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GI Joe and military general: "evil scientists need to protect their balls" edition

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2026 10:57:35 No.11733014 View View Reply Original Report

Previous: https://boards.4chan.org/toy/thread/11722803#bottom

Out now:
>Mole Rat (V.2)
>Big Lob
>Night Viper
>Lifeline

Due soon:
>Hit-n-Run
>retro-card Female Crimson Guard
>retro-card Zap
>retro-card Crazy Legs

June-July release date:
>Zanya with Swamp Skier

Unknown release dates:
>Ninja Force Zartan
>Airtight
>Hydro-Viper
>Taurus and Red Dog 2-pack
>Cobra arctic 3-pack
>retro card Wild Bill
>DIRE-tech Night Creeper
>Legacy Special Forces Action Soldier
>Professor Rottclaw and dino-buddy with extra head for "Paleo Viper"
>Sundown
>Dawn Moreno alternative Snake eyes

Coming from Reaction+:
>Target-exclusive Tiger Force Snake Eyes
>250th USA anniversary Lady Jaye, Falcon, Duke and Snake Eyes
>Flash
>Daina
>Chuckles
>Hydro-Viper

>G.I. Joe A Real American Hero:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM0FaPp2oenPi6zQOTBUCRoYnjhp0eEKQ

>G.I. Joe Renegades:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9iSDGvA4UNCGK-QiRUoxNHPun1PAIXON

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 14:43:20 No.11734542 Report

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>>11734525
Something like Grunt or Spirit are pretty non-descript. Techno Viper legs are already purple, but have black knee pads (not sure if that feature will be bothersome), and you'll need to replace the boots, which *shouldn't* be an issue. I'd have to look around at torsos. Most of them are blouses or combat shirt-style.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 17:25:56 No.11734639 Report

Quoted By: >>11734687

>>11734512
If you cut the vest off, then Falcon from the Falcon/Quarrel 2-pack might work. It even has a similar ugly face.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 18:45:52 No.11734684 Report

Quoted By: >>11734777 >>11735037

>>11734359
>>11734351

You kids do realize that a terrorist organization is cruising around in giant flying aircraft carriers, submersible carriers and launching attacks form hidden temple ruins.
I think reality takes a vacation with Joes and the rule of cool runs roughshod over common sense.
So arguments on "how realistic" flight crews are is kind of a moot point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 18:53:21 No.11734687 Report

Quoted By: >>11734700

>>11734639
I just realized that Night Force Falcon would be a good base for Resident Evil 5 Chris Redfield.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 19:21:34 No.11734700 Report

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>>11734687
Maybe with Dusty's head with camo-paint removed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 20:31:20 No.11734735 Report

Quoted By: >>11734737

>>11733014
Are there any decent sub $100 (preferably sub $50) WW2 1/6th scale GI Joes anymore? I found a few that were cool but looked pretty fragile and were insanely priced.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 20:39:36 No.11734737 Report

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>>11734735
Nope. Well, maybe you may be able to find old Dragon 1:6 for under a c-note.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 21:42:46 No.11734777 Report

Quoted By: >>11734798 >>11734867 >>11734940

>>11734351
It's amazing how he can be so consistently wrong about everything yet so up his own ass he thinks he doesn't look like a moron. Best to just ignore him or he might start calling you a foreigner or a woman because that's about as clever a 12 year old can get with his insults.

>>11734398
I'd rather see an overstock of cool figures then having them be impossible to find. I'm still hoping they do a re-run of the Dire Viper for how popular he was.

>>11734684
I used a slightly modified Avengers Helicarrier for my 1:18 Cobra since they never got anything even close to an official carrier in any toyline. It's literally just a plastic plank with some legs, but it looks cool and can carry two Firebats on the deck with a third on it's little launch pad. Got a trio of v5 Air Vipers as my deck crew, realism be damned.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Mar 2026 22:19:32 No.11734798 Report

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>>11734777
Exclusive is exclusive. Hasbro won't touch the Ghost Viper again, and the Walmart scam of creating artificial scarcity to manipulate the market into wanting it even more so everyone forgets about the bullshit price was successful as it completely sold out. Even though the DIRE Night Creeper has a better price, Walmart is probably going to do the same distribution scam to make fans want that one even more to ensure that one sells out too.

