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View Poll Results: Which MOTUC figure is the best? | |||
He-Man | 6 | 15.00% | |
Beast-Man | 4 | 10.00% | |
Skeletor | 6 | 15.00% | |
Stratos | 1 | 2.50% | |
Faker | 2 | 5.00% | |
Mer-Man | 7 | 17.50% | |
Zodac | 1 | 2.50% | |
Hordak | 13 | 32.50% | |
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03-25-2015, 07:07 AM | #50261 |
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If that's not the case, though, then given the usual patterns (IE tending to make the most desirable ones sub-only), I'd say Veena and Evilseed are for-sure Sub-Only, and possibly Calix as well. |
03-25-2015, 08:37 AM | #50262 |
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The no-DOS figures being a calculated move to sell subs is a myth. Scott explained that it was simply a scheduling conflict that crops up periodically throughout the year where they have to shorten production of a figure. Mattel has other brands that have priority when it comes to factory time.
I believe him, because if you look at the figures that have had no DoS, they are as random a sampling as there is. Clamp Champ, Fang Man, Sweet Bee, Two Bad, Huntara, Sea Hawk. Some are desirable, some aren't. I don't think any of them are among the MOST desirable. And if they were doing it to sell subs, most of them weren't even known to be sub-only during the sale period, because they were figures that came out later in the following year. The last point I'll make is that if they wanted more exclusives to sell the sub, they could just have more exclusives in the sub. There's no rule saying they can only have one "official" exclusive and any exclusive beyond that has to be back-doored. There's nothing stopping them from having, say, 4 quarterly exclusives -- it would just be in severe diminishing returns territory. One exclusive seems optimal. Another myth is that Matty can just suspend all DoS to force people to sub. To do that, they would have to increase their quota proportionally to make up the lost revenue and that's just not going to work. Their leverage over cherry pickers is not great enough and their core customer base is not large enough. |
03-25-2015, 12:12 PM | #50263 |
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I don't believe them because Fang Man showed up en masse the next year in their "customer service stock" sale. It was a ploy. The idea is to put it in your head to expect random figures in the sub to become exclusive to the sub. It's just a different angle to entice you vs. the announced sub exclusive. That one is no big deal if it's a figure you happen not to want. But when it can happen to ANY figure, it might worry you more.
Two Bad was a special case where they announced during the sub drive that he'd have no DOS stock. So he was specifically chosen as a desirable figure to entice people. The others are all of middle-of-the-road interest, so no big loss in cutting off their DOS sales, especially if they just held back their stock for later sale like Fang Man. I believe some of them may have already been sold again, but not sure. Last edited by JediJones; 03-25-2015 at 12:14 PM.. |
03-26-2015, 09:40 AM | #50264 |
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03-26-2015, 10:25 AM | #50265 |
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Hope to snag a set for myself, but I imagine these will be like the first offerings of Strobo or Goat-Man (gone in an instant) and then available in greater numbers come Black Friday/Cyber Monday.
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04-01-2015, 02:08 PM | #50266 |
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04-03-2015, 07:18 AM | #50267 |
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04-03-2015, 07:20 AM | #50268 |
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