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02-13-2011, 01:26 PM | #1 |
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I was just reading the Zarana thread & started wondering, why are newly sculpted figures that we don't have yet made into SDCC exclusives? Aren't the exclusives for Botcon & Joecon usually just repaints? I know Botcon are always repaints with a couple new head sculpts thrown in. But why does SDCC get a brand new figure like Zarana??? Wouldn't it make more sense to release the regular pink Zarana in POC or Renegades & make the Cold Slither variant a SDCC exclusive? Or just give SDCC some random repaints that nobody really cares about? Or a 5-pack of POC Shock Troopers or something like that?
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so they sell?
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There are a few reasons...Joecon and Botcon are not Hasbro creations, therefore unique sculpts aren't necessary. I know SDCC isnt either, but they need to appeal to NON-Joe fans in some manner. Joecon is all
For Joe fans, not some dude off the street. Secondly, SDCC items are more expensive and made in the thousands, where JoeCon/Botcon items are made in the hundreds, and look how expensive the exclusives are for existing molds! Hasbro uses SDCC like they do NYTF, as a trade show, but for collectors. Female figures don't sell. Look at Helix, whom everyone was gaga over. Se ended up being a major pegwarmer. The line is still as much for kids as it is for collectors. This was, almost strictly collectors will be getting her, even if through a different avenue. It also opens the possibility of a retail redeco somewhere down the line. Can to see their logic, even if you dot agree with it? |
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Exclusives are meant to excite and entice.
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02-13-2011, 01:43 PM | #5 |
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Katy Perry does that for me.
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Her boobs are weird
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Because they're cool like that.
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actually, the SDCC figures are Hasbro creations. so, unlike the Joe Club which doesn't make new toys other than a few new parts, Hasbro is in the toy making business and can make these new figures just as easily. the smaller production quantity is made up by the extra $2 price tag.
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02-13-2011, 02:22 PM | #10 |
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SDCC is a venue much like NYTF, but instead of just showing off new products, it gives fans and new comers alike to a chance to buy one of a kind items that were made specifically for the fan/collector in mind.
Last year we got a new sculpt from them in the form of Sgt. Slaughter. Granted he wasn't made in mass quantity like they normally do so that there would be plenty for people to buy who couldn't attend. But he was new none the less. Also im sure we will get some sort of rerelease of him since several fans were unable to get one. Zarana will be the same way.. Except, I can see the original Zarana selling out way faster than the Cold Slither one. LOL
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