but yeah, it was a great show. here's hoping someone had the foresight to keep those animators and voice actors in their Rolodex. I assume hasbro top brass use Rolodexes since all of their ideas are fairly antiquated.

They should have made a Renegades Baroness for this line.

I don't think it's a problem with Hasbro not wanting two Joe properties on the shelves at once as it is retailers. Retailers don't have much faith in GIJoe as it is. Do you really expect them to give equal space to two separate lines? Hasbro's not stupid. If they could sell twice as much product, they would. At the same time thought, they don't want to have to split their focus between it and the movie either. Whether the movie were delayed or not, Renegades product would undoubtedly have ended at the same time the 30th line did. Remember though that the delay of the movie was not Hasbro's plan. They were caught off guard just as much as us. There really wasn't anything they could do. Paramount just screwed them there. The fate of the Renegades show doesn't really have much to do with the toys though. Hasbro just didn't expect it to be as popular as it was. They gave up on the show before it even aired which was poor judgement on their part. I think the delay in getting toys based on it into the line was a mistake too. Having the show air and the figures on the shelves at the same time might have helped inject some more life into the line. I get what they were wanting to do, but I think it was still a mistake.

dude, you contradict yourself,

as is, i recall Hasbro saying something about this at some point, and it was posted pretty much everywhere on joe boards, I am sure it is still on here somewhere. someone with more time on their hands can feel free to go look it up. However since all statements about such things come from PR people the chances of it being a completely legit answer would be suspect either way.

as for hasbro being caught off guard by paramount, boo hoo. If you want to win a fight you plan, and you have back ups to those plans. How often have we seen hasbro product wind up at a discount chain store? Joe or otherwise it happens all the time. or how about all those marvel figures that suffered from poor distribution suddenly winding up in the walmart black friday packs? There is product out there, and really even if there isn't how hard would it be to take a poll and release maybe ten highly sought after figures all made form tooling they have during the down time? The day I am sad because a poor little corporation can't get their _____ together is a day that will never exist. The major toy companies are bleeding fans as fast as comics did in the late 90s. Kids are being relied on to carry lines, and it doesn't seem to be happening. Appease fanboys, don't talk down them, don;t throw bs at them, and they'd have a much easier time. Provide product, and they will buy it. even over priced product.

You make very good points. I hope after the movie toyline has run its course they decide to go back to Renegades and make another season. Probably wishful thinking.