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A giant B.A.T. isn't really out of place in the G.I. Joe universe. They should've done this one from the cartoon:
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Feeling very 'this is a dumb hobby but I am dumber for being in it' missing out on those Joe pre-orders.
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Nov 20, 2020 20:19
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Dawgstar posted:Feeling very 'this is a dumb hobby but I am dumber for being in it' missing out on those Joe pre-orders. They're still up on BBTS and Amazon.
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Nov 20, 2020 20:27
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I just bought some more of the rare MOTU items on my list. I'm so hype, can't wait to show you guys when they arrive.
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Nov 20, 2020 20:46
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I have absolutely zero interest in He-Mans, but I am enjoying seeing your happiness putting this all together.
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Nov 20, 2020 21:00
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Endless Mike posted:I have absolutely zero interest in He-Mans, but I am enjoying seeing your happiness putting this all together. Just you wait! I'll reel you in yet!
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Nov 20, 2020 21:27
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Davros1 posted:A giant B.A.T. isn't really out of place in the G.I. Joe universe. Its more that I don't think there is anything about it that justifies the price.
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Nov 20, 2020 21:46
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This is scanned from the Eternia playset instructions. It is a visual list of the parts included in the original box. I have been using it as a guide as I piece together the set. . . . . . . I wonder what this means. 
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Nov 20, 2020 22:55
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I was going to point you to toyhax.com but it looks like they don't make MOTU labels.
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Nov 20, 2020 23:24
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Xenomrph posted:I was going to point you to toyhax.com but it looks like they don't make MOTU labels. There's a guy on Ebay with reproductions but I'm waiting for the purchased parts to arrive before I buy them. The guy I bought this set from had most of the original labels in a baggie and I could probably use them. We'll see.
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Nov 20, 2020 23:31
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Rhyno posted:I wonder what this means. It means you're holdin' more weight than Columbia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7MBdw-14E
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Nov 21, 2020 04:10
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Rhyno posted:I wonder what this means. I'm pretty sure that would be the sheet of stickers for all the details that weren't cost effective to tool. I remember stickers to put up on the wall with like bookcases and decorations, as well as the eyes for the snake stature. Edit: Yeah here's an eBay listing for them https://www.ebay.com/itm/Stickers-for-He-man-MOTU-Masters-of-the-Universe-ETERNIA-Playset-Bonus-Extras-/133058881891 Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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Nov 21, 2020 05:08
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The empty box means I bought all the parts I needed! Edit: oh man, BBTS has some Snake Mountain stock available for $950... Rhyno fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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Nov 21, 2020 13:19
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Hisstanks complete meltdown about the retro gi joe figures, specifically duke, is equal parts hilarious and sad.
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Nov 21, 2020 18:29
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What are they melting down over?
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Nov 21, 2020 18:30
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They are collectively upset over the fact that the wave 3 retro gi joes arnt using the right parts in thier opinion. Too much 25th anniversary and not enough 50th and retaliation set parts.
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Nov 21, 2020 19:46
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What size are the retro line? 3.75?
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Nov 21, 2020 19:47
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Dale-Taco posted:Hisstanks complete meltdown about the retro gi joe figures, specifically duke, is equal parts hilarious and sad. I'm sorry, but G.I. Joe collectors are a real bummer. I had to leave a G.I. Joe Classified Facebook group because they weren't just negative, they were bragging about being dicks to Target employees, threatening them, trying to get them fired. And one rando started threatening me from out of nowhere, sending me private messages saying he was willing to travel to meet me somewhere to fight. I think I had said something about Airtight (the Joe who was the hostile environment specialist) being prepared for COVID because he had a helmet with a built-in mask, and that was all it took. Hisstank seems to hate everything. Is it just me, or do a lot of hardcore Joe collectors swing conservative/right-wing, too? Maybe they took all the military propaganda to heart. I don't collect the Retro figures, but Duke's "O-face" was definitely a choice. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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Nov 21, 2020 20:05
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Hisstank seems to hate everything. Is it just me, or do a lot of hardcore Joe collectors swing conservative/right-wing, too? Maybe they took all the military propaganda to heart. It seems like thats the case. They also seem to think gi joe is just for them, like worse than even the most neckbeardy star wars guy. They dogpiled the one guy who basically went "maybe we are the problem." I sometimes think it would be nice to have an irl gi joe collector friend but then I think better of it.
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Nov 21, 2020 20:21
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Dale-Taco posted:It seems like thats the case. They also seem to think gi joe is just for them, like worse than even the most neckbeardy star wars guy. They dogpiled the one guy who basically went "maybe we are the problem." Yeah no kidding. They're the Hot Wheels collectors of action figures.
