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01-04-2022, 06:07 PM | #61 |
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01-04-2022, 07:10 PM | #62 |
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Yep. Until this generation of aficiondos moves on from this stuff or dies off. It's weird to realize, but this shit is likely gonna wither and die one day. Just look at the scale train hobby or the Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon guys or even the 12" Joe community. When was the last time you heard a large group of people clamoring for Lone Ranger or Dick Tracy stuff? All of that was once as big or bigger than our ARAH GI Joe. Shit, only a bit more than a decade ago people were all into Battlestar Galactica in a cultural phenomenon way. Now you don't hear dick about it. So, yeah, enjoy it while you're here because time ain't standing still and nothing lasts forever.
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01-04-2022, 07:41 PM | #63 |
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01-04-2022, 08:08 PM | #64 |
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It's interesting how many of us have become customizers. I didn't want to be a customizer. What I really wanted was a no fuss, no muss collection where I bought stuff, was satisfied with it and that's that. I just don't have the time to lavish on a hobby like this. Somewhere along the way though, I started customizing. Seems like it was innocuous little stuff at first, like realizing some figure would look better with different legs or that I could add a holster here or a paint app there...before I knew it, I was seeing toys for their parts, envisioning what I could build with those parts and planning/buying accordingly. Most of what I thought of as my collection was actually projects in waiting. That's why I got rid of most of it. I realized I was never going to have the time to complete even a fraction of what I had planned.
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01-04-2022, 08:42 PM | #65 |
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It's interesting how many of us have become customizers. I didn't want to be a customizer. What I really wanted was a no fuss, no muss collection where I bought stuff, was satisfied with it and that's that. I just don't have the time to lavish on a hobby like this. Somewhere along the way though, I started customizing. Seems like it was innocuous little stuff at first, like realizing some figure would look better with different legs or that I could add a holster here or a paint app there...before I knew it, I was seeing toys for their parts, envisioning what I could build with those parts and planning/buying accordingly. Most of what I thought of as my collection was actually projects in waiting. That's why I got rid of most of it. I realized I was never going to have the time to complete even a fraction of what I had planned.
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01-04-2022, 08:52 PM | #66 |
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Ol' Smoke here has been quitting the hobby for as long as I can remember
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01-04-2022, 09:38 PM | #67 |
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Well, I haven't quit completely. Feels like that'll happen sooner than later, but even if/when I stop owning Joe toys, I'll always dig GI Joe. And I wouldn't say I frequent this place these days. I'm more of a half-assed/casual fan now, and drop by here when the mood strikes and I've got some time to waste. Like today, I'm sick and I promised my wife I wouldn't do any work, so I've been reading and dicking around on the internet most of the day. Days like this always remind me of being home sick from school as a kid when I'd break out the toys and spend the day in some epic Joe-Cobra battle, so I guess being home today made me feel nostalgic for GI Joe.
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01-04-2022, 09:43 PM | #68 |
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You just hit me with a nice dose of dopamine inducing nostalgia.
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01-04-2022, 11:30 PM | #70 |
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The fact is, the action figure market just moved away from 1/18th and Joe kind of got caught behind the curve (realistically, the switch should have happened after Black Series got through it own initial Greedo-era headaches, but it seems like Hasbro hesitated until Snake Eyes got off the drawing board).
It's the same thing that happens every time with Joe: Star Wars sets a scale or style in the market, then Joe comes along and does that style better. Kenner original Star Wars led to O-rings. POTF2 eventually led to New Sculpt era (compare proportions and tell me there's not some similarities, even with what was realistically a big gap in production cycles) The more realistic, secondary-heavy later prequel era led to ME. And now Black Series has led to Classified. I doubt that companies like JoyToy or Marauder or whomever are going to feel the pinch in any way. They have their deal and they know it makes them money. They're selling to a smaller audience, but that audience is going to be there for some time. And presumably JoyToy's main audience is China, and if they're selling enough to satisfy that market, who has no connection to our 1/18th history, then it's not going away, period. |
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