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01-27-2009, 03:54 AM | #11 |
Cobra Viper
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You're comparing Hasbro having product available for a few years in the 80's to Mattel making product available for a month now?
I am not in favor of what Mattel is doing with the Masters of the Universe Classics line in many ways. There is no way those toys are worth $28 shipped. Mattel tries to be buddy-buddy in their press releases to those who support their toy lines but their actions do not match their words. If Mattel was fan friendly with the MotUC line then they would wouldn't short run the figures. I don't recall Mattel saying that the figures would only be available for a month or that they would only do one production run. After all of that they can't even get the figures to people in mint/near mint condition. I think they hired some really good marketing people and they're trying to pull something comparable to the Nintendo Wii. Hopefully Mattel will have their stuff together by Toy Fair... |
01-27-2009, 04:11 AM | #12 |
Mortal Enemy
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To keep figures cheap you have to produce a ton and hope to sell just as many (see any Star Wars character) because you're hoping to make 1,000,000 dimes of profit. If you want to have a very small limited run, the figures are going to be expensive (like the new He-man) to sell because you're hoping to making 10,000 $1's of profit.
There's no perfect medium. There's no psychics working for any toy company that can tell you a line or an individual figure is going to be a hit. So companies take the most calculated risk they can to hope they at least break even.
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01-27-2009, 04:53 AM | #13 |
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Or possibly just the monkey's plastic ass.
Sometimes I think the Q&A's do almost more harm than good. I mean, most the time the Q&A's for both Star Wars & Joe are the following: "Dear Hasbro, when will I get blahblahblah?" Hasbro gets enough of those questions and we get a rushed figure in a comic pack rather than a preferred single pack figure. I think Hasbro knows a cash cow when they see one. We'll get all the figures we could possibly ask for in time. And those that we don't, we can customize, until they eventually get to it. And they will get to it... Yarna D’Al’Gargan is proof of that.
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01-27-2009, 05:06 AM | #14 |
The Chaos Bringer
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Or possibly just the monkey's plastic ass.
Sometimes I think the Q&A's do almost more harm than good. I mean, most the time the Q&A's for both Star Wars & Joe are the following: "Dear Hasbro, when will I get blahblahblah?" Hasbro gets enough of those questions and we get a rushed figure in a comic pack rather than a preferred single pack figure. I think Hasbro knows a cash cow when they see one. We'll get all the figures we could possibly ask for in time. And those that we don't, we can customize, until they eventually get to it. And they will get to it... Yarna D’Al’Gargan is proof of that. |
01-27-2009, 06:02 AM | #15 |
Cobra Sith Lord
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Ha!
No, I think what annoys me more are the collectors that beg for certain figures, and then after (name your manufacturer of choice) creates the oft asked for figure it sits on the shelf in droves. Case in point: Yarna D’Al’Gargan from Star Wars. For years collectors whined and bitched that they really wanted this fat, six-titted dancer from Jabba's palace. Hasbro put it off and put it off until they finally caved. Now she sits in quantities of 15 or more at all 6 of the Targets in my area. I'm afraid that the same $hit will happen with the freakin' Tonnika sisters and the ice cream maker dude from Bespin (first off, who gives a $hit about every little .5 second screen time Star Wars extra... oops, sorry, "character", anyway?) I just kind of want to go to Rebelscum and say: "Shut the F**k up! You'll get the figure, when you get the figure." Then I'd like to go to Hasbro and say: "What the F**k were you thinking? What 'kid' (they always talk about their main market being kids) is going to want a fat six-titted dancer? Make it a starwarsshop.com exclusive! Give the collectors the opportunity to buy what they want and stop clogging the pegs with useless hunks of plastic." [/rant]
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