>>11164713>Salvo was even less popularSalvo is prominent in the DIC intro though and had his own episode.
I think the only reason Salvo isn't as popular is because most fans care about the 80s cartoon most and outgrew shitty cartoons by the time the DIC cartoon started.
Most of the fantastical scifi and day-glo stuff from the late 80s and 90s is hated by some of those fans, but that stuff is why i got back into GI Joe again (went from He-man, GI Joe, Transformers, to TMNt, and bck to gI Joe). The fact most of them got repurposed redecos is a crime, despite those characters originally selling very well.
And it's unfair for you to say it's not popular just because he didn't get any major releases, but there was over a decade worth of toys released that Hasbro couldn't remake or update the 5 years Hasbro had with GI Joe's relauch in the late 00s, especially since modern toylines don't get massive releases like in the 80s. GI Joe in the late 80s was still selling extremely well and the 90s stuff was the second highest point in sales for GI Joe too, yet those figures got next to no modern takes.
We'll get a dozen variants of later characters like Roadblock before we get proper releases of characters like Ambush or Bullhorn. A hundred million redecos of the Alley Viper before getting an Alley Viper 2 design.
Amazing designs like this? Probably never, 23405 figures came out before it.
