fwiw I've never been very fond of G.I. Joe being named after only one of its factions (I now know why it's so, but as a kid I thought it was kinda lame). Action Man and Action Force sounded better to me (yeah I know Action Man sounds sexist, but I wasn't thinking about this during the mid 1980s)

Quote Originally Posted by griffin
So it isn't 'dumb' to stylise a toy (something that is intended to be played with) to represent a Transformers Character, and package it as a Transformers toy. No more dumber than packaging a Cobra Commander in GIJoe packaging.
I wasn't saying it was dumb*... I said that it was no dumber (or no cleverer) than making a toy from plastic and selling it under "Metal Heroes Series." Or a competition between only two countries and calling it the World Series. Or indeed not much better than selling COBRA toys under a series called "G.I. Joe."

*although I do think it is dumb, but that's JMO.