Mezco One:12 Collective

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    That could help but honestly, I still don’t think I would care enough to watch it. Main point is not to bash these attempts at their own universe...it’s mainly that we wish they would do better with the licensed products we care about. Or at least, save their “creative license” for their own properties. I don’t need absolute comic accuracy as long as the changes look good but in Mezco’s case, their choices are odd to just ugly on many figures that could easily be better if they just put down the crack and follow what was already done and proven to work.
     
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    I agree with everything you said.
     
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    Hey if you love their quirky bug figures and knight divers or whatever that is supper awesome. I am happy for you, truly. I am completely blown away there is a market for something like this at $100 but life still shocks me all the time. For those of us not looking for a random figure completely out context of any sort of pop-culture reference it seems a little inexplicable. But hey it’s as inexplicable as disco Green Lantern so whatever.

    What it does tell me though is this company needs some competition in this market. I would like a company that could stay focused and be consistent on their design esthetic.
     
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    They rubbed a lot of collectors the wrong way which in turn led to people not giving them any slack. The price point also drives it too.

    I'm happy with their stuff but admit it's not for everyone.

    Black Adam. I always say that it's my favorite Mezco figure. I guess mostly because I'm a fan of his character but also because they did a perfect job with it. No one can complain with that fugure.
     
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    Screw the accuracy only mentality. Sometimes I want reinterpretations and creativity added to things I enjoy.

    If I want 100 percent accurate things (and I often do), I can go with one of the 100s of other companies that provide it. I want creative takes from Mezco.
     
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    Yeah, I said I don’t need 100% accuracy but when your “creativity” is seriously questionable, you’d think it would be much easier to just make it the way it’s supposed to look. The ones I mentioned that I consider definitive versions of the figures are not 100% accurate.
     
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    Well sadly I feel like a lot of these types of companies are going to dry up with the coming economic and political fallout. I think we'll look back at like 2016-2020 like, shit, that was a great time to be a collector! Glad I got to experience it.
     
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    It’s not a question of accuracy it’s a question of consistency. They release a Superman and Flash that have totally accurate costumes and then they release a Green Lantern that’s a fucking trainwreck. They careen between doing accurate representations and half-baked “takes” on characters. It’s the entire problem with Mezco they lack a consistent esthetic. It’s hard to take them seriously as a company but I am not sure they want to be.
     
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    Mezco will definitely be one that survives I think; they're a super small company and could probably whittle their staff down enough or even just get freelance work from artists. Plus every convention and now intermittently through the year they do Baron Bends or Gomez figures that sell out day one. No license, mold reuse on a lot of them. Just fat stacks of cash coming in.

    Well to be fair, I think there was several years between The Flash/Superman and the Green Lantern figures right? (went and looked, Super man 11/2017, Flash 4/2016) They've definitely stepped into their own. The line Started with a pretty straight accurate Dark Knight Returns Batman, and then ever since it's been going from there. People have been begging for another Superman figure. If anything I feel like they haven't done another one since there's so little to his costume to really mez-flair up.

    The market for their figures is really crazy overall going back to some other comments. Several of the Gomez figures sell for over $300 on the aftermarket! I'm shocked by that, I've sold some just cause they're absolutely not worth a Hot Toy and happy to take someone's money for them lol.
     
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    There are plenty of Superman looks they could Mezco-ify. I'd be ok with a Mezco take on Nu52 or Rebirth Superman.

    Their Hal was originally very off-putting to me. But, I watched D Amazing's review and ended up getting one. While not the perfect version of Hal, I'm glad I have it. Their PX Sovereign Knight Batman is, to me, the best Batman available right now. I loathed their Flash, however, simply because of the head sculpts. And their takes on Cap and costumed Logans are trash.

    They definitely have their own style, which is fine. But I can agree that it would be nice if they stuck closer to the look of the character a bit more.
     
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    Yeah, I don’t see companies like this going away. Hopefully if anything, we learn from all this to stop wasting resources on disposable trash figures. Only thing I’m afraid of from that is even more high end and expensive figures in the future, lol.
     
