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If they are going to raise the price to 15, I just want better figures. Better paint apps, better sculpts, and give me some accessories drat it. Doesn't have to be a huge improvement, but give me something. They just don't feel they are worth the money at this point, despite how much I really like some of the characters.
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Jan 16, 2010 21:19
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Boy new Q&As are going up and you can tell the difference between Mattel and Hasbro. Every Mattel one gives actual answers or if they can't tell the answer exactly they at least tell when you will know it. Also they give details and actual sentences. Hasbro on the other hand is all "We have no plans for this at present." or "We will reveal X in the future." Hell on a few of them all you get is "No." Their current luck is their own making and it couldn't happen to a worse company. Only things keeping them afloat at the moment is licensing and board game and baby items which have always been reliably strong. If it is made for someone over 5, it is tanking. They spent all the money on the Marvel license and haven't made a dime. They lost tons of money for the last two summers, Indy4 lost them a ton of cash and GI Joe looks to lose even more for them. If you read their Annual Report for 2008 they basically say that they are going to focus on their own properties for 2009 since they are more profitable, but if they movies suck and the economy is bad we are going to lose our shirt. Guess what happened?
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Jan 16, 2010 21:54
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Both the movies made money (TF especially, yowza!) but I guess no one is buying the dolls.
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Jan 16, 2010 23:02
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The transformers stuff is too expensive. You could argue that DCUC can get away with $15 because it's more for adult collectors, but the transformers movie stuff is almost entirely aimed at kids. No kid or parent is going to want to spend $17 on each individual character. GI Joe actually has been selling OK since it got knocked down to $5 a figure. I've even picked a couple up at that price just because they looked cool or had a ton of accessories, and I know gently caress all bout GI Joe. A lot of adult oldschool GI Joe collectors really didn't like the movie line, though, so maybe without their contribution to the sales, it didn't do as well as Hasbro hoped.
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Jan 17, 2010 00:12
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Personally I'm cool with the Transformers prices and upset with the DCUC prices. But I'm a collector, can't speak for the mom consumer. \/ \/
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Jan 17, 2010 01:48
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Well you can argue that a Transformer for 15 dollars is a much better deal than a 15 DCUC or ML figure. The Transformer comes with a bunch of cool weapons and whatnot and is something that turns into a robot. That alone is worth hours and hours of playtime to a child as I can atest to from growing up in the 80s. The DCUC/ML figure just stands there, most of the time comes with nothing but a stand/BAF part and you need several to get any actual playing done with it as a child. No parent is going to spend at minimum 30+ dollars on 2 figures for a kid. That same money you can get a ton of other stuff that is more fun and a better value. It is just like comics targeted to children, you think a kid is going to want to spend 5 bucks on a 22 page comic? The comic and toy industry has become increasingly collector dependent which is part good and part bad. While we are getting the best quality stuff ever, the people making them know that mainly adult collectors are buying the product so they price it accordingly. While this is possible now, lets look 10 years in the future. The last generation of kids weren't raised on >$1.00 comics that you could get from any drug store. My niece spends 8 bucks on a manga at Barnes and Noble which has like 200 pages and takes her 2 weeks to read. She looks at a 5 dollar comic and asks why she should buy that instead of the manga. The companies are selling our childhood back to us, at inflated prices. Though in a few years we might not be interested anymore and there is not another crop of kids coming up that are interested.
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Jan 17, 2010 03:33
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Fish Of Doom posted:The transformers stuff is too expensive. You could argue that DCUC can get away with $15 because it's more for adult collectors, but the transformers movie stuff is almost entirely aimed at kids. No kid or parent is going to want to spend $17 on each individual character. 
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Jan 17, 2010 07:26
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Xenomrph posted:I was annoyed when they jacked up the Deluxe Transformer price from $10 to $12 for no real reason, and I thought maybe Wal-Mart had learned their lesson after their Deluxe ones for sale just sat there warming the pegs after the price jump because they dropped the price down to $10 and it stayed there until, like, last week. Now it's back up to $12 again. They barely sell at 8 bucks when they go on sale, 12 is just stupid.
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Jan 17, 2010 07:56
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If you want to see how POORLY Hasbro is ran, ready the Annual Reports. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=68329&p=irol-reportsannual Be amazed with how little money they actually make.
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Djarum posted:If you want to see how POORLY Hasbro is ran, ready the Annual Reports. Jesus christ, bu-but... they own everything. 
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Jan 17, 2010 08:17
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I am having more fun than I should flipping my two-face coin.. LoL. 
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Jan 17, 2010 19:23
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I really want the Larfleeze action figure from an upcoming wave of the Blackest Night figures. Love that character. Anyone know when he drops?
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Jan 19, 2010 02:01
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Apparently March is the release date for those.
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Jan 19, 2010 02:18
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Any chance we are gonna get that Red Lantern space cat? 
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Jan 19, 2010 02:28
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That entire Blackest Night series is as good as mine when I have the money. The last figure I got was the 12" GL Corps figure from DC Direct. It has Hal Jordan, Tomar Re, and some other weird alien head plus like 4 pairs of hands! And a glowing lantern!
