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09-09-2019, 10:26 PM | #41 |
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09-10-2019, 09:55 AM | #42 |
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I’ve already voiced my opinion but it bares repeating- Hell yes!
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09-10-2019, 10:57 AM | #43 |
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Yup. The transformer reissues are super steep. I have no problem finding them, I only have a problem with paying $40 for a deluxe size figure.
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12-12-2019, 06:52 PM | #44 |
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First post, so be gentle...
I would LOVE a vintage re-release line. Vintage colors, correct parts, but new plastic, soft hands. But for the love of all that's good, learn from past mistakes and do it right. Hasbro SHOULD still have many molds intact. I think they put effort into preserving anything they used 2005-10. But in both 1997 and in the 2000s, they thought they had certain molds, finalized which figures to make, only to find out they DIDN'T have the molds. So... Put in the work with the first wave, and remake molds they know they DON'T have. At all. In remaking straight-arm figures, use the approach from the Comic Pack Short-Fuze: Keep the details exactly where they were on the straight-arm, but swivel it (the upper arm pouches on SF are on the side, like the '82) This way, you won't have people dis-assembling figures for oft-broken arms to put on vintage figures to resell as original. Then, while making that first wave, figure out what they still have. Bonus if they can get to Funskool's library and find anything still usable. Suggestions for wave 1: Cobra Commander V1,Snake Eyes V2 (yes, I know Black Major makes those), Flash, Destro V1, Falcon (I think the mold disappeared after the Club used it), Cover Girl, and Major Bludd. No troop builder to start, need everything to sell equally in wave 1. If successful, work towards fixing figures we got too often 97-07 that had missing parts. Duke, Vipers, B.A.T.s (heck, most Cobra troop builders were missing something). Might make a good 40 for the 40th in 2022. |
12-12-2019, 08:36 PM | #45 |
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That'd be fine for elderly people, but I personally have no interest in that.
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12-12-2019, 09:01 PM | #46 |
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No interest. Seems like something a third party licensee would do. More interested in new ME characters.
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12-12-2019, 09:27 PM | #47 |
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No interest here. Got rid of all my remaining vintage stuff this year (there wasn't much and it was mostly in very used condition). Don't care to start over.
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12-12-2019, 09:56 PM | #48 |
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I already have the vintage figures, but my 4 1/2 year old son loves my O-ring Joe's. I'd love for him to have a shot at opening his own vintage style figure.
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12-13-2019, 11:28 AM | #49 |
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I will like it if they do different things in retro style, not just carbon copies of the vintage ones, I see that pointless as there are many out there.
Then, repainted with other colours, or with some modification, I would indeed like the idea. All the same, if Hasbro still has the moulds, I would say it would be indeed profitable to keep reusing them, making repaints or whatever. But I think most moulds are lost or damaged, or were sold to third parties that lost them or broke them in turn.
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08-29-2020, 02:03 AM | #50 |
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Question: For those of you who have no interest in a reissue of Hasbro's original (and best) 3 3/4" G.I. Joe figures that children of the '70s and '80s grew up with, why are you even commenting on this thread? Just to rain on everyone else's parade? There's no need for the negativity and condescension. And there's especially no call for some 19-year-old smart-alecky kid's obnoxious ageism. "That'd be fine for elderly people . . ." *Elderly* people??? You've got to be kidding me. Talk about audacity. And this coming from someone who wasn't born until like a decade *after* the original ARAH G.I. Joe toy line ended. Seriously?
As for the rest of you who actually experienced the awesomeness of 1980s G.I. Joe live and in color, it is incomprehensible to me that you would NOT want to see the incomparable toys of your childhood re-released exactly as you remember them. WHY??? It makes no sense whatsoever, especially when nostalgia is running wild. I mean, as adults, what possible sentimental value could you get from any modern toys? What significant memories are you making with them? In other words, how could these dramatically different modernized G.I. Joe (or Transformers or He-Man, etc.) products *mean* anything special to you, especially when they look and feel completely different from the toys you played with as kids? I just don't get it. Furthermore, for those of you who keep saying, "Just go buy the vintage G.I. Joe toys," how much money do you people have anyway? Do you make a six- or seven-figure salary? Unless you're living under a rock, prices for vintage toy lines, especially 1980s G.I. Joe, are INSANE now, and they just keep skyrocketing. MOC and MIB items are absolutely exorbitant in most cases, and even loose toys are outrageously overpriced. Believe me, if the original factory-sealed toys were still reasonably priced, I wouldn't be posting here! I'd much rather own the Real McCoys over anything else, obviously! But since the originals are *not* affordable, getting Hasbro to replicate and reissue them as faithfully as possible would be the only way us poor paupers could afford to build/re-build a nice collection. Kapeesh? |
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