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If NOTHING else changes the ONE THING I do hope changes is FTC's attitude toward QC. They may hold the DC licence right now but that makes no difference to me at all if they are going to continue to put out figures of sub-par quality that won't hold a pose and have horrid face sculpts. They have had far too many years to fix this and we have basically been ignored.
And pricing plays into this in a big way. $30 for a crooked, jacked up looking figure that won't stand on it's own vs $15 for a far better quality figure that has a nice face sculpt AND stands? In heels no less? No brainer.
This is a golden opportunity for FTC to really listen to what is going on and do the right thing.Comment
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In saying that, I’m sure excited about FTC’s Comic Action Heroes!
- IanRampart, this is Squad 51. How do you read?Comment
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Read an interview today where Doc and Marty said do that they’re looking into doing 3 3/4 inch figures. They said the reason that they didn’t do them right off the bat is because they require a lot of extra tooling. So, we may get those from Mego.
In saying that, I’m sure excited about FTC’s Comic Action Heroes!
- Ian
I guess military figures are not a big sell these days?
I always thought the 3 inch Joes were a great line in terms of scale, poseability, variety of characters, price point, vehicles, etc...
And of course Mego did it first with figures like Buck Rogers and the Dukes.
Would be awesome to see that type of figure again.
I just feel like Mego needs to nail a property that is hot with kids for that to really take off...
I mean, 3 3/4 inch Cheers figures would be kind of MEH to me.
And as they said in the interview, ReAction did so many vintage waves it became kind of overkill.Comment
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^ There are good properties out there and maybe they could do something with DC or Marvel in that scale. I doubt they’d go to the trouble to tool figures from sitcoms, but who knows. They may not do any at all, but I think they’d be a hit.
You may or may not know that when the guys at Hasbro pitched the GI Joe RAH line, they used mock-ups from Mego CHiPs 3 3/4 inch figures. Before I learned that, I had always wondered why the first RAH figures and some of the Mego 3 3/4 inch were so similarly made. It turns out it’s because Hasbro directly copied Mego.
- IanRampart, this is Squad 51. How do you read?Comment
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I think Harry Potter would work as a 3 3/4" line. The UK had a line out years ago that was good and diverse, but it was only released in Europe. The property is hot again and I always felt like FTC just missed by grabbing the license too early.Comment
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Yeah with the Mego name out there and if general consumer goes online and stumbles on FTC... IF they get past the pricepoint, which most won't, and they actually order.. most people will not make that mistake too many times due to the quality control issues.
I would say mego has them beat on exposure, quality and price.. FTC will have to adapt.My posts were needlessly deleted ...Comment
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