Should Hasbro update the Anniversary filecards some?

[SalvoDeli]

According to Duke's first filecard, he enlisted in 1967... so, that'd make the guy, what, 58 or so? Is that age used in the current comic?

[pesatyel]

That's stupid.

 

I wonder why the didn't use the Tiger Force version. It was essentially the same, just deleting the date references.

[obiwanjacoby]

It doesn't bother me, and it's easy to justify with a little imagination (if you wanna).

 

1. All the Joes were shot up with the same life-extending serum that Nick Fury got.

 

2. The Joe-verse is either in stasis, or time moves more slowly there when compared to ours.

 

This is also how I will be able to justify playing with retired F-14 Tomcats 10 years from now.

 

-PJ

[pesatyel]

It doesn't bother me, and it's easy to justify with a little imagination (if you wanna).

 

1. All the Joes were shot up with the same life-extending serum that Nick Fury got.

 

2. The Joe-verse is either in stasis, or time moves more slowly there when compared to ours.

 

This is also how I will be able to justify playing with retired F-14 Tomcats 10 years from now.

 

-PJ

 

That's not what filecard says.

 

I suppose it doesn't matter since these aren't tied to any specific storyline.

[obiwanjacoby]

That's not what filecard says.

 

That's cuz it's classified.

 

C'mon throw me a bone here, I'm trying to loosen up on being a Filecard Pharisee, see how the other half lives.

 

-PJ

[Stevy Maximus]

You know full well that if Hasbro changed the filecards in anyway, people would complain about how Hasbro isn't being "true" to GI Joe @hmmm@

[Crimson Twins]

I could care less. Filecards are something I cut out and throw in a box. Nothing more. You could tell me a figure's real name was Man, Crap E., and I wouldn't care less if it was an awesome figure.

[Devilbat]

(lol) Crap E. Man...

 

I like the fact that they're exact replicas. It's the info I grew up reading about them. I mean, let's face it; this is twenty-five year-old info we're looking at, and we're commemorating what was relevant THEN, not now. If they want to do new characters that have recent military experience or recent miltary histories, that's fine. But to me the whole point of doing anniversary figures is to commemorate what was, not what is now.

[DPrime]

The characters aren't updated, so there's no need to.

[obiwanjacoby]

And as another member here already pointed out, the "terrorist" labels on the 25th cards were all carefully sanitized out.

 

All done in the interest of keeping the files as up-to-date as possible, I'm sure.

 

-PJ

[Snow_Serpent]

Nah

[pesatyel]

The characters aren't updated, so there's no need to.

 

They aren't? Isn' the 25th a "modern" version/interpretation of the classic characters?

[Three Storms]

I could care less. Filecards are something I cut out and throw in a box. Nothing more. You could tell me a figure's real name was Man, Crap E., and I wouldn't care less if it was an awesome figure.

 

 

I agree. Besides, for those who truely want classics, the file cards are a good thing.

[DPrime]

The characters aren't updated, so there's no need to.

 

They aren't? Isn' the 25th a "modern" version/interpretation of the classic characters?

 

How do you figure? Notice I said the CHARACTERS weren't updated. The toy design/articulation was, but not the actual characters themselves. They still look like they did in the '80s, so we should just assume that's the case.

 

It'd be like having to "update" a character profile of ANH Luke, based on later stuff he did in ESB, ROTJ, and whatever novels/comics/whatever are out there. Likewise, the 25th Anniversary figures are representations of the characters at a given moment in time.