>>6826298>There are so many guns, weapons, and toy soldiers on shelves, I really don't see how that could be true despite how often it's parroted.GI Joe is one of the few toylines that is heavily military based, though. The only thing close to that is the cheap-o lines like The Corps like you listed. Thing is, cheap lines like that, no one really knows about them. In fact, go look at most Corps figures these days. They have kinda, sorta realistic looking guns, but they're usually comically oversized, or are starting to look more and more like fictional guns anyway.
>LEGO has gunsThey absolutely do not. In fact, LEGO has always, always, always maintained a huge distance from realistic guns. The closest you'll get is things like old-timey revolves, and flintlock pistols and muskets from the 1700s. LEGO figures don't come with glocks and AK-47s. All of the LEGO guns are goofy looking laser pistols or other fictional sci-fi guns and blasters. There's never anything realistic in there.
>marvel has gunsGo over to the Marvel threads, friend. It recently came out that Marvel is phasing out realistic looking guns in newer figures from now on, except in very rare instances.
The Corps, sure like I said, Mega, other than the CoD line, all the other lines have sci-fi lasers and space guns and stuff.
I agree with you that its the property itself. Its just that it can't really survive, never mind the gun situation, whether it does or doesn't come down to it. GI Joe is kind of a relic of its time. And they already tried shit like "Joes in space." "Joes vs Zombies" "Joes vs Robots" and shit was what they tried in the 90s and 2000s, an that's what eliminated their fanbase that was there from the 60s to the 80s.
