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06-13-2020, 10:47 PM | #5371 |
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Darvold only lets you add about 31 to the cart on Mega's site today, so they may be almost sold out.
I think anyone can look at this figure though and see it is more appealing than the past exclusives. And it's more customizable into multiple characters, so many people will want multiples, or at the very least 1 red and 1 blue each. On eBay for Gazoge, the sales show this: 58 bought 1 28 bought 2 7 bought 3 5 bought 4 0 bought 5 2 bought 6 So almost half the customers bought more than one. That accounts for 167 of the 400. We can only see the last 100 sales.
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06-13-2020, 10:48 PM | #5372 |
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The difference is going to just be a blue skull rather than a red one? What about the book? Will it be different?
I get that you can’t win them all. I lost today. I’ll survive. I just wish I had known there was a game. This type of thing (suddenly learning something is out there after it is sold out) is my greatest fear. If this means I can’t collect Boss Fight anymore, well, there are still plenty of other toy lines to collect. |
06-13-2020, 10:56 PM | #5373 |
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You lost today, kid, but that doesn't mean you have to like it.
Those eBay stats also show that 2 out of every 5 figures are going to people buying multiples. That's 200 out of 500. So if that stat holds, only 300 customers will actually own the figure despite 500 being made. It's just super ironic for me, because I had slowed down on my Boss Fight purchases for a year or two and just this week made a list of everything I had and what I needed to catch up. Luckily I already had everything that had become rare and expensive, such as the Knight of Asperity. Everything I needed that Boss Fight themselves had sold out, I found other stores that had it for retail. I checked this thread and their web site and their e-mails to make sure my list of current and upcoming releases was accurate. So I thought I was going to be able to complete my collection this week with no issues. But since this figure wasn't mentioned in their e-mails or here on this thread, I ended up missing it just days after I had convinced myself I hadn't missed anything. |
06-13-2020, 10:59 PM | #5374 |
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The difference is going to just be a blue skull rather than a red one? What about the book? Will it be different?
I get that you can’t win them all. I lost today. I’ll survive. I just wish I had known there was a game. This type of thing (suddenly learning something is out there after it is sold out) is my greatest fear. If this means I can’t collect Boss Fight anymore, well, there are still plenty of other toy lines to collect.
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06-13-2020, 11:10 PM | #5375 |
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Maybe if they go on to make a green one and a yellow one and so on, some of those people will give up their multiple purchases of the red one and sell them off...
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06-14-2020, 12:50 AM | #5376 |
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No, I wouldn't blame Roma for not getting the word out. It's their first exclusive from BFS and many people who wanted it would not have been on their mailing list or following their social media. Generals Joes definitely deserves credit for notifying people. But ultimately this is a figure for BFS fans and the only reliable way that group of people can find out about is through BFS. So why the existence of this figure was never mentioned in any of their e-mails this year is puzzling. They just sent out an e-mail yesterday mentioning that June 13th was a big day with a sale on their site and other events, but they didn't mention a thing about Gazoge or Roma.
I have 7 e-mails from them this year before yesterday's mentioning the zombie figures going on sale in May, new basics in April, a custom sale in March, irradiated zombie on sale in March, Flash Gordon debut in February, Frankie the steed in February, and a sale event in January. The word Gazoge never came up. |
06-14-2020, 01:14 AM | #5377 |
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Honestly the blue one is no where near as desirable to me. I planned to get both versions and use them as more than one character because of the heads, but wanted the Red since it matches the rest of the Knights of Asperity. A blue one is almost useless to me.
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06-14-2020, 03:30 AM | #5378 |
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It's definitely true that BFS has still to date never mentioned Darvold directly on Twitter or in their e-mails. They may have retweeted tweets about him, I can't search on that.
Darvold overall had much more Twitter activity than Gazoge had. A lot of sites reported on the SDCC announcement of Darvold in July 2019. Then there was very little mention until April 3rd when Mega Tweeted that he had arrived. After that some other mentions that he was in stock appeared as well as some reviews. In-between that time, Mega did mention Darvold was up for pre-order in some of their direct e-mail newsletters and there were a couple tweets spreading that info. Gazoge on Twitter has absolutely zero mentions until this month. Just three tweets a few days before he went on sale mentioning reviews or comments on him in early June and then 5 tweets announcing that he had already gone on sale. Big difference from the many months when Mega was taking pre-orders for Darvold before the remaining stock went up for sale. And if Gazoge was announced before June, none of the toy accounts on Twitter that covered Darvold picked up on it. Last edited by JediJones; 06-14-2020 at 03:39 AM.. |
06-14-2020, 04:14 AM | #5379 |
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For those that wanted to see the deco differences.
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06-14-2020, 08:09 AM | #5380 |
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I personally like the blue one better but honestly I may not pick up this one either. I like variety and story and while I like the story for him I feel like I already have this character because of re use of parts. Darvold was my first and only ef so I was happy to include him in the ranks.
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