These figures look great, from what I have seen are basically toon accurate and that's it, do not expect hight posability or playability, just buy the set, open and display in a case.
You know what I’d like to see after the release of the cartoon D&D figures? Classified style realistic imaginings of the same characters.
Missed it, but I appreciate the offer. I wonder if these are actually in my Target despite not showing up on the website?
I dont know but I can tell you, I saw 3 on the shelf in my store, and the app shows it out of stock there.
Wizards of the Coast Pledges to Leave OGL in Place 'Untouched' After Massive D&D Fan Backlash - IGN I mean, good. I'd say 85% of the time internet petitions and surveys are waste of time. The other 15% you get results. I think that D&D is STILL just niche enough that if you do something stupid to unite a large chunk of the base, it's going to go bad. There is still a good chunk of this community with chips on their shoulders from where TTRPGs were in the nerd hierarchy for so many years that this was never going to pan out well. I have a feeling this will bring some back, but I know a large amount of people in the hobby, and quite a few in the industry that are done with Wizards/Hasbro/D&D Brand. They're throwing in with Paizo and Kobold Press.
Eh, let them. A healthy competition between TTRPG companies can't hurt anything. Hopefully, this will help WotC refocus on getting campaign modules out there again. These anthology books aren't really doing much for me and it feels like they were planning to coast into OneD&D until this happened. (Well, they did roll out Spelljammer and Dragonlance. But I'm unsure how baked those franchises were going to get before WotC just up and decides to move on. My players are steeped in Forgotten Realms now so more FR CAMPAIGN material would be nice. Especially since the movie will probably renew interest in Thay, Neverwinter and Waterdeep.)
Well, the Classified team is running D&D toys, I think. And certain characters showed up in Comic-Con footage from 2022. The big thing is: I don't think Hasbro is really committed to growing the brand. I don't expect a lot of D&D toys. And in the short run, that makes sense. In the short run, I think D&D is bound to be smaller than Transformers or G.I. Joe, which have a total audience in the millions. And smaller than MOTU, which is somewhere between 11 and 15 in the action figure aisle. It would require long term, entrepreneurial thinking to grow D&D. Frankly, I think Super7 is tapping the real money maker. If the movie hits wildest expectations in terms of box office relative to budget, that's under 8 million unique viewers, 90% of whom won't buy toys. The 80s cartoon probably has a couple million people who remember it, a larger percentage of whom would buy toys. R.A. Salvatore has sold 30 million copies of individual books and a fairly large percentage would probably buy merch. Between Hasbro's media focus, NECA's toy focus, and Super7's books focus, I think Super7 is actually tapping the biggest market of likely buyers, just with a dinky product.
Hasbro should cross brand D&D with Magic the Gathering and base a 6" toy line using the brand recognition of two of the companies properties. A wave could be four D&D figures and four MTG figures with a BAF. The idea is that a potion of each properties fan base will buy some of these figures and a portion of figure/toy collectors. In 2023 Hasbro should release maybe three waves tops, due to poor overall economic environment and string competition from other brands. I think 2023 could be a break point year for toy collectors, for some that cross collect, it is a barage of toys.
I think a general "Hasbro Legends" line would be interesting. You could mix D&D, Magic, Clue, Monopoly, My Little Pony, Mr. Potatohead, Jem, continued RED style Transformers, Gobots, Popples, Pound Puppies, ROM, Inhumanoids, Visionaries, MASK, Spiral Zone, etc. Just lace in TFs, Power Rangers, and Joe stuff to keep it higher profile. Maybe you could do stuff with those brands that you couldn't do in their native lines like cartoon accurate or movie accurate Joes or civilian Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Maybe include licensed stuff with a brand pedigree like Ecto Glow Real Ghostbusters using the Plasma Series base bodies in a Kenner wave along with Police Academy and Star Wars toy homages. Maybe try to get a narrow carve out from WB for a handful of Super Powers collaboration figures celebrating Kenner as well. I think you'd have more success generally with licensing this if the toys referenced specific vintage Kenner/Hasbro toys. So Cyclotron and Golden Pharoah for Super Powers. Or maybe limit your Superman and Batman to Total Justice homages that mix those designs with modern 6.5" form factor.
I think articulated d and d monsters would be a huge win. I can't think of anyone who's really making any save beasts of the mesozoic, and that's dragons only. I would love dragons the same size as hammond collections rexy I for one would love kobolds and maybe dragon deluxe figures. Tiamat haslab? Just saying, people would probably be in it for just the sheer presence alone
Where is everyone getting warduke from I still only see private sellers on Amazon that won’t deliver until mid-late February. I wants it nows
I need Hasbro to release that dragon fully articulated like their panthor from that D&D two-pack and Timber from the GiJoe Classified line.
Not sure why they're haven't done yet. Like articulated dragons feels like an easy win. Is it too expensive?
I dunno, but the Hammond Collection Rexy is damn cool at $50 and is exactly the size I would want a dragon to be.
That delayed reveal event might have stuff along those lines. They called out that black dragon being a simpler kid-focused thing in an early D&D stream but surely can guess at the appeal of a collector-grade dragon.