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Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 00:30:45 No.11734867 Report

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>>11734777
>>realism be damned.

It's about having fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 00:57:17 No.11734886 Report

Quoted By: >>11734914

>>11734384
Man these last two threads have been walls of text. I'm not dogging anyone and their discussions but yeah, there are a few anons that are very talkative. But gi joe does offer up quite a few points to explore or debate. One thing is fairly consistent here though, the live action movies stink.

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Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 01:48:07 No.11734914 Report

Quoted By: >>11735112

>>11734886
I'll at least try to include OC pics when appropriate. But sadly most of my collection is boxed up in storage and mostly inaccessible so I only have pics from upwards of a decade ago. Most of which I've probably shared dozen of times over the year.

Like pic related of the aforementioned Helicarrier converted for Cobra which was originally taken over thirteen years ago...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 02:51:49 No.11734940 Report

Quoted By: >>11735037

>>11734777
>Best to just ignore him or he might start calling you a foreigner
Too late for that. He already called me Yusuf and told me I need to "learn about America and use gooder English" in the same post that he said I never paid attention to "military documentuaries." I've never heard that word before. I think that's what documentaries are called in Portuguese.
The best part is how he cries about cherry picked images while posting his own cherry picked civilian links, and even his only legit source dvidshub has 250 search results in the Navy category for "flight deck crew" vs 40 results for "ground crew." I'm sure he will claim that the majority of sailors are wrong because he saw it in Top Gun or some shit.
But hey, this has resulted in some great inside jokes for a couple of buddies who served. I asked one about his time as a hookrunner when he was ground crew on the Nimitz and he just about blew a fuse. They've all seen this thread. They think he is hilarious for many reasons, but especially for incorrectly complaining about the realism of how baggy the Ramp Crew uniforms should be in a toyline that features dayglow orange urban assault troopers.

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Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 06:40:20 No.11735037 Report

Quoted By: >>11735044 >>11735112

>>11734684
>I think reality takes a vacation with Joes and the rule of cool runs roughshod over common sense.
It's cool to have cool shit, but the fact is that they used to pay attention to those little details before WITH COOL SHIT TOO and now they don't (or far less).
That attentino to detail shows how much knowledge sculptors/designers had when mixing in the futurism with military realism. It's like they actually studied photographs, watched documentaries, and/or were in the military.

Like i said before, because they reached such highs before, anything lower than that cheapens the brand

>>11734940
>yusuf is butthurt he got called out for being ignorant
Good job for learning from me that ground grew is a correct term and can be used interchangably with deck crew.
now stop ignoring your own photographs showing how bulky their uniforms are.
I know third worlders have an inferiority complex but if you stopped being such contrarians, maybe you'll stop being seen as third world. No need to double down on your ignorance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 07:26:21 No.11735044 Report

Quoted By: >>11735700

>>11735037
>Good job for learning from me that I'm a retarded civvy that thinks people erroneously labelling photos means I am right
As predicted.
>I know third worlders have an inferiority complex
Are you talking about just you or your whole family? Did you watch documentuaries with them back in the old favela?

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Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 12:27:16 No.11735112 Report

Quoted By: >>11735427 >>11735700

>>11734914
Hasbro really needs to reissue the Firebat because even the anniversary one sells for bullshit prices now.

>>11735037
>military realism
Bazooka saw a sea serpent that was really a snake-shaped submarine, bro. Realism takes a back seat in GI Joe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 18:35:07 No.11735283 Report

Quoted By: >>11735384

https://youtu.be/TSfFlsy5TO0
I know this guys videos are hated here but I was recommended this, and then I remembered that guy who said he probably only waits for Ross sales and no, he just has a lot of money

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 21:50:53 No.11735384 Report

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>>11735283
It's his money to waste on that many bug-people troops.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 22:56:15 No.11735427 Report

Quoted By: >>11735434

>>11735112
I want new Firebats in both 1:18 ME scale AND Classified. It was always one of my favorite Cobra aircraft as it has that perfectly compact size to swoosh about really nice, but doesn't look comically small or silly while doing so.

