joe contest, and inside hasbro

[gurzil]

Haven't even finished reading it...

www.joesightings.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=004005

A nice long story by the person who won the "Be a GI Joe" contest. A look inside Hasbro, and some stuff about the online store that is encouraging (no, nothing about Xevoz, but about the aim of the store).

[Grayfox]

Read it a few days ago. I also reffered to that story in another thread. I'm jealous of that guy who won

[gurzil]

Grayfox said:

Read it a few days ago. I also reffered to that story in another thread. I'm jealous of that guy who won

Sorry if it was a dupe, must have missed that thread. I don't even like Joe anymore, and I was jealous.

Hasbro needs an "I AM XEVOZ" contest.

[Machineman]

three things I got from it:

"Figures are sculpted at about 104% their final size, and that’s to account for shrinkage going from wax to plastic."

OK, lost wax casting. How hard can that be. They do that in India in the dirt. Got to look into it.

"A typical production run of a certain character or two-pack is in the hundred thousands of units. Collectors maybe account for 10-20 thousand units sold per item. That isn’t a lot. So, changes had to be made in order for just the G.I. Joe name to survive retail"

OK, safe to say we never bought that many Xevoz.....

Lastly, there is going to be one more goofy looking GIJoe.