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Originally Posted by Red Sox
The toon jumped with the wretched Cobra-La movie. (Shudder)
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So how many people are looking for a 25th Anniversary Golobulus with a fully articulating tail?
I own that movie on VHS, but I must agree, the whole concept is slightly disturbing.
If they made a bunch more figures like Falcon v1, we would buy them. But the marginal difference in overall sales on the quarterly sales spreadsheet at big H would not vary enough to merit changes to production procedures. We (GI Joe purchasers) are but a wee part of their overall sales market.
When a new batch of figures would come out in the 80's, I would grab the best looking figure on the peg, and then decide in about 5 minutes how many of the rest of that release were worth my $3.25 by looking at the thumbnails on the back of the card.
Hasbro probably could have predicted sales decreases when people like me stopped buying the "whole wave" of their offerings. But since they made more money on other offerings, I don't know that it would have mattered.
It is amazing that despite jumping the shark, they have been able to revive the 3.75" franchise for a few years now for die-hards and retro/nostalgia buyers.
Alas, all good things eventually come to an end.