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Originally Posted by KcKilla

I think price is a big issue here. Just look at what we are getting for $20 in black series/legends. Very few guns with no paint apps, and guns are a huge part of GI Joe, not to mention unique accessories. Getting the figures the way we would want them probably pushes them at least into the $40 range

Unlikely. Compare a given 3.75 GI Joe figure to a 3.75 Marvel figure, and you see a LOT more per buck with Joe than Marvel. Heck, back in 2010, Hasbro was offering GI Joe figures for 5.99 (at retail with new sculpts and accessories) while a comparative Star Wars figure was 9.99. A lot of the costs in Marvel and Star Wars can be attributed to the license and profit. But without that license overhead, Hasbro is generally FAR more flexible in what it can offer with its own house brands.
That said, such a figure would probably echo the 25th/ME body design concept and you'd see a good bit of reused parts across the line.


I can guarantee that Hasbro has explored the idea of 6" collector GI Joe line. The problem is that such a line can't survive on its own. Just as what we saw with 25th Anniversary, you'd be apt to see a huge initial drive, only to see interest and sales taper off as a lot of the major players get completed.
Marvel Legends and Star Wars Black largely exist due to the subsidizing done by the "kid stuff". Those 12" Titans and Web shooters and lightsabers largely offset any under performance from the collector segment.

GI Joe doesn't have that. It doesn't have a sufficiently successful product range (well, ANY product range at this point) to justify something so tailored to collectors.