Post by The Assassin on Feb 15, 2010 12:23:40 GMT -5
I'm seriously losing interest in Jakks. They just keep pissing me off and disappointing me. I feel like I'm getting to the point where I'm losing interest in collecting because of them. Here's some reasons why:
-They went against 70-80% of the collectors and made TNA DA style
-They barely ever ask for our input
-They make so many careless errors and non-sensical decisions
-The rare times we do talk to them, opportunities for input are short, unfair, and lack a sense of organization
-Most of the input we do give them doesn't seem to affect anything
-A lot of their headscans use ridiculous choices for expressions (e.g. screaming or an expression the wrestler barely ever does) or are oversized, or they just skip using realscan altogether and the sculpt is poor.
-There is no sense of scale with the figures
-Most of the body parts are unrealistic and not correctly proportioned
-They barely ever make new body parts
-They often avoid making updated headscans and use old ones instead which are innacurate and/or poorly detailed
-Whenever they make a new body style (eg. RA, DA, UFC) the figures seem to get bigger and so don't fit in with the previous style)
My "main" collection of Jakks figures is around 400 RA figures (I have bought several hundreds more tho and have since sold them or used them for custom parts). I loved collecting them, I enjoy my collection, and I still want to add to it with TNA superstars and more classics (LOTR). But I just feel like it all seems a bit hopeless now. I just feel like Jakks is constantly letting us down, not listening and generally making as little effort as possible.
At the moment, I'm just wishing for a BIG change. I want to see Jakks COMMUNICATING with the collectors much more. We need regular, fair, organized and extensive opportunities for input, which actually affects superstar and design choices. We need to be ASKED for input, not just told about things that are coming up (things which will happen whether we know or not). We need to be shown protos BEFORE they are too late to change. There is a massive amount of ideas and insight available to Jakks at WF. Free. Personally, I have a billion suggestions for Jakks. But they just don't seem interested.
TNA is a weaker property than WWE. Jakks needs to rely on their existing fanbase. But I think it's fair to say they're just pissing off most of us.
So that's my rant. Please share your thoughts. And lets keep this topic about JAKKS. I DONT want this to turn into "Jakks Vs Mattel" please. What are your feelings about Jakks ATM? How could they improve?
-They went against 70-80% of the collectors and made TNA DA style
-They barely ever ask for our input
-They make so many careless errors and non-sensical decisions
-The rare times we do talk to them, opportunities for input are short, unfair, and lack a sense of organization
-Most of the input we do give them doesn't seem to affect anything
-A lot of their headscans use ridiculous choices for expressions (e.g. screaming or an expression the wrestler barely ever does) or are oversized, or they just skip using realscan altogether and the sculpt is poor.
-There is no sense of scale with the figures
-Most of the body parts are unrealistic and not correctly proportioned
-They barely ever make new body parts
-They often avoid making updated headscans and use old ones instead which are innacurate and/or poorly detailed
-Whenever they make a new body style (eg. RA, DA, UFC) the figures seem to get bigger and so don't fit in with the previous style)
My "main" collection of Jakks figures is around 400 RA figures (I have bought several hundreds more tho and have since sold them or used them for custom parts). I loved collecting them, I enjoy my collection, and I still want to add to it with TNA superstars and more classics (LOTR). But I just feel like it all seems a bit hopeless now. I just feel like Jakks is constantly letting us down, not listening and generally making as little effort as possible.
At the moment, I'm just wishing for a BIG change. I want to see Jakks COMMUNICATING with the collectors much more. We need regular, fair, organized and extensive opportunities for input, which actually affects superstar and design choices. We need to be ASKED for input, not just told about things that are coming up (things which will happen whether we know or not). We need to be shown protos BEFORE they are too late to change. There is a massive amount of ideas and insight available to Jakks at WF. Free. Personally, I have a billion suggestions for Jakks. But they just don't seem interested.
TNA is a weaker property than WWE. Jakks needs to rely on their existing fanbase. But I think it's fair to say they're just pissing off most of us.
So that's my rant. Please share your thoughts. And lets keep this topic about JAKKS. I DONT want this to turn into "Jakks Vs Mattel" please. What are your feelings about Jakks ATM? How could they improve?
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