" I remember when you had to walk 50 miles thru a swamp, in a snow storm just to get to a store where you could look at a Mego sized action figure of which they only had two on the shelf ..." read in a creaky older gentleman's voice.
It appears with all these reMegos we have two schools of thought that seem to be clashing.
1) The long timers that remember the lack of interest in 1/9 scale by the industry. How hard it was to locate figures or parts. Hand casting, etc. When someone makes a complaint about Evel's headsculpt or crappy Batman arms the response is always "Shadap kid. You don't know how good you have it." And to a certain extent these folks do have a point.
2) Then there are folks like me that are a bit late to the party and see the amazing Zica Buck Rogers or the DST/EMCE Phantom of the Opera and expect a bit more from the rest of the lines.
Are we spoiled? Yeah sure. But what is wrong with saying "company x got it right so why can't company y as well?" I mean those Mattel bodies were junk. No one's FTC Batman will have the original arms within a year.
So as we move forward with new, elastic less bodies, additional licenses and really, a bit of a 1/9 scale renaissance let's all agree that any nit picking about head sculpts and quality is tempered by the fact that we ALL believe that something is better than nothing. But there is also nothing wrong with hoping for that little bit extra ... like socks on the Phantom
Respectfully,
Marty
P.S. for the record I did indeed have to walk a mile and a half in snow storms to get to the bus stop to catch a ride to school. And back then the "Internet" was brought to you by Funk & Wagnalls ... Encyclopaedia Britannica if you we rich but we did have WGSH at the mall so all was good.
It appears with all these reMegos we have two schools of thought that seem to be clashing.
1) The long timers that remember the lack of interest in 1/9 scale by the industry. How hard it was to locate figures or parts. Hand casting, etc. When someone makes a complaint about Evel's headsculpt or crappy Batman arms the response is always "Shadap kid. You don't know how good you have it." And to a certain extent these folks do have a point.
2) Then there are folks like me that are a bit late to the party and see the amazing Zica Buck Rogers or the DST/EMCE Phantom of the Opera and expect a bit more from the rest of the lines.
Are we spoiled? Yeah sure. But what is wrong with saying "company x got it right so why can't company y as well?" I mean those Mattel bodies were junk. No one's FTC Batman will have the original arms within a year.
So as we move forward with new, elastic less bodies, additional licenses and really, a bit of a 1/9 scale renaissance let's all agree that any nit picking about head sculpts and quality is tempered by the fact that we ALL believe that something is better than nothing. But there is also nothing wrong with hoping for that little bit extra ... like socks on the Phantom
Respectfully,
Marty
P.S. for the record I did indeed have to walk a mile and a half in snow storms to get to the bus stop to catch a ride to school. And back then the "Internet" was brought to you by Funk & Wagnalls ... Encyclopaedia Britannica if you we rich but we did have WGSH at the mall so all was good.
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