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02-05-2023, 06:52 AM | #81 |
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I remember sometime in 1993 when my mom went to Ace Hardware (my usual spot for acquiring Joes) and came home with a Flak Viper for me, knowing that anything "Viper" from the Joe line was welcome.
I was of course appreciative to my mom, but I remember going "what the fuck is this missile launcher Robocop bullshit" in my mind, and I remember she kind of waffled giving it to me, as even she knew that this stuff was declining in quality.
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02-05-2023, 09:57 AM | #82 |
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Sure, we all remember (or have seen photos of) the endless aisles of Joe product at Toys R Us circa 1987, but do you all ever think about just how big this shit was back in the day?
I have clear memories of '84 joes hanging alongside the chewing gum and tabloids at grocery store check out lanes. In 1985 I bought my Crimson Guard figure at a local sporting goods store (they didn't even carry toys, but they had GI Joe figures). The mom and pop video rental place in our neighborhood (this was well before Blockbuster) had a poster for for the "Revenge of Cobra" mini-series on VHS hanging on its wall (until they took it down and gave it to me). Like, seriously, from '84 to '87ish, GI Joe was EVERYWHERE! It was bizarre. Moreover, it was the product of a wildly complex confluence of time and place and product that may never be recreated. Whenever I see people post about how Hasbro just doesn't know how to market their product or that the industry is too afraid of appearing pro-America or pro-military or some such bullshit, I think of just how anomalous ARAH's heyday was. There's just no recreating that moment in time. |
02-05-2023, 10:00 AM | #83 |
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I lived in Montana for most of my childhood and our toy options were Kmart, KB, and Labelles. TFs really weren?t available and when I did see them they were really expensive.
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02-05-2023, 10:51 AM | #84 |
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Silly I know but visceral. |
02-05-2023, 11:04 AM | #85 |
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02-05-2023, 11:51 AM | #86 |
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I think this is an excellent point. I loved the original Legend of Zelda but I would hardly call it immersive. Fast forward many years and I?m playing Dead Red Redemption and you watch the main character, your character, die. I literally felt I knew this person. When you take revenge as the son I was ruthless.
Silly I know but visceral.
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02-05-2023, 12:34 PM | #87 |
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I know a psychologist who thinks we've been moving towards living a vicarious life for a century at least. First through "hero-worship," which media made even easier (adding comics, radio, films and then TV to literature), and things like toys ingrained further into our youths. Video games are a natural offshoot of that, but possibly unnaturally accelerated it. As you noted, they're now immersive in consuming and addictive ways. She says even the trend towards "experiential living" has proven to be a sort of false flag, because the purpose often isn't completely the experience itself, but filming and posting these experiences to gain the "views" and approval/adoration of others too. It's like we relive our own experiences vicariously through the reactions of others watching our experiences...
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02-05-2023, 01:23 PM | #88 |
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And "escapism" as we know it wasn't applicable to our lives until we formed societies that allowed for a modicum of leisure. Before that, it was 24/7 survival. It appears that even our dreams aren't so much about escapism as these sorta thought exercises playing scenarios of survival for practice/preparation or sorting through real-life problems in metaphor. Anyway, it's crazy how things are both simultaneously radical different now and eerily similar to thousands of years ago.
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02-05-2023, 01:28 PM | #89 |
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02-06-2023, 02:34 PM | #90 |
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I do think that the ARAH run could have continued indefinitely. It might not have been as popular but looking at the sustained success of other brands like Lego, Barbie, hot wheels/matchbox it is certainly reasonable to think the line could have went on for years. There was also a need in the market for military themed action figures and vehicles. To me it was internal corporate politics and the Kenner faction within hasbro that killed the line.
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