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11-21-2020, 11:13 AM
SmokeBellew
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Zap Rowsdower
I wasn't going to keep CC this wave if he was a straight repack of the Retaliation ultimate CC. We already have two of them in circulation at my house. I pre-ordered retro CC without seeing him (missed the live stream but got an in-stock alert) figuring I would cancel it unless it was actually different (darker blue, leg stripes, updated sculpt for armored CC, whatever). In that sense, I had no skin in the game either way. I was pretty sure I was going to cancel him anyway.
But to use Vala's kitbash with dated parts was just a bad move even for people who are new to modern 1:18 Joes. Repacking O-face Duke is possibly the worst choice you could make among existing molds. Those "new" people are going to open up those figures and find all of the same shortcomings we found with those parts over a decade ago. There will be unnecessary disappointment. Why would you sour new customers on your product like that?
That, for me, is the additional frustration and irritation. You're poisoning the well with the few new customers you have while rubbing your existing customers' noses in your mess you left on the rug. The common refrain of us needing "new blood" because collectors can't support the line alone, if true, means that we NEED new customers to be happy with the product and have ravenous appetites for more. This amateur hour crap will do the exact opposite.
Maybe, but you're assuming all collectors think exactly like you and adhere to popular consensus on Hisstank. I know this much, kids seem to like these toys, as I've seen kids looking at them in the aisles. My personal favorite anecdote is when I was returning my wave one figures: I'd just barely pulled the toys out of the bag and laid them on the counter when a couple of kids with their parents at the customer service desk snatched them up and asked if they could have them. Anyway, who knows. All I know is these toys may not be for me, but that doesn't automatically mean they're not for anyone else either.
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