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Nov 21, 2020 20:25
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I feel spoiled that all the toy communities I’ve joined as I’ve gotten back into it this last year have been so pleasant. Mythic Legions and Dragon Ball Figuarts collectors are apparently bastions of positivity.
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Nov 21, 2020 21:14
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Sanschel posted:I feel spoiled that all the toy communities I’ve joined as I’ve gotten back into it this last year have been so pleasant. Mythic Legions and Dragon Ball Figuarts collectors are apparently bastions of positivity. Yeah the Mythic Legions Cabal is pretty chill. It’s all just people sharing toy photography, custom figures, and congratulating each other on their toy hauls.
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Nov 21, 2020 21:20
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Rhyno posted:I just bought some more of the rare MOTU items on my list. It’s the giants, right? Please say it’s the giants.
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Nov 21, 2020 22:34
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Vintage toy collector groups in general tend to suck, I don’t think it’s something exclusive to Joes. I’ve joined and subsequently left three different Kenner Star Wars groups because of commonplace racist and sexist poo poo and just outright hostility for zero reason.
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Nov 21, 2020 22:37
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Pitwar posted:It’s the giants, right? Please say it’s the giants. Close.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Vintage toy collector groups in general tend to suck, I don’t think it’s something exclusive to Joes. I’ve joined and subsequently left three different Kenner Star Wars groups because of commonplace racist and sexist poo poo and just outright hostility for zero reason. I honestly don't understand why the ven diagram of adult toy collecting and being a massive shitheal overlaps so much.
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Dale-Taco posted:I honestly don't understand why the ven diagram of adult toy collecting and being a massive shitheal overlaps so much. Deep-seated unhappiness with your current life that drives an escape into a hobby so deep that you make it the majority of your identity? Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Nov 22, 2020 |
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Nov 22, 2020 00:21
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Dale-Taco posted:I honestly don't understand why the ven diagram of adult toy collecting and being a massive shitheal overlaps so much. Like drat I read a post on a forum for expensive collectibles and an adult went off about how they like this toy having giant boobs and everyone called him a creep and they whined about people being woke.
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Nov 22, 2020 00:25
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I mean, really talk I am a huge rear end in a top hat and have been for 20 years. But im doing my drat best to be a better person every day. It's hard to go against ingrained behavior but there's nothing to be gained by continuing on that path.
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Nov 22, 2020 00:26
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Well that’s better than what a lot of people are doing. These people don’t want to change
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Nov 22, 2020 00:29
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If you think the adult toy collector communities are bad , stay away from the arcade collectors. I just mostly post here as I stopped collecting anything for the moment (but I like seeing what’s coming out.) I used to post on fwoosh too which was ok at the time.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Hisstank seems to hate everything. Is it just me, or do a lot of hardcore Joe collectors swing conservative/right-wing, too? Maybe they took all the military propaganda to heart. By and large the worst ones never paid attention to much aside from the cartoon and the toys which is like the most... 80s-centric part of the line. Larry Hama did a lot in the boundaries of the comic and was informed by the fact he, you know, had been to war. I know Hisstank ran off two GI Joe comic writers in Aubrey Sitterson (who admittedly has a few issues of his own) and Paul Allor for the crime of putting a queer main character in his Joe book. (Allor's Joe book is really good and people should read it.) I think Hama made his new Snake Eyes a Latina just to mess with them sometimes. They are absolutely the Hot Wheel Guys of the action figure set like Fuzz says.
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Snacksmaniac posted:If you think the adult toy collector communities are bad , stay away from the arcade collectors. Yeah. I spent a very limited amount of time on the Neo-Geo forums when I first got my candy cabinet and was trying to source a couple specific parts and games. Jesus Christ. Never again.
