Wicked Cool Toys & Jeremy: my wishful thinking

You're not going to see figures from them like Mattel. I'm personal friends with Jeremy for many years since he was at Jakks. You're going to see things Mattel won't do, like keychains, bobble heads, thumbpers, etc. They are able to do an official scale ring since nobody else is doing one. Hope that makes sense?

Mattel has the rights to 6" WWE figures, WCT does not, so they will make other WWE products. It's just like how the Bridge Connect is able to make the STACKDOWN toys. They're sharing a license but making different products.

Where did you see that?

I'll give you Medieval Spawn, but the regular Spawn was blue instead of black and, other than the cape, just kind of an average figure. He honestly looked like a bootleg.

First off, you should probably quote me if you're going to debate me rather than someone else.

Second, people are crapping on Wicked Cool Toys everywhere and comparing them to Mattel. I wasn't referring to posts only in this thread.

Third, I didn't remember the Silver Samurai figure only having knee articulation; I just remember the figure looking exactly like the character. Also, choosing Beast wasn't for the ankle joint, it was for the sculpt. Honestly, I didn't even set out to use him, he just happened to be a figure that came out in the same year.

As for the Spawn toys, as I said, the Medieval Spawn was badass, but the regular Spawn was the wrong color. Also, when it was time to play, the cape was pretty much worthless, because not only did it not move (like, say, the fabric capes Batman toys had six years prior), but the folds on it would tear from being such thin plastic.

And, no, I'm not saying you have to wait 20 years, I'm just saying everything sucks in the first year (a concept which doesn't apply to just toys). Within the next year or two McFarlane was blowing away the competition, but naming one or two figures from their first year as being good is no different than what you accused me of doing by pointing out Beast's ankle articulation.

Finally, I said I'm not crapping on McFarlane, so saying ToyBiz isn't around anymore means nothing. And, anyway, for the record, ToyBiz isn't around anymore because Marvel wanted to outsource their action figures to Hasbro and ToyBiz was a Marvel subsidiary; it had nothing to do with quality.

It's called a delete key. And why not quote me that time?

Anyway, comparing a 15" figure with a 5" one is pretty unfair, don't you think?

As for my analogy, it's not bad because I'm not saying Wicked Cool Toys is going to be the next McFarlane; I was using one of the most world-renowned toy companies as an example to show that every company needs to get over that hump at first before they figure out what they're going to do. That goes for anything dealing with creation, for that matter.

Technically, it wasn't an analogy at all. It was an example.

Sorry if I'm being a dick; I'm just in a really bad mold right now, so I'm probably being more aggressive than I normally would be.

A major part of toy creation when those lines were coming out was shrinking the sculpt to the final size