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I loved FC back in the 90s when Mego like figures were returning! Truly some great ones like Storm, Thor, Dr Doom, Black Widow, Falcon, iron Man, Vision, Jean Grey, sabretooth, magneto, Nightcrawler, Scarlet Witch! I wish DST could do sets of all of these! Yes there were inconsistencies like pinheads, yelling mouths, OVENMITTS! But a great attempt by Toy Biz to revive Mego Marvels! And they were $15 then $10!Leave a comment:
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Failed??? Just doing the Marvel universe the Famous Covers proper line had 36 figure, 42 if you count the X-men Movie/comic two packs, 45 if you include the X-men Animated figures. Hardly a failure. Did it hit the mark with your tastes, no clearly not, but in it's time it was quite popular and sold very well.Leave a comment:
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Failed??? Just doing the Marvel universe the Famous Covers proper line had 36 figure, 42 if you count the X-men Movie/comic two packs, 45 if you include the X-men Animated figures. Hardly a failure. Did it hit the mark with your tastes, no clearly not, but in it's time it was quite popular and sold very well.Leave a comment:
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Nobody said the market was the same as the 1970s. With the rise of the Internet, and big box stores, yeah, specialty toy stores have taken a hit, but those sales have moved online. So we're happy to split sales between the online and specialty/comic markets, and are happy to have had any retro items in TRU. We had UM there for four years, and only stopped because we ran out of mass-market-friendly characters. I wasn't aware we had Star Trek at TRU, but we made it pretty far at specialty, and now we're bringing it back.Leave a comment:
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I just found out about Daredevil and that is really cool . DD and Punisher are great choices that make me happy, and I hope Ironman and Dr. Strange will be in wave 3Leave a comment:
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It's a realistic one. It's the same reason Famous Covers, Mattel's Retro Action, the Universal Monsters, the Trek figures, the Twilight Zone figures, FTC's DC figures, etc have not lasted long in the general market (toys-r-us, etc). Same reason Captain Action failed as well. These formats were it in the 70s and early 80s. Today's general market is just not the same. You might pick up a few customers in the comic collector market, but that might not counter the natural attrition. The toy market has changed just as the music market has, no record stores on every corner and no Children's Palace, KB Toys, etc. Around here even the Toy's R Us' are dwindling.
The rest of those lines you mentioned, I didn't even know some of them were at TRU. I'm sure that there's someone here who will criticize execution or distribution, but I'd mainly point at the properties -- Twilight Zone skews older, Classic Trek skews older, Batman Classic TV skews older, and I think both Mattel's and Figures' character selections (as well as Hasbro's DC Super Heroes) skewed to older costumes and looks.
The biggest success was probably the only true Marvel line, which was FC. I forget how many FC figures were made in all (I had at least 20), but it was a fair number, so I'd call it a success, even if they segued to specialty at the end. They also had cool packaging. Captain Action may have had a similar play pattern to us, but the Marvel costumes were made for a non-Marvel character, so it's hard to place us side-by-side.
I think NECA is in TRU now with their retro figures. No idea how they're selling, but there seems to be a market for them.Leave a comment:
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It's a realistic one. It's the same reason Famous Covers, Mattel's Retro Action, the Universal Monsters, the Trek figures, the Twilight Zone figures, FTC's DC figures, etc have not lasted long in the general market (toys-r-us, etc). Same reason Captain Action failed as well. These formats were it in the 70s and early 80s. Today's general market is just not the same. You might pick up a few customers in the comic collector market, but that might not counter the natural attrition. The toy market has changed just as the music market has, no record stores on every corner and no Children's Palace, KB Toys, etc. Around here even the Toy's R Us' are dwindling.Leave a comment:
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Hot with who though... they have to know their audience. The only people buying remego type figures is us 40-50 year old guys that had megos back in the day and want to revisit the era. That is their market, like it or not. I'd estimate most of their market would be less interested in newer characters. Very few kids beyond our own kids will get interested in anything in this format, no matter who the character is.
I may have been the guy who said early on we were making Iron Man, and I may have overestimated his rank on our list. I hope we get to him!Leave a comment:
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Yes - Reynolds has been in 3 superhero movies - all amongst the worst ever made
blade trinity
wolverine origins (in which he already was bad as deadpool)
green lantern
in addition to thinking he is a turd mark on a movie, i am not a huge deadpool fan. i will not see it unless pretty much everybody says it was good.Leave a comment:
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Hot with who though... they have to know their audience. The only people buying remego type figures is us 40-50 year old guys that had megos back in the day and want to revisit the era. That is their market, like it or not. I'd estimate most of their market would be less interested in newer characters. Very few kids beyond our own kids will get interested in anything in this format, no matter who the character is.Leave a comment:
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blade trinity
wolverine origins (in which he already was bad as deadpool)
green lantern
in addition to thinking he is a turd mark on a movie, i am not a huge deadpool fan. i will not see it unless pretty much everybody says it was good.Leave a comment:
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Hot with who though... they have to know their audience. The only people buying remego type figures is us 40-50 year old guys that had megos back in the day and want to revisit the era. That is their market, like it or not. I'd estimate most of their market would be less interested in newer characters. Very few kids beyond our own kids will get interested in anything in this format, no matter who the character is.Leave a comment:
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I'll pass on Deadpool and any other characters that go beyond the classic Mego era.Leave a comment:
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