOE toys that were difficult to find at retail when I was a kid, too, but I got over it. There was even more stuff we couldn't afford, but I got over that, too. Disappointment is part of being alive. |
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