Super 7 goes retro with Alien

[enyawd72]

I have a nerdy rule. If they are not out in Toys R Us.....Then they do not exist for me. I never internet exclusive toys. I find it incredibly insulting to me as a consumer. Like John Hammond said in Jurassic Park....¨Everyone in the world deserves the right to enjoy these animals.¨ If I go without no big whoop. They didn´t exist in the first place except for the elite who are willing to pay outrageous prices.

I know what you mean. It's like when there's this cafe in Mexico that's not across the street from me. It doesn't exist except for the elite few who can travel down there to go to it. It's incredibly insulting to me as a diner.

[drquest]

I don't buy much newly produced stuff for myself, but I'll have to pick these up.

[palitoy]

Getting into Toys R Us is extremely hard. I vote with my dollar, I will buy these and anything else I like. It's not a slight against anyone nor is it elitist to cater to a niche market. However, it is likely thankless.

[darkmonkeygod]

Hell, I wish toys r us would carry everything I love, but to put it into perspective, most of the major toy retailers of the day did not order the 1981 wave of Remco's 9 inch Universal Monsters, which is why the Phantom of the Opera and the Creature as so hard to find. These are in no way elitist, but exactly the opposite: getting these amazing figures into the world.

[Tothiro]

I know what you mean. It's like when there's this cafe in Mexico that's not across the street from me. It doesn't exist except for the elite few who can travel down there to go to it. It's incredibly insulting to me as a diner.

Hahahahaha.... Cool story bro! =)

[samurainoir]

They didn´t exist in the first place except for the elite who are willing to pay outrageous prices.

Seriously? Elite?! This isn't the price of faberge eggs, ming vases or Picasso originals here. We're talking about a small boutique company that is doing a run of prototype replicas for the collector community, that were previously unavailable to all but the true elite who are paying four bills minimum for what few made it into existence. IF you are in the right time and place whenever they turn up for sale at all.

I'll be happy to pay for them when they first go on sale via Super 7, and be extra happy NOT to have to pay the even more outrageous ebay prices once they sell out (and believe me, with all the Aliens fans around the world, I expect they will).

[Gorn Captain]

I read Super Seven magazine for a while. They have cool stuff, but I remember that their vinyl exclusives were really expensive.
I hope the Alien figures are a bit more affordable, because it's a great concept, finally giving us what we always wanted back in 1979. Looking forward to seeing them!
And if you think that not finding it in Toys R Us is frustrating, try living in Europe and paying more or less twice the US price for your favorite figures. And our nearest Toys R Us? In another country....
The up side? We're about 300 miles away from temptation...

[samurainoir]

Having Toys R Us in your country does not necessarily guarantee you get the Toys either. Fortunately, we're an hour and a half from the border. We Canucks had to score our Captain Action in the US. Ghostbusters Retros didn't make it up here, and we only got wave 2 and 4 of the Mattel superheroes Retros. Also recently discovered an entire shelf load of bandai Godzilla product that we never saw here. A cursory glance at the shelves, it seems to me that we don't get about half of the Collector oriented toys.

By comparison, my observation of the Hong Kong Toys R Us stores a couple of years ago is that they seem to have way less Superhero and Star Wars (at least compared to what they had in the nineties when Kenner stuff was in abundance), and their bread and butter seems to be Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Power Rangers and Gundam. Ben 10 is hugely popular there as well.

I've only been to one Mexican TRU and Walmart a few years back. Hot Wheels 66 batmobiles were in abundance in the wild, they had Star Wars and Superheroes, but it struck me that Mexico might be a kind of dumping ground for product that didn't do as well in the US. Maxx Steel was everywhere for example.

[rche]

You got two waves of Retro Action?????
My TrU never got past wave 1.

[Gorn Captain]

Last time I was in the US, I stopped at Toy R Us, thinking I'd be knee deep in action figures, but that wasn't the case. I didn't even buy a single figure. I miss the good old days when kids were interested in action figures, not in cell phones, Ipads, Xbox and all that stuff.
Sometimes it seems that old guys like us are keeping the action figure business going.