Sadly the Joes never really had a comparatively small fighter craft. I always felt Sky Hawks were more comparable to Cobra FANG Choppers as smaller close air ground support vehicles and SHARCs were submersibles first in my eyes. The Joes didn't really get a good micro-jet fighter until the Tigerhawk in the early 2000s. But even that was filled with silly gimmicks and never really made an impact on the line.

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Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 23:02:34 No.11735430 Report

Quoted By: >>11735434 >>11735492 >>11735494

So your GI Joe movie written by Max Landis is officially DOA, people - so those of you dreaming of a movie where Cobra reined supreme will still be dreaming:
https://deadline.com/2026/03/g-i-joe-max-landis-paramount-passes-1236754006/

Some of the reporting is that Paramount is now looking at the Danny McBridge treatment from the last thread, but as several people pointed out, it will be a movie written by committee, that will probably steal a few ideas from whatever Landis wrote and whatever McBride wrote and ultimately be written by one to three other people.

Surely a studio that just took on a 100B in debt will nimble be able to turn this around into a quick movie soon, before Mattel releases Matchbox and several other films that turn audiences off toy-related movies. I mean, you all have been enjoying that Lady Jaye series with your Crapazon monthly payments, right?

tl;dr don't expect a movie before 2027-28, if that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 23:08:04 No.11735434 Report

Quoted By: >>11735494

>>11735427
I've said it before with us being in year 6 of the series, and not having a Firebat by now is Hasbro jacking us around. There's no good reason why they haven't done it by now.

>>11735430
I don't think it's a good idea. They already blew through their chances for GI Joe in the Transformers cinematic world when using regular military instead of Joes in the Bayverse.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 00:35:26 No.11735492 Report

Quoted By: >>11735600

>>11735430
>https://variety.com/2026/film/news/max-landis-gi-joe-movie-script-paramount-passes-1236688071/
>Reached via Instagram, Landis told Variety he was “tremendously grateful to have been given the opportunity.” He elaborated that his pitch came together “very serendipitously based on the coolness of the weird and subversive idea.” That idea centered around the film franchise’s villain, Cobra, “having successfully taken over the world and reduced GI Joe to a conspiracy theory. But this is just how big IP development always is. Honestly, I was surprised it was reported at all.”
What the fuck is with so many GI Joe stories trying to make them a ragtag group of underdogs? That's not what GI Joe is or ever should be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 00:37:04 No.11735494 Report

Quoted By: >>11735863

>>11735430
....and nothing of value was lost

>>11735434
The hell you on about, they only started doing larger vehicles at retail in 2024. Since then we've gotten four, three of em new molds. Considering this is one of their smaller lines, the fact we're even getting those is impressive. I fully expect to see something like a Moccasin, Sky Hawk or Armadillo come out before the Firebat. But it's not like they're avoiding popular vehicles, the Vamp/Stinger and AWE Striker are all iconic vehicles and the SNAKE Armor update was awesome. I'll be very happy if they can keep up the whole "two larger vehicles at retail" schedule though because we'll burn through those early year vehicles in no time.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 02:50:03 No.11735600 Report

Quoted By: >>11735863

>>11735492
G.I.Joe. Worlds without End. The Movie.
Start: They've got the call. COBRAS's up to something. (like usual.)
The team is oscar mike with confusing visuals thrown up. The main briefing computer just plain dies. Mainfraime, who had been working with it as they gathered pulls open an access panel. grabs a "black box." (that trails sparking wires.) hits with a hammer and shrugs.
The briefing goes on.
cut to.
Flint and Lady J are in a nice restaurant. he's in a tux. she's in a hot red number.
They are caught mid toast to something.by buzzing comwatches.The rise and Lady J drops a pile of bills that have just *appeared*
Flint raises a brow.
"Next time you pay. I'll have the lobster."
The go to a beater car and pull two hockey bags out.of the trunk.from the the bags unfold
powered FALCON gliders. The go back to HQ.
They separate with some sort of 2 group battle plan and a slightly better version of the cartoon plays out. It's not "The World" it's only the Unites States that was taken in by COBRA. (background. COBRA (or something) promised them jobs and to "help America regain it's God-given rightful place in the world."
Now we have places for Mindbender as heading the "Champion for Science" branch of the CSA.
We still get the defector Baroness story..
We see "practical" female COBRA troops with her - but we also see the "Libyan guard type in the new COBRA White House.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 05:02:56 No.11735700 Report

