We had a great time at JoeCon. Nearly everyone we met was very nice, helpful, and loved G.I. Joe. The panels were exciting. The new product blew us away. In one word, it was awesome. There was only one bad side effect to the whole thing: since we've gotten back, we can't stop buying Joes. All of the ItsAllTrue Crew had been pretty good about not going crazy on ROC product so far. We knew it was solid, that there were some nice pieces in there, but we were holding out for some of the more 25th Anniversary figures.
Sometimes as toy collectors, we can look across our displays and only see the toys that aren’t there. They are the missing figures. The characters toy companies never got around to, never thought were important enough, or worse – the figures companies felt the need to show us at comicon in the “We’re Never Gonna Make These” case. Saturdays are for these figures…
I didn’t much feel like ranting this week, that’s how you can tell I’ve been sick. But then something happened on Tuesday that spurred me to the site for at least one brief spiel. Hold onto your hats, this will go quick.
Jurassic Park toys. Apparently, this line has been hanging onto the fringe of the toy world through KB Toys exclusives ever since the last movie. I didn’t realize this until recently when the line was “revived” by Hasbro as a Toys R Us exclusive. Seems like Hasbro, at least with this line, has really mastered the art of taking decade old molds of dinosaurs, repainting them god awful neon colors, and re-releasing them every few years. Kudos to them, I guess…
