Because the parachutes were actual cloth!  I don't think GI Joe made any cloth chutes in the vintage era, they were all plastic.  I had a FP parachute set that got a lot of work also. 

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I had quite a few of these but, sadly, I believe they fell victim to yard sales and the like.  I had the same plane/boat/6-wheeler as well as a safari set and some smaller ones like the racing motor cycle set.

These were the first action figures I remember having but they kind of got replaced by Star Wars and GI Joe.

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Yeah...I've got a couple comments on this piece of news but I won't spoil anything.  It's early, but if this is an indication of what direction they take with the villain then I may not be that happy with it.

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My Walmart sold through the whole lot of sets with the exception of Helms Deep.  I think it was a clean sweep of all the rest.

And I don't think Target has gotten them in yet.

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I went back to Target about 7:30 and nothing.  I didn't expect to find anything but they were doing stock when I was there around 11:30.

When I stopped this morning there was a cart in the action figure aisle with a box of reshop stuff, I think, but when I first saw it I thought it might be there because they were setting new pegs.  I rounded the corner at 7:30 and the cart was still there.  Good job, Target... 

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Nothing at Target today and they hadn't started their reset yet, which I is what I expected to find knowing the history of the store.

Headed to Walmart and they'd actually pulled all the clearance stuff out of the action figure aisle and had the pegs set but no stock out yet, it was all still on the cart.  I went and snagged lunch and came back to find the Retaliation stuff stocked.  One case of figures, Alpha vehicles, the Battle Kata 10" stuff and role play.  No Battle Packs or Bravo vehicles.

I picked up the Red Ninja, GI Joe Trooper and Zartan at $8.96 each and left.  I may head over to Target later this afternoon but don't expect to find anything...they're always a day or two behind on their toy aisle resets plus I really don't want to pay 10 per figure. 

And, yes, Hasbro admitted that they may have priced their RoC figures too high in '09.  But I don't know what Target was thinking when they hiked the Renegades/30th price to $10.99 when they had product on the pegs that wasn't moving at $7.99.  They're off their rocker.

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I've seen the theory floated that Retaliation screened really terribly and the reason for the 3D conversion is to reshoot the crap as much as it is to shoot additional 3D scenes and then convert it.

The Rock tweeted "designing new scenes to enhance 3D" when a guy posted that he hoped 3D is worth the wait.  That kind of says to me that they need to fix something.

Don't know.

I do know this; it shouldn't be that hard to create a decent movie with characters and a history that's 30 years old.  There's so much story to pick and choose from whether it's cartoon or comic or action figure file cards.  There are nearly endless story ideas that could be adapted and modernized and crafted into a movie that pays homage to what came before while being different enough to be original and entertaining.

I'm generally disgusted with Hollywood anyway.  While I loved Avengers and The Hunger Games, my three favorite films so far this year are Haywire, John Carter and Act of Valor.  With the exception of John Carter, the other two weren't what I'd call big studio movies but they were all really good.

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