>>11051329>young millenials got the crap complete with neon colors, goofy gimmicksGI Joe was successful during this time though. It was in 1992 or 1993 that GI Joe had its biggest year since 85 or 86.
>Spawn toys came out in 1995Spawn was a huge change up for the toy industry in general. It's why toys became more detailed and why stuff like GI Joe Extreme were super detailed hyperposed pieces of shit.
The line was influenced more by XMen than Power Rangers or TMNT though, since the cartoon and design made them be more superheroic. GI Joe had already been riding on the ninja craze since the 80s, before TMNT (which was parodying that ninja craze) even existed, hence Storm Shadow, Cobra Ninjas, Snake Eyes, Quickkick, etc etc.
Batman: TAS, Superman: TAS, XTAS, Spiderman, The Tick, and a bunch of other superhero shit was coming out of every corner back in the 90s. Superheroes made a shit ton of money, was easy to license, and there was an endless supply of characters. Hasbro/Kenner had no idea what they were doing though, so of course everyone treated GI Joe Extreme like shit on a stick.
Power Rangers shtick was that it was super fucking cheap to produce, because practically everything was already made for them. Everyone who imitated Power Rangers only did it production wise: import live action sentai series from japan and license the already made toys.
This way of thinking is what practically killed saturday morning cartoons too, since it was cheaper to license anime than produce a brand new cartoon. Then Bandai poisoned that well by PAYING US channels/stations (like cartoon network) to air their shit, which made channels expect anime to come to them with an envelope full of money. The 00s was a huge clusterfuck. So much horrible shit went on during that time and so much amazing stuff was produced at the same time. It's no wonder everyone suffered when it all came crashing down starting in 2007. So much shit went down in 2007, before even the housing bubble.
