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01-27-2022, 07:09 AM | #191 |
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You're not supposed to because isn't for you.
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01-27-2022, 09:12 AM | #192 |
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01-27-2022, 09:43 AM | #193 |
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no. it's a guy that looks just like him. playing roles he would play, and he's been doing it for a while. https://crookedmarquee.com/the-stran...robert-bronzi/ |
01-27-2022, 09:51 AM | #194 |
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holy crap. this page lead me to "cry havoc" because charles bronson is on the picture for it. "did he do this before he died?"
no. it's a guy that looks just like him. playing roles he would play, and he's been doing it for a while. https://crookedmarquee.com/the-stran...robert-bronzi/ |
01-27-2022, 10:24 AM | #195 |
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You would think the MCU would've given a boost to Marvel comic readership, but maybe kiddos view Marvel as strictly a movie thing now. I've noticed that somewhere along the way the genre has become known almost exclusively as "superhero movies" and not "comic book movies." The latter was used from around 1989 (Batman) through the X-men flicks, but you hardly hear it now.
1. From the early 90's onward monthly comics were pretty much only available in specialty shops. For small/younger kids that put them out of reach because Mom and Dad were unlikely to take their kids to that place where all the "weird" and "creepy" teenagers/young adults hang out just to try to get them into comics (which became a progressively more expensive hobby as the years went on too...another bar to entry). Trade Paperbacks were available in big box bookstores but those were generally too expensive to be "impulse buys" the way comics used to be. 2. The comics often don't resemble the movies at all because they're carrying 50+ years of continuity behind them. You could buy an Avengers or X-Men comic that doesn't have anyone from the movies in it. Kids aren't going to recognize the characters, will often be lost on the storylines, and so there's little interest. And of course existing fans don't help when they start bellyaching whenever Marvel or DC makes changes to their comics to "make them more like the movies" because they're attached to that 50+ years of continuity and all those obscure characters that haven't made it to the big screen yet. But all of that does also boil down to a fundamental issue that directly affects GI Joe as well: Success in one form of media does not automatically beget success in another. You can have a hit movie that doesn't really sell toys. You can have massive video game franchises that struggle to get toy lines off the ground, much less massively successful (How many times has HALO been relaunched? If success as a video game meant success as a toy line HALO should have entire aisles dedicated to it), and who often end up with horrible movies/TV shows. So basically, even if GI Joe DOES have a smash hit movie or video game or whatever...it may not sell toys at a proportional level. That's part of what killed Renegades: Fans generally seemed to like it (with some quibbles, of course, but generally favorable) and it was one of the Hub's more popular shows, but that wasn't enough to convince retailers to start stocking Joes more heavily again (probably because the Hub was not a "basic" cable channel so it was a relatively limited audience, and because the Pursuit of Cobra delay/relaunch pushed everything back to the point that the Renegades Toys didn't start hitting practically until the show had already been cancelled). So yeah, the bottom line is that there are no easy answers. There's no magic formula for success that can be duplicated with 100% success every time. If there were, we'd never see a toy line that fails, for anything. The action figure market is, if not dying, then evolving into a (more expensive) niche product, and as hard as it may be to admit there might be no saving it from being consigned to things like crowdfunding and niche e-tailers until our generation fades. There's a reason Hasbro has been so keen in recent years to be seen as an "IP Company" rather than a "Toy Company." Ultimately, if younger and future generations find little or no interest in action figures, there's nothing wrong with that. Times change. Enjoy what you can, while you can. The rest will take care of itself, one way or another. Last edited by Jmacq1; 01-27-2022 at 10:37 AM.. |
01-27-2022, 10:34 AM | #196 |
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There was little to distinguish the Renegades figures from the 30th Anniversary ones, based on the packaging. Laziness.
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01-27-2022, 11:09 AM | #197 |
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It’s like the part of “Boogie Nights” where they are making a “real movie”. Scenes of moodily walking in random places. The action running scene with a bit of a stumble, because it was too expensive to get another take.
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01-27-2022, 11:31 AM | #198 |
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... multiple paragraphs follow... Haha!;)
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01-27-2022, 11:32 AM | #199 |
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