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Originally Posted by BigHanksCustoms

I give them (MU) a pass for accessories "cuz they haz sooper powerz" butwould it kill them to keep the stands, shoot charge me another quarter for that 2 cent stand. Damn.


I did see a Techno Viper at Walgreens today. Actually you could see it across the store, that purple uniform jumps! I like it but if I'm paying Walgreens prices I'm holding out for zombie Vipers......

I can't afford it, but I want one of those pretty badly. What's up with that figure anyway, it seems out character for the GI Joe line. Is it from that GI Joe Infection comic?

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Originally Posted by FallenOne

One thing to keep in mind when comparing Joes to MU... Hasbro owns GI Joe outright. They don't have to pay any licensing or royalty fees to anybody. It's their property and they keep everything they make off of it. With MU (and any other property that Hasbro licenses rather than owns), they have to pay the licensor (Marvel in this case) a cut just for the right to make the toys, plus a percentage on whatever the sales are. This likely has something to do with the difference in "value" between Joe and MU. Hasbro can afford to include a shit ton more accessories in the Joe line.

That said, I don't know that that completely explains the reason behind dropping the stands. And not having the stands included any more sucks.

That makes sense, but..... they're stands.
Action figures like this are so wildly popular right now because of collectors, not kids. For example, Hasbro knows they can put out an old school character like Iron Fist (again, then again, fuck!) and it will sell very well (at this point in the line at least). That said, to release the same line without something as standard and easy/generic to produce as a stand seems counterproductive. I mean hell, 1/3 of these figures are a pain in the ass to stand up on their own as it is.