[SpaceCrawler]

Let's hope for the best, has to did well with the 40th anniversary line so I don't know why they wouldn't do a 50th.

Actually according to Hasbro the 40th line didn't do that well. That's why they stopped it. The GI Joe club had to release two sets that were already produced but went unreleased because Hasbro pulled the plug. There were plans to continue the sets. The guys involved attribute the failure, in part, to releasing all original sets (rather than interesting sets) at first. So some of the sets didn't have the appeal to consumers and slowed sales. I'd also say that a figure with each set was unnecessary and maybe hindered sales (I think that was the retailers' request, a figure being included with each set).

From what collectors can determine by what's been said by Hasbro, there are no plans on doing anything for the 50th anniversary. But hopefully they will surprise everyone.

Sean

 

[SpaceCrawler]

So far the collector's club is only offering a repro Man of Action Adventure Team figure as their "free" figure with paid club membership (which rounds off their line of repro AT hard hand figures). The figure is "free", the outfit and box is sold separately.

While I appreciate any reproduction items hopefully the GI Joe club has something better in store for the 50th anniversary - but if they did they'd have likely announced it already.

Sean