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09-14-2022, 06:42 PM | #6811 |
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It?s getting easier for me to move on from this line all together.
I was all in on the KS. I loved EFR as an alternative to GI Joe with Mego roots. I then became excited for Monster Force and Ninja Force. I didn?t mind waiting and Bill came through. I supported the 80s gold figures - but was much less enthused. I really wanted the concepts and figures teased years earlier. I have no interest in pulp / Flash Gordon heroes. To get EFR characters I do want I?d have to buy a large wave full of that style. Just can?t do it. Bill is the absolute best. I hope the many FMF fans here and elsewhere love the new stuff and it does extremely well. But, I think I?m out. Noticing wave 7 doesn't include the all-silver / all-red Space Force figures that were teased earlier this year. Has anyone heard if those are still in the pipeline?
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09-14-2022, 10:25 PM | #6812 |
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09-14-2022, 10:27 PM | #6813 |
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We have brought Space Force over from Amazo Toys to Fresh Monkey Fiction. We will not be rereleasing the original assortment, but we plan on growing out the line over time with some reissues and new color options. The political element will be less of a focus and the line will be based more around space adventures. The characters will be incorporated into the Eagle Force universe via some new offerings with General Brown taking center stage. He?ll be joined by a motley crew of space explorers including Commander Coco (the space monkey), Nikola Tesla (who?s brain was transplanted into a clone body) and the ghost of Ronald Reagan. You?ll see a trend in this line of offering one body with multiple heads so you can build out your Space Force Team, as well army builder space Space Troopers in various colors. Look for more R.I.O.T. space themed villains coming soon?
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09-15-2022, 01:11 AM | #6814 |
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I keep wanting to get out of this line because I buy SO much other stuff, but it keeps pulling me back in. It's the Venture Bros line I never knew I wanted.
But with all these bubble helmets planned, I hope the factory is able to improve the clarity of the plastic. It's a little hazy compared to the JoyToy Wandering Earth helmets. I think the trick is to super-polish the mold. |
09-15-2022, 10:22 AM | #6815 |
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As of 9:15CST Sep15 I'm seeing everybody but Ultima Thule and the two non-counted figures being over halfway to 300. Gen Brown looks like he'll be the first to break 300.
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09-15-2022, 03:24 PM | #6816 |
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So wait a sec. I looked at the site and the re-issued and repainted troopers need an MOQ? Kind of odd considering the tooling is done and its mostly a simple repaint. Unless they are moving to Vietnam where they would have to start at square one.
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09-15-2022, 03:40 PM | #6817 |
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Even if the tooling is paid for the new batch of manufacturing plastic and worker time still need to be paid for. Down-time in a factory is *always* a lost-time-and-money factor that gets computed as part of the negotiations whether it's worth the factory's time to switch out equipment and supply plastics to make a different product. That's the first step to computing the Minimum Order Quantity where the factory starts to turn a profit. Once the factory makes a profit, the creator/license owner corporation/retailer can start to make their profit.
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09-15-2022, 04:51 PM | #6818 |
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There's a lot of set-up and staging work in a production run. For each figure, there are probably somewhere north of 300 discreet steps (injecting the plastic, cleaning up parts, paint operations, assembly, QA, and packing). Also, there are minimum orders with the printing companies to make the card backs. It's a lot of work and planning and training human beings to perform the steps. It's just not efficient or practical to make less than a minimum of 250-350 units, even if it's just a repack of a previously released figure.
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09-15-2022, 06:54 PM | #6819 |
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I'm not really interested in John Strong since I already have BFS comic Flash Gordon and want to get the movie version of Flash when he comes out. That being said, I think that Prince Sarxek will work as a "general" type to BFS Ming. Maybe as a stand-in for Prince Kro-Tan from Defenders of the Earth.
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09-15-2022, 08:16 PM | #6820 |
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Dime Novel Legends dropped a Sundown 4 inch figure. Bill has had the Cops license and said he wasnt doing a 4 inch line right now. Since the two lines have collaborated wonder if this is a one off or if Bill has a Cops line coming?
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