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02-27-2023, 10:11 PM | #11 |
Bill Cosplay
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I wonder if some scalpers slap "RARE HTF!!!1!!" on everything they list because if you wait long enough, there's always a rube with no clue or patience coming along.
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02-27-2023, 10:25 PM | #12 |
Fartbutt McGillicuddy
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02-28-2023, 09:29 AM | #13 |
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I hate it when companies go "Look at this cool thing we're going to do!" And after a handful of said thing comes out all you hear is crickets. I don't think we ever really heard the full truth behind the Jazwares AC line and I really wanted the Spin Master LoL for cheap fodder.
That's fairly standard marketing practice. To better move product then you want to create a sense of urgency in the potential customers so they complete the purchase. If you were giving a seminar and had 1000 seats to fill, you wouldn't want to advertise you have 1000 tickets on sale. You'd say, "only 100 seats left!" |
02-28-2023, 09:51 AM | #14 |
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I can't stand when morons break their double-hinged knees and elbows on the wrong hinge first. Fuck reason you can't look at people in the universe to see how their bodies work, fool?
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02-28-2023, 09:58 AM | #15 |
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Why would or should we hear the "full truth" behind corporate manufacturing decisions? I see posts like this and am reminded of my physics professor, "the universe doesn't owe you an explanation," he'd say. Seems corporate executives went to the same lecture. Anyways, the truth tends to be the same thing over and over. Stores stopped buying, so the manufacturer stopped making. The other being, "it failed to meet expectations".
While I fall more in the "it would be interesting to know" and not the "you better tell me" group, I don't think it's some absurdity that consumers should be able to ask questions with the expectation of answers from publicly traded commercial companies.
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02-28-2023, 10:17 AM | #16 |
Fartbutt McGillicuddy
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i'd like a reasonable explanation for why i'm paying more for figures this year than i was last year when there's no real improvements in the line to show for it.
best example is hasbro doing this, for the longest time they got away with "improved paint applications" and "tooling" well, releasing clone troopers and landos every wave, where's the evidence of that? stop gaslighting me so the ceo can just get more money for less effort. flat out, hasbro has priced me out of buying anything they sell, and they hold the majority of every license i have any interest in. i could not imagine how hard it would be being a kid today, where when i was a kid i could walk down a walmart aisle and pick off a star wars action figure or marvel figure and it not take an entire month to save up for it. |
02-28-2023, 10:42 AM | #17 |
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i'd like a reasonable explanation for why i'm paying more for figures this year than i was last year when there's no real improvements in the line to show for it.
best example is hasbro doing this, for the longest time they got away with "improved paint applications" and "tooling" well, releasing clone troopers and landos every wave, where's the evidence of that? stop gaslighting me so the ceo can just get more money for less effort. flat out, hasbro has priced me out of buying anything they sell, and they hold the majority of every license i have any interest in. i could not imagine how hard it would be being a kid today, where when i was a kid i could walk down a walmart aisle and pick off a star wars action figure or marvel figure and it not take an entire month to save up for it.
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02-28-2023, 11:01 AM | #18 |
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i failed to mention that star wars and marvel, were as a result of my allowance (raised to 5 bucks) and yard work for 10 bucks at my neighbor houses. yard work was not consistent work. with those ways to buy, there'd still be no way i could buy anything today. |
02-28-2023, 11:49 AM | #19 |
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Most if not all collectors watch Star Wars tv shows the Book of Boba Fett included and I find it freaking annoying when seeing comments all over about how that show tanked and all. I loved that show and as much as I understand the harsh criticism, I still don’t get the idea that a more ruthless or leader/inspiring figure Boba would have been better. First, he wasn’t always a blood thirsty killer and if they had decided to portray him as such the show would have been so one dimensional. Is it that want we want at the end of the day because we've become one dimensional? That's a rhetorical question. God forbid our beloved characters grow and change just like actual people but we wouldn't want that because mortality has become a distant concept so we're living in a fantasy world...it's easy I get it.
IMHO that the whole show was about the character's rebirth, the subsequent reexamination of his past life, and his decision to become a better person. Why is that difficult to understand? Perhaps it's because we want to see a roothless bounty hunter taking charge and killing every single thing that moves. I enjoy that shit too but then I'd watch John Wick over and over again. Then you have those who would constantly whine and complain about the show yet they would spend precious times seeing it through the end. How the f#4!@ you explained that? |
02-28-2023, 12:12 PM | #20 |
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As for the series proper, it was a little hard to buy into the "redemption" arc with Boba still being the ruthless bounty hunter in Mando Season 2 - it ended with him callously killing Bib Fortuna and assuming the throne. Remember Mando Season 2 takes place after his stay with the Tuskens so that's not really consistent with his portrayal in the series. Of course, Robert Rodriguez's need to give a nod to American Graffiti didn't really help either and showed his fundamental misunderstanding of Lucas's concept for a "lived in" universe. The Mods and their shiny Vespa speeders would've been right at home in the base levels of Corsucant, but not on Tatooine which causes a visual conflict and removes the immersion aspect of the viewer with the story. And they were a fundamental part of Boba's story. If he wanted to do an homage, he should've picked Mad Max and given the Mods and their speeders that post-apocalyptic wash. Add that with the COVID set/cast limitations and restrictions, and with the exception of the Luke/Grogu scenes, it felt rushed and unfinished giving off more of a 90's Star Trek television vibe than Star Wars. It's unfortunate we're not getting a Season 2 to see a potential course correction.
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