Apes

[Tothiro]

it would be great if it was cost effective enough to do a knockoff line of similarsimians.
It almost worked for ahi. Who made Astro-apes? Did they have any legal issues? How about Tong action apeman?

While that would be really awesome (SANA flightsuits, Militant Blond Survivalist Guy & His Space Monkey Militia, etc) the Toy world is pretty litigious.

It's probably much easier for a churn and burn company that did concept bootlegging as a business model to fire off some product, drop it after C&D and never look back. The EMCE crew also have the goodwill and trust of future license holders to consider so they've got to be pretty clear-cut about it.

I'm sure a generic "Outer Space Aliens" line would be just as sweet, but equally impossible to market to brick & mortar.

[drmego]

Knock-offs don't sell - the people who like POTA want it to be screen accurate
and want to see the detailing.

[bobws]

YEP! I'd love to see you get back to these when you can.
POTA is the one line of original Mego's i still haven't started collecting yet. but soon.....

[jessica]

Hurray for apes!!

[Chris]

Knock-offs don't sell - the people who like POTA want it to be screen accurate
and want to see the detailing.

Exactly. A white Action Jackson jumpsuit won't cut it for Taylor's Astronaut suit.

[jessica]

Exactly. A white Action Jackson jumpsuit won't cut it for Taylor's Astronaut suit.

Not in this day and age.

[Chris]

The ever talented Jessica made an astronaut suit that is very detailed. When Emce returns to the POTA it might be worth consulting her.

[HumanWolfman]

The license was only for the first movie - I still wanted to make more
figures, but management at Diamond nixed it.

I own all the tooling and someday I will re-visit Apes.

Seems like there is a sudden boom of interest in Apes, even on ebay. If a few NEW charcters were thrown into the mix, it could be worth while. Since original Apes(save a few rare peices) were never that pricey, most folks who liked them already had them. BUT, a few choice original Apes/Humans might be just what is needed to really light a fire under this line.