Reflecting on 2012: A Year of Transformative Action Figures and Missed Opportunities
Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m taking a look back at G.I. Joe in 2012 as a whole. This was a good year but things were sliding quickly in the wrong direction in my opinion. As we all know some of the figures got real cheap. Some of the retaliation figures looked cool but had minimal articulation. There were a few of my favorite characters that were exclusives like Voltar, Horror Show, and Footloose, all that I would love to have. Footloose was one of the first figures I bought as a kid and would have loved this one.
It wasn’t a complete washout though. The Rock as Roadblock is cool, but I always thought they should have just made him The Rock kind of like SGT Slaughter, but maybe there was some conflict with the WWE? There were some Amazon exclusives that look pretty cool but I never had any of those. There were some amazing finds with the Dollar General figures. They were short lived but I was all over these figures especially the Shipwreck. I made a lot of custom figures including a custom Train. I don’t know why they were short live, these were just great figures and affordable. I think if they would have continued with these figures they would have made a mint.
I guess slow and steady went out the window and the years to come would be exclusive and convention figures that I just did not have extra cash to purchase awesome figures. Over all this was still a solid year and I wish I could of picked up that awesome Oktober Guard set. Who are your favorite figures from this year? Make sure to check back next week for those crazy hunts for 2013 releases.
