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The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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02-16-2010, 02:35 AM
zuludelta
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Master Thespian
My issue is that I'd much rather make it 1/18th, but I'm not sold on the money I can get in this scale being able to support the line. I might be moving up to 1/12th out of necessity. It's nice to see Hot Toys is the guideline for more than just myself,
although spending their formative years in the East Asian collectors market is much more forgiving than trying the same in the North American market.
You're right there. Just like with comic books and animation, toys aren't just looked at as "kids' stuff" in East Asia (and significant Southeast Asian markets like Singapore and urban Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines), so relatively high-priced and diverse (in terms of subject material) product can and does move there.
But yeah, the whole enterprise is predicated on the idea that there is an untapped market out there for high-detail/high quality mid to high end 1:18 designer toys (economic downturn notwithstanding) similar to what's sustaining the high-end 1:6 industry.
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... I've seen with such threads as "Batman vs Snake-Eyes" or "I hate the ROC movie Thread" there is nothing I have worth adding...
... I'm old enough to have my own opinions and too old to care if no one shares them...
Yeah, same here. And for the most part, I'm okay with all the grumbling, complaining, moaning and arguing over petty things, since (a) it's a free (internet) country and anybody can say whatever they want as long as it's allowed by the terms of service of the community message board; and (b) nobody's forcing me to read those posts and threads.
I was just sort of hoping, I guess, that with the new year and things like RoC and its affiliated toys now firmly in the rearview mirror, the community could move on and talk about other things but instead, a cursory sampling of recent threads and posts reveals just more of the same stereotypical "arrested adolescent" behaviour one sees in pop culture "geek" communities (primarily the sense of entitlement and misplaced righteous indignation).
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