I don't see them going the other way unless it's an X-Wing or Tie Fighter. I have no idea how off scale the current releases for those are. But a big ship like the Razor Crest, what we got is about as big as I would expect. The only reason IMO to make it bigger would be to make the inside space more usable, but it's kind of awkward as it is to put people inside. I now wish the flight stand would let you have the ship be level instead of a constant angle.
I think it was well received. We'll see when it ships. It looks like a good value. We don't even have a realistic aftermarket value yet or sense of the QC.
The Joe team should offer every pulse account the opportunity to buy the amount of repainted Crimson HISS tank as the backer did with the original (if you backed one standard HISS, you can buy one Crimson HiSS, if you backed five standard HISS tank, you can buy up to five rmcrimson/red HISS tanks). The red HISS should come with repaints of the driver, gunner, and the second place technician, and instead of the Mickey Mouse CC, it should come with the SMS trailer. If a Classifieds scale Vamp will be offered through Haslabs, it would be wise if the project offered the Night Stinger included with the project.
I'm calling it now, 2027, the 50th anniversary year of Star Wars, we need a new 3.75 Millennium Falcon that is 25-30% bigger in every dimension over the Legacy Collection version, making it over 2 times bigger volumetrically. The current one is scaled for LEGO figures. And while the Falcon I'm proposing would not be true 3.75" scale, it would work well enough with the figures, feasible to ship, feasible to display, and less than $1000. Lose the "kiddy" features, like the dumb mini-rig "escape pod" from the BMF and model the ENTIRE 360 degree interior. Connect the cockpit to the rest of the interior with a doorway, for once in the miserable existence of Millennium Falcon toys. I hate it when the cockpit is a separate compartment (I'm looking at you, Razor Crest). A dorsal AND ventral gunner seat. $800, done. "Oh, but we need a ________ first!". Do we? DO WE?!
That’s the situation that’s happening in my part of the world - Asia. Import shops will actually open a PO and customers can place a deposit. If the project doesn’t go through the monies are returned.
Do we even know what the second place deco was though?? But it would be cool if they did ALL the HISS figures with the appropriate version of the 2nd place deco to make them thematically cohesive. And if the deco was the purple one, that would actually contrast nicely with the red tank deco.
I'd like it if they did Rip It at retail from the HISS Driver. https://www.yojoe.com/action/00/ripit.shtml I don't think there's anything barring retail redecos of Haslab figures. Silver Surfer was substantially the same as the Walgreens version. Nova was Shriek with a new head. The HISS Gunner shares parts extensively with the female Trooper/Officer. Maybe give Rip It a different accessory load out.
Had a dream last night about buying a Rancor. I think I'm still bummed that the Haslab Rancor did not get funded. I know after that they are done with that project. But I really hope Hasbro reconsiders giving the Rancor a second chance. This time give him the Tiers we all want. But I know that's never going to happen.
Been almost two and a half months since the last HasLab ended. Things have been quiet... too quiet. I wonder what they're up to.
At an investor event last year, they seemed to suggest that the D&D movie and ROTB would both have Haslabs timed around the movie releases.
Is Haslab officially dead? I have not heard anything since the botched Hellcharger. I would like them to go back to the drawing board and come up with something incredible. I by that I mean Ghost Rider from the 1990's. I would pay $230 with all the bells & whistles plus 3 additional figures.
I'm sure we'll get more Joe stuff later this year. I would expect a new campaign to go live sometime around the release of the HISS. And, it wasn't that long ago that they completed the Deathsaurus campaign. My guess is that Marvel and SW are probably regrouping after a couple/few sketchy attempts. And, maybe they're waiting on the D&D movie to release before they announce any Haslab campaigns for that brand. Overall, there seems to be an air of uncertainty right now. Maybe a lot of companies are being extra cautious due to economic uncertainty.
I'd be up for a cartoon Tiamat. But you said movie so a 1/12 scale Rakor (the Black Dragon shown in the trailer) or the Red Dragon (I think I saw one in the trailer) would be cool too if not expensive.
The next Joe live stream on 03/14 will probably unveiled the next Joe Haslab. SW has several cannot miss opportunities if the team listened to its consumers base. Not sure on what Marvel can do other then go all in on a 6" scale blackbird, if it funds it funds, the car Ghostrifer fail and ML moved on. I do not think D&D has the fan base to pull off a project, maybe the power rangers. Another TF project is likely, especially if staying in the $200 price range.
I'm not sure if the Haslabs will be themed to the movies so much as timed to the movies. A movie or TV show is an opportunity to sell ALL merchandise with a brand (look at MOTU Origins or this year's 1970s comics inspired GotG). Also, ANY publicity with a brand's past is good for a current movie. (Look at "The Real Ghostbusters" and GB1 merch with Afterlife or GB2016.) That said, there's a decent case that the Transformers Haslab is Stratosphere, who I guess is a Titan-sized cargo plane in the new movie? It might be. It might not. It stands out. There's basically no other way to do him. No clue with D&D. The new movie dragon makes sense but why would they push the kids version on adult collectors (which they seem to be doing) if they had a Haslab? Also, two big figures that close together might be bad business sense. It hurt last year doing two vehicles back-to-back and I'm fairly sure that Galactus hurt the Rancor. It doesn't HAVE to be a big figure. It could be a smaller deluxe figure set like Venger, his horse Nightmare, and Shadow Demon with a Victory Saber-level pledge level. (The Venger toy we got can't ride a horse.) It could be a diorama or playset, a roleplay toy or costume element, or something more straight forward like a tabletop campaign set, maybe with miniatures and special dice and books. You know what I think would be cool? A premium remake of LJN's Fortress of Fangs with figures. And model the figures on Star Wars The Vintage Collection. Retro size, modern toys. I'm a huge 1:12 collector. I think it makes sense for the new movie or any movie line. It's awesome to get classic cartoon characters in that scale even if the figures kind of suck. But the more I reflect on it, the more I just don't see a D&D 6 inch line going beyond 30 figures. It's tooling intensive. It probably needs to be a premium priced toy ($35-45? At least $30) to avoid reuse and also be small run so it doesn't die at retail. Too much stuff would need to be too big. If you model it on The Vintage Collection, everything seems to make more sense. You can do horses and 10 foot tall creatures and environments. And starting off by remaking the LJN figures as modern, 4" figures would be a fantastic way to launch it. The scale shift also gives you an excuse to re-do the Cartoon Classics figures better.
