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View Poll Results: Were ya happy with it? | |||
Yup | 10 | 8.20% | |
Nope | 103 | 84.43% | |
I didn't care to begin with; 4" is dead, bring on the 6" | 9 | 7.38% | |
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11-26-2020, 01:12 PM | #91 |
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A lot of it is obviously jealousy, as fanboys have this idea they could do a better job and should be working in these toy company/film-making/comic-writing positions. Well, that's ignoring a whole lotta reality. Would Hasbro love it if they're putting out stuff collectors love? Of course! But they're hamstrung by the reality of their corporate mission and that's just not their focus. Where I agree is this: The idea that I could choose the Joe position within Hasbro and NEVER get moved to another line in my career is to live in a dream world. And were that too happen, I wouldn’t know Pony X to Pony Y, Star Wars V to Stars Wars Z. Without a lot of research and time, I could see re-releasing the O-Face Duke of the SW/MLP/“place toy brand” here.
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11-26-2020, 01:20 PM | #92 |
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I agree. It would be interesting if indeed Wal Mart requested a retro GI Joe line to go along with the Transformers and Ghostbusters retro lines. The Real Ghostbusters line is what I would consider true retro - those figures look just like the ones I had as a kid. I think they have done a wonderful job with the Tranformers line too (granted Transformers has been a much more successful brand for Hasbro). Compared to those two lines the GI Joe retro line obviously did not have the same level of funding.
Collecting is a very individual thing so seeing the wide range of responses to the release should not be something unexpected. I am glad to see people are able to express themselves by showing their disdain, happy that 4" scale is still around in some capacity or approaching the whole thing with a good sense of humor (see the resurrection of the O-Face duke thread )
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11-26-2020, 03:33 PM | #93 |
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Severely disappointed,
Duke is atrocious and Lady Jaye is mostly the same. I would have at least been more happy with cleavage LJ because that torso works better on customs(fits male webgear better) |
11-26-2020, 05:20 PM | #94 |
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This. If O Face Duke is all they got then don’t do it. Wal Mart doesn’t care if they have a Duke or not. Just because is it is the best they can do doesn’t mean they should do it. None of us know if the Flint mold is still viable, but if it is not that’s still on Hasbro. They just used it a few years ago - for the first time.
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11-26-2020, 05:43 PM | #95 |
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I've no doubt it benefits the some middle-manager's quarterly bonus.
Yep. I'm no fan of corporations in general and all for people expressing their disdain for something they don't like, but ignorant blanket assertions stemming from butt-hurt and personal attacks aren't good for anyone. Not only do they make us look like immature assholes, they literally send the message our opinions shouldn't be taken seriously. They're counterproductive. Especially when people then buy the stuff they don't like anyway.
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11-26-2020, 05:52 PM | #96 |
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I am NOT buying Duke, CC, nor Baroness (don’t need the latter two as presented). I am on the fence with Lady Jaye. I wanted the new face paint technology, but if her hair is really black, matching her hat, forget it. I really like Scarlett and the HISS Driver, bought RB for custom parts (new head sculpt) and kind of want Crankcase for the same reason...and like Destro’s added paint apps. I’m also a diseased SE/SS completionist, so I bought the serviceable SE/SS figures.
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11-26-2020, 06:25 PM | #97 |
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I’m guessing that’s 90% completionist collectors. It’s a disease, through and through.
I am NOT buying Duke, CC, nor Baroness (don’t need the latter two as presented). I am on the fence with Lady Jaye. I wanted the new face paint technology, but if her hair is really black, matching her hat, forget it. I really like Scarlett and the HISS Driver, bought RB for custom parts (new head sculpt) and kind of want Crankcase for the same reason...and like Destro’s added paint apps. I’m also a diseased SE/SS completionist, so I bought the serviceable SE/SS figures.
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11-26-2020, 06:28 PM | #98 |
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Well, for me, I've never seen any retro figures so I'm kinda glad I don't like them. Honestly, I'd buy them if I see them just cause I'm addicted to Joes but also not feeling overly sad about not finding them. The only one I actually really wanted was the AWE Striker and that was the only thing I ever saw up here in Canada.
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11-26-2020, 06:39 PM | #99 |
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My on the fence figures are just that. If I see them in the store, I may pick them up. May. Bottom line: I’m just glad Joe is seemingly the new, hot toy again. I hope that’s because everyone is buying them, and not just because very few were made.
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11-26-2020, 07:39 PM | #100 |
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I think Hasbro, in particular the designers, really DO know what collectors want. Everything that I've seen says that the design guys are generally fans of the lines they work on, to some degree or another.
BUT....they are still constrained by the resources allowed to them by management. They are still at the mercy of marketing people who insist on multi lingual cards (despite this line likely NEVER to see release in international markets). And more than anything else...they are at the mercy of a shoe-string budget and limited time frame for which to develop products like this. Off topic, Classified figures were also released here, including Baroness with COIL (this one, pretty plentiful). We don't have Target stores here, it simply came as a regular release. |
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