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    If you consider their design choices on GL and Wolverine perfection, more power to you. So far, everyone here who is critical about some of Mezco’s design choices also mentioned instances where they are very happy with Mezco figures. We’re obviously here talking about it because we see the enormous potential in Mezco and how they could be better to us. Since none of us that I know of work for Mezco, it’s just talk. Hell, when they first came with TDKR Batman figures, I was bringing it around to collector shops to show off and mainly to urge them to carry Mezco so I could buy more of them easier.
     
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    Eh, it was the closest I could get to referencing the eye of the beholder. Also I wasn't trying to drag anyone, or you specifically, for what it's worth. Lol, actually I show mine off at work. One of my co-workers is a HUGE Batman fan, and he was blown away by the Ascending and Sovereign Knight figures.

    While for my money there's been some misses, namely the Wolverine shoulder pads, I feel like they tend to get it right. Not in the sense of being a faithful representation of a particular character depiction but rather presenting a slightly to moderately sytlized representation that's faithful to the idea of the characters.

    To me the new iterations make the characters fresh. That said, I wish they'd put some resources into R&D to update the engineering. Then develop some more female shapes to open up more character variety. Finally, while I don't necessarily mind them re-using parts to create figures, I DO kind of mind that it takes them so damn long to produce units when they don't constantly create new body/limb sculpts for the most part.
     
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    Yeah, I missed that figure and Shazam, I did think they looked pretty good.
     
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    I think a lot of their design choices are to make them less like pajama wearing dolls. That was the big complaint leveled at them for a while. At this scale it's hard to make the classic designs come off as believable with cloth.

    I love my classic superhero designs but they don't work in real life. They only work in art or a figure that is all plastic which simulates the comic style. You can't pull those designs off with real cloth and have it not look like Mego figures. That's why they chop them up with panel lines and stuff.
     
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    All the manufacturing for these is done in China. Best believe there is going to be a change in how it is done after the smoke clears.

    People like Hasbro can weather it. Smaller companies are probably not going to find it economically viable to produce stuff in China. And finding a new place will take a long time to set up.
     
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    I find it refreshing to see Mezco creating their own IP of new and different characters. You don’t really see that at all these days. I can’t think of a company off the top of my head that has done this recently other than super 7 with a few reaction figures and maybe mythic legions. Most toy companies are rehashing old properties over and over again. Granted sometimes it’s nice to have new figures from overlooked properties like Conan and Popeye. It’s much like the movie industry where people complain about endless reboots and there aren’t any new ideas. Rumble society is a new idea. It doesn’t have much of a story yet but I don’t think it needs more than a comic book that it comes with,although it would be cool to have more of those stop motion shorts featuring the figures, but did Skelator need a backstory to make you interested in the character? Some figures just look cool and that’s enough to get me interested anyway.
     
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    For their design choices, I guess since I really don't follow or read comics anymore, I'm still buying all these things for the nostalgia of them. I think the most 'modern' comic run I've read was Batman Hush. So I'm not buying them to represent any specific run or character design. If I was still an avid fan I guess I could see being more annoyed with their choices. But like the brown suit Wolverine, looks like a brown suited Wolverine to me, I really don't see much problems with that one for instance and I at least read some of those.
     
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    Honestly I cannot say I am a big supporter I borderline hate this company. I own quite a few figures but they are just schizophrenic as fuck. Like I said about about the inconsistency of design esthetic the the same goes for figure release, it’s a shitshow. You’ve got their asinine takes on traditional comic costumes mixed in with a bunch of random Marvel movie figures and then Netflix Marvel. There is no one Marvel universe and you cannot build anything like a proper line, movie or comic. Captain America is a fucking disaster and Cyclops is so embarrassingly bad I cannot believe they released the PX version with a giant inexplicable collar and an absolutely shitty light-up feature that ruins the head. Look at the back of his head there’s a half inch gap. These guys are all over the place and don’t have a clue. All this company has going for them is they had a great idea that clothed 6” figures would work. Someone other company desperately needs to jump in the space and give them competition.
    And I didn’t even mention the unfinished properties starting lines with no idea how to finish them and walking away. It’s like toddlers are running the company and have no idea what a plan looks like. But fuck it what if everyone in Kill Bill was a cockroach. Mezco sucks with a few brilliant exceptions but it’s like a broken clock being right twice a day.
     
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