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07-21-2020, 09:11 PM | #2451 |
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Didnt they do something like but but in reverse when the roc movie out?
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07-21-2020, 09:13 PM | #2452 |
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I thought they did that too go more with the art. Had to be a reason because I doubt that head cost too much to give it too us. No hooker jokes please.
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07-21-2020, 09:15 PM | #2453 |
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I think they decided no alternate heads. Storm Shadow doesn't come with any of his alternates either.
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07-21-2020, 09:32 PM | #2454 |
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07-21-2020, 09:34 PM | #2455 |
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Agreed. If I don't get an impressive Scarlett and Duke I'm out for the figures. I'm just assuming that we'll get a 1984 colors Club RB?
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07-21-2020, 09:57 PM | #2456 |
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I’m betting that (83) Commando head came on the same sprue as the (85) Ninja head. If it’s not hidden somewhere in the package, they are likely holding it back for a running change or some other completist collector shenanigans. Same with the Storm Shadow body. We’ll see the other version of that before too long.
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07-21-2020, 11:57 PM | #2457 |
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Absolutely true, and soft goods en masse have the same savings economy of scale provides for plastic, but the consumer base doesn't support that kind of product nowadays except on the lower-end (Barbie) or higher-end (Hot Toys/Mezco one:12)... Hasbro's stuff sits right in the middle, and plastic is the most economical way to do that, I think.
If OG Joes started becoming a thing again they'd totally jump on that bandwagon, but there hasn't been anything to show that there's a market for that kinda product. It'd be like making the world's greatest text adventure game: super economical and proportionately incredibly profitable, but if nobody buys it then it doesn't matter how much you saved when making it. Quote:
And Mattel lost the DC license and is struggling financially because they somehow couldn't figure out how to make a profit off of Batman toys. Which is a stunning level of corporate/artistic incompetence, about on par with most of DC's movie efforts, actually (a match made in heaven!). They've got a handful of owned and licensed properties keeping them afloat, but Mattel's generally a bad model to use when it comes to profitability.
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07-22-2020, 04:17 AM | #2458 |
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I'm not clear what that's got to do with what we were talking about... if anything, being able to shrug off almost entire waves of product pegwarming is a really good indicator of how solid their business actually is. If the occasional botched release wrecked them the way it did Mattel then they would have lost SW decades ago. But they haven't, because they've got a good enough foundation to bounce back from miscalculations, screw-ups, and gambles that don't pay off. |
07-22-2020, 05:31 AM | #2459 |
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I refuse to believe that same quality of detail in paint and sculpting isn't possible in a 4" figure.
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07-22-2020, 06:13 AM | #2460 |
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Sculpt fidelity drops the smaller tooling gets, so accuracy goes, and something as simple as paint thickness can make a huge difference. A single coat can make the sculpt pop on a 1/6 figure, but completely fill in the detail on 1/18 and make it look smooth and featureless. Gun barrels need to be made proportionately thicker to be appropriately durable, joints have to be larger to handle the stress that you put on it because leverage is a PITA, corners that would be a-ok on a larger figure become cutting edges when you get small enough so they've got to be rounded, etc., etc.. There's a reason Hiya Toys' 1/18 figures cost $20, and even then when you've got them side by side with a NECA figure they're still obviously not a detailed despite the matching price point. |
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