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10-09-2017, 12:23 PM | #151 |
Crimson Guard
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This latest Power Lords run by 4Horsemen has been a revealing experience. It seems as once joyful action figure enthusiasts, at the high end of this hobby we have transgressed to the hipster douches of the toy world. Whereas Kickstarter has allowed us access to the process and breaking down of all components, we now demand it for everything. While it's true it's comforting to see accountability from unknown names, we have gotten to the point where a company like 4Horsemen who has produced millions in sales and taken sculpts to new unsurpassed realms, still is given no leeway and looked upon as suspect, unless they show us & tell us everything.
"How exactly is that penny I sent you going to be divided" we yell out with the rest of our long list of demands. "When you are done playing with sculpt in the back get over here on this computer and break down your business for me," we tell them. "And why have you not colored in this story and made this more apealing to me? What is wrong with you guys?" we ask them. No longer can one just make an action figure for exactly what it is, to be looked at and held for as simple as it is. No, not even figures of a 30 year old property that we recognize that would not exist otherwise. Instead of just enjoying that simple but well made piece of plastic in our hands we demand much more. Give me a story, give me updates, give me a bio on every figure, what's the goal, when does the next series come out, I won't buy unless I have every single one because I am a 40yr old manchild with OCD, the list goes on & on. No longer can we just appreciate what is. This is the pigeonhole we have been led to. You want my money before I get product? Then you need to *SELL* that product to me, not rest on laurels others gave you. |
10-09-2017, 12:45 PM | #152 |
Gunslinger
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: MidWorld
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Four Horsemen still have my money. I need it back so I can give it to the Hell Screamerz instead.
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10-09-2017, 01:54 PM | #153 |
Joes do I.T. better!
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: California
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But I guess I am not surprised to hear disagreence, even though the reasons you guys have retorted back are pretty much the same manchild reasonings of "I want my toys, I want them all, and I want them now" that I initially noticed and pointed out among some of us. But I can only show you the mirror, I can't make you accept what you see in it.
I'm content. I can take or leave the toys that I am not getting. But if offering some insight and speculation into why the line failed based on the current state of the hobby falls into an "OCD" diagnosis (protip: It doesn't, but it does indicate a hyperbole-rich lack of actual argument from the one making the "diagnosis") then so be it. Here's a mirror for you: Dude joins toy fan site and on his fifth post, calls out members of toy fan site as "OCD Manchildren Douches". I can't make you see what's in the mirror, but I can tell you it's awash with vinegar and water. |
10-09-2017, 02:10 PM | #154 |
Crimson Guard
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Four years? FOUR YEARS?!? Complaining about a four year gap with no information at all is a "spoiled oblivious OCD thing"? Seriously?
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10-09-2017, 06:47 PM | #155 |
Depth Perceptionist
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I didn't bother preordering because this whole venture seemed designed to fail. It should have been done on Kickstarter where everyone would be able to see the goal, but if I were going to run a campaign that I didn't want to follow through with, I would definitely ask people to donate to some blind goal with a short time limit and little to no advertising, and then just tell them there wasn't enough interest.
Give it some time, these will be made in 6" instead. They just wanted it to seem like a genuine effort to make a 4" line. Personally, I don't feel it was.
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10-11-2017, 11:26 AM | #156 |
Gunslinger
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I seriously doubt these will reappear in 6" scale. This was the last throwaway effort.
Now the Power Lords are truly dead.
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