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G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes Live Action Movie Filming Starts Today
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10-18-2019, 09:27 PM
Jmacq1
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Hellion42
And how much has that approach made Joe so far? This is now the third time they're blowing everything up and starting from scratch. It's all well and good to say "it worked for Transformers" if Joe hadn't gone down that path already. But it did and it flopped. Twice. Who knows... maybe third time is the charm. But the plot sounds an awful lot like RoC's approach of taking an existing story and shoehorning Joe names into things.
The thing is that when things end up lining up and working and a movie becomes a big hit that drives toy sales the gains are generally so overwhelmingly huge that they make all the previous failed attempts worth it. And it usually ends up being a LOT more than they make selling "only classic inspired stuff" to a dwindling audience.
Lots of people don't talk about it but ROC product made a lot more money for Hasbro than 25th Anniversary product did. But it was a flash in the pan that was overproduced by Hasbro and overordered by retailers because they didn't want a repeat of what happened with Transformers a year or two earlier (the toys selling out almost instantly and them barely able to get any more to shelves before Christmas). But it didn't stick like Transformers. It sold a lot of product, but it wasn't a mega-hit like both Hasbro and retailers wanted (to the point that retailers demanded Hasbro remove movie-likenesses for the PoC line which IMO is a big part of what screwed up the Joe toy timeline from that point forward (Basically, if things had stayed "on track" the Renegades toys probably would have been hitting shelves when the Cartoon initially aired instead of after it had already been announced as cancelled).
The Retaliation last minute delay/toy recall didn't do Hasbro any favors either (and that was all on Paramount). Though I would add that the final waves of Retaliation Product had some of the best "modern classics" we ever got, even if they came in Retaliation packaging...but that wasn't enough to keep the line afloat despite being "classic" product.
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