Re: GI JOE 25th Anniversary
I was a late 80's-early 90's GI Joe kid and have always been a GI Joe fan. And I started my serious toy collecting a few years ago starting with GI Joe when it came back as "GI Joe vs. Cobra" and later on went on as "Spytroops", "Valor vs. Venom" and then "DTC" when Hasbro decided to give up on the 3 3/4'' figures....I also got a lot of the older figures MOC such as '85 Snake Eyes and several others that I paid a mint for on eBay during the big "80's toy revival" that hit several years ago when Transformers was booming in popularity with "Transformers: Armada" and Masters of the Universe was a brought back by Mattel
It was actually the decline of the "DTC" line that lead me to change my collecting focus from GI Joe to 12'' collectible figures. I had always been a fan of superheroes, and especially movie characters from the Alien/Predator universe...so it worked out nicely.
That all being said, I will always be a GI Joe fan and already have ALL the current 25th Anniversary figures which are fantastic. They do have some issues to nit-pick at, but I love them all and it's awesome that Hasbro is putting some heart back into GI Joe after all us fan were crying foul at them over their strange color selections and weird designs when they had the "Valor vs. Venom" line running (PURPLE Firefly?Zartan that looked like a Gangsta?).
So I am certainly looking for this line to continue and I am extremely psyched that we're finally getting a *NEW* Serpentor as well as all the other figures.
Oh and yes,I would support a "high-end" 12'' GI Joe figures as well. :chew