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09-07-2022, 05:54 PM | #121 |
stretching your O-ring
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Serpentor. He?s the Cobra equivalent of Fridge?s football stick.
He along with Sarge, Mindbender, and some of the 1986 joes that flipped between normal person or moron depending on the writer (like Beach Head) really lowered the bar, and harkened the DIC era. |
09-07-2022, 06:43 PM | #122 |
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09-07-2022, 06:45 PM | #123 |
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My cut off was 1986. Didn't like the new guys replacing the older ones, though I bought a few that year and again for the next two years.
Interesting to read that some quit around 1987, at the Cobra La inception. By 1988, Cobra La was done amd its interesting to me how one year's worth of product genuinely killed all interest in the brand for some kids. The line continued for 7 more years after that, so there wasn't a mass exodus due to Cobra La. I'm trying to remember 1987, and what else was popular then. Maybe it was just easy to walk away from Joe when the interest waned, because there was something else big out there. I know it wasn't He-Man. The movie came out that year, but that was the beginning if the end for the toyline. Maybe Ninja Tirtles?
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09-07-2022, 06:52 PM | #124 |
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There were some exceptions. Low-Light was unique. Sci-Fi was cooler than Flash. And Dial Tone looked cool with his giant comms backpack.
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09-07-2022, 10:55 PM | #125 |
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Does anyone have sales information for each year? I may be living in a dream world but I thought I once read that 1991 was the highest revenue for the Gi Joe ARAH line. That blows my mind because I agree with many here that the toy-line jumped the shark around 1986/1987.
The sculpts changed so much starting around 1986 that they don't fit in and match the earlier figures. I think re-sculpts of the 1986 figures and beyond with realistic colors and decreased details to match the aesthetics of the early figures would be really interesting to see. Last edited by CobraBlue; 09-07-2022 at 11:01 PM.. |
09-07-2022, 11:47 PM | #126 |
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09-08-2022, 01:46 AM | #127 |
stretching your O-ring
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My cut off was 1986. Didn't like the new guys replacing the older ones, though I bought a few that year and again for the next two years.
Interesting to read that some quit around 1987, at the Cobra La inception. By 1988, Cobra La was done amd its interesting to me how one year's worth of product genuinely killed all interest in the brand for some kids. The line continued for 7 more years after that, so there wasn't a mass exodus due to Cobra La. I'm trying to remember 1987, and what else was popular then. Maybe it was just easy to walk away from Joe when the interest waned, because there was something else big out there. I know it wasn't He-Man. The movie came out that year, but that was the beginning if the end for the toyline. Maybe Ninja Tirtles? I know that by 1987 and 1988, Joe felt like an "old standby" that wasn't promising to get weird like some of the newer properties like Real Ghostbusters or TMNT, or completely change its format like Transformers did with Micro Masters and Action Masters being the entirety of the line. Joe still had stuff that was outside the silly subteams like Tiger Force or BF2K, and the bigger focus was still on normal Joe things, like Rolling Thunder was not for a subteam, the Condor Z25 was new, and in '91 we got the excellent Bullhorn and Range Viper. |
09-08-2022, 10:27 AM | #128 |
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In 88, Tiger Force, gold Destro, and some stupid looking vehicles ended things for me.
Also, I was getting older and transitioning into buying real stuff. I remember a lot of my money was going towards saving up for a compound bow.
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