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Yes, the front wheels did pivot, and on the last livestream, the Joe crew addressed the tradeoff of not including that feature on the new one. It basically came down to not being able to hold the price-point if they had steerable front tires, and their goal was to maximize play-value without...

Oh, you're 100% correct. That fans took the time to CAD up these old toys into printable files is pretty incredible. That's part of what inspired me to get a 3d printer, just so I could dabble in accessories and set pieces to go along with all the Joe goodness we're getting, official and...

The tread looks more like the og style, but the tires will be hard printed plastic, not rubbery. That's a deal breaker for me. I recognize how this might come across (obnoxious and pompous), as someone who has been in the 3d printing game for mere weeks/months and produced absolutely nothing...

As we have discussed in some other threads, the hardcover reprints for the entire Marvel (Hama) Joe comic series are being made available via a kickstarter campaign. There are four compendiums in a box set, including yearbooks, special missions, TF crossover, etc, all in *official* reading...

I think later in the 80's, like S2 of Joes and S3 of TF, we got some reruns on sunday mornings, but I had to record those because they were always while we were getting ready for church. But they weren't ever first-runs, just random reruns. There were so many good saturday morning cartoons. I...

Wow, so you watched Joe and TF on Saturday morning?! Around here, Joe, TF, He-Man, and Thundercats were weekday afternoon cartoons, always after school, never on weekends. Pink Panther, Superfriends, Shirt-Tails, Snorks, Smurfs, Flintstones, basically anything by Hannah-Barbera, Dungeons and...

I agree, SE was the focal point of a disproportionate number of plot lines in the comic, but at least he was an actual OG Joe, and his past was a mystery that was interesting at the time. While he was definitely overused, to me, he never felt like a gimmick like Sarge. But I can't begin to...

Yeah, it's an overgrown riding mower. The driver is a sitting duck.

Of course. The movie was the end as far as I knew... as I didn't even learn of the DiC series until decades later. Then I watched one and it made me sad and repulsed. But Sarge's inclusion was the jump the shark moment for me, as S2 of the cartoon was more like Sarge-'n-Friends than GI Joe...

I broke down and preordered a secondary release of Deformation Space Starscream. He's so incredibly toony, and he makes all my MP-03-based seekers look seriously dated. I'll end up being bummed if they don't do re-releases on Thundercracker and Skywarp too. But he looks great, and at ShowZ...

Capt Grid Iron... yeah, I had to look him up too. Apparently he was prominent in the DiC cartoon... a generic looking guy with a football helmet on. It irks me when these poor 90's kids who grew up with the dregs of the franchise act like there is some equivalency between the '82-'85 era and...

Well, I've technically finished my O13 using a combination of Hasbro and Vala figs, but I'd like for there to be genuine official O13 guys, who are way more important to the mythos than anyone created after 1988. Steeler >>>> Capt Grid Iron or whoever nonsense the 90s kids are pushing for...

That's definitely more proportional looking. I wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley. Yeah, they need to reinvigorate fans by actually making stuff we want, not just stuff that's ok to kick the can down the road. Eventually I'm going to want an off-ramp. Not excited about sitting through...

The Vala girls are definitely thicker. They make hasbro females look anorexic. I really prefer the Vala proportions, clearly smaller than the men but not waifish. I do like the grey accents on her gear, gives that "officer" vibe, or at the very least lets people know she's not just a...

Alright, good news and bad news... good news is that the technical arrived, and it's great looking. Similar to the city-truck, the doors don't open, but I'll correct that easy enough. The bad news is that the technical is hardly 1/12 scale. The city-truck can easily fit 6" figures, but I'll...

So my plan to make a 1/12 tactical hit a snag... literally, the one I ordered got destroyed and returned to sender before getting out of Chiner. So I ordered the same item from a different seller, and it has gotten further along, so fingers crossed (oh, and it was a snap to get my money back...

Yeah, treat them like seasonal... suck the best part out and leave the rest for dead. That's a corporate mindset that might seem good on paper, but it's lousy for the industry in practice. If Joe had just released new stuff in Oct/Nov every year in the 80s, would we have been such big fans...

This line is so creepy!

Well put. I actually saw a full wave of retros (2x Duke, 1x Recondo, 1x Scarlett) along with the lone QK at the WM this morning. I was stunned! Four different characters to choose from?! But like you say, I didn't buy any because I've owned them for months... so hopefully some noob with...

Doc is showing for 5/31 as well as the next round of retros. I skipped the Eel, but I do have Beachhead and Snow Serpent coming with their improved decos. It's funny that you're making an improved Valk... I'm planning to use the Ferret driver in light grey as a female Snow Serpent. I've got...