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Post by rom on Sept 19, 2016 15:54:48 GMT -5
Most of the toy lines you cite you want based on the Marvel Comics are not longer with Marvel so will never happen. Rumblings are Hasbro has plans for a Micronauts and ROM line of toys but they will be based either on the current IDW comics or the movie projects they have in development for those properties and not on the Marvel Comics form 25 years ago. There was a limited line of Thundarr figures produced about a decade ago, and they did not sell well enough to get a second wave. As for Sectaurs, Crystar, both do well in the secondary market, but that rarely translates to success for current lines. The collectors want the vintage stuff, not modern reproductions or "improved" lines, they want the stuff that fires their nostalgia not imitations of it. And new consumers don't have the nostalgic connections to the lines to garner interest in buying new products, so new lines based on things popular in the secondary market please no one. The only exceptions is lines that have continue do make new fans over the years (tar Wars, G.I. Joe, Transformers, etc. where the interested customer base is large enough to support both new lines and drive vintage sales. Go to any toy show and you will see there are 2 very distinct and separate customer bases-those who buy new toys based on stuff currently popular who will not look at anything vintage unless it ties into something currently popular, and those who buy vintage toys who won't really buy anything new even if it ties into stuff they like (with some minor exceptions like the Re-Mego audience, but that is a snake-pit of contradictions within the buying community that makes trying to figure out what they will or won't buy a marketing nightmare). -M
I agree with you completely. This list was definitely more wishful thinking than anything else. I would be shocked if any of the lines in my list were made into figures - I was just listing ones I wanted to see, however unlikely/impossible this would be.
That being said, a couple of years ago the extremely obscure '80's toy property Power Lords got re-done as a new line of figures, and they looked great. However, these were online only, and I never collected them because they were too hard to get ahold of. Also, granted, this line did not last long:
www.sourcehorsemen.com/?p=1890
If Crystar & Sectaurs ever gets re-done (almost impossible to contemplate, I know) they will almost certainly be online only (like the new Power Lords line), not @ retail.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 18:19:31 GMT -5
Here's one I thought I would never see... A glow-in-the-dark one:twelve scale Space Ghost figure (it's an Entertainment Earth exclusive) Space Ghost I am such a sucker for glow-in-the-dark toys and I love me some Space Ghost, I just have a bit of sticker shock(I know that's going rate for a lot of collectible one:twelve scale figures, but I still balk at that price point). I may still bite on this, but I am not sure. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 21:58:08 GMT -5
Blip looks evil.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 22:11:38 GMT -5
Isn't that redundant for a glowing space monkey? -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2017 15:26:38 GMT -5
I've just been informed that I should keep my eye out at this year's Toy Fair if I am interested in a line of Thundarr the Barbarian toys. It came up in a discussion of a Thundarr custom someone did that I commented on.
Fingers crossed and buzzing with excitement now.
-M
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Post by james on Jan 28, 2017 12:31:13 GMT -5
I would love to see a classic Wonder Man in costume from Avengers 164. Awesome!
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Post by james on Jan 28, 2017 12:32:35 GMT -5
I would love to see giftsets of famous superhero team line-ups in any size/scale. A complete Judas Contract Era Titans, Dark Phoenix Era X-Men, Kree Skrull War Era Avengers, etc. I hate playing the game of buying one in the hope that another will be released later down the line. You mean like these...      Toy Biz tried that quite often to mediocre to poor sales results. -M Absolutely dig the Avengers figures! |
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Post by coinkadink on Feb 27, 2017 16:43:13 GMT -5
I'm getting the D C collectibles Batman the animated series figures. So far they've all been great and diverse. One I'd like to see is Batman as a red knight on a pegasus from the episode "What is reality?" Edited because I remembered the wrong episode. ![]()  And to add this image. |
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Post by coinkadink on Feb 28, 2017 7:29:49 GMT -5
They always made silly Batman figures that had nothing to do with the show and I always wondered why they didn't do this one that came right from the show.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Apr 4, 2017 15:26:06 GMT -5
I'd like a good 6" scale Kingpin figure.
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Post by brianf on Apr 4, 2017 20:05:52 GMT -5
I would love a nicely detailed Elric figure based on P. Craig Russells art  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 5:39:34 GMT -5
great dudes i wan to buy them too
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 5:41:37 GMT -5
comics are my life
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Post by lobsterjohnson on May 11, 2017 13:59:51 GMT -5
I'd like to see Marvel Legends make Superior Spider-Man's first costume.
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Post by Golddragon71 on May 30, 2017 13:48:59 GMT -5
DC Collectibles DCTV
FLASH
Future Flash w/ interchangeable head
Jessie Quick
Jay Garrick Flash (John Wesley Shipp)
Vibe
Frost
Savitar two pack featuring Armored shell and future Barry with scarred face
ARROW
Green Arrow Season Five suit
Prometheus
Vigilante
Mr. Terrific
Wild Dog
Ragman
Black Canary II
Artemis
LEGENDS
Mick
Citizen Steel
Vixen
Martin Stein
Rip Hunter
Eobard Thawne (plainclothes)
Damien Darkh
SUPERGIRL
Miss Martian
White Martian
Queen Rhea
Mon El
Guardian
LUCIFER
Lucifer
Mazikeen
Amenadiel
Chloe
Dan
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