You have to laugh at these "companies" with no ideas and/or deathly allergic to funding their own products...or you'll have to cry. Seriously, how do you get to being an "established" company and still have to go begging on Kickstarter? I would be embarrassed but then I never did believe in fake-it-till-you-make-it.
The majority of the Classics has been done, yes. But that could be a good thing. Quite a few have missed out on older figures. Reissues are easy. Nothing to tool. That's any toy company's dream right there. Folks can get what they missed at non-scalper prices. Variants are another possibility. Hasbro and Mattel do it all the time with Marvel and DC lines. I can see Super 7 doing something similar. New original characters expanding the MOTU universe is another idea they're exploring. And you still have a number of 200X characters waiting their turn to be made. And Comic book ones as well.
You have to laugh at these "fans" who bitch and deride everything. I am sure these guys got into the toy business just to screw over fanboys and get filthy rich. Yeah man let's make a fortune on niche action figures for adults, super-lucrative.
Reissues aren't the money makers fans so desperately want to believe that they are (and now it reissues with updated articulation too lol) . If Mattel and Hasbro can and do loose enough to often limit or altogether stop reissue production, then what do you guys think a tiny ass company like S7 is going to be able to do.
I'd love to see them do a pre-order to production system, where we could select which figures we'd like to purchase, when they hit the production threshold turn it into a real pre-order, we pay and then get the figures.
The Vitruvian Hacks Kickstarter seemed to be a success Tattooed Robot....I'm not deriding them, I think what S7 does is really cool.... I just don't like the idea of subscription service.
I was not saying you were deriding them. I also hate subscription service, I would rather a preorder system. A straight up store would be cool too. But I am willing by to take what I can get. These guys need to get the product made, marketed and delivered and in my hand I am willing to take compromises on delivery and purchase method. Subscription and Kickstarter included. This, MOTU, will not be mass market again. But I do have a problem with posters (not you) who claim to be fans yet hate everything about fucking everything. Super7 are just getting up and going give them a chance. The team at Matty that carried Classics for so long did a great thing I respect what they accomplished.
Let's just say that I'm keeping an open mind with regards to super7 but tbh after reviewing my collection over the past week (Motu, TFs, ML etc), I think I'm out of Motu unless its vehicles and playsets. Reason being...I'm happy with the aesthetics (updates on the vintage) and can live without the Filmation versions. The same applies to the other lines. Example, for TFs 'Titan Returns', I'm skipping characters that weren't Headmasters in G1, like other posters here. I also don't have much of choice - the city I live in is one of the top 2-3 most expensive in the world...I need to save for old age...if you get my drift.
I'm still in, but I admit I'm kinda hoping the line doesn't get much bigger. I'd be content if Super 7 just pumped out a year's worth of figures, and a vehicle or two, and called it quits. Speaking of which, if they wanted to do a vehicle, I hope they do the Road Ripper. Seems like that would be a good small one to test the waters. Like you, I'm looking forward to not dropping much more money on the line. I like the sense that it feels almost complete, and want to just see it wrap up nicely and be put to bed.
"It's OK for a company to do a half-baked job and offload every ounce of risk because whiny manchildren (please buy our products, please please pleeeeeeease!)." You sure showed me!
See you would think in the MOTU thread you would actually be a fan of MOTU. You hate Matty, you hate DR, and now you bitch about Super7 and things that have been suggested and not done by them. Since you are talking about whiny manchildren perhaps you should look in the mirror. No company can do anything "half-baked" and "dump" risk on you. You buy what you buy, you like what you like. If you are unhappy move on.
Yeah, in a sense the line feels complete to me...maybe a repaint of Nightstalker into Stridor and I can clearly call it a day. Unless Mattel release a Land Shark or Attack Trak! LOL! C'mon guys...let's just agree to disagree and move on!
I'm just going to keep an open mind about what is in store for 2017 with Super 7. I'll hope for the best but not be disappointed too much if things don't get off the ground post-Matty/DR. There are still several key figures from 200X alone that have yet to be made or 200X fans. Maybe even a Filmation Sorceress which has an improved wing/cape design and a some reissues of the core characters many are still in search of. There's a lot going for 2017 with Super 7: - The 4H are still doing the sculpts. - Super 7 has full access to all of the tooling. - 1987 Movie fans might have a chance to get characters they've been longing for. - No more Digital River BS. - No more Matty drama. - Super 7 is open minded to a lot of possibilities. - Super 7 is aggressively aiming for the same price point ballpark.
Whattup ladies? Damn, things kinda went sideways with Matty, huh? I actually just had to report them to the BBB cause they were dicking me around with shipping on that vault sale they had (I got the refund last night, hehehehe).
I picked up serpentine Hiss from the vault. I like him even though it was just another extra money pinch out of us. Credit for the extra head and new weapons though. Hope Calix comes back eventually, but other than Tuskor (sp?) the is pretty complete for me. I just need the gey the rock guys one day and maybe that 200x head pack.
What's BBB? Can an international customer see that? Oh yeah, Serpentine Hiss is a massive improvement compared to the previous serpentine form that came with the original King Hsss. The latter was too wimpy-looking IMO.
It's the Better Business Bureau. And I have no idea. I'm sure anyone can access the website and look anyone up though.
So I placed an order for the sdcc thundercats and still haven't received them. I look at the invoice on the site and they have my old address listed as the shipping and billing address even though I filled out the order with my new address. How the hell does that even happen? Even my subscriptions have my current address.