Quoted By: >>11735734 >>11735864

>>11735112
the cartoon was pretty retarded and even kids in the 80s knew it was retarded, but I'm talking about sculptors/designers for the toys. GI Joes had that vietnam-era casualness uniform look and sculptors were putting way more effort into it back in the day.
Ok, I'm not talking about in the 80s, when the sculptors were limited by what they thought was the limit to their manfacturing process, but rather in the 25th+ era, when the sculptors were allowed to go as realistic as possible and show off their skills. It's like they went back to the original designers art and go all out.
Whereas the new sculpts look like they're comic artists who need to draw 22 pages in 20 days and want keep the clothes as clingy as possible to save time or like 3d modelers who are afraid of the baggy clothes textures clipping because of hardware limitations.

>>11735044
>jusuf continues proving he's a third worlder because he doesn't know who the smithsonin and reuters are
The the trusted historical institute and news organizations in the world are all wrong because a third worlder who owns 6 GI Joes says so, eh? Nevermind a site that exists solely to shill the US military.
Are you going to say that the US military is wrong too? Here's the US military itself writing about how ground crew on a US warship hunted down submarines https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us/leadership/director/directors-corner/h-grams/h-gram-069/h-069-1.html

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 06:19:24 No.11735734 Report

Quoted By: >>11735799

>>11735700
>trusted historical institute
The same trusted historical institute that has repeatedly bought fake artefacts and artwork? I'm sure they never make mistakes.
>news organizations
The same news organisations that don't know the difference between a semi-automatic and an automatic weapon?
>Here's the US military itself writing about how ground crew on a US warship hunted down submarines
There is one instance of "ground crew" in that entire article, and it is as follows:
>As the Japanese advanced, Langley subsequently arrived at Darwin, Australia, on 1 January 1942, where she assisted in anti-submarine patrols until 11 January, when she was ordered south to Freemantle to serve as an aircraft ferry and embark 32 P-40 fighters and their U.S. Army Air Force pilots and ground crew chiefs.

Do you know what U.S. Army Air Force pilots and ground crew chiefs are?
Do you know what embark means?
Do you know what ferry means?
Do you know what until means?

The anti-submarine patrols occured "until 11 January, when she was ordered south to Freemantle to serve as an aircraft ferry" so this non-naval ground crew that was stationed on land until they were picked up by the Langley to be ferried elsewhere had nothing to do with the submarine hunt.
>Departing Freemantle on 22 February 1942 with a convoy destined for Ceylon, Langley subsequently had a sudden change of orders to take the fighters to Tjilatjap, a port on the south coast of Java.
Definitely no submarine hunting happening after the Langley embarked 32 P-40 fighters and their U.S. Army Air Force pilots and ground crew chiefs and departed Freemantle.

Pretty brave of you to come out and prove that a simple paragraph written in plain English is truly beyond your comprehension, Juan Garcia Manuel Sanchez. It really must be your second language.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 08:38:09 No.11735799 Report

Quoted By: >>11735805

>>11735734
>jusuf still arguing after being proven wrong 3 times in this thread alone and pretending he knows better than renown agencies who've produced millions of paper/video/audios and used as fact checkign resources by researchers
cringe

You remind me of those third worlders who fill a bucket up with dirt to put a grounding wire into it. Since your brain wasn't fully formed due to your poor nutrition from living in a shitty country:

The navy doesn't draw distinction between "ground" and a ship's deck

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/2260536/air-supports-ground-support/

