I like pluvs "future wars" idea. The thing about the 80-90's joes were that it was "a few years from now" kind of idea. I don't really care for "modernized/realistic" look that has been cropping up recently.
The draw for me was the futuristic/borderline sci-fi ideas the line had. BF2000 was a cool direction idea, that I felt didn't play out properly. Star Brigade had potential to take the Joes into the 21st century where they kind of belong.

As an adult I'd go Ghost Recon Alpha style. It had that tech of tomorrow today vibe. Where the Joes would combat terrorists of all stripes, with Cobra being both used and using major anti-US/Western powers.
I'd love to see Hasbro take advantage of their Microman license and bring more articulation and realism to the figures, and make other powers soldiers and mercenaries.

Frankly, it's so very obvious that Joe needs a game with *almost* the adult ness of Ghost Recon but the figure-interactivity of SkyLanders that it's criminally-incompetent of Hasbro to not be doing that.

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Wow. It's surprising to me just how many of these ideas I am vehemently opposed to.

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So give better ones, yo.

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Nah. I'm fine with it going away for a while.

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I like the new world order idea, but I don't know if tying in the prepper/ survival market would be taken seriously.

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Hasbro should shut down joe for few years and give people time to miss it. In the meantime, they should acquire the Stargate license and use their library of molds to put out a few waves of SG-1 figures.

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Close it up, this thread's done.

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Brilliant!!! And to be honest they would only need to make stands have the techie interactive connection.
Hasbro blew it another way by not licensing out to NECA for Heroclix.

I think what they are going to do, and what they should do, is wait for the movie trilogy to run its course before moving on anything else. I am very much for an Adventure Team-esqe direction for GI Joe if that is what is required for today's marketplace, but it should wait until the movies are done so they are not competing with each other on the shelves, not to mention, stores won't give both shelf space anyway.

I'm out of money and space, so a year or two hiatus is fine with me.

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Heroclix would be a nice format for large scale battles.
Then again, they own Wizards of the Coast, so a table top RPG or miniature war game would seem like a great extension of the brand.

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Visually, I'd like to see them go back to the first few years of the 1/18 scale line, with a similar mix of real world and comic book. Updated, certainly, but still straddling that line.

Media wise, any line needs a cartoon. Give it writing similar to Batman: TAS or Young Justice. The toys need to be out at the same time as the show, not six months later, after the show's been cancelled because the non existent toys aren't selling. More importantly in this day and age, there needs to be a tie in, multi-platform, free to play game. It needs to be playable from web browsers, smartphones, tablets, and game consoles. Give it cross play between all the platforms. Include some code or something with all the figures, that unlocks things in the game.

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Totally agree there needs to be coexisting cartoon. The problem is the constant spew of psudo-reboots have made people wonder "What is G.I. Joe nowadays".
Corney isn't going to work, woosification isn't going to work. Cliche isn't going to work.

I love the idea of a free-to-play game tie-in. odd thing is that the military specialty and international aspects of G.I. Joe make it perfect for character customization and would lend itself well to an MMO.



I read somewhere that this is why they didn't go with NECA/Heroclix, that they had some other idea for a miniatures game. However if I remember correctly it sounded very kid-ish, not something the likes of us would appreciate.

I too would go the Adventure Team route but start with some vertical integration.

Start with a PBS cartoon ala rescue heros/TF Rescue bots that focuses on environmental education and science to be supported with a combat heroes style line - minimize weapons cause' it's for lil' kids

Add a current format Adventure Team cartoon, more conflict, clear cut enemy groups and a modern Joe line to support that (very little new sculpting and mocking up to do)

After one successful year have a yearly G.I. Joe spin off line of 8 figures: One year G.I.Joe: Real battlefield heroes, the next G.I.Joe: hometown heroes, G.I. Joe: Historic heroes Even G.I. Joe: Foreign heroes

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