Why not get a license people will actually buy?

[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.

[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.

[The Toyroom]

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

[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.

[drquest]

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

[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?

[thunderbolt]

nevermind, waste of posting.

[Brown Bear]

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

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

[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

[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?

BifBangPow is affiliated with one of the largest online Pop Culture stores.
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.

[ubermanx]

littleplasticmen.com has a top five properties that need the ReAction 3.75" treatment. Sure would love some Mego size action as well.

- Spaceballs
- Princess Bride
- Last Star Fighter
- Tombstone
- Krull

Granted these properties are more mid 80's ...

- Marty

[PNGwynne]

I'd love to see Princess Bride reMegos.

The film has a cult following, would it overlap into supporting the format?

[JediJaida]

Why not? There's already an Andre the Giant action figure. All they would need is the Dread Pirate Roberts, Inigo Montoya and Princess Buttercup. Along with Prince Humperdink, the priest, and the Wallace Shawn character.

[MysteryWho]

I know it will never happen, but I would love to see a 'World's Greatest Detectives' and do a Steve McGarret, Columbo, Kolchak the nightstalker, Jim Rockford, and maybe a Mac McMillian as well. Afterall, how can you look at the 70's and not find Rock Hudson? Maybe Brick could explore that character?

Yep, I love that idea too, although I was thinking of some other detectives, like Dirty Harry, Shaft, Bullitt etc.
What people like is pretty subjective and I'm just glad that anything I want ever gets made at all. It's lucky in some ways that Mego scale hasn't come back to the mainstream and stayed part of a collector's market. Otherwise we'd have Avatar Megos, but probably no SMDM, if you see what I mean.

Mego scale is the perfect way to explore these older licenses and programs, but there still has to be some demand to get things rolling.
On the other hand it's good to start out with something somebody else isn't already doing. I was at a big Nerdfest in Toronto where a
friend of mine sells t-shirts, some of them monster themed. His business was brisk but not everything was "officially licensed". I told him I had noticed a lot of Universal monster shirts and modern monster shirts (Jason, Freddy, etc.) but no Hammer. Apparently one of the artist's he works with is in Britain, and I said get some Hammer shirts made! You have to fill some kind of void, as Distinctive Dummies does with their figures.

Meanwhile, my Mego fantasies have turned to Irwin Allen TV shows. I've really only been watching them as an adult, but they might be good for a limited Mego treatment, maybe in series of two at a time like BifBangPow does. If it doesn't fly, stop at two.

[dr_cyclops]

We should all remember the title of this thread. It does not read; What license would you like to see reMegoed?
The very title of this thread, invites debate on what someone wants and what someone else thinks would sell.