HasLab Marvel Legends Ghost Rider car

[tmthor]

And with this release I am officially out of the marvel legends collection. Actually been out for a while but had this been a Classic Ghost Rider with Johnny Blaze well that would be different. I already heard if this does not fund by Friday (it has to fully fund by Friday for the Robbie Reyes figure) many have said they will cancel theirs as no way this will get all the unlocks at that point but even still the elimination of one figure make it no longer worth it for them.

[Earth 2 Chris]

It’s not for me - I’m strictly Golden/Silver/Bronze Age with my collecting interests/characters - but I don’t think you can even begin to compare this to McFarlane’s Supermobile.

I get what you're saying, but comparing it is kind of my point (which I may have not presented well). This is Hasbro, one of the oldest toy companies, playing in the sandbox of collector-only companies like Hot Toys, as Werewolf pointed out. A few years back they may have offered such a toy as a TRU exclusive, minus a lot of the bells and whistles, and extra figures, but still based on the same car and character.

I guess I'm just asking more a philosophical question about where "adult toy collecting" is going.

[powersthatbe]

I think it’s cool but I believe the downside to it is that it’s Robbie Reyes and not Johnny Blaze or even Danny Ketch who are more popular to die hard ghost rider fans, so I am not sure if it will meet its goal. Now maybe a detailed Ghost Rider with his Bike and a few tier figures for @ $100 to a $150 goal would have been more the way to go.

[warlock664]

It’s not for me - I’m strictly Golden/Silver/Bronze Age with my collecting interests/characters - but I don’t think you can even begin to compare this to McFarlane’s Supermobile.
The amount of detail in this will be insane. It can be displayed as either a standard street car or the Hell-Charger, with interchangeable parts, extremely detailed cockpit, interchangeable tires, 20 LEDs, snap on lit flame effects, etc.
If it makes all the stretch goals, including the early bird bonus (civilian Robbie Reyes figure will only be produced if it’s funded by Saturday I believe, it isn’t a stretch goal), there will be 6 figures included with the car, as the ML team has confirmed all 4 stretch goals will be figures. So that means Ghost Rider, Robbie, and 4 other figures they said would never be offered at retail (due to their satanic theme, one assumes). That’s at least a $150 value, given current ML prices.
Mephisto is a given, but who knows, maybe a classic Daimon Hellstrom, Satana, Blackheart, etc would get figures.
As I say, I’m not interested in Robbie Reyes in either form or the car, but if they reveal Bronze Age Mephisto, Hellstrom and Satana as stretch goals, I’ll probably back the project and sell the car and the Reyes figures when I receive them.
I’m sure the McFarlane Supermobile is a great *toy*, but how many unique parts does it have? How much tooling was required to produce it? It’s like comparing a pedal car to a Mercedes. Not that you *were* really comparing the two, Chris, as they’re obviously aimed at 2 different collecting segments.

[Werewolf]

I think it's really nice but it's more of a high-end display piece Hot Toys type of collectible than a toy. Not for me.

Same with the Haslab Classified HISS tank. It's awesome but not really a toy anymore.

Collectors are just as much to blame for these items as toy companies. Collectors are demanding paint and detail that just cannot be met with a retail toy. Prop like realism with all the bells and whistles comes with a price. Give me stripped down versions that are toys. I'd be happy with a cheap scaled up vintage HISS tank over the Haslab one.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Yes, I should have mentioned the stretch goals include a regular, human Robbie Reyes, and Mephisto is rumored and you can tell it's him in one of the photos, in the foreground shadows. So that lessens the blow somewhat...if it reaches it's goals. But still, the initial sticker price seems overly steep to me, anyway.

[powersthatbe]

One of the tier figures is rumored to be Mephisto.

[Earth 2 Chris]

http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/new-hasbro-marvellegends-haslab-revealed-ghost-rider/

This is a wonder to behold for sure...but $350?

I don't want to turn this into "Hasbro should go out of business! The people on staff should be flogged!" like some YT channels tend to do. But do you think that action figure collecting has hit the wall with affordability? Are we going to see a collapse soon, when collectors say "Enough's enough" with these price hikes?

I know the price of everything has gone up, but, because of that, isn't it even harder to swallow the prices of mere playthings?

I look at something like McFarlane's Supermobile and I really start to appreciate the value. That's a wonderful toy design. Maybe it won't hold up to actual play, but it functions well, and displays great, for a 10th the price of this Ghost Rider car.

I guess we didn't know how good we had it when we could get 18" figures for around $100 or less and a decent vehicle for under $50. Super 7 is charging even more for the Thunder Tank and the Turtle Van, but they are larger than this.

Thoughts?