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Jan 20, 2010 23:17
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Djarum posted:Also, does anyone else find it funny that somehow Hot Wheels and Matchbox can seem to be able to make cars for the same price for almost 2 decades now without raising the price? I would imagine metal would be much more expensive than plastic too. You'd probably be wrong. Also, more Hot Wheels are made in a week, than those figures are in a year. You can't really compare the two. For reference, Hot Wheels produced it's 4 billionth car sometime last year. edit: Actually Hot Wheels has never raised it's price ever. It's been $1 for over 40 years. Zeitgueist fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Jan 21, 2010 |
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Jan 21, 2010 04:59
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Zeitgueist posted:You'd probably be wrong. Also, more Hot Wheels are made in a week, than those figures are in a year. You can't really compare the two. Hot Wheels Ecto-1 out this month!
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Jan 21, 2010 07:39
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I said I'd get a picture of Krib with the rest of my lanterns like a week ago. Here it is. And I know you guys are going to get bummed out about this, but the new Ultron figure is really pretty amazing.  
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Jan 21, 2010 18:54
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Man, I've been buying the little gi-joe Avatar figures and today I find out there are full size ones. They're really nice though, I hope they stand up ok.
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Jan 23, 2010 01:39
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I know its not an action figure but in the absence of more GB figures this month I found the Hot Wheels Ecto-1, its pretty fantastic for a 99 cent car.
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Jan 23, 2010 07:51
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Anyone have a DCUC Wildcat they would like to part with? My Chemo looks odd with no torso. Hell, at this point I'd settle for the Chemo piece.
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Jan 24, 2010 08:16
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Joe Fisto posted:Anyone have a DCUC Wildcat they would like to part with? My Chemo looks odd with no torso. I'll look but use the other thread 
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Joe Fisto posted:Anyone have a DCUC Wildcat they would like to part with? My Chemo looks odd with no torso. I've got a spare Chemo torso I can send you. PM me you address info.
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Jan 25, 2010 04:25
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funtax posted:I've got a spare Chemo torso I can send you. PM me you address info. Done!
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Jan 25, 2010 06:40
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Speaking of which, does anybody have a spare Atom Smasher torso?
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I didn't see anything about this sort of thing in the OP so I hope that someone can point me in the right direction. I found a bunch of old South Park figures still in the box and wondered if they were worth anything. A quick eBay search indicates that the new ones are worth a few bucks but nothing older (one box says 1998 on it) shows up...is there a goon preferred site for finding out an action figure's value? Thanks.
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Went to Wal-Mart today and picked up Eclipso, Iron, Spectre and Dr. Midnite. I'm irritated that they've broken the wave up. I want to be able to complete Darksied now, dammit!  
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Jan 27, 2010 20:21
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jet sanchEz posted:I didn't see anything about this sort of thing in the OP so I hope that someone can point me in the right direction. I found a bunch of old South Park figures still in the box and wondered if they were worth anything. Go to eBay, find completed listings for the figures. This is what they're actually worth.
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JohnThermos posted:Go to eBay, find completed listings for the figures. This is what they're actually worth. If you're not finding a listing on eBay, it's either so rare that it's a precious, precious treasure or there's just no demand for them at all. It's almost always the latter. Also, make sure you check finished auctions as well. There's usually a much larger selection of examples to look at in there. funtax fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jan 28, 2010 |
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Jan 27, 2010 23:33
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Thanks guys, I was finally able to find the exact figures and they are worth about $40 on eBay. Cheers.
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Joe Fisto posted:Went to Wal-Mart today and picked up Eclipso, Iron, Spectre and Dr. Midnite. Fun fact: The packaging for the variant Spectre's is apparently very slightly different from the regular ones.
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Jan 28, 2010 10:23
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So guys, how are those new pins?!
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Jan 28, 2010 20:32
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Fish Of Doom posted:So guys, how are those new pins?! I notice nothing different. Also, aside from the chain, I don't see any diecast on Iron.
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Looks like the Starbuck/Leoben and Tigh/Gaeta BSG 2-Packs should be out pretty soon. I originally only wanted the Starbuck/Leoben one, but the Tigh/Gaeta one looks pretty good too... http://www.artasylum.com/blog/2010/01/bsg-the-legacy-continues/
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Jace Madan posted:Looks like the Starbuck/Leoben and Tigh/Gaeta BSG 2-Packs should be out pretty soon. I originally only wanted the Starbuck/Leoben one, but the Tigh/Gaeta one looks pretty good too... Amazon lists the Tigh/Gaeta two pack as in stock, and at least one can be found on Ebay, so it sounds like they're out. Still no sign of Starbuck, even though everything still says 1/27 for a release date.
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Feb 2, 2010 23:57
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Xenomrph posted:I was inspired by this and attempted to make an Animated Series Batman. 
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Feb 3, 2010 09:21
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Okay maybe this is a bit much but I couldn't resist
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Feb 3, 2010 20:49
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Nice Lamp! I would love to have one for each of the original seven members of the Justice League.
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Ogmios posted:Nice Lamp! I would love to have one for each of the original seven members of the Justice League. I don't think they did one for Martian Manhunter.
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