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11-03-2012, 12:48 AM | #41 |
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I think the Joe Team should directly ask the customers and fans what they like and want to see in the line.
Have the packaging designers put a "call-out vote" on the card backs. On Joe cardbacks, have a picture of Duke pointing all "Uncle Sam-like" towards the customer with a speech bubble that says "We want to hear from YOU!" Followed by something along the lines of "The Joe team needs your help! Log on to Hasbro.GIJoe.com and vote for your favorite figures and vehicles! Your decisions will help the future of the G.I. Joe line!" -or alternately- On COBRA cardbacks have a picture of Cobra Commander pointing towards the customer with a speech bubble that says "Do as I Command!" Followed by something along the lines of "COBRA requires your utmost assistance! Log on to Hasbro.GIJoe.com and vote for your favorite figures and vehicles! Your decisions will help the future of the G.I. Joe line!" This would be a neat way to market a worldwide public vote for the Joe team to take in as research for what customers and fans want to see in the line. The voting could allow customers to pick all their favorite figures and vehicles from the current line and it could also ask them a short series of questions and take suggestions on what they like, what they dislike, and what they would like to see come from the toy line.
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11-03-2012, 04:20 AM | #42 |
Cobra Soldier
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True. $10 (or some places $12 or $13) is a lot for some of the figures. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow weren't worth $10. Neither was Duke or Roadblock. The only ones I felt were worth the money were the Cobra Trooper (because of the cool fabric parachute, but how many do you need?) and Joe Trooper (because of the accessories).
Also with the vehicles Hasbro scrapped a perfectly good Howler prototype from ROC, they showed it on the Hasbro tour at Joecon a few years ago it was sick. Instead they choose to put out neon era quality vehicles for Retaliation and of the 6 or 7 times they have worked off of that new Hiss Tank mold the only really over the top cool one is a SDCC exclusive. Hasbro doesn't show much loyalty to there long time customers and when they do, they allow them to get robbed by the club or some con ect. I mean I collect Hot Wheels casually, I'm not serious at all about it but I look at how Mattel bends over backwards for there long time HW collectors if Hasbro gave 10% of that kind of love to their life long Joe customers, I personally would be much more interested in GI Joe at retail right now. I mean I will always collect Joes I just won't be supporting the line at retail anymore until they give me reason to. |
11-03-2012, 09:23 AM | #43 |
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Maybe Hasbro will get lucky and Disney will buy them too. Otherwise, I would think that the future of the Star Wars toys will be in Disney's hands and not Hasbros.
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11-03-2012, 10:08 AM | #44 |
Crimson Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Virginia
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I think the Joe Team should directly ask the customers and fans what they like and want to see in the line.
Have the packaging designers put a "call-out vote" on the card backs. On Joe cardbacks, have a picture of Duke pointing all "Uncle Sam-like" towards the customer with a speech bubble that says "We want to hear from YOU!" Followed by something along the lines of "The Joe team needs your help! Log on to Hasbro.GIJoe.com and vote for your favorite figures and vehicles! Your decisions will help the future of the G.I. Joe line!" -or alternately- On COBRA cardbacks have a picture of Cobra Commander pointing towards the customer with a speech bubble that says "Do as I Command!" Followed by something along the lines of "COBRA requires your utmost assistance! Log on to Hasbro.GIJoe.com and vote for your favorite figures and vehicles! Your decisions will help the future of the G.I. Joe line!" This would be a neat way to market a worldwide public vote for the Joe team to take in as research for what customers and fans want to see in the line. The voting could allow customers to pick all their favorite figures and vehicles from the current line and it could also ask them a short series of questions and take suggestions on what they like, what they dislike, and what they would like to see come from the toy line. 2. They get the same effect looking at message boards and listening to fans at conventions. At the moment, G.I. Joe is almost purely a collector-driven line, so putting up a "vote" would just tell them what collectors want more of...which does nothing to expand the brand. 3. All the votes in the world don't mean diddly if Hasbro doesn't give the Joe team enough funding for lots of new tooling, which isn't going to happen unless it's outside a movie year, or the Retaliation stuff really takes off with kids (unlikely outside of a major shift in the toy market and reversal of buying trends). |
11-03-2012, 10:10 AM | #45 |
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I agree with you about the Joe & Cobra trooper accessories but $10 is to much for just extra parts and custom fodder. I mean I really love the parachute and would have had no problem paying $10 just for that but there hard to display so I have one hung up and everything else from the package went into a junk lot. I find it hard to believe Hasbro can put that figure out for $10 but can't get the Data Viper out on store shelves.
Also with the vehicles Hasbro scrapped a perfectly good Howler prototype from ROC, they showed it on the Hasbro tour at Joecon a few years ago it was sick. Instead they choose to put out neon era quality vehicles for Retaliation and of the 6 or 7 times they have worked off of that new Hiss Tank mold the only really over the top cool one is a SDCC exclusive. Hasbro doesn't show much loyalty to there long time customers and when they do, they allow them to get robbed by the club or some con ect. I mean I collect Hot Wheels casually, I'm not serious at all about it but I look at how Mattel bends over backwards for there long time HW collectors if Hasbro gave 10% of that kind of love to their life long Joe customers, I personally would be much more interested in GI Joe at retail right now. I mean I will always collect Joes I just won't be supporting the line at retail anymore until they give me reason to. The Joe brand is not currently successful enough for Hasbro to put those items out at mass retail. Certainly not in Hasbro's mind, anyway. It's certainly not normally Hasbro taking items that would otherwise be at mass retail and turning them into exclusives. I'd rather pay $10 or $20 extra for a Red Jinx than have no Red Jinx at all (for example), but maybe that's just me. Last edited by Jmacq1; 11-03-2012 at 10:12 AM.. |
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