Sigma Sux.

'Nuff said.

- Springloaded crap. It would've been nice to have some of them on just a couple of vehicles, but not with EVERY figure and on EVERY vehicle from those years....
- Star Brigade. Only things I like are the Armor Bot and the Power Fighters. The rest is phail!
- Ninja Action feature. I did like the figures (besides the really bright neon ones and their weapons), but I hated the fact that the articulation of a leg / torso / arm was replaced or reduced by this Ninja Action feature. Such a shame!
- Eco Force. Ugly colours. Stupid water guns.
- Re-using a few old molds like about a million times. I'm sure I'm not the only one with a huge pile of Rock Viper, Cobra Twins and Baroness guns and Saw Viper backpacks. The convention Dreadnoks are bad too. Same looking figures with only a different paintjob.

Tim 121RVC

DD's run killed too many great characters for no good reasons.

Cobra-La

I'm a ninja fan, but I too think there's too many ninjas in Gi Joe.

Action gimmicks

VvV

Neon colors

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Well all of my answers have already been mentioned, so I'll just put them all together here:

-Too many Ninja
-Neon
-Sigma Six
-Eco-Force
-Sub-groups in general (Tiger, Python, Slaughter, Ninja, etc.)

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Yea that's my fear as well. I was really excited when they said they were going to do a cross over of Star Wars and Transformers. Wondering what Starscream would transform into, what Prime would tranform into, only to find out it's not really Transformers at all because it's just junk like an X-Wing that turns into the Luke Skywalker Mech. Mechs, not even robots in Star Wars, but mechs!

Sort of hoped they might change course with the Marvel cross over since they already tried the Spider Man Mech before and it didn't sell that great. But no, not Transformers turning into things from the Mavel Universe just things like the Spider Man Mech, the Hulk Mech, and junk like that.

Just seems wrong to slap the Transformers logo onto something that's mechs instead of actual robots.

25th figure design. I really can't stand it.

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The pink bordered card art for the ninjas/space force in 92-93. I will never understand pink packaging on a boys toy.

- R

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Internet Fandom.

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Internet Fandom was created specifically for GI Joe? COOL!

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a few Ive been carrying around:

- a lack of Movie figures when the movie came out. Pythona should have been a no-brainer instead of Golobulous, and Big Lob being the ONLY joe from the movie not made was odd, he would have been better accepted when we were kids rathar than now as grown ups.

.- Army Builders not being carded. so now to buy the newer Army Builders we had to buy ANOTHER Storm Shadow, ANOTHER Cobra Commander, ANOTHER Firefly, ANOTHER Duke,... the 25th corrected this with the Cobra troopers and Vipers,... but the newe waves,.. same mistakes.

- Hasbro not listnening:

people said we want a Flagg, people said thay would buy a Flagg,... so make limited Flaggs already!!!!

- Costal Defender:

ITS JUST A BOX PEOPLE!!!!!! A BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The problem is that "fans" will say one thing, but when it comes down to it, will not bite. Heck, I read all the time about people waiting for $40 vehicles to go on clearance, so I can only imagine a $200 Flagg at this point.

agreed. Cause a Flagg now adays sure as hell isn't going to be no $100. It'd run at least $200 like you said if not higher.

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Cobra La was bad, but only because they tried to make Cobra commander a descendant of 4,000 year old snake people. If they would have did it the way they did Valor vs. Venom, or even if they just did it the way they did and kept the ties to Cobra out of it, it wouldn't have been so bad. As far as the OTHER worst stuff:

(In no particular order)
-The post 1991 "Everything is neon colors" thing
-Eco Warriors (the idea was OK on paper, but why would villains just want to pollute the world for no good reason? Why was airtight not part of the team, and AGAIN, why all the neon?)
-The battle corps "everything has to be spring loaded and all the figures come with the same weapons"
-Cobra Commander trying to write his name on the moon.
-Cobra Commander teaming up with ghosts
-that other stupdi episode with the Egyptian god (I forget the name, you know the one)
-The losing of Hawk's name to f***ing Corps figures of all things
-Those water squirting jets from 1991.
-Sigma 6 Cartoon (the figures were OK)
-DDP (the comic, not the wrestler) killing off characters just for shock value, crippling Hawk, and uhh, that is my only real problems with them.

---->These are the WORST I can think of, there is other stuff that was "bad", but those were the ones reaking of stink-titude IMO

You'd better watch that one. Thats almost a bannable offense around here to say Big Brawler is a worst idea of a Joe.

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that was supposed to be sarcasm, but sarcasm doesn't come off so well on the 'net. Oh well, iin any event, i'm down with the Brawler