Spooktacular 2012 announcement!!!

[MadCow]

I was wondering the exact same thing. The new NRD, the delay in announcing ES... it almost feels like they have a new CEO/CMO.

That's my theory or at least a new business strategy.

 

[Jason13]

I was thinking the Same that the Folks that got into Spook Left and the New ones are just worried about putting out the High dollar Statues now and doesn't have time for the little money .I mean really to not even put out a kit this year shows something is wrong .
and the poor excuse of a patient zero T-shirt with "Brains "on it complete rip off of the return of the living dead as that was the only Zombie movie that wanted just brains

 

[xjamiex]

Pfft, we don't need a chatroom! We have this thread!

 

[Shropt]

I blame Rosario!

 

[Josh-A-Tron]

I really am Disappointed. I was hoping for crazy chat....and where the hell is the scavenger hunt?

 

[RoboDad]

No clue... I looked for it the other day and couldn't find it. It might have been there all along though.

It could be that they marked them as private, and then reopened them to the public today. I know I searched yesterday, and they definitely weren't accessible.

 

[MadCow]

It could be that they marked them as private, and then reopened them to the public today. I know I searched yesterday, and they definitely weren't accessible.

Interesting and potentially promising...

 

[Odowankenobi]

That's my theory or at least a new business strategy.

A new business strategy of alienating your most loyal customers?

 

[Kamikaze]

https://www.facebook.com/sideshowcollectibles?fref=ts#!/pages/Mort/126156867437718?fref=pb

Came back this morning...

Technically it never left. Just nothing posted to it since back in March.

 

[MadCow]

A new business strategy of alienating your most loyal customers?

No, directing traffic to their site and attracting new customers which is the same as every other company.

 

[PhilboBaggins]

Yeah I'm missing the scavenger hunt, chat, etc. my calendar was marked for spook before I was getting sideshow calendars that had it printed in them....hoping for a turn around.

 

[Entropy]

This year, sleep is for the smart.

 

[RoboDad]

No, directing traffic to their site and attracting new customers which is the same as every other company.

This is the key. What always set Sideshow apart was the way they balanced new customer attraction with loyal customer "retention" (I use retention here, not in the context of retention through new products, but retention by creating a sense of community).

Looking at their new product offerings, I am finding less and less that appeals to me. Sometimes that is because the subject doesn't matter to me, but more often it is because the price points have gotten so high that I simply can't afford them. Now with Spook all but gone, I'm feeling less and less like a part of their intended demographic.

It seems to me that the downplay of Spook and the skyrocketing prices of new products are both symptoms of the same directional shift in Sideshow as a company.

 

[pixletwin]

I miss the Sideshow Radio podcast too.

 

[Darth Madden]

I miss the Sideshow Radio podcast too.

Oh man.... those were fun.

 

[RoboDad]

Come to think of it, didn't those also end in '09?

 

[King Darkness]

No kit... no chat... no Dusty... it just ain't Spooktacular anymore...

And no horror. No universal monsters. No 1:6 Dead. No nothing.

 

[Shropt]

Someone needs to make us simply black signature images. Just a blank black rectangle in honor of the poor departed Spook.

 

[pixletwin]

Come to think of it, didn't those also end in '09?

Didn't Dusty quit around then too. Hmmmmmmm Interesting.

 

[King Darkness]

No, Dusty quit much more recently then the end of the podcasts.