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Dawgstar posted:By and large the worst ones never paid attention to much aside from the cartoon and the toys which is like the most... 80s-centric part of the line. Larry Hama did a lot in the boundaries of the comic and was informed by the fact he, you know, had been to war. I know Hisstank ran off two GI Joe comic writers in Aubrey Sitterson (who admittedly has a few issues of his own) and Paul Allor for the crime of putting a queer main character in his Joe book. (Allor's Joe book is really good and people should read it.) I think Hama made his new Snake Eyes a Latina just to mess with them sometimes. I've read every G.I. Joe issue Hama wrote for Marvel and the vast majority he has written for IDW. It was definitely less "ooh-rah" jingoistic than the cartoon, with real consequences to violence and war. The stories and characterizations are A LOT better, too. All I've read by Allor is that one issue about Scarlett's PTSD (that's his series, right?), and all I've read by Sitterson is his Comic Book History of Pro Wrestling, which I really enjoyed because I got back into wrestling this year. Who is the queer character? But the best G.I. Joe story ever, in any medium, is Cobra: The Last Laugh, by Christos Gage, Mike Costa, and Antonio Fuso. It's brilliant, and anyone with any enduring fandom, nostalgic love, or passing interest for G.I. Joe should read it. Even if you don't, it's a drat good comic in its own right. The slightly oversized hardcover sells for $50 and has been out of print for years, but a $30 TPB is finally due out next month, and hopefully it isn't delayed any further. I'll finally own my own copy of it soon. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Nov 22, 2020 |
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Nov 22, 2020 08:10
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The GI Joe comics have always been vastly superior to the cartoon, outside of Shipwreck. But that is also the nature of the medium which the cartoon had to fit the US standards of the day. I wish all the time that Hasbro would just take the comic and do a cartoon based on them. Hell I wish the movies were heavily based off the comics. Honestly I am utterly amazed both the GI Joe and Transformers movies aren’t just set in the early 80s and run with it. The Bumblebee movie did that to some success. Seems like a easy to to avoid some messy modern day issues as well. As for a lot of adult collector scenes being full of awful people, it isn’t surprising. To be heavily involved in a niche collecting market like even something like GI Joe or MOTU means you already have a little something wrong with yourself. Most collectors often go for what they like or in vintage stuff things that they had in their youth or wanted back then. Most people get them or a reasonable version of it and are done. Those that get heavily involved and/or feel the need to have it all are not normal people. Like I know a guy who was making vintage GI Joe videos that had to stop because people in that scene were harassing him because he tried to be positive about everything he did a review on, even the bad 90s stuff because he felt like it was a way to be more positive in a fandom that is very negative. He stopped doing videos at all because of now bad and targeted the harassment is.
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My favorite thing about the comic was back when I was younger, the marvel comic blew up the entire line of some new fancy chrome toyline on a random page in a book, during a random attack on a boat. Like one shot, with a missile, and they all went poof. Between Cobra Commander being all alcoholic ex car salesman, and then wiping out a toyline, it was amazing.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:My favorite thing about the comic was back when I was younger, the marvel comic blew up the entire line of some new fancy chrome toyline on a random page in a book, during a random attack on a boat. Like one shot, with a missile, and they all went poof. BattleForce 2000! Hasbro must have foisted them on Hama, because he killed off six of the seven guys and destroyed all their ridiculous futuristic vehicles at once. He had a soft spot for Dodger, who continued to appear sporadically. But that was the same storyline where a S.A.W. Viper also murdered Breaker, Doc, Quick Kick, Crazylegs, Thunder, Crankcase, and Heavy Metal based on a miscommunication. Cobra Commander had told Tomax and Xamot to "take care of" the captive Joes, meaning to get them fed and ready for a prisoner exchange, and the twins took it the wrong way, telling the sadistic S.A.W. Viper to "take care of them."
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Agrias120 posted:Yeah. I spent a very limited amount of time on the Neo-Geo forums when I first got my candy cabinet and was trying to source a couple specific parts and games. Jesus Christ. Never again. The neo geo people I’ve talked to are the nicer ones! Stay away from pinball. I think I’m going to now pivot to an only Kirby collector by the way because these magnetic Kirby dolls are just so good.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:All I've read by Allor is that one issue about Scarlett's PTSD (that's his series, right?), and all I've read by Sitterson is his Comic Book History of Pro Wrestling, which I really enjoyed because I got back into wrestling this year. Who is the queer character? I think hes referencing the latest joe book that started last year. It is set where cobra won and it follows a new gi joe recruit who happens to be gay (bi?). Its actually pretty good once you get past the first couple set up the universe issues. It also kills duke in like the first 2 pages of issue one which is how the new character is brought in. It caused much consternation.
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Dale-Taco posted:I think hes referencing the latest joe book that started last year. It is set where cobra won and it follows a new gi joe recruit who happens to be gay (bi?). Its actually pretty good once you get past the first couple set up the universe issues. It also kills duke in like the first 2 pages of issue one which is how the new character is brought in. It caused much consternation. Yeah, Tiger is our POV character and also his boyfriend disappeared due to Cobra-related shenanigans. Allor has also messed with a couple of old standby's ethnicities, like Flint is now Frontier and was originally born in Pakistan. Or rather I guess he could still introduce Flint but Frontier has all of his markers up to and being involved with Lady Jaye. Tiger himself is a Cambodian immigrant so naturally Hisstank shrieks 'political!' while recoiling like somebody brandished a cross at them.
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