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>not really
>Hasbro canceling a line that sold well
lol

That's as big of a cope as you saying the o-ring issue not being a problem. It's 100% an issue, because 100% of the rubberbands have rotten. No ands ifs or buts about this.

People have been finding mint on card figures with their rubberbands snapped for the past 30 years. By the 00s, a lot of the mint on card vendors at conventions stopped bringing them around, because a ton of their stock was visibly broken. It was super fucking evident by then and the only reason you think it's not common is because most of the shit you see on eBay are those that still haven't broken.... or are barely hanging on thread like pic.
Maybe some person who doesn't know the signs of a broken rubberband will pay up for pic. Who knows how many others are like this, because you need to jiggle them around to see if the torso wobbles (a sign the rubberband is no longer tight and cracked/rotted).
Every single GI Joe from the 80s and 90s is suffering from rot, but they're at different stages of being broken. Completely snapped. Elasticity lost. Cracked. Stiff/hardened. Shredded. Hanging by a thread.

... and this isn't even my problem with the vintage figures. My problem is the fact that they all have mushy sculpts, shit articulation, and crappy paint compared to the modern (25th+) 1:18 figure. Wanting the old figures is like wanting a movie on a VHS tape versus a DVD or BD. The only reason to want that shit is completely "muh nostalgia"