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8/2/08
Uuuuuhhhhhmmmm!!!!!
Looks like someone tattled on Sideshow. Must've been sour grapes from someone who didn't get the Ex. Vader or Stormtrooper on Friday. In all seriousness, this is an exact, word for word interveiw copied from www.sirstevesguide.com. You'll probably see this posted in other boards with the "ask Hasbro Q&A's". The person answering is Darrell DePriest, the Brand Manager from Hasbro.
SSG: Although we know that you've handed the baton off to Sideshow for the 12" line, in a recent Q&A you answered that you were thinking of making a return to the scale but had made no decisions. You've got 12" Indiana Jones figures simultaneously as Sideshow's, and The Clone Wars seems to have more kid factor which means a need for a lower pricepoint, which isn't Sideshow's thing, showing both precedent and motive for Hasbro restarting a 12" Star Wars line. If you were going back to 12" with new Clone Wars, how about re-releasing some of the better 12" figures of the past, like Vintage-style Boba Fett, R2-D2 with tools, the Jawa, C-3PO - stuff like that which Sideshow isn't really focusing on right now - to test the waters?
Hasbro: Our take on Sideshow, on 12-inch, is Sideshow's still our partner for the high-end, and with Indy we wanted to test the water with 12-inch to see what the kid-enthusiasm really was. And it is kid-targeted, there's some collector figures in there. It's possible we could look at a return to 12-inch, but it's not high on our priority list right now.
SSG: When we go to Sideshow and ask them "where is X, Y, or Z - where is Boba Fett, R2?" they say "well, we depend on what Hasbro's done before. We don't want to step on that too much. We want you collectors to be able to use that." So it seems like there's a need for the product, and it's just not being met anymore.
Hasbro: I wasn't aware of that actually, that stance from Sideshow.
SSG: Yeah, they told us very specifically that, and we collectors were all surprised because we didn't realize that they were going to lean so heavily on what came before.
Hasbro: Ok, that's interesting... Hmm, you know what? We'll take that into advisement. That's actually an interesting take on it. But, 12-inch just is kinda a wait and see on Indy, and right now we're still not certain how the year is really going to end up.
SSG: Well, keep in mind, you guys have tooling that's just not getting used. You know, the R2-D2, the C-3PO, that doesn't go on a GI Joe body, and Sideshow's not making it right now. If you make it, you're not really losing anything since the budget's already done for those when they were first made.
Hasbro: I wasn't happy with the bodies that we did have.
SSG: The GI Joes?
Hasbro: Yea... Oh, no no. The [current] GI Joe body we like, it's the previous bodies we had for Star Wars that we weren't so happy with.
SSG: Oh, I see what you're saying! The older ones from the 90s, big muscles and tapered more?
Hasbro: Yeah, we never want to do those. So it is kinda a wait and see, but it's not high on our priority list right now. Instead we've been letting Sideshow run with it, but knowing Sideshow isn't going in this area, maybe we should look at it.
Just so you know, I'm all for Hasbro and thier 3 & 3/4 line (I recently dropped 7 Bills at the recent Midnight Madness), but I don't believe the 12" line is within thier "price-point". Not after what we've come to expect from Sideshow. Just curious if fellow freaks are ready to go back to Hasbro 12" figures. I especially love the comment at the end on how Mr. DePriest is happy with the new Hasbro Gi-Joe body!?!?
Have any of you seen these??? Makes me not worry about the Buck so much!!!
Uuuuuhhhhhmmmm!!!!!
Looks like someone tattled on Sideshow. Must've been sour grapes from someone who didn't get the Ex. Vader or Stormtrooper on Friday. In all seriousness, this is an exact, word for word interveiw copied from www.sirstevesguide.com. You'll probably see this posted in other boards with the "ask Hasbro Q&A's". The person answering is Darrell DePriest, the Brand Manager from Hasbro.
SSG: Although we know that you've handed the baton off to Sideshow for the 12" line, in a recent Q&A you answered that you were thinking of making a return to the scale but had made no decisions. You've got 12" Indiana Jones figures simultaneously as Sideshow's, and The Clone Wars seems to have more kid factor which means a need for a lower pricepoint, which isn't Sideshow's thing, showing both precedent and motive for Hasbro restarting a 12" Star Wars line. If you were going back to 12" with new Clone Wars, how about re-releasing some of the better 12" figures of the past, like Vintage-style Boba Fett, R2-D2 with tools, the Jawa, C-3PO - stuff like that which Sideshow isn't really focusing on right now - to test the waters?
Hasbro: Our take on Sideshow, on 12-inch, is Sideshow's still our partner for the high-end, and with Indy we wanted to test the water with 12-inch to see what the kid-enthusiasm really was. And it is kid-targeted, there's some collector figures in there. It's possible we could look at a return to 12-inch, but it's not high on our priority list right now.
SSG: When we go to Sideshow and ask them "where is X, Y, or Z - where is Boba Fett, R2?" they say "well, we depend on what Hasbro's done before. We don't want to step on that too much. We want you collectors to be able to use that." So it seems like there's a need for the product, and it's just not being met anymore.
Hasbro: I wasn't aware of that actually, that stance from Sideshow.
SSG: Yeah, they told us very specifically that, and we collectors were all surprised because we didn't realize that they were going to lean so heavily on what came before.
Hasbro: Ok, that's interesting... Hmm, you know what? We'll take that into advisement. That's actually an interesting take on it. But, 12-inch just is kinda a wait and see on Indy, and right now we're still not certain how the year is really going to end up.
SSG: Well, keep in mind, you guys have tooling that's just not getting used. You know, the R2-D2, the C-3PO, that doesn't go on a GI Joe body, and Sideshow's not making it right now. If you make it, you're not really losing anything since the budget's already done for those when they were first made.
Hasbro: I wasn't happy with the bodies that we did have.
SSG: The GI Joes?
Hasbro: Yea... Oh, no no. The [current] GI Joe body we like, it's the previous bodies we had for Star Wars that we weren't so happy with.
SSG: Oh, I see what you're saying! The older ones from the 90s, big muscles and tapered more?
Hasbro: Yeah, we never want to do those. So it is kinda a wait and see, but it's not high on our priority list right now. Instead we've been letting Sideshow run with it, but knowing Sideshow isn't going in this area, maybe we should look at it.
Just so you know, I'm all for Hasbro and thier 3 & 3/4 line (I recently dropped 7 Bills at the recent Midnight Madness), but I don't believe the 12" line is within thier "price-point". Not after what we've come to expect from Sideshow. Just curious if fellow freaks are ready to go back to Hasbro 12" figures. I especially love the comment at the end on how Mr. DePriest is happy with the new Hasbro Gi-Joe body!?!?
Have any of you seen these??? Makes me not worry about the Buck so much!!!
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