For anyone not familiar with the term, HasLab is a crowd funding platform for Hasbro. Essentially they give customers the opportunity to fund/purchase high dollar items that they feel wouldn't perform well at retail. They calculate what it would cost Hasbro to produce the item, and how many backers it would take to make that project feasible. If they can attract enough backers, the item gets made. If not, not.
I'd like to see Mego do something similar with vehicles, playsets, and other high dollar items they feel might not do well at retail. Maybe new Star Trek playsets (like the Enterprise D Bridge) or reissues of POTA playsets, Wayne Foundation, etc... would collect dust in traditional brick and mortar stores, but I bet there would be enough interest among collectors to maybe get some cool stuff built.
What say you, gentlemen? Do you think something like this might work, or is the Mego community too small to muscle that kind of project to the finish line?
I'd like to see Mego do something similar with vehicles, playsets, and other high dollar items they feel might not do well at retail. Maybe new Star Trek playsets (like the Enterprise D Bridge) or reissues of POTA playsets, Wayne Foundation, etc... would collect dust in traditional brick and mortar stores, but I bet there would be enough interest among collectors to maybe get some cool stuff built.
What say you, gentlemen? Do you think something like this might work, or is the Mego community too small to muscle that kind of project to the finish line?
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