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Originally Posted by ReIssue

Tomax bringing the drama!!! Love it!
Especially since we were talking about Joe bucks for MU customs like last week.
Love the aggressive debating about “which came first” topics, so here’s my two cents:

Star Wars started the 3.75” craze. That’s why I’ve always said that when Star Wars went away from their 3.75” line it was disastrous for us. GI Joe came later, yes but bolstered the 3.75” ranks with the inclusion of a TV show to “sell toys”. Going back to the 1965 line of GI Joes, and saying they were the OGs of our scale? Come on, man. So where do Istand on this debate?
1965 joes weren’t 3.75” but if you wanna yell about ‘em to the crickets, don’t get mad at us. (Unless you’re using the 1965 bucks to make giant man.)

Much love.

This is true, but it's also true that if it wasn't for Ken that decided to enlist (the original GI Joe), action figure lines in general wouldn't exist. Action figure lines all share the same barbie ancestor.

Which then yup, Star Wars and then later ARAH gave way to the 1:18th scale figure market. And the rest is history. (Though tbh, the true advancements in 1:18th scale engineering didn't start happening until the last 12 years. Some of which is thanks to MU itself too with their new ankle types that started getting used by GI Joe too. And it can be argued that GI Joe Retaliation with the new wrist articulation further evolved that, but hasn't been used since.)

But if you do care about toy history, to be honest all action figures are dolls of varying sizes. If it wasn't for "enlisted Ken". The "boys market" would have stayed with role play stuff.

Barbie is the backbone of our toy history. Which is funny to think about considering modern male mentalities, and the last 20 years of toy manufacturer mentalities on action figure lines. Without the Ken doll, GI Joe would have never existed, which wouldn't have led to all the other varying experimentation of the market that led to both Star Wars figures, and ARAH figures, that eventually evolved into the modern figures we all collect today.