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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9233400" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>Are you kidding? We couldn't get enough licensed products when I was a kid. It sold well until it didn't and they switched to using other licensed properties. For all the problems the Masters of the Universe, GI Joe, and Transformers lines had, it's possible they just had a good run and kids turned to other interests. In 1986 I got a few Joe figures, including a B.A.T.S., Low Light, and Lifeline, as well as Sgt. Slaughter and his tank and the Tomahawk helicopter, but just a few months into 1987 I pretty much put them down. Partly because by then the other kids would have made fun of me had it been known I still played with toys. (If only they could see adult me painting little plastic figures.) By the time the 1989 series rolled around I had pretty much stopped watching cartoons (save for TMNT at a friend's house on occasion) and had no interest in GI Joe. </p><p>I think the target demographic for a lot of those 80s boys toys were for those 5-12 years of age. GI Joe and Masters of the Universe have never quite resonated with children like they did in the 80s and the toys today and pretty much just made for the adult collectors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9233400, member: 4534"] Are you kidding? We couldn't get enough licensed products when I was a kid. It sold well until it didn't and they switched to using other licensed properties. For all the problems the Masters of the Universe, GI Joe, and Transformers lines had, it's possible they just had a good run and kids turned to other interests. In 1986 I got a few Joe figures, including a B.A.T.S., Low Light, and Lifeline, as well as Sgt. Slaughter and his tank and the Tomahawk helicopter, but just a few months into 1987 I pretty much put them down. Partly because by then the other kids would have made fun of me had it been known I still played with toys. (If only they could see adult me painting little plastic figures.) By the time the 1989 series rolled around I had pretty much stopped watching cartoons (save for TMNT at a friend's house on occasion) and had no interest in GI Joe. I think the target demographic for a lot of those 80s boys toys were for those 5-12 years of age. GI Joe and Masters of the Universe have never quite resonated with children like they did in the 80s and the toys today and pretty much just made for the adult collectors. [/QUOTE]
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