Captain Action Round 2 New York Toy Fair 2014

[enyawd72]

They really need to imitate the PM CA line, retro sets and figures, reproducing the Ideal ones like PM did, use the DC and Marvel characters, and direct the sales to CA collectors with reasonable prices.

I wish Round 2 would produce CA as Ideal & PM did.

EXACTLY. Do these guys not see the stupid high prices the vintage Marvel and DC sets command on Ebay? If they made straight up reproductions of those original sets, they could sell them as limited collector editions at a price point of about $100 and they'd sell like CRAZY. People who can't afford or even find mint originals would snap them up at that price, and I believe even collectors who own MIB originals would buy repro sets to actually play with and display.

[PNGwynne]

I agree with your suggestion, levy & D.

Even their original DC/Marvel concept was nice but the lack of product so frustrating.

[michael crawford]

I had some coverage from my man on the ground at NYCC this week:

http://www.mwctoys.com/nycc2014/nycc2014_captainaction_bottom.htm

[Chippupperty]

I am going to be ticked, if there are no DC characters!!

[Robin NY]

managed to chat with these guys for a little and they said they were hard ay work to get the DC licenses for the big 2 so I guess the wait continues

[MIB41]

managed to chat with these guys for a little and they said they were hard ay work to get the DC licenses for the big 2 so I guess the wait continues

Excuse me while I lift one leg and fart mightily at that myth. They've been claiming that for years. They are working with Go Hero to try and reinvent him as a high-end priced figure. Egads, there is no one on this planet that wears denial in failure better than these two clowns. The lights are turned out and everyone has gone home while they sit on the 50 yard line thinking there is one last play for this defunct line. Captain Action, the license, may continue to whomever braves the back-end backstabbing, but this latest venture in the modestly priced 12 inch scale is DEAD. No one buys a DC license and then does nothing with it for three years, unless one - they never had it, or two - they're still trying to get it. Every year all the competition puts out new product, while CAE puts out new excuses. Thank God they both have day jobs.

[levyguy]

It is incredible Round 2 got the DC license and didn't use it. Makes no sense at all- Superman & Batman would have been the best sellers for CA. Something is definately screwed up.

[enyawd72]

It is incredible Round 2 got the DC license and didn't use it. Makes no sense at all- Superman & Batman would have been the best sellers for CA. Something is definately screwed up.

Round 2 is completely mismanaged. Their model kit division also cancelled three amazing releases this year...an 80th anniversary King Kong fighting the T-Rex kit...how awesome would THAT have been? An absolutely gorgeous Joe Jusko designed comic-book Thor kit with unbelievable box art, and a Wizard of Oz wicked witch with flying monkey.

They had built in brand recognition and even a Thor movie in theaters at the time and still bailed. Meanwhile, much smaller companies like Moebius and Monarch are putting out kits of the Munsters, '66 Batman, and Gorgo. Yeah, GORGO. I'm sure that would've been a bigger seller than King freaking Kong!

If you can't sell King Kong, Wizard of Oz and Thor...especially THOR, with tons of merchandise and basically FREE advertising, you don't have a friggin' clue what you're doing. I still cry over the fact this Thor kit got scrapped.

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[jquest]

Wow!! Thor would have been an Awesome Kit!! Too bad it didn't happen!