Looking at the new ROC filecards, I can;t help but feel there is not that much substance to them.

Are they equal to the old filecards?
Will you still collect and save them?
What do you think kids think of them?

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I've been tossing them in the trash with the bubbles.

I've kept a few of the 25A file cards, but not many - I guess after 19+ years of soldiering, I really get worked up when I see MOS and Grade discrepancies on the original filecards

But I never even considered "clipping & saving" the ROC cards.

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I like the ID badge style they went with, but since none of these figures (excepting Helix and any ARAH characters) will be used as who they're intended to be the cards don't mean much to me. Plus they have much less info than any previous Joe filecards, so thus far I've just been tossing them in the trash.

Trash, easily.

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I've been clipping them, I even got bored and put my thumbprint on the Pit Commando card.

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I imagine completionists would want them now, and down the road.

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I am keeping the cardbacks with the cards on them. I might just toss the ones that dont make me smile inside.

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I've been keeping the entire cardbacks too. At least until I can figure out what to do with them. I'm not a fan of the original filecards though. I like them but I don't display them or anything. I don't reference them unless I'm doing something with a certain character. But full cards are cool. Filecard plus the artwork. I like displaying those and looking at them.

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I'm keeping mine. . . for now. After years of collecting I'm starting to get buried in paperwork. If and when I start the purge these will be the first thing to go.

They're neat to read, but there's not so much to them that they're re-readable.

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Something cool I discovered. With the way the package is made where there's cardboard at the bottom, you can carefully remove the tape and carefully separate the cardboard from the blister pack. Once you do that you can just slit open the bottom of the plastic and slide the figure out like a drawer. If you want you can put the figure back in the plastic and slide it back in again, then close up the cardboard since there are tabs that close it up around the bottom. It's great for people like me that like the display of the card but also want an open figure. It eliminates the need for 1 mint on card and 1 to open. Like I said many of time, I don't collect the "on card" version with any idea of "value". I just like the display of a figure on the card as well as having one in hand off the card.

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To me, these are trash.

The power of the interweb persuaded me to stop saving filecards back during the NS era. If I need to read something about a character's bio, it's only a mouseclick away.

In direct comparison of the ROC filecards to the old ones, the ROC are poor at best. No nuggets of information or peeks into back stories.

been clipping them, adding them with the RAH, New Sculps, Lanards, and whatnot.....

ah, obsessive compulsiveness....

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I keep my cardbacks, as always. I need something to put into my empty vehicle boxes

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I can see them doing something different since kids these days wouldn't really know about the old filing systems now that information is only a lap top or desk top away.

They are really lacking on info which makes them rather boring compared to the old file cards. Nothing about the little quarks that used to make characters jump out or fire up the old imagination.

I'm clipping and keeping mine more out of force of habit than anything else. Although I guess if someone was in making Joe and Cobra costumes it would be cool to put a different back on them and then laminate them like real ID cards as part of a costume.