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Ease of customising is also a definite plus-point in using Joes for dioramas, I agree. It allows for more versatility and creativity, both for single scenes and for telling a story; you don't need any special craft skills to do a headswap with 25th figures, and an appropriately-sized screwdriver allows for easily-reversible interchangeable parts on proper Joe figures too.
I definitely agree that the open-ended nature of the world of GI Joe, and the multiple "official" continuities basically encouraging personal interpretation, can be great sources of creative inspiration but I wouldn't say those are things that make GI Joe particularly suited to dioramas (in the traditional sense certainly, but even in the dio-story sense). There can just as easily (more easily, even) be a load of fanfic written about GI Joe based on those reasons but I definitely feel it's the nature of the toys that make this form of creative expression a natural progression.
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