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To The Haters, and Toxic Fans
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08-12-2018, 01:56 AM
Quartermaine
Cobra HR Director
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Modesto, CA
Posts: 1,140
Thank you ALL for your responses. I have had these discussions with Marvel Fans, DC Fans, and GI Joe Fans, and I wanted to offer up a more civil approach to our criticisms of film and product. I know people from Hasbro, from the Club, and among the collectors and Hisstankers that are as passionate about GI Joe as anyone else, and I believe the Club and Hasbro has tried to keep the collectors happy and still sell a product. "Passion" has become a word we use to excuse poor manners and rudeness. Someone above mentioned the added security of sitting behind a keyboard and monitor using the anonymity of this medium to lash out. Well, it happens. Mine was meant to be a call for us, in OUR COMMUNITY, to be better than other fan bases. The ugliness alone may prevent anyone from trying to start a new club, or from championing a re-introduction of the brand at Hasbro. That would be a sad thing. I submit that GI Joe, like a lot of toys, are part of our pop culture fabric. Through play, we have learned to deal with the horrors of war and terrorism in a small way.
I apologize for my generalizations about Star Wars. I was 12 when the 1st movie came out. It forever changed me. The original score still brings tears to my eyes. When I served on a US Navy ship, that song was our replenishment break-away song.
The politics and the drama wrapped around the things we care about sometimes tarnishes those things. I will take personal responsibility for ensuring my grandchildren have access to GI Joes. Even the Flagg. Maybe not the Defiant...
If I have offended anyone, it wasn't my intent. Let's celebrate the toy we all love, and find new ways to keep the brand alive until GI Joe once again takes up the Battle Cry and makes his and her presence felt in the toy world.
I celebrate the freedom that this site brings to all of us to express our feelings about GI Joe. Remember that we are all people, and there is a drought of civility in our world. Let us be mindful of that as we move forward from this.
May the Force be with you all. Yo Joe.
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