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No pirates on this show to dress up like so Sideshows not interested.
The fact that weekly ratings for the show are floating between 5-7 million viewers on Nelson Ratings boxes alone and the comic has been a best seller since it's inception would argue it has a plenty big enough fan base.
Yulli pointed out a while back that she'd love to do some 1/6 scale zombies...imagine if HT picked this licence up. I'd like a surprise or two from them in 2011.
Yeah, I think there's enough support. I would love to see it tied in with The Dead somehow either through your generic example earlier or something else. Good quality stuff would do just fine.
Unfortunately, as far as The Dead is concerned, Sideshow's too infatuated with pirates, knights and musketeers to do anything like that.
Don't think sideshow would ever do this, does the walking dead have that big of a fan base?
With all that being said even if SS brought back the dead, do you think we would start seeing the price point start in the $100s. With things becoming more expensive and all just wondering if there pricing would still be the same or would it go up.
No, it doesn't. I have to agree that Sideshow wouldn't touch this license after what happened with Shaun of the Dead.
The truth of the matter is that SSC competes with 2 companies. Hot Toys and THEMSELVES. The reason I say this is that for every new license or figure SSC releases, its probably 1 less figure from a different line they will sell. The reason is as I said, SSC is horrible at recruiting new collectors (evidenced by Disney line and the Indy line and from second hand knowledge what I read from people in the GI Joe circles that oldschool Joe fans have not accepted the line).
So if The Walking Dead line was picked up by SSC where would the new $$ come from? It would come from people who collect SW or Joe or other anyway. So what is SSC's incentive to doing it? There is none UNLESS they try to milk profits by raising prices or doing a shoddy job (like with Shaun).
Oh, Prog...
When you said that, I thought you were going to completely disagree...
Like I said, the Joe knowledge comes second hand. I don't really know the core collector base at all. I do know that even a place like yojoe.com took a long time until they even acknowledged SSC had the license. Still, there is no direct advertising on the site. The ads on the site are from 3rd party on-line stores. I'm not sure if yojoe.com is small potatoes in Joe circles, but is SSC doing anything at any of the other Joe sites to clue people in? If there are 100,000 (pulling that out of the air) hardcore Hasbro Joe collectors only like 5% of them need to see value in SSC in order for SSC to make out like bandits. How hard is that? Has SSC ever made an appearance at a Joe Con?
Considering SSC is paying Hasbro a royalty fee, have they ever discussed putting a flyer in some of the Hasbro products? I would wager the thought never even crossed their minds.
Its all about marketing, because SSC's hardcore fan base is dwindling, as evidence by the scaling back of their 1/6th product from 7,000+ units to 2,500.
The Disney stuff needs to be marketed right, I agree there. People are dropping millions on ridiculously overpriced Disney merchandise every year. Sideshow needs to get their stuff into the stores and parks. That's the target audience they should be looking at.
Joe is another story entirely. Most Joe collectors are used to cheap Hasbro ____ and lack the concept of paying even Dragon prices, let alone Sideshow prices. That's a different beast entirely and likely not folk to change lifelong habits. The only reason we're seeing them pop up In Stock is because Sideshow doesn't understand this and they got a little greedy with the Es.
The Walking Dead line would do great if advertised correctly. If they produced the half-zombie from the premiere and sent that to, say, 200 comicbook shops along with a prototype pic of Rick, and then made that the Ex with Rick, that would do more for selling the line than putting pretty pics in Wizard, ToyFare, Insider and the other mags. The idea is to put the actual item in front of the market you're looking to pick up (not through Facebook and Twitter expecting miracles ). Other than that, potentially negotiating some Ad time with AMC during the actual episodes would also help.
I don't recall seeing prototypes of any collectible the last time I was in a comic book shop. They only have production pieces in the stores but do have proto pics on say a website if you can order. Using those magazines is quite smart. They're in comic shops and book stores all over the country that hits people in the market as does Facebook and Twitter. Covering all your bases is smart IMO. Collectibles companies outside of Hasbro have TV ads.
That is why I think it'd work. The heart of The Walking Dead is the comic readers. Imagine being at your LCS, picking up the latest issue of Walking and there, in a case on the counter is the 1/2 zombie in 1:6 scale along with a 1-sheet showing Rick with the zombie. I'd definitely snag a 1-sheet and start saving up. Now imagine you're a collector watching the show on AMC and all of a sudden, there's Allison talking about Rick and the half-zombie!
That is why I think it'd work. The heart of The Walking Dead is the comic readers. Imagine being at your LCS, picking up the latest issue of Walking and there, in a case on the counter is the 1/2 zombie in 1:6 scale along with a 1-sheet showing Rick with the zombie. I'd definitely snag a 1-sheet and start saving up. Now imagine you're a collector watching the show on AMC and all of a sudden, there's Allison talking about Rick and the half-zombie!
Todd McFarlane's last 3 tweets have all been TWD related. Ratings, chatting about Kirkman etc.
I strongly think this will happen. Randy of NECA said he has heard things, a moderator on the Spawn.com board said "Interesting thread..." when someone put up a poll...this line is becoming a Grail for me.
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