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sounds like fan opinion to me.
If Lucasfilm can license goofy statues with silly 70's sayings on them, they can market an 8" figure.Leave a comment:
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Yeah, as much as I may not like it, I do think this person's overall views on Mego-like figures may be correct. I know we've seen an awesome amount of re-Mego'ed lines, but I still feel like many of today's toy collectors are focused on the 80's. We are getting older and and are financial focii are changing- houses, kids, etc. And yes, the high-end, packaged stuff will also be in high demand, but it feels like some of the loose stuff has leveled off (if not got cheaper). Just as the 3 & 3/4" figures replaced 8" back in the day, it feels like the same thing is happening in the toy collecting circles today.Leave a comment:
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So who is this guy? Is he connected to Hasbro? Or is he a fan who
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I saw zero hope in that statement. It also speaks to the whole eight inch marketplace. Essentially what he said is what many of us have feared. The market for Megos is simply not big enough to justify creating another license to do them. And boy did he make me feel old when he suggested these collectors are starting to 'die off'? Really? Who here is Medicare age? And even so, being in your 50's is not a death sentence. Sheeesh!
He made a really good point though when he said the best days and hopes for that scale were back when Toy Biz and Playmates were adoring the shelves with that kind of product. I tend to agree with that with regards to distribution. Whatever your opinion of the figures being an inch taller, they still catered to the same marketplace (plus a new generation of kids). And actually it still remains the most successful run in all the attempts made to date. So I don't know if Lucas and Co. (plus Hasbro) want to venture into something like that which will only service a select group of people that apparently don't show up enough when prompted.
That was a tough interview to read. But that representative basically said what many of us were already harboring inside. It clearly speaks to the early demise of large production efforts (like Mattel's Retro line) and smaller efforts as well. Our niche in the marketplace is very small. And it seems the current generation of kids/collectors only want those little plastic painted figures over a cloth eight version. Personally I don't get it. But then again I didn't grow up playing with 3 3/4 inch 'Joes' and watching He-Man and the Smurfs. I guess that is considered the current 'older but relevant' collector who is spending right now. It's a generational thing.
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This just in...
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