Why not get a license people will actually buy?

[samurainoir]

Well, this is the beauty of the format right? Niche.

I don't doubt that you can get a group of Krofft fans in the high three figures in order to justify a small run. If you can get the license that cheaply.

The big question is, Marketing and Distribution/Fulfillment.

Can you get it to the word out to these fans or even the casual consumer? Beyond just the Mego format fans here on the forum. Where/How would they purchase them? Who's fulfilling those orders? Who's getting a cut of the retail price... in the case of Diamond distribution, the Diamond itself as the distributer, and the retailer are getting most of that action. At that point is it worthwhile to go into production based on pre-orders?

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Figures Toy Company has a huge warehouse in Florida and has/is doing the long tail thing for over a decade.

I have no doubt that it would be a labour of love for whomever did theoretically decide to do Krofft Mego style figures.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Yeah, these posts are getting pretty nasty and personal. We'd all like to see figures made of our favorite properties, and we all have opinions on what would work and what wouldn't, as far as sales go. No need to hit below the belt on a speculative thread about toys.

Chris

[Brown Bear]

Now now kids... Let's keep our cool.

I'd like to see mego boxers like sugar ray and duran.

[thunderbolt]

nevermind, waste of posting.

[thunderbolt]

Again, just your opinion. Just b/c you grew up in the 70s doesn't make you an authority, just like it doesn't make me one, and I never claimed to be. But a lot of people don't like Venture Bros. or KISS either. I know I don't. But I wouldn't say that stuff wouldn't sell, b/c I'm not the voice of the public at large. Nostalgia is a very personal thing, and plugging in to what nostalgic items people will like and buy is sometimes a crap shoot. Just b/c people like it and remember it, doesn't mean they'll buy it. All I was doing was dreaming out loud. But leave it to you to turn it into a debate. I really wish that when you see my posts, you'd just look the other way.

And what you post is opinion too, no matter how much you believe it to be fact. I am pointing out that the lines you mentioned don't have legs or would already be out there. Its not a crap shoot, the companies do research first and have some idea what will fly and what will lay a big turd at retail. Toyroom pointed out already that the Krofft stuff was given a whirl at retail and didn't last long. I am just trying to point out to you doing the same thing you seem to be accusing me of doing, assuming your opinion is fact. A lot more people like Kiss than Bigfoot and Wildboy, thus the action figures and oodles of other product. How come Rick Springfield hasn't gotten an action figure? You think he's popular, too right?

[drquest]

I'd buy Land of the Lost, Battle of the Planets and Speed Racer for sure.

[HardyGirl]

Again, just your opinion. Just b/c you grew up in the 70s doesn't make you an authority, just like it doesn't make me one, and I never claimed to be. But a lot of people don't like Venture Bros. or KISS either. I know I don't. But I wouldn't say that stuff wouldn't sell, b/c I'm not the voice of the public at large. Nostalgia is a very personal thing, and plugging in to what nostalgic items people will like and buy is sometimes a crap shoot. Just b/c people like it and remember it, doesn't mean they'll buy it. All I was doing was dreaming out loud. But leave it to you to turn it into a debate. I really wish that when you see my posts, you'd just look the other way.

please, Kaptain Kool and the kongs have no appeal outside of you and a few others. The only Krofft stuff that might work for a wave or two is HR. I did grow up in the 70's and have no very fleeting memory of most of what you listed. Its got to appeal to the regular person outside our little dork circle to be a hit. Kiss, Bats, Twilight Zone, Venture Bros, Universal Monsters all have a broader appeal and that is why they got done. Dr. Shrinker, not so much. Unless you have graphs and charts to back up your opinion.

[The Toyroom]

Krofft characters already got a small line of action figures (6 inch?) about 14 years ago that really didn't do much...

[thunderbolt]

No, you're stating your opinion. Unless you've got graphs and charts and surveys of hundreds of thousands of folks who grew up in the 70s to back it up with.

please, Kaptain Kool and the kongs have no appeal outside of you and a few others. The only Krofft stuff that might work for a wave or two is HR. I did grow up in the 70's and have no very fleeting memory of most of what you listed. Its got to appeal to the regular person outside our little dork circle to be a hit. Kiss, Bats, Twilight Zone, Venture Bros, Universal Monsters all have a broader appeal and that is why they got done. Dr. Shrinker, not so much. Unless you have graphs and charts to back up your opinion.

[HardyGirl]

Just stating a fact, HG

No, you're stating your opinion. Unless you've got graphs and charts and surveys of hundreds of thousands of folks who grew up in the 70s to back it up with.

[PNGwynne]

I'd be all over Electra Woman and I actually did try to get an 8" Sleestak going, sadly it fell apart.

EW & DG and Land of the Lost really do seem like they could have been classic Mego lines.

I'm not convinced their appeal is any more limited that REH, Dallas, or Evel Knievel.

[palitoy]

Hey, can you see a Junior custom (from Far Out Space Nuts) from a Gilligan figure? Too much! And I would LOVE Krofft figures! Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, The Bugaloos, Johnny, Scott and Sigmund, Kaptain Kool & The Kongs (first season) Fi, Fum, Alice and Jerry and of course the gang from HR PufNStuff! Wouldn't that be groovy?

I'd be all over Electra Woman and I actually did try to get an 8" Sleestak going, sadly it fell apart.

[PNGwynne]

...Remember, it has to appeal to more than just your personal tastes. It needs to be a property that appeals to a wider audience.

This thread is de facto about one member's personal taste.

[samurainoir]

How about a line devoted to the many incarnations of Dracula?

From Lugosi to Langella, to Oldman and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.

Until that happens officially, Martin/DD are doing a pretty awesome job with these...

http://www.distinctivedummies.net/megostyle.html

[Barnabas Collins]

I'd love to see some Sid & Marty Krofft figures--Pufnstuf, Witchiepoo, HooDoo, Sigmund the Seamonster, Chaka, Sleestak, etc. I've been watching Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost on Me-TV the last several weeks on Saturday mornings.

Barnabas Collins