[Snowflakian]

I've got Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, and a ninja BAT from Sigma 6. They are pretty awesome figures overall. The figure concept itself wasn't bad. Few minor tweaks and it could have grown into a great line and way to relaunch Action man too.

I do remember how fans reacted to it back in the day though. Not kind to say the least. Some designs were pretty neat though like their take on Cobra Commander and a few others.

The show itself left a bit to be desired, but it introduced some neat concepts too, and the BAT army to this day is still something Hasbro needs to revisit in Modern Era styling and a modern era story. Both the Flight pack BATs, and Ninja BATs.

Some great material to re-do in Modern Era smaller scale all around, but the oversized nature didn't really take to market too well. Don't think it even lasted more than 3 waves.

As for 6'' figures, I'm indifferent on it personally. I tend to prefer the 1:18th scale because of the wider offerings it can do and ease of space.

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Originally Posted by Penguino

Also part of the reason GI Joe, a number of times in the past, became difficult to sell to retailers was the changing political climate on guns and war. Things today are worse than before, you got hoardes of online lynch mobs ready to tear Hasbro's image down for selling an entire toy line surrounded around war and including realistic weapons with thier figures. The last thing Hasbro needs is an attack because they included an AR-15 looking rifle with a toy.

That's why the more experimental scifi side is the way to lean. Like we saw in Renegades and how it introduced Cyber Ninja Jinx.
Though to be fair, the 2nd GI Joe film was rather... Prophetic to what the climate is now. Borderline rather ahead of its time to the point I do want to see what a GI Joe 3 could do.

A new launch has to be something that gets kids into it overall to sustain it. But it is also true the political climate we're seeing is an aspect of that downswing too. TBH, as Modern Era went in full swing and was dominating, USA was in an upswing of military pride with Terrorist groups as the rally against universal bad guys. Now the public at large is so worn out and tired of the reality of that. It's not so much a draw or even an escapist point anymore of heroics. Though there are other areas they can tackle story-wise that'll work. That's what made Renegades shine so much with how it focused on shadow money and the corporate sponsors angle.