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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero through the eyes of South African fanboys.
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Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Paul, Rob, and Cujo talk about the recent Toy Fair New York. Their personal highlights of the show, and more importantly GI Joe Classified: the new 6-inch toy line from Hasbro. We hope everyone has a blast with us, especially Steve, who finally gets his wish: an episode he can listen to ear unheard. :D
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Damn it! He Kenny G'ed me! *Hair curls and clothes turn white. Great podcast Joburg.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
I'm okay with your streams being later in the evening here in the US. I'd be willing to stay up late for the international Joburg fans. 🇺🇸🍻🌍
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Walmart makes these toys called Kid Connection (creepy name) that are sometimes in 1/18 scale that come with oversized 1/12 scale weapons. For $20 for our get a helicopter, mine sweeping vehicle, ATV, and towed artillery plus like four pistols, two sniper rifles, two ars, some smgs, and knives and nades and backpacks that fit six inch Hasbro back holes, and some radios/detonators. Plus three figures with 9poa, one has 10, and they have no parts reuse. They're ugly, but maybe with a better paint job they'd look good. Their elbows are sometimes an issue. They make great dummies like Graduation Day. $20 and you'd get plenty of weapons for at least a few six inch figures and some decent vehicles for the ARAH figures.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
I'll be Buzzkill and say it's actually way easier now to make action figures than it was in the 80's-90's. Old-school had to sculpt in wax or clay or even wood to make a prototype. Then they sent that off to China and they made molds and casted x amount of figures, assembled them, and packaged and sent them to distributors. Toys were physically hand sculpted back then and the sculptor had to sculpt both left and right sides of everything and make things line up and match by hand physically. Today, since around 2012-ish Hasbro can digitally sculpt the figure and 3d print a prototype in about a week. The print would only take a day or two of that. I'm sure they spend more time revising anything they want to, but the process is so much easier. They have the use of mirroring the right side to the left now and don't actually sculpt the whole figure themselves..the computer does A LOT of the job now. That means it should cost less for these toys since Hasbro isn't having to pay as much to make them. It's also clearly easier now to get figures made with how many Indy toy makers we see in the hobby. These guys are all mostly digitally sculpting and prototyping with 3d printing. Hasbro is greedy and so is Disney. They edged people into paying $20 per 6", and $13 per 4" figures when it should be $15 and $9 for each. Hasbro's coat per figure is going to be under $5. They wholesale at $11. 🤷🏻♂️ I feel like I'm the only person that can see this blatant fact that Hasbro got greedy when Disney bought Marvel and SW(2009-2012). I want them to make billions the right way and treat us customers with more respect price wise and content wise. They were "killing it" in 2005-2009. I love you Hasbro, you were my brother! *Jedi tears.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
These $20 six inch figures should actually cost us only $15. Hasbro got greedy and the others noticed.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
No Paul, I want to hear constructive criticism of toys on this. Have a go at Hasbro. It's good to hear someone else complain because it feels like Hasbro is trying to be Hot Toys in the Toy Aisle. And they used to be the affordable/reasonably priced brand.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Joe is also about doing the right thing.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Gold is a color reserved for Iron Grenadiers!
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
I bet they give you he Joe's blue lasers now for the Democratic party. 🤦🏻♂️
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Paul I want to see you get one of each of the six inch figures to do Tiger Force and night force variants.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
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