I was really hopeful when FTC started the DC remegos and then I bought some of them and the quality just was never there. I sold most of them off and gave a few to my kids once they were old enough to be interested. But they fall apart almost as soon as you take them out of the packaging. Hands fall off, heads fall off, arms strung too tight, all of that stuff. I used to restring my Megos back in the day but they lasted weeks at least with hard play and FTC stuff lasts maybe a couple of hours.
The quality of the EMCE/DSt sets were faaaar superior to the FTC stuff. But I stopped buying when they started rehashing characters before even getting all the main characters out. Especially considering we were only scheduled to get like 4 a year or whatever. What am I supposed to do buy two characters then wait a year for them to remake a few characters and then buy another one?
I've said this a long time ago, but some companies just don't know their audience very well. Megos will never again sell in the mass market, never gonna really happen at least not successfully. You have to know what the collectors want, give it to them and give it to them with high enough level of quality and they will pay for multiple copies. It's why sideshow is successful, and the new captain Action was not. Sideshow doesn''t try and get in toys r us and market to the mass market. They know their audience and cater to them online.
Its why the disney star wars movies are less and less popular with each one, they are losing the main star wars audience by both trying to push to a wider audience and by lower the quality of the writing. Churn em out quickly. The guys that buy cases of star wars figures and see the movies in the theaters 100 times are going to stop. And guess what? They will not be replaced by the general movie going audience, they are fickle and will see the new star wars once and then move on to the next movie.
You make great remegos and I will be the first in line to buy multiple figures of each one. You churn em out like crap and I won't buy. You try and hit the mass market by doing multiple deadpools and spiderman and I won't buy... and neither will the mass market because they don't care about Megos. they will move from one fad to the next on a whim.
The quality of the EMCE/DSt sets were faaaar superior to the FTC stuff. But I stopped buying when they started rehashing characters before even getting all the main characters out. Especially considering we were only scheduled to get like 4 a year or whatever. What am I supposed to do buy two characters then wait a year for them to remake a few characters and then buy another one?
I've said this a long time ago, but some companies just don't know their audience very well. Megos will never again sell in the mass market, never gonna really happen at least not successfully. You have to know what the collectors want, give it to them and give it to them with high enough level of quality and they will pay for multiple copies. It's why sideshow is successful, and the new captain Action was not. Sideshow doesn''t try and get in toys r us and market to the mass market. They know their audience and cater to them online.
Its why the disney star wars movies are less and less popular with each one, they are losing the main star wars audience by both trying to push to a wider audience and by lower the quality of the writing. Churn em out quickly. The guys that buy cases of star wars figures and see the movies in the theaters 100 times are going to stop. And guess what? They will not be replaced by the general movie going audience, they are fickle and will see the new star wars once and then move on to the next movie.
You make great remegos and I will be the first in line to buy multiple figures of each one. You churn em out like crap and I won't buy. You try and hit the mass market by doing multiple deadpools and spiderman and I won't buy... and neither will the mass market because they don't care about Megos. they will move from one fad to the next on a whim.
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