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Author:  dakullprt [ Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:00 pm ]
Post subject:  2-packs instead of singles
With the price of the comic packs and other multi packs being a far better deal than the single card, should hasbro drop the single card for a better 2pack assortment?

My ideas it doesn't have to be a Joe vs Cobra thing at all.

I've made of list of waves that have come so far.

Duke n Hawk
Flint n LadyJay
Roadblock n Stalker or Beachhead with v2 Roadblock
Scarlette n Snakeeyes
Shipwreck n Gung ho
Snakeeys n StormShadow

Zartan n Buzzer
Torch n Ripper
CobraCommander n Barroness
Destro n Cobra Commander
StormShadow n Fire Fly
2 Cobra troopers
Officer n Crimson Guard
Red ninja n Air trooper
Author:  J_Man [ Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2-packs instead of singles
Well we have 2 packs in the form of the comic packs. If they made 2 packs without the comic and kept the price of the single packs, I'd be for it. But that's only the "want to get more for my money" side of me. For the whole presentaion, I prefer the single pack. I like the card art, and all that.
Author:  MUNDO [ Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:30 pm ]
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I would say that I'm opposed to the idea of 2-packs for a couple of reasons:

1) It's not just me in this hobby. I know a lot of people like to keep their figures carded, and half the appeal of this line is the classic packaging. I have a decent collection of carded figures myself, and they're fine pieces for sure.

2) I often times have some problem with one of the figures in a 2-pack. There will be one really awesome figure packed with a turd figure, or accessories will be a mess or something. I would rather pay a couple dollars more for a fully loaded figure (accessory-wise), than one good figure, one bad figure, and questionable accessory execution.
Author:  Caravankidd [ Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:36 pm ]
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I wouldn't mind the saving money bit and I'm an out of package person so they could pack them in brown paper bags as long as I got all the gear and file cards. So on that bit 2 packs would not be bad.

The bad part is we've seen what horrible 2 packs Hasbro has done in the past so would they have learned or would it be another case of character and an army builder or that mega cool must have figure stuck with a figure that would have been a shelf warmer without the cool figure packed in. Isn't really saving much if they pack in a throw away figure.
Author:  Stalker [ Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2-packs instead of singles
I bought the two packs for the comics, which I was disappointed in - so I think I'm going to wait and see on future buys.

I don't really need any of the characters offered in the upcoming two pack waves or in your suggestions (although, I suppose I don't have a Nemesis Enforcer or Hard Master...)

Two pack Joes wouldn't appeal to me because I also like single-carded Joes with the card art. I'm only interested in multi-packs for army builders. Even then, most of the 3-5 packs have at least one turd you get stuck with, and I like to keep the Joes that don't appeal to me out of my collection.
Author:  GITrekker [ Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2-packs instead of singles
I am HIGHLY opposed to two-packs or multi-packs in ANY action figure line, whether it's G.I.Joe, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Justice League, or anything else by any company, much for one of the reasons stated by MUNDO.

As one who opens and displays his figures, my main priority is the condition and the appearance of the figure. And I have too often had it happen where one figure in a two-pack will be the most neatly painted and nicely assembled figure you could ask for, and the other one is a cross-eyed disaster that looks like the factory worker sneezed while trying to paint its boots with a brush usually reserved for home walls. I had to go through this recently with the German Soldiers two-pack from Indiana Jones. Don't get me started on multi-packs, where you have to hope that three, four, five, or six figures are all in really good condition.

Until something can be done about quality control... :roll: ... KEEP 'EM SINGLE!
Author:  DarkJedi [ Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:21 pm ]
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...if they let us pick what is in the 2-packs, then yes.
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