>>8580391>>8580460I don't think you realize how much pent up demand there is for 1:18 GI Joes, because the secondary market for them is insanely high.
I thought it was a rip off to pay $15 or more for some commonly found Retaliation and RoC figures, but almost everything is now 2-4x what they sold for at retail.
Only Dukes, Winter Destro, and SOME Snake Eyes go for ~$15 now, opened even.
I really don't think you know why GI Joe was put on hiatus, because it really had nothing to do with people growing bored of the scale. It's because stores were left with a literal ton of stock for a movie line that wouldn't get released for another year.
Stores were perfectly fine with the sales it had been getting inbetween and before the movies. Once that movie line sat around not getting movie sales, they basically said Fuck You to Hasbro and stopped carrying the brand.
TRU themselves was more than happy to continue sales though, but TRU started getting heavier into debt and Hasbro saw the writing on the wall that they would no longer have anywhere to sell the line, so they let it go into hibernation.
GI Joe selling as much as it does in 6" is just from years of pent up demand for something new. If it had been 1:18, the line would be selling just as much, if not more.
I'm also a big time GI Joe collector, with literally thousands of figures, and all I've bought from the 6" stuff is Snake Eyes and Destro. I know there's a lot of GI Joe collectors who are just like me who really focus on just 1:18.
btw, i collect 1:12 too, but i've slowed down on my ML purchases thanks to Mezco, Mafex, and other premium lines doing stellar jobs. However, space is limited and i can only pick only my very favorites of GI Joe characters in 1:12 (like with Marvel and DC characters) vs how i'd army build in 1:18.
pic is a bunch of army builders i bought this year because there's no new Gi Joes to waste my money on.
