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Haslab HISS: 7 hours to go, over 23k backers. I'm just sad I can't justify getting two...

Cool, I mostly wanted to use some MTF lower arms on CFT upper arms, but it's not a huge deal. I'm glad CFT is easier to disassemble though, that's nice.

Two questions... are these easily disassembled for customizing, and are they compatible in any way with marauders figures? I already have the bartender from the very first wave years ago, but he's in storage still in the package.

I don't need that exact package, but the hat and guns would work well for a 1:18 Raylan Givens, and the jeans and boots scream "Duke Boys". Might have to check that out...

I wouldn't be shocked if it hit 25k before it was over. Lot of bulk/retail/foreign orders seem to come in the last day of these things. Yeah, a crimson MMS would have been cool, mostly because I would be more excited for the green repaint. But I don't feel bad about the campaign. It's badass...

Only 4 days left on the HISS:

When is the fundraising drive to purchase "the hangar"? I need a backup plan in case the river pirates overwhelm the 'ol homestead.

It just occurred to me, I have a 1:18 Gunny-esque drill seargent preordered as part of the Marauders Vietnam kickstarter. He's part of a 2-pack. They won't be out until '23, but I have no doubt they'll be selling the figure on the website after all the pledges are shipped out. The sculpt is...

Yeah, unless they look spectacular, I'm likely going to pass. Maybe a single range viper for the one named RV... whose name I can't recall right now... Big Ben in that huge hat always looked like he should have been in the Okt Guard, and he was well past my time in Joe. So unless I find a...

Confirmed, Range Viper and Big Ben incoming... I shit you not. (originally, the headline said Big Lob, not Big Ben... that would have been even worse!) If they give us Tire-Rotation Viper before finishing the O13, I'm going to lose it.

Holy s#!%, you're just a baby! Are you even a Gen X or are you just an old millennial? :laugh:

Ha, I think there's plenty of truth in your rant. Hama has stated many times that he hated having to shoehorn the new hasbro stuff into the book, and I think he was more than satisfied to write about his dozen or so favorite characters for a long time. IIRC, many of the early characters' bios...

Exactly. Not sure how hasbro signed a deal that allowed marvel to own part of their own toy's lore. The only logical explanation is that they never dreamed that anyone would remember the comic 24 months later, much less 40+ years later. In the early 80's, having a comic tie-in for your toys...

The difference is that Joe and TF weren't trying to fill in gaps in an ongoing movie franchise. SW was a truly special case in that regard. Hama successfully satisfied Hasbro with one of every 6-8 issues being the "new shit non-sequitur" issue, while TF just ran wild with the UK stuff mixed...

As much as the Joe comic went completely off the rails the last few years with all-ninjas, all-the-time, the TF comic was always a shitshow. It went from being nothing like the cartoon b/c they started it before the toon hit to being unrecognizable because the creators seemed to dislike...

If you had seen them, you'd have been highly disappointed. Very few of the sunbow characters were used in the DiC series, and most of those had different voice actors. And the animation studio was not up to even sunbow's mediocre standards, so it was a monumental fail for many fans. I've...

Per the TVDB, the sunbow series stopped in Nov '86, movie in '87, while the DiC series began in Sept '89. A three year gap in the syndicated episodes, most of us just assumed it was over and moved on. Plus, by fall of '89, you and I had just started high school and would have largely abandoned...

I agree in general. But you didn't watch any GIJoe in that era after that because there wasn't any. The movie was the end of the sunbow run. Born in late '74. How young are you?! I was seven when the '82 toys hit, the perfect age for Joe and MOTU, was nine (4th grade) when TF blew up...