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07-27-2007, 04:12 PM
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I 'm not buying it. Hasbro's been doing this for almost 50 years and all of a sudden there are all of these unseen pitfalls. Ridiculous. Problems with articulation (like the limited leg movement on some) is just Hasbro cutting corners and allowing their figures to make it to retail without correcting obvious mistakes because of cost issues. Hasbro does not have to release a figure that's been produced at the wrong scale. They just don't care enough about there product to spend the money to make sure the figure is produced correctly. I can only assume that problems like this have always arisen in the production of a new toy line, but the toy companies have had the forsight and the money to correct these issues before they hit retail. I have a feeling that the monatary drain of Star Wars has a lot to do with this. Production of all of the companies lines suffer from Hasbro having to give it's first born to Lucasfilm to keep the rights to a toy line that has seen it's day. The fact that this line (GI Joe 25 A) is so inconsistent attests to the fact that Hasbro is just unwilling or financially unable to correct simple (and probably common) problems that crop up in the production of an action figure line. How come we never got a Han Solo that was the wrong scale (or for that matter one that utilized arms from a Luke Skywalker figure)? How come there are no Stormtrooper figures that can't sit down? Or hold their guns? It's because Hasbro answers to a higher power with their Star Wars product (and a very discerning one at that) and all of their other products (especially unliscensed ones) are going to suffer for it. Modern GI Joe products are simply an example of the kind of toys Hasbro will produce when they don't have to get approval from a higher power to send them to retail. After all of those years of experience producing one of the greatest action figure lines ever, Hasbro should be ashamed to send to retail figures that can't sit, hold their weapons because their hands are too soft, or are out of scale with the rest of the line. It's just unnacceptable and amateurish and not the kind of thing you should expect from a powerhouse like Hasbro. Sometimes I think that the knockoff companies do a better job than Hasbro these days.
I think that the fact that we have a Hasbro representative telling us that figures that haven't been released yet are going to have major design flaws is laughable. Their TELLING us that they have every intention of offering us a substandard product even before they hit the shelves, while in the same breathe admitting that they want to correct problems on substandard product that we've ALREADY bought. Of course he also admonishes us that if we DON"T buy the substandard product first he WON"T produce the corrected product. I JUST CAN"T BELIEVE WHAT I READ IN THIS INTERVIEW! I mean Hasbro makes garbage and says that they'll offer us the priveledge of buying another of the same figure with the corrections that should have been made before retail, but only after we buy the garbage. Give me a break!
Just my opinion.
Actually, there are clone trooper figures that have a very hard time sitting down. The ROTS clones have a hard time sitting, even the super articulated version. Trust me on this, the cobra officer with the wide crotch has a much easier time sitting and raising legs than the super articulated clone troopers. Also some clones have a hard time holding their guns. Add to the fact that it took 20 years to get a more accurately scaled X-wing, and the fact that the new Sith Infiltrator is largely out of scale(more so than other vehicles tend to be). It also took years, rumors everywhere, til the TIE fighter finally got the bigger, more accurately scaled wings.
From what I have observed, it seems like the figures were rushed to retail. This was a line only meant to consist of originally 10 figures. Dwight Stall sculpted 12, and with that, the team was given the go ahead to make more waves. Thats how we got the single packs. We went from 10, to 25, to nearly or above 40 by years end, with more coming next year. Production might have been started before all the kinks were worked out, it seems like an accelerated schedule too. I am not sure if this is accurate to what happened, but it does seem like everything is going at a very fast pace for this line. Also, the screw up at the chinese factory was mentioned yesterday, and the changes made by that factory were unauthorized by hasbro. That factory is to blame for Duke and Flint having a midarm swivel rather than a much cleaner looking wrist schedule. Could this stuff be true? Yes. Its happened to other companies. Even SOTA toys, with their street fighter figures, the 1st 3 waves of their figure's molds are out of their hands due to a chinese factory keeping them and not giving them back. This is the reason the more recent waves of street fighter were delayed, and why none of the new figures used the molds from the 1st 3 waves(yes even the new revolution ryu and ken, they actually use wave 4 akuma's bulkier mold). Hasbro has had some difficulty in the past tracking down molds and getting access to them as well at the factories. Had they switched factories upon knowledge of the changes, for all we know the anniversary figures might have hit retail after the anniversary was actually over. My feeling is that to get the figures out on time, hasbro was forced to rely on said factory.
I too, hope the fixes are done in time before the next figures hit retail. Each line has growing pains, and I understand both sides, mistakes are being made that normally wouldn't be made, at the same time we have a line that grew from a baby, to an adult so to speak, at an accelerated rate. Due to growing pains, the 07 line will have some hits and misses, but I think the line in 08 will be considerably stronger.
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