Yup...Joes in Canada are dead...at least when you look at the whole picture. There is one store that sells older vintage and new joes...and they would say the same as BHT...."Joe sales are up....record season"...but thats nothing compared to the 80's when every store carried G.I.Joe if they carried any toys at all...!
Actually, I was talking mainly about the NEWER stuff.
Back in March/May I bought a HUGE collection of mainly newer items.
They're ALL gone.
Everytime I buy 'new' items, they sell immediately.
Heck, I'm the guy that helped Pete by taking all those 'extras' off his hands.
Most of them are gone now. That wasn't even a month ago! (and there was ALOT!)
New Joe product WILL sell and DOES sell in Canada - it's not dead. It just hasn't been given a fair chance. Hasbro doesn't push the Joe line as well as they do Star Wars. The funny thing is, they don't HAVE to push Star Wars, buy they should push Joe more.
The Canadian Toy Fair is coming up in January. I'll start a thread for it in another post, if anyone has any questions for me to ask them, I will.
Every year however it's the same thing. I don't know how many of these threads I've seen.
Bottom line, the new Joes DO/WILL sell, it's Hasbro to blame for not giving a crap about the collector (the ones buying the line), and catering to the 'big chains' wallets. :-)
mike