I lol'd.

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They could always make multiple styles of figures simultaneously (ARAH and 25th), just like with different sizes (like 3 3/4" and 12"). Not "replace" one with the other

And lets not forget the ole style of Star Wars figs just like Mattel still makes!!! 5 or 6 points of articulation at MOST.



This is already happening with the GIJOE Club. I don't see where it'd be economical to be making two figs the same size simultaneously. They did that with the comic pks and TRU exclusives and look how they did.
People gripe if they dont' advance the figures and gripe when they do.

Though I too wouldn't mind the back peg screw. But O-ring...bah. What happens when the proper size of O-rings go out of production, kinda like the t-bars have? Going to have to upgrade them somehow or another.

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yeah bring the back screw so it's easier to take apart but keep the rest as is.

I fine with it gone. It ain't needed. Granted they could do a screw in the back to make it easier to customize. They could also move the joint down to the waist or smooth out that chest joint. But no, the O ring just isn't needed anymore. I was fine with them dumping it when they did the new sculpt if they would have looked at my draw up of how to do it.

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Not that I'm a big customizer anyway, but the o-ring figures are easy to disassemble and the 25th are not. I'm not ever going to be a customizer of the 25th.

As for the 25th being an upgrade from o-rings? On the whole, improved some ways but worse other ways. The o-ring on the 25th figures would fix the MAN-BOOBS problem for one thing. LOL!

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I've had enough of the O-ring. I'm glad Hasbro stepped up and moved on.

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I say the Mythos can survive with both. I would buy new 25th figres as well as a new Steel Brigate/ Plague 6 pack or another army builders set of original sclupts.

hell I say mix the two with the 25th style legs, and o ring construction.

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The O-ring I'm going to say no. One of the greatest toy inventions and helped to put GI Joe at the front of the small action figure list, but it's sort of had it's time and maybe Hasbro was right to say it's time for a new era of little Joes and Cobras.

Would love to see the screws come back. The new style is just too much of pain in the rear to change parts on. If we weren't lazy maybe we would have gotten into some other type of toys, but darn it we are already lazy so bring back the ablity to lazy customize.

Then again if we want to really get into construstion wants I picked up a few of the 3 3/4" wrestling figures and those guys are insanely cool when it comes to articulation. They added an extra joint in the wrist so not only can you spin the wrist around but you can move it up and down as well so can you imagine how much easier it would be for Joes to hold weapons if they had this a well. Also the wresting figures seem to have found a perfect bridge between the O-ring and new style in that they have the upper torso joint a bit like the Joes but they also rotate at the waist as well.

im so with you on this.

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NO F'N WAY should the o-ring ever come back. It was an impractical design then and has been outshined. I thought at least that debate in Joe fandom was over.

Wouldn't mind a back screw, but I don't really need it.

The o-ring is not needed but somthing to seperate the wast and the chest is needed.

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im all for the the backscrew,but never liked the o ring since i was a kid in 82 and the line started.

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After walking into my Joe room yesterday and finding 1/3 of my Viper Pit vipers, one of the green shirts, and various other miscellaneous other figures all of a sudden in two pieces, I'm emphatically in the "O-ring stay gone forever" camp. They had all snapped even though they hadn't been moved, or even touched, in a couple of months (and then only to pose in display) and were not posed awkwardly.

A method which would make them easy to customize would be instead of having the hole for the backpacks simply be a hole, have that be where the screw is. When you unscrew there it would allow the top part to come apart. People would then not have to cut the figures open or use a hammer and mallet as hasbro suggested. I don't know why Hasbro hasn't done this (probably cost). The o-ring wouldn't be back but the the concern about damaging the figures to separate them would be solved.

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