Evan Ratliff
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, let's go ahead and talk about that.
Because G.I.
Joe changed a lot once it became a cartoon.
Yeah.
I think like 50,000.
But it was enough for Yamauchi to say, let's give this a try.
And we're going to talk about some really cool political stuff that I had no idea went into this.
Let's roll out to the rest of the country.
Another bold move, because normally after your first test test,
But G.I.
Joe became a cartoon series.
This was in the early 80s.
So this is when I had kind of quit playing with action figures for the most part.
like run your first test market, you do like four or five more.
And he said, no, let's skip that.
Okay.
Let's just go right to the rest of the country.
Yeah.
Because 83, 84, I was like 13 and, you know, I was moving on to, you know.
And he did.