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This is a well done figure by every measure I can see. But the fact that most FTC 12 inch figures run $70.00 marked up from a $52.00 wholesale price, is no incentive to buy them. Add $10.00 to ship and they're really insanely priced. This might have been better served in the 8 inch arena. But then again, FTC might only be making 500 of these for those diehard collectors, so that might be why they aimed at the 12 inch format.
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I don't think I could possibly care any less about these. Such a bizarre idea for a toyline. Recreate your favorite scenes of people sitting around talking. YAWN.
BUT, if they make Patrick Duffy, he can be the Man From Atlantis, so not all is lost.Comment
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Looks like a decent figure- but not much like JR Ewing.
I can't imagine there is much of a market for Dallas action figures.Comment
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Larry Hagman seems to be a tough likeness to sculpt. There's not many distinctive features. The sculpt looks young to me, almost like he looked in Jeannie.
Kind of looks like he could be a passable James West too.Expectation is the death of discovery.Comment
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If you've ever watched the show, The Big Bang Theory is a natural for action figures...the characters collect them and even tried last season to make
their own figures of themselves with a 3D printer.
Dallas however is a head-scratcher...The license must have been cheap if it was piggy-backed with other WB properties like
The Dukes, Batman and Gilligan's Island...Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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Hey,if another company can make 3 3/4" figures of Duck Dynasty,why can't someone make Dallas figures?Comment
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>Dallas however is a head-scratcher...
I dunno. If you look at a lot of their new stuff it's all 80's properties. I bet they're looking at cracking the casual collector's market. The folks who want something they can sit on their tv or in a cabinet and look at.... but who don't want to pay Hot Toys prices for them. Hence the shift to 12", which is more of an established collector's scale. (8" are still seen as toy-like.)
I think it's great they'd try something like this. It's a chance to expand the audience, and that's always a good thing. Will it work? Dunno, but if nobody tries we'll never know. There's a zillion people out there who aren't patrons of the nerdly arts who might go for something like Dallas or Gilligan's Island.
Even Mego was gonna try Dallas.
As for the sculpt; when you look at the different angles it doesn't look bad; but I think the plastic kinda brings it down. The lighter colour doesn't look realistic, and it washes out some of the features.
Don C.Comment
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I'm a huge Dallas fan and I intend to buy both versions of the 12 inch J.R. Ewing. At the very least, if he does well enough for other characters to become action figures, I'd at least like to see figures of Bobby and Sue Ellen, so we'd have what they used to call themselves, the 3 musketeers. For Bobby, I would like to see a rancher version and oil man version. If they can do two of J.R, why not two of his bro. Anyway, I am definitely buying J.R. And if that were to do well, I'd like to see figures of Ray Krebbs and Cliff Barnes as well.
Go Dallas!!Comment
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