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TonyD15
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Hot Toys should just collaborate with Sideshow Collectibles in releasing a X-Men line, it would be a higher quality, obviously higher price, and it would satisfy the X-men fans.
How/why would it be higher quality?
And from that figure's poor sales they'll determine that no one wants a Michael Biehn version.
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YankeesFanboy
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A little harsh, but...yeah.
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TonyD15
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If you compare a release from Sideshow to Hot Toys, the fabric, tailoring and overall quality on Hot Toys is above from what I've seen from Sideshow, considering their DC line is nice but could always be better for the price. While Deadpool's release in their Marvel line looks fantastic, it's still a baggy suit, it's not off the page comic book per say but that doesn't always translate well. Now this can of course change due to it's being a prototype.
Before you critize someone's opinion for "lolz", you should probably hear why they feel that way instead of breaking out the meme parade, but I'll just be here crying about how the big mean poster said something scary on the internet.
Before you critize someone's opinion for "lolz", you should probably hear why they feel that way instead of breaking out the meme parade, but I'll just be here crying about how the big mean poster said something scary on the internet.
This entire discussion makes me wonder if we will see more figures for X-Men Apocalypse. They will probably have at least some of the likeness rights worked out at that point and I can see Apocalypse scratching a billion worldwide making it the most successful X movie at that point. Add to that the already existing demand for some of these characters and I think we might actually get something out of this next movie.
Who here thinks we will see multiple figures for Apocalypse?
Who here thinks we will see multiple figures for Apocalypse?
I hope you're right.
I really think this process might take a long time and HT will wait until Apocalypse to make a couple more figures. I have more faith in figures being made for Apocalypse than for DOFP just based on the wide ranging popularity of Apocalypse along with the epic nature of the event itself. DOFP reinvigorated many fans faith in the X-Men movie franchise and Apocalypse will capitalize on that in a big way. That being said I definitely think DOFP deserves a couple more figures. I just really doubt that HT is going to jump on that train with AOU coming up and with Star Wars figures being a major focus of production.
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maybe if theyre going to make such a bold claim they could initially reinforce their point...
and one meme does not make a "parade"
Shawpaw
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Look forward to this figure. Really like the sculpt. HT (with the exception of some members of GOTG) has really been producing beautiful, realistic figures lately. This figure gives me hope for new characters
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With that film, and most others, the actors sign over all merchandising likeness rights to the studio as part of their compensation as negotiated before they sign on for any film, or block of films(as was the case for Prometheus).
But with this xmen film, which is unique even among the x-flicks, the studio (fox) opted to intentionally leave certain likeness rights out of the actors contracts, mostly due to ongoing turmoil with marvel. So, again, this film (DOFP) is not the same. With Prometheus toys, Fassbender would not have had to sign off. They toy company would not ever even have to tell him(depending on if he got a cut of profits from merch included in contract though that does not mean he has approval authority) but with xmen films hot toys would be required to negotiate directly with Fass and/or his agent/management team.
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Fair points. Though my argument if read as a whole is lot more linear then it looks when pulling a sentence here and there. I've been explaining things from both how hot toys and those directly involved see it. Not what I hope or want to happen, but what has/is happened and what information goes into the process of making these.
To be clear...what I do hope and want is that they make every single character from every single film. In fact I hope that every fan of every property/film gets every figure they want.
That is not what I THINK will happen though.
As for the idea that because Bowen and other statues have sold means there's ENOUGH interest in the characters and property to be worth the time and money, and here's the kicker..worth enough to take the time and resources AWAY from another property is just not comparable. And the fact that secondary prices rise on sold out items has zero effect on judging interest. That's like saying because a Michael Jordan 1/1 auto card is worth 50k on secondary market that upper deck should make millions of them. Just not how it works. Secondary prices have little impact on business and with statues the production costs are so much less and the production numbers are so far apart it's not a real good comparison. Don't you think a place like Bowen that's been around decades would increase production numbers if the sales were there? There's a reason that for 20 or 30 years the amount of each statue produced, across almost every company, is about the same. The market won't support more.
YankeesFanboy
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I'm worried the Fass will not approve any figures. Clive Owen did the same back in 05 with his Dwight figure, although he has come around now for DST.
They'll just keep giving Arnie-sculpting duties to Yulli I suspect.
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