>ib4 your third worlder education makes you more knowledgable than a guy who works on ship and allowed to speak on the entire navy's behalf

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 09:20:56 No.11735805 Report

Quoted By: >>11735833

>>11735799
>Pablo is seething and can't admit that he completely misunderstood an article where US Army Airforce ground crew hitched a ride with the Navy and even thought they helped the Navy hunt submarines despite them not even being on the ship at that point
I know most of the country can't read beyond a 6th grade level, but how does it feel to be even lower than that? Don't worry, one day you might get it to a level where you can pass the citizenship test. It's unlikely though.
>You remind me of those third worlders who fill a bucket up with dirt to put a grounding wire into it.
Not something I'm familiar with, but I'm sure you are speaking from experience. Why did your mother fill a bucket with dirt to put a grounding wire in it? Did she think it would prevent her children from being retarded? Obviously it didn't work.
Anyway, I'm not wasting my time reading anything else that you've misinterpreted because you "non comprehende Inglese" or however you favela monkeys say it.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 10:24:55 No.11735833 Report

Quoted By: >>11735853 >>11735864

>>11735805
>ignores 99% of everything posted to nitpick at at a single point thinking it'll prove his unproven claim
So the Smithsonian, Reuters, navy officers, a military shilling site, and thousands of other places (i'll post another one: www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/noartistknown/ground-crew-position-an-ea-6b-prowler-aircraft-aboard-the-u-s-s-enterprise-in-the-northern-gulf-dece/photograph/asset/7623851 ) are all wrong, because someoine with brown hands who's writing fanfiction says they are? You am good arguer who don't need to gib his own supporting proof, huh?
Pic is you, right?

>ib4 it's another third worlder who's been shitposting in the gi joe general with the same vernacular and formatting as you
post 3 cobra figures in front of a wall socket to prove you're totally somebody new

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 10:27:58 No.11735834 Report

Quoted By: >>11735853

You little goobers argue about the dumbest shit. Learn not to reply to subjectanon. He just takes the contrarian route every time so he can get replies and people talking to him. He's a lonely old man you see.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 11:14:44 No.11735853 Report

Quoted By: >>11735867

>>11735833
>nitpick at at a single point
You can't tell the difference between the USAAF and the USN to realise why they referred to the ground crew in that article. You can't even tell if people are on a boat or not when you are reading a story.
I'm not nitpicking a point, I'm exposing you inability to comprehend a basic English paragraph.
And since you want to keep going, I did a quick ctrl f of your last link written by a naval officer and "ground crew" didn't appear once.
>I'll post a British art photography website because they definitely will know what the correct military term is
Fucking hell.
>So all of my civilian sources are wrong about something in the military?
It wouldn't be the first time.
>post 3 cobra figures in front of a wall socket
I've seen you do this before. I saw you play this game with another anon in a thread recently when you challenged him to post his toys but you refused to post yours when he asked. It's what you do when you lie, or are wrong and cornered, but refuse to back down. The fact that you hoard other anon's pics for shitposting purposes is a clear red flag.
And I don't give in to the demands of foreigners. Sorry, Miguel. Maybe you should spend some time taking English lessons instead of hoarding other people's pics.
>>11735834
I'm done. We are up to the "fishing for pics of other anon's toys so I can stalk them or post them as my own because I don't buy toys anymore" stage of the argument. Nobody that has ever given into that demand has ever had it benefit them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 12:00:46 No.11735863 Report

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>>11735494
>Considering this is one of their smaller lines, the fact we're even getting those is impressive. I fully expect to see something like a Moccasin, Sky Hawk or Armadillo come out before the Firebat.

Hasbro should be shitting out the small vehicles with regular frequency because of them being smaller and cheaper. And the Firebat isn't complicated, so there's no reason to over-engineer it with back hatches and other shit.

>>11735600
>G.I.Joe. Worlds without End.
That's awesome. They even had a part where the Joes encounter their own dead bodies in an alternate universe, which was competely fucked-up for an 80s children's cartoon.

