Mego Has Some Big News!

[CrimsonGhost]

I'll be happy to be wrong about the packaging, but I'll be surprised if I'm wrong about the pricing. Calling it right now that the 4-packs will be in the $100-$125 price range. Plus shipping.

I think it’s pretty obvious that the price is going to be in that range. $25-30 or so per figure is what I would expect.

[TheXFactor]

The Atlas books also include facsimile reprint comics, which if sold separately in the direct market for comics would retail for $4-$7, which has to be accounted for in their prices. So why don't we wait and see what Disney's actual pricing is before everyone flies off the handle with panic speculation and doom and gloom pronouncements. There will be plenty of time to complain after prices are announced if they are inflated, but until we actually now something, it's all wasted energy and ignorant speculation based on wild guesses and inaccurate analogies.

-M

The Batman TV show analogy isn't even remotely inaccurate though because that's already happened (with examples that have been given in previous posts). Not to mention the fact that anyone who follows/pays attention to the current collector's market for stuff like this is well aware of how pricing structures work in terms of single item vs multiple similar items (in one package) which get released later on in a "Classic Series" reissue campaign. Or to put it another way, one only needs to jump into a pool once or twice to subsequently realize that they're going to get wet from head to toe.

Again, I'll be glad to be proven wrong when the details become public. I don't think that's going to happen though.

[TheXFactor]

I think most people will be happy with the packaging solution.

I'll be happy to be wrong about the packaging, but I'll be surprised if I'm wrong about the pricing. Calling it right now that the 4-packs will be in the $100-$125 price range. Plus shipping.

[TRDouble]

I think most people will be happy with the packaging solution.

I was guessing that it will be individually boxed figures, in a sleeve type package. Which would be nice for in-package display continuity, or to recoup some money when selling one of the four figures.

The general public will find out soon. December is coming quick.

[wise guy]

I am still going to buy the Marvels at Disney prices . Hopefully the 4 pack thing will help. Please let Fantastic 4 be in
one 4 pack

[MRP]

The Walmart Atlas figures are $ 29.97 each so Disney will probably be $ 30.00 to 40.00 each. Disney is not known for low prices.

The Atlas books also include facsimile reprint comics, which if sold separately in the direct market for comics would retail for $4-$7, which has to be accounted for in their prices. So why don't we wait and see what Disney's actual pricing is before everyone flies off the handle with panic speculation and doom and gloom pronouncements. There will be plenty of time to complain after prices are announced if they are inflated, but until we actually now something, it's all wasted energy and ignorant speculation based on wild guesses and inaccurate analogies.

-M

[wise guy]

Quite the opposite, honestly. But with Marty Abrams stating that the figures will be sold in 4-packs, it's obviously going to be a completely different kind of packaging. Also, since the average retail store price of the of 50th Anniversary figures was $19.99 each, I can easily see Disney jumping that up- at least- by five dollars per figure. So we'll be starting with a $100 price point, plus shipping.

The Walmart Atlas figures are $ 29.97 each so Disney will probably be $ 30.00 to 40.00 each. Disney is not known for low prices.

[CrimsonGhost]

Quite the opposite, honestly. But with Marty Abrams stating that the figures will be sold in 4-packs, it's obviously going to be a completely different kind of packaging. Also, since the average retail store price of the of 50th Anniversary figures was $19.99 each, I can easily see Disney jumping that up- at least- by five dollars per figure. So we'll be starting with a $100 price point, plus shipping.

I think most people will be happy with the packaging solution.

[TheXFactor]

Replying to both PNGwynne and scott metzger:

Although I've always been under the impression that Mad Monsters did well as far as sales go, I'm similarly aware that the other four 'Legends' lines were lacking in sales. I'm also aware however- as was pointed out- that a lot of collectors developed a fondness for these lines later on, plus I see the crazy numbers that the CIB (or loose but complete) figures go for on eBay. So I do think there'd be a market, but how big of a market or what the best way would be to get new versions of these figures to said market remains an unknown. As much as it contradicts what I've been saying I'd be tempted to suggest crowdfunding for the four non-monster lines as a way to gauge interest, and if it happens to be through the rood then (and only then) would you consider a retail release. I can't imagine though that 50th Anniversary Mad Monsters would ever be peg/shelf warmers. Ditto for Planet of the Apes and Star Trek if they were released in the same packaging they were originally for their 50th Anniversaries. I've personally felt that the lack of sales for the new versions was due to the fact that too much was changed. Yes it was nice to finally get Mr. Sulu and Mr. Chekov, but everything else Star Trek was either "screen accurate" (again losing the nostalgia factor) or yet another version of an existing character. As for POTA, there were a lot of unnecessary (and aesthetically unappealing) changes made to the originals, and the likeness of the human characters (Taylor, Brent, Mendez) simply weren't all that good.

[TheXFactor]

He’s got it signed, I wouldn’t call that scalping.

At $200, I'd call it an ***-pounding (and pounding wasn't my first choice for a word to use).

[TheXFactor]

So are you saying you didn’t like the packaging of the DC 50th WGSH?

Quite the opposite, honestly. But with Marty Abrams stating that the figures will be sold in 4-packs, it's obviously going to be a completely different kind of packaging. Also, since the average retail store price of the of 50th Anniversary figures was $19.99 each, I can easily see Disney jumping that up- at least- by five dollars per figure. So we'll be starting with a $100 price point, plus shipping.

[CrimsonGhost]

Scalpers on the Bay!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/35616680769...Bk9SR-yhi4LWZA

He’s got it signed, I wouldn’t call that scalping.

[hizzy]

Scalpers on the Bay!

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[scott metzger]

I am so with you on that, I try to avoid it like the plague. Its use is just flushing money away and really influences my purchases.

I would have bought 3-4 Candyman figures for the coat, the tailoring was great but the pleather ruined it.

Pleather can be...problematical. There are pleathers out there thin enough to work well in Mego scale, but that thinness does bring up legitimate questions about longevity. Pleather can crack and peel over time, and the thinner the pleather, the more that seems to happen. Thicker pleather tends to be a bit longer lived (quality of the fabric has to be taken into account, off course, in either case), but tends to be bulky and limiting at 1/9th scale. So there's pros and cons for either choice.

[thatblockoguy]

Only on Aw Yeah Comics’ YouTube channel during his short Grim Ghost unboxing video