>>6460290You'd have a point if GI Joe died in 2005-2012, but by the time GI Joe stopped being supported by Target and Walmarts, there was no Bravo Team anymore and there was a complete dearth in 1:18 scale lines in general.
Target had already given up other military lines, had to carry a really cheap bbi off-brand a year later, since military figures were still in demand, but that was killed two years later.
WalMart always had Corpshit when GI Joe was running, but they dumbed that shit down back in 2010 and we've only seen a higher budget given to them only this year (likely because of the King Kong license).
The closest we got to a quality line after GI Joe was moved to being exclusive only was MGR's Task Force, which came out in 2014.
And the only reason Hasbro killed the GI Joe line starting this year, despite their last wave selling out at TRU, is because they want to reboot it. Toylines take roughly a year and a half to be created, so it matches up with the 2019 projected release of the next GI Joe movie
