[Griff]

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Originally Posted by Jeffrozup

Oh Hasbro.

Damnit dude i was drinking soda when i read that. Stung the inside of my nose and the cat got scarred & jumped off my lap by spring boarding off my groin, That was funny though.

[firmpulse]

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Originally Posted by flashtronaut8

They don't teach foreign languages until the sixth grade. Excellent rule, though.

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Originally Posted by Snake Pants

As someone married to a woman who isn't a native English speaker and also as someone who's edited several manuscripts that were translated into English (not super well), I've noticed that grammatical errors are much more common than spelling errors.

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Originally Posted by firefly069

I?m not surprised.

To clarify I meant the pretend employees of MARS Industries.

The leading and kerning is also jacked up and the super indent is weird. Maybe it IS intentional.

[koogie]

Maybe spell checking is what's holding up the Dragonfly.

[RedAlert Rescue]

Is that star ing or staring at the vehicle.

I don't think the ignition works just by staring at it.

P.s. I bet they will still release the Rattler and the Dragonfly with the ammo colour in reverse.

[thiseyecommand]

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Originally Posted by SlicesCustoms

Indeed.

General question:

What character - not troop builder, does everyone have the most of; in GI Joe or another line?

Mega Man X. Those are the 2 things I collect. GI Classified and Mega Man X. Problem with Mega Man X is that it's usually all the same figures/models. Mega Man X, Zero, Black Armor Zero, and if you're lucky, they'll throw a Vile in there. Luckily, Kotobukiya, the company that has the license now, is giving us some more original stuff that none of the previous license holders have done before. Finally getting Sigma next year. That one is going to be awesome.

[Snake Pants]

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Originally Posted by firmpulse

To clarify I meant the pretend employees of MARS Industries.

The leading and kerning is also jacked up and the super indent is weird. Maybe it IS intentional.

Yes, obviously. So what? If they spoke English as a second language, they'd still be less likely to make spelling errors and more likely to make grammatical ones. So, I'm 100% leaning toward this being an intentional thing implying that, in universe, these vehicles are either supposed to be cheaply made or manufactured too fast to proofread copy. Or both.

[280-CUSTOMS]

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Originally Posted by Snake Pants

Yes, obviously. So what? If they spoke English as a second language, they'd still be less likely to make spelling errors and more likely to make grammatical ones. So, I'm 100% leaning toward this being an intentional thing implying that, in universe, these vehicles are either supposed to be cheaply made or manufactured too fast to proofread copy. Or both.

I see your point but its cobra ..

And all their stuff would be mass produced by mars or whoever .. did MARS make the ferret ??

[Snake Pants]

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Originally Posted by 280-CUSTOMS

I see your point but its cobra .. and their most famous subteam the dreadnoks are dumber than a bag of hammers ?

Oh, the quote changed on me. Hmmmm. Okay, well then I doubt the Dreadnoks are painting the warnings on the vehicles.

[Snake Pants]

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Originally Posted by 280-CUSTOMS

I see your point but its cobra ..

And all their stuff would be mass produced by mars or whoever .. did MARS make the ferret ??

And changed again.
I mentioned MARS before, so, I can absolutely see Destro shouting at someone, "FORGET ABOUT PROOFREADING ANYTHING! COBRA COMMANDER WANTS HIS VEHICLES FAST, FAST, FAST!"

[DarthBrett]

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Originally Posted by brditsme

Holy cow, I've been trying to find this exact information. Thank you! And not to go too far down the rabbit hole, but does that mean Sears Wishbook offerings were almost a year old or did they get to offer them ahead of the mass market?

Sorry. This has been bugging me for some reason.

No problem! To answer your question, for the most part yes, a lot (if not most) of the product inside the Christmas catalogs was already 9+ months old already once those catalogs arrived at our doorsteps. Although a rare exception to that was in 1984 when Sears was able to sell the Bridge Layer 6 months early in their Christmas catalog. I've noticed the Sears '84 Christmas catalog also features the Sears exclusive Star Wars Power of the Force Jabba's Dungeon playset, which included three Power of the Force figures which weren't out at retail until early 1985. So Sears sometimes got exclusive rights to sell some toys before everyone else did (like the Bridge Layer and Jabba's Dungeon with PotF figures).

Semi-related....and now going down that rabbit hole lol The Dreadnoks were actually designed and sculpted in summer 1983 and were possibly intended to be part of the 1984 series but got bumped for unknown reasons (budget maybe?). Shipwreck was also originally supposed to be in the 1984 lineup (likely was delayed in order to make some changes, like giving him a shirt instead of being bare-chested with a removable life jacket accessory like he was originally supposed to) and the Terror Drome and AVAC were originally slated to be part of 1985's lineup before getting delayed to 1986.

The Dreadnoks and Tollbooth also all have 1984 neck designs. Which explains them being designed earlier than the rest of the 1985 figures were.

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Originally Posted by firmpulse

I was always pissed at the Tactician colorway chosen (yeah yeah "voted on" I know). It was my least favorite. So much so it's never made it out of the box. I wanted the all black with silver sigil. I would REALLY like to see them release that version.

It was by far my least favorite one out of the six we got to vote on. I really liked the purple one, the navy one and the other two black ones. Something about the red and black just looked "off" to me and wasn't quite right. Figures that was the one everyone else wanted though! lol