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10-20-2021, 11:11 AM | #91 |
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They aren't giving nearly an hour to a brand that they plan on cancelling soon.
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10-20-2021, 11:12 AM | #92 |
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Agreed. If all we get from this event is that Zartan and some vague descriptions of things we *might* get in the coming year, I'd say the brand is toast again. The second half of this year has practically been vapor for GI JOE.
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10-20-2021, 11:58 AM | #93 |
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I'm thinking it'll be somewhere in-between. I do NOT think they are ending the classified line. I DO think we will be shown something other than just Zartan. I wouldn't get hopes too high or too low. The real/bigger question is whether or not they are going to keep the retro line going. The retro figures seem to be selling well, but the vehicles, not so much.
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10-20-2021, 12:04 PM | #94 |
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Dude, we know. You say it over and over and over. So, you can get to the point where you say it so much that people start to actively go against you and root for that to not happen, you know that right?
This was in response to, yet another, post by DT saying the same thing he always says. I didn't see that there was another page and this wouldn't be right under his post. |
10-20-2021, 12:18 PM | #95 |
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Dude, we know. You say it over and over and over. So, you can get to the point where you say it so much that people start to actively go against you and root for that to not happen, you know that right?
This was in response to, yet another, post by DT saying the same thing he always says. I didn't see that there was another page and this wouldn't be right under his post. |
10-20-2021, 12:50 PM | #96 |
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I think you're right about the mentally ill thing. This is not normal behavior. I blew him off before but I've been legitimately concerned about obviously obsessive behavior. You're right though, I should just ignore them.
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10-20-2021, 12:54 PM | #97 |
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Even if this event is underwhelming… there’s nothing to worry about for 2022. There’s so much Classified in the pipeline. If they fumble the messaging, fine… but there’s heat coming.
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10-20-2021, 01:04 PM | #98 |
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I truly hope that is true. I can't think of any reason that it *shouldn't* be true. But the second half of this year has been very dry. I really thought they'd at least be ramping up announcements of new figures by now. I thought we'd have another wave of four or five figures coming by now. The release cycle is just too slow.
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10-20-2021, 01:19 PM | #99 |
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I truly hope that is true. I can't think of any reason that it *shouldn't* be true. But the second half of this year has been very dry. I really thought they'd at least be ramping up announcements of new figures by now. I thought we'd have another wave of four or five figures coming by now. The release cycle is just too slow.
It might not be what you all WANTED, or delivered straight to your lap, but I find it disingenuous to say that this back half of the year has been "vapor" for a brand that was nigh on non-existent 18 months ago. GI Joe still has to prove itself as a viable retail brand. Release speed and variety will pick up as retailer confidence continues to improve. We're doing pretty solid for a brand absent the mass retail landscape for nearly 5 and a half years.
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10-20-2021, 01:21 PM | #100 |
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What's the length of time it takes a company to get from the first "hey, let's make a figure of <this character>" conversation to getting your preorder delivered by Target?
Now, add in the logistics mess of the current global supply chain. When do you think it occurred to Hasbro corporate that GI Joe Classified is a hit worthy of "all systems go build build build!" encouragement from the c-suite? Put all that on a timeline and think about whether it's possible for all that to occur in a way that we should reasonably expect Q4'21 releases en masse (considering a good portion of their manufacturing year was spent catching up to demand for 2020 releases). We're up to #31 and 32 in the line as of two weeks from now, which is approximately 2 figures per month since June 2020 when the line launched? I don't have the answers to many or all of these questions, and I'm not "optimistic" (not in my blood to be that way), but I do think, to borrow from Twain, any rumors of GI Joe's death have been greatly exaggerated. Three more days for the panel, and we'll have a much better sense then. No sense sweating anything else in the meantime (other than whether or not we can order a Zartan).
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