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06-25-2011, 05:19 AM | #11 |
Cobra Viper
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IMO
Hits: ARAH, 15th Anniversary, VvV, 25th, and PoC Misses: Extreme, JvC, and Spy Troops Middle of the road: Sgt Savage, DTC, and RoC Ehh if you're the type that just got in on 25th to feel like a kid and are walking away now that the nostalgia has worn off, you really are missing the vast majority of what joe actually is. I think 15th anniversary would have been huge if those 80s kids were just a little older in '97. The 25th hit at just the right moment as now those 80s kids had families of their own and truly could reflect on their childhoods. It also helped that toys owned by adults had become more acceptable at that point. Personally I took the flack in junior high/high school for still buying joes through it's lesser known eras; but it was a breath of fresh air when I had a lot of toys set up in my dormroom in college and a hot girl walked in and said "Are those yours?" and I said "Yeah" and she just said, "So cool!" But I will say the happiest time outside of when I was little was during the 25th. RoC was just too many repaints for my liking and PoC is still mostly characters I already have. I am really psyched up for 30th though. Some people may not want it, but hey, at least it is already shaping up to be new figs. Techno Viper, Airtight, and Lifeline FTW! |
06-25-2011, 06:29 AM | #12 |
Canadian Viper
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My main complaint is availability, and after they were stuck with so much product after ROC I don't blame them for going easy(although I've made a few scalpers here happy). I thought the movie figures were amazing! Had they been from another line everyone would have bought them in mass quanities and raved about them.
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06-25-2011, 08:20 AM | #13 |
Banned
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: North Jersey
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25th in it's entirety.
A good 95% of POC. Distrubution and Arctic Destro issues being the other 5% but yeah POC rules. Resolute and Renegades are both incredible. Anything Sideshow does is almost magic. I don't own a 12" Joe but I will. I HATED ROC and everything that went with it. Though there were a few fantastic figures. Both CS SE and the Flash update were incredible. Can't talk about the state of comics yet...but Im literally headed to the comic shop today to pick up some Civil War, so we shall see. The Tank should absolutely make the list for things that work. If 30th is half as cool as 25th, figures, nostaligia, card art, hunting...community.....then I'll stick around for 35th! Happy with everything excpet the movie, which I think is pretty much a paradoy of the franchise. |
06-25-2011, 09:04 AM | #14 |
Crimson Guard
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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the 25th line didnt really get good untill towards the last fewer waves, there was a winner in every wave but the later ones really stuck out to me. ROC was horrible, i hated everything about it and still do. POC is amazing! the figures are amazing, i really cant say enough good things about the poc line. i am geeked for the newer figs coming out and i hope this just gets better.
That was a piece of shit wave that really killed the line and let us know Hasbro had given up. |
06-25-2011, 09:32 AM | #15 |
IG Special Ops Unit
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RoC was the absolute low point. With the worst designed figures with extremely lackluster sculpting (especially the first four waves) and some of the worst accessories to grace GI Joe toys.
I actually like Battle Corps figures better. PoC has been the opposite, excelling in almost all areas with only a couple stinkers. I see 30th as an extension and remain hopeful of the next movies toys. My absolute favorite is still GI Joe vs Cobra and Spy Troops. Instead of just re-doing the same old crap they gave us awesome new designs for favorite characters as well as VERY cool new characters and troopers. All things considered I hold those two years in the same regard as 1985/1986. It's what I'm hoping GI Joe will become again. Yes, the sculpting proportions were way off back then, but the designs have yet to be beaten.
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