BUT this is Hollywood. They'll always choose to do their own thing instead of puling what's already been done so the director can claim his own story.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 12:10:52 No.11735864 Report

Quoted By: >>11735874

>>11735700
>the cartoon was pretty retarded and even kids in the 80s knew it was retarded
Not true. "Soldiers fighting war" would get boring fast, so the writers knew how to make each episode different and interesting. So toss in Indiana Jones treasure-hunting, an alternate dimension where all the Joes are dead, synthoids, dinosaurs, Cobra controlling elections by controlling the candidates, and such. Cobra even fucked with the Rothschilds by trying to replace Rotchchilds-money woth Cobra-money.

>>11735833
>not using happy-face Euro sockets, and instead using Brit-sockets

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 12:19:53 No.11735867 Report

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>>11735853
>jusuf needs to pretend the smithsonian, reuters, navy officers, and other verified sources are wrong because he's just an ignorant third worlder who's only learning about military stuff from my posts
I also love how you won't prove you're totally not samefag, because you don't have any other Cobra figures other than the Crimson figures you bought (pic related. notice the post formating and vernacular is identical to your posts today) and can't change the color of your skin

Everyone should post more of their toys to show they're not just trolls making up contrarian arguments to shit the place up like Yusuf, who thinks he knows better than military documentaries or aviation "magazines" like link: https://www.key.aero/article/aboard-uss-gerald-r-ford-next-generation-aircraft-carrier

Also also really like how you learn how to insult people from me. It's almost cute, because it shows how young and inexperienced you are. Now if only you could actually imitate being able to find sources to prove anything you say is correct... oh wait, you can't, because you'd need to discredit the smithsonian, reuters, the US navy, etc and a third worlder like you can only "no u" 5 times a day to shit the GI Joe General up.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 12:39:19 No.11735872 Report

Quoted By: >>11735874

>topic derailed by whether or not the marshaller (yellow) and ordinanceman (red) on an aircraft carrier wear loose or outright-baggy pants.

You guys just want to fight. I posted this pic of Destro with his cousin just to throw something else to argue about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 12:51:19 No.11735874 Report

Quoted By: >>11735877 >>11735881 >>11735896

>>11735864
Ever watch Strike Back?
Used to run on Skinemax back in the day. It's basically GI Joe and it ran for like 10 years. Cool operatives doing commando things with a tacticool overacting storyline each season.

If you write something good, it can go on for a very long time, hence original GI Joe comic going for 12 years on a monthly schedule AND having a spin off comic that did more standalone stories.
PLUS renewals at two different publishers decades later.
Shit was praised to hell back in the day and is still held in high regard.

Whereas the GI Joe cartoons did get old fast, mocked even by its fans, hence only going for 2 seasons each. Other action cartoons lasted longer, because they were better done (sometimes only slightly). Batman:TAS (with network renewel on WB). Superman:TAS. XMen:TAS. TMNT.
Even Transformers got a better written series with Beast Wars AND it revived the franchise, getting a new generation interested into it beyond what the OG series got.

but nah... instead we're getting more poorly written shit and for some reason, people are mocking the next movie, despite probably getting better writing than the OG cartoon which gets defended way too much. nostalgia is a poison.

>>>11735872
It was actually derailed because some third worlder didn't like that Hasbro was criticized for not putting more effort into their sculpts, so instead of defending that, he had to shift the argument to "military documentaries are wrong." It's called deflection.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 13:00:41 No.11735877 Report

Quoted By: >>11735894 >>11735898

>>11735874
Military docs aren't wrong, but they don't fully-disclose everything due to national security. And they shouldn't. There's shit people shouldn't know.

And the Sunbow cartoons ended because of that retarded GI Joe movie. The DIC cartoons were just plain cheap, and made within the transition from pandering to Gebn-X kids who were in junior high and even high school at that point, to a new younger demographic (millenials). Somehow millenial kids liked brightly-colored vehicles, figures, and accessories. They liked more goofy stories. And they were apparently gay as Hasbro wasn't making any more female figures, for which DIC had to bring in Lady Jaye and Baroness in spite of having no toys available just to keep the catrtoon from being a total sausage-fest.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 13:09:58 No.11735881 Report

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>>11735874
You're the kind of guy who loves to hear himself talk aren't you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 13:30:15 No.11735894 Report

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>>11735877
>Military docs aren't wrong, but they don't fully-disclose everything due to national security
They also simplify things and tone down the jargon to more everyday terminology so that normies can understand it.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 13:31:51 No.11735896 Report

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>>11735874
>didn't like that Hasbro was criticized for not putting more effort into their sculpts
For the longest time they didn't. Many good figures were ruined by shit head sculpts. Plus leg pins and awkward proportions. This past year saw the best figures in the line as far as head sculpts and overall proportions go (in my opinion). They're getting it together. They just need to make new versions of figures that the first versions of were quite shitty. Last year they tried to improve Falcon's fuck-ugly face but it was still off. Now if we can only get a battle armor Baroness that doesn't look like shit.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 13:34:02 No.11735898 Report

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>>11735877
The movie was actually less retarded than the series, but both are still retarded.
You can't hold kids attentions for long with retarded shit, hence only getting two seasons.

Whereas the GI Joe comic held kids attentions all the way from grade school to college. There were GI Joe fans who literally kept reading the comic from 7 years old until they were 19, hence GI Joe having one of the biggest adult fanbases and making up 25% of sales in the early 00s.

You say they like goofy stories, but how long did it take for them to even make cartoon accurate toys? 30 years? And they didn't even seem to do well, despite a very large adult fanbase.
Adult fans already very happy, because Hasbro was already catering to adult interests with comic pack redesigns almost 20 years ago. AND these figures were mass market kids toys, so the audience was huge. Shit, the comic packs had as much shelf space as the Classified line does today.

Nevermind no one really wants goofy GI Joe stories today. Whereas people love goofy TMNT, while still wanting more edgy comic/movie TMNT

>but the public service announcements memes
it's sad when retards take ridicule as camaraderie

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 13:48:16 No.11735910 Report

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>>11735898
The comic book sales weren't exactly "top ten," bro. And those figures were shit because of the new head sculpts. I get that they wanted reissues but wanted them done in a way that didn't hit the value of the originals, but damn they were ugly. And I would have liked the comic book reissues better if they were in classic newsprint paper instead of the slick gloss paper.

>Nevermind no one really wants goofy GI Joe stories today.
Are you sure? Hama's "serious" GI Joe comic books out are more niche-market than the toys are. "Cold Slither" originaly sold out in the blink of an eye. It didn't become a dust-collector in Hasbro's warehouse until they re-ordered too many, but they do that a lot with turning a success into an over-produced shelf-warmer. The snowcat's fully-funded in spite of it being based on a cartoon episide ("Haul Down the Heavens") and it shows with the cartoon-likeness figures.

A lot of people want the "serious" stuff with a realistic foundation, but a lot collect the cartoon cheese.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 14:41:06 No.11735939 Report

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>>11735910
comic sales were top 1, or near enough regularly, for a couple of years. It did top 10, even in its first years, thanks to the TV ads.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190604115814/https://blog.comichron.com/search/label/G.I.%20Joe
to compare to Marvel's other #1
https://www.comichron.com/titlespotlights/amazingspiderman.html
GI Joe was doing sales Marvel hadn't seen regularly for decades

>a convention exclusive they made 10-20k of sold out
OMG!!!!
>but somehow they reordered more
oh, so you don't understand how toys are made, muchless understand how few of those exclusives are made.
It takes MONTHS to start production again, because it takes MONTHS to produce any sort of toy and then another month to get that shit shipped. They wouldn't reorder an exclusive, because of how long it takes. What likely happened is either bullshit FOMO, pretending shit sold out ot get rid of the last few cases OR they found 10 more cases behind a case of water bottles.. which apparently, they still can't get rid of almost a year later? What a poor seller.

>And those figures were shit because of the new head sculpts
Doesn't sound like you were alive in the 00s. Those figures were highly praised everywhere, even when people did have a problem with the heads being slightly too small. Those comic packs one of the few times the fanbase was hyped up over o-ring figures back then. The Cobra Infantry pack got almost as much hype, because that also saw a revamping of the old designs. Everything else was pretty disappointing, even the Viper one, because a lot of people complained about the body the moment it was announced.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 14:48:20 No.11735943 Report

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Guys please don't reply to him. He'll just take up whatever the opposite stance of you just so people will talk to him. He loves to "hear" the sound of his own voice. Don't indulge him

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 14:59:16 No.11735945 Report

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>>11735939
That's 1985. How about later years, which is what I thought you were referring to? And those totals have to be the totals of one distributor or retailer because they're way too low to be the actual numbers. I know that's what comic bok sales look like now, but back then successful titles sold hundreds of thousands of copies each, which is why 80s books largely struggle tob e worth anything.

>It takes MONTHS to start production again
No it doesn't unless the factory is running at full capacity, and toy sales aren't what they used to be and Hasbro's been strugggling with sales, so "full capacity" is doubtful.

>Doesn't sound like you were alive in the 00s. Those figures were highly praised everywhere, even when people did have a problem with the heads being slightly too small.
I was alive, and didn't see that anywhere. The ones I remember being the best-sellers were the troops and vipers sets due to years of army-builders making the originals to be too expensive. And I remember people somehow praising weird JoeCon exclusives like orange Zartan as well as the Crimson boxed set. Somehow people even liked the BAT set even though it was the goofy V.2 version since Hasbro lost the V.1 mold. But the fucked-up heads with brighter colors? Nope. Roadblock looked like shit with yellow pants. Zarana looked like a lesbian gym teacher. Battle armor CC's helmet was "WTF?" And Scrap Iron was still Scrap Iron - but brighter. The biggest sellers were the vehicles. They even gave us a "Jetfire" Skystriker in this and the 25th anniv. era, which was cooler than shit.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 15:07:09 No.11735947 Report

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>>11735898
>You can't hold kids attentions for long with retarded shit, hence only getting two seasons.

I can't tell if you are baiting or just one of those people that makes up stuff in your head without any real research, GIJoe last into the 90s on TV. The reason it switch between Sunbow and DiC was because DiC offered to do it much cheaper than Sunbow and Hasbro was more in a pitch after a bombed TF movie and pulling other films like the Joe one from ever going to theaters, so they took the cheaper option, worth noting that's a big reason why the comics lasted as long as it did as Hama noted he was paid peanuts during the marvel run and claim to have been paid better for his run on Generation X than all of the Joe run to that point.

>the GI Joe comic held kids attentions all the way from grade school to college

We need to breakdown context of both sales and the fact Hasbro was footing the bill, a cartoon is very costly to keep making even back then the amount of costs from staff to air time would just eat any profits. Comics on the other hand were much cheaper to keep going which is why many toy brands had comics in the 80s but not full Toy commerca- I mean cartoons. You can't get more midwit than to just assume a product lasting is on the consumer side alone. Then again that's How Mattel scammed higher ups in the 70s so perhaps it's just in human nature to assume as you do anon.

>no one really wants goofy GI Joe stories today.
They take them, the issue is it demands a hint of balance due to the military themes, they can't go as wild and lose as TMNT or Transfomers because at the end GIJoe is a Special Forces group that fights comparable enemies. And looking how well the TFxJoe comics did proves they will take that goofy if played right.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 15:08:10 No.11735948 Report

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>>11735943
Eh, it's a slow enough board, let him have his (You)s

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 15:10:14 No.11735950 Report

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>>11735948
He doesn't deserve them

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Anonymous Sun 15 Mar 2026 15:16:15 No.11735959 Report

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>>11735950
Bro this board gets at best 50 IPs a week, hardly anyone here is real and threads won't be remembered.
The anon could out right die and we never know. Same with you, same with me. Talk over the post you don't like, report them if the break the rules but otherwise keep yourself grounded in the reality you are in a thread about plastic toys that will rot after you are dead and gone.

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