>>11148906>I was always under the impression Classified wasn't expected to survive long The other poster is correct, in that Classified was ill receieved and Hasbro had to react in changing up the designs to just basically be 25th but in 6"
I think this just shows that Hasbro is just propping the line up, with underwhelming sales, as a placeholder til the next GI Joe media comes out. It keeps interest for the franchise steady. This isn't saying that sales are poor, because otherwise stores wouldn't be carrying it, but it has very minimal support all around.
Obviously, Hasbro's expectations were set higher, but given how almost nothing went right and so much was changed, it's hard to actually see what they were going for after the movie came out.
>I never understood the "I need everything released right now" types, I always felt it better to do something right then do something quick.These are toys we're talking about, not video games.
It only takes about a year to release the best you can and it's only limited by the budget. So you can give it however many features you want, but you're going to be paying up. So all those negative sided gI Joe vehicles from the 80s and 90s were only that way because they wanted to make them as cheaply as possible. There were other lines that weren't, with fully detailed undersided and interiors, and those obviously cost more. They didn't take longer to produce, hence companies like 21st Century and BBI making dozens of very well detailed 1:18 vehicles every year. Unparalleled to this day, despite 20 years passing. Just shows the sad state of the industry now.
