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General Section => General Joe Talk => Topic started by: Crimson Canuck on February 29, 2016, 10:59:32 AM
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So the Club released the brochure and announced the 4" set as Sky Patrol vs Cobra A.D.D.E.R.S.
Anyone here excited about this set?
Personally, I'm interested in the Sky Patrol figures, but the Cobra troops sound kind of meh to me. I was never in to the 90's stuff, but since I rediscovered Joe when the 25th stuff came out and started researching the line I felt that Sky Patrol had the most potential out of the 90's figures. I realize these can be simple repaints of existing figures with new heads (which is how I hope they are done) with the exception of Static Line and Skydive. But if they can do those two right then maybe we'll see Gyroviper and Backstop made.
Really interested to see how the builds will turn out.
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Excited about the figs. But with the dollar doing what it's doing... Gonna be some expensive nostalgia.
I'm also not that interested in the Cobra figs and if I could get away with just snagging the six Joes I'd take that opportunity. We'll see how it plays out.
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I look forward to the comic as usual.
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Rigth now I am more excited about the New comic Street Figther X GI Joe
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Anyone planning on going to the convention?
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I'm not big on the whole subgroups besides really the 'noks and the iron grenadiers.....not that you would know it from my figures but even as a kid it wasn't the subgroup that made me buy it. Just wanted more figures.
It looks okay so far, but I'd probably be more interested in the vehicles. Won't be getting anything though. No more money for toys :(
Anyone else think Skydive could be made into a nice Maj. Matthew "Hawk" Masterson custom?
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I was actually really interested when they previewed Skydive but have kind of lost interest with the Altitude and Airborne reveals. The Cobra figures are ok, they just don't intrest me though.
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I love that Airborne figure. As a kid he was one of my favorite figures but the new version of him hits all the right points for me. Flying Scorpion is pretty awesome as well.
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I decided to pass on this set. Even though it will be the last set FunPub does, I couldn't bring myself to get it due to the high cost and I only liked three of the six Skypatrol figures. Anybody here order this set?
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is it definite they're not doing Joe Con/the club going forward?
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is it definite they're not doing Joe Con/the club going forward?
Well this was the last Botcon that was done by FunPub last week and Hasbro has trademarked the name HasCon. So I would assume that the rumours about the Joecon are true as well.
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hm, sounds like it then.
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Yeah, they're done at the end of the year. Here's some of the q&a at botcon with the collector's club panel that pertained to GI joe, and the club.
"Next up was Q&A! Radio Free Cybertron's own Headmaster Don asked on behalf of his GI Joe friends if there were any future GI Joe plans. FunPub said that business as usual would continue until the end of the year, and that any future plans would have to be a conversation between the fans and Hasbro."
"When asked about the ambitious goal of getting two TFSS rounds out in one year, they announced that the cutoff of 12/31 for all items to ship is absolute - FunPub may not sell any TF or Joe product after that date. They said that it's possible people may get a bundle of three toys in December, but seemed confident they would have all shipped on time since all are produced at once."
"FunPub didn't elaborate on why the Hasbro licenses were lost, but reiterated Hasbro's statement that they were committed to continuing Transformers' close relationship with its fans. FP has held the GI Joe license for 20 years and the Transformers license for 12, but things change. They believe Hasbro is looking for a company that can do more, and is exploring its options."
Full report here:
http://tformers.com/botcon-2016-collectors-club-panel-report/28937/news.html
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...And the Club managed to squeak in another two years. For better or worse, i'm not sure.
Any thoughts on the con exclusives? The only one that piqued my intest was the Heli viper. The head sculpt on Skymate is pretty cool, could see an updated Cutter with it.
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couldn't believe they wanted $55 for a pack of 6 JUMP packs!
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I loved the Sky striker, was blah about the Sky Sweeper since I hate the changes they made to the Firebat mold and was flabbergasted that they would pull that God awful Sky Sweeper mold out to do the Hydra.
Most of the figures were nice but not of any interest to me and the jump packs were neat, but not almost $60 US neat.
I'm torn about the club still doing Joe until 2018. On the one hand they still provide new updates on figures from ARAH that Hasbro never got to over the years, but on the other hand it would indicate that Hasbro still doesn't have plans for Joe until 2019.
Also who knows what that means for Hasbro's branded conventions that were trademarked earlier this year.
Finally, I liked that Hasbro is still pumping out a few figures. A shame there were no vehicles. Especially like the female trooper and the new guy (forget his name). At least something remains of Joe on the shelves of retail, even if it is TRU.
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Nothing like a 100% corporate version of what should be a purely fan event. I wonder what Hasbro thinks to gain by glombing together a bunch of brands at a single HasCon other than saving on traveling to multiple cons in a year. If they think some corporate marketing department is capable of maintaining a semblance of fan interaction after the slightest downturn in sales they are in for a rude awakening. They'll be right back to letting some licensor deal with all the headaches of running a con/website/figure subscription service. Also, if they think to make it some kind of adult collector catering, kid oriented promotional hybrid event I can see that being a real kiddie centric result with adult fans staying away in droves.
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Hasbro are trying to make a Cinematic Universe of their toy brands like Marvel's Cinematic Universe and the DC one. Everybody's about cinematic universes these days after seeing the success Marvel's had. Universal are trying to start a Robert Ludlum one using his other books with Bourne. Sony wanted to do one with Spider-Man related characters until ASM2 didn't do as well as they wanted. Fox are trying it with the X-Men spin-offs.
So all Hasbro care about is trying to get people to be interested in the brands to then get them to go see the movies.
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Hasbro are trying to make a Cinematic Universe of their toy brands like Marvel's Cinematic Universe and the DC one. Everybody's about cinematic universes these days after seeing the success Marvel's had. Universal are trying to start a Robert Ludlum one using his other books with Bourne. Sony wanted to do one with Spider-Man related characters until ASM2 didn't do as well as they wanted. Fox are trying it with the X-Men spin-offs.
So all Hasbro care about is trying to get people to be interested in the brands to then get them to go see the movies.
Of course we're all aware of this (you forgot that insanely bad idea Universal monster one). What I don't see where they think a Hascon is relevant to those plans. Even DC and Marvel don't have any specific brand cons I'm aware of other than the major comicons a couple times a year. Great, make a crappy movie with Max Tracker joining GI Joe to fight the Purple Pieman but does Hasbro really think the con attending audience for Strawberry Shortcake merch wants to be within 3 states of a Joe con attendee, and vice-versa? I can totally see some marketing person at Hasbro, dreaming with stars in their eyes, about a Hascon with an SD Comicon level of excitement and media coverage. It's never gonna happen. Maybe in some insane future there could be a theme park based on Hasbro lines that's family friendly and a tourist destination but to torpedo the older established cons?
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well, no one ever said Businesspeople had common sense.
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http://hascon.hasbro.com
Well, here it is. I know I'm...underwhelmed.