Yeah, I haven't read the comics in a while. Lost interest since the Marvel days. Once it did the battle in Behhzerheen or whatever that desert country was that was paralelling Desert Storm, I lost interest. And not a Minute too soon. I got to miss the Transformers crossover and the ninja Force/everyone brainwashed by the brain scanner era! I got back into it a little with Devils Due, but soon lost interest. The movie I feel will be to "Matrix-y" and unrealistic. (read TOO futuristic).

One thing I do Love is the new Resolute series. That seemed pretty tight. what are your thoughts Craig?






I Doubt that. When the 25th hit, about 50% of the fan base hated them, and hasbro did what it always does.....keeps shoveling it until we accept it or risk losing the line. I hope you are right, however and they realize we stay with the GIJCC because we want vintage style figures.

But hey, when all this started, I was a 25th hater....now I'm more of a selective collector.

I haven't even bothered with the Resolute series Frank, and I'm still don't like the 25th figures, not only because of the construction, but the overall less realistic direction they are taking, and the infuriating and insulting rehashing of the same half a dozen characters over and over ad nauseum. I still buy the odd vehicle though (not that all that many new ones come along these days, and even most of those are rehashes of old vehicles). I truly believe Hasbro has run out of ideas, and are just squeezing the line for every last penny before it's canned.

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Craig. You really should watch the resolute Series. I don't know what direction it's gonna take, but so far it's fairly realistic and gritty for a cartoon. The worse that's gonna happen is you're gonna waste 15 min! Try watching episodes 1,2 and 3.....

Is 4 out yet anybody?....anybody???

Indeed, Resolute deserves to be watched.

As for parts 4 and 5, supposedly they'll be released tomorrow...

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I agree with Ender098 that this is a mistake for the Club. I would like to add, though, that the 12" Collector has been trampled on for years now. For the last several shows, the 12" set has been only Adventure Team. Now this is okay for a few sets, but it has been the same year in and year out. For me personally, and many other 12" collectors, the Adventure Team is pretty disinteresting. Where are the classic military 12" figures? Other companies produce relatively massive amounts of these figures and people pay a lot of money for them. It seems Hasbro and the Club have lost their edge. I collect both the 1/6th and classic 1/18th scales pretty extensivley, but I have been quite disappointed with the club's offerings for several years.

Maybe Hasbro thinks that the new construction body is an upgrade not a substitution, which sucks anyway. Too bad o-ring collector doesn't have new toys this year.

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Haven't been on the forums in a while and seeing this just plain sucks there are so many great sets that they could have made I don't even have the cash to buy these but I am usually able to trade and get the figures I like from the sets. Hasbro you are really pushing me away from your toys.

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Guiltridden, check out Resolute. Then get yourself a Resolute Duke. It's already been posted that Reso Roadblock and Destro are coming up!

I could care less what the convention is in terms of construction. I KNOW that ppl wanted original outfits w/ nu skulpt construction. But Hasbro seemed to 'up' that a few steps by doing away with the o-ring. Not sure why... But it's less parts? Less moving parts? Maybe the OLD folks on Hasbro are like, "MY O-RINGS ARE BREAKING!!! We gotta do something that won't break!!!"

This resolute webisodes are pretty gnarly. Let's face it, for those who haven't viewed it yet, Bazooka and Major Bludd are dead. We got blushirts dying left and right. Cobra Commander is a serious mofo and more violent now and ADMITS that he played the assclown in the past. And GI Joe has gotten more serious, something that a lot of us have been waiting for. We haven't heard a "YO JOE!!!" yet!!!

This is an experiment by hasbro to see if it sells. I think its doomed from the get go as nobody is going to pay collectors prices for figures you could get in the store. And I dont care if they are red LoL. Collectors figures are supposed to be remakes of the classics of the past in new and interesting colours.
This is a bad direction to go in.
I was pretty sure it would be the red shadows o ring version but I guess I was wrong.