Wasn't looking for an argument. Just adult discourse thats all. Well, those figures make money are are from far more popular lines than many of the other ones they have. It is annoying when they only do 2 figures from say Thor when they should do at least three. However, licenses like Platoon aren't popular enough to make them all.
I know you weren't, i just don't want to get myself all huffed and puffed about it again
My Opinion:
There will be a time and it is coming sooner when their popular lines will have reached their max before the third or fourth remake comes along and people are done, the bubble will burst eventually it they don't expand other licenses.
They can make them popular by assuring collectors they wont be a 'flash in a pan' license that doesn't take off, collectors would be more inclined to pick up the first two of a five character line up if they knew they were getting the other three down the line.
Popularity is subjective in collecting, but Iron Man has been popular for so long now that there isn't much left to do, that to me signals the time to build on other licenses
Same principle as gaming, buyers get more and more tired with sequels that they branch out into new franchises or franchises they didn't pay attention to before hand, same with the film industry there are many that are sick of sequels and Reboots/remakes.
I simply want them to expand on other licenses beside Iron Man and Batman, give those fans their figures without a cloud of the line being canned before the first figure hits hanging over them.
They've done it in the past, but are just too comfortable pushing Iron Man and others til their dead and then pimping out their cores for more.
The easiest way to explain my position is:
I'm an Iron Man and Batman fan who has gotten quite a few from the lines, grown bored by the remakes and variants, looked elsewhere to collecting other licenses to find their aren't many for "collecting" as their aren't enough to collect, just 2 or 3 to have and look alone on the shelf.
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If people really want this i wont hate them for it, but i can't support a system that has gone beyond line completion and ventured into absurd levels or remakes and variants and continues to encourage it from Hot Toys.
Now how about a hug
To support figure lines that might not sell well HT has to recoup the funds somewhere and releasing a sure fire seller like an Iron Man or Batman does that.
They made figures from many different licenses before Iron Man and Batman were introduced.
Those lines each had a lot of figures, they were developed so the fans of those lines got quite a few to keep them happy, this argument of Iron Man and Batman selling like mad allows HT to take risks by making less popular licenses is flawed by their business practice before Iron Man and Batman,.
They did okay then without them, why not now? because they have become too reliant on those licenses.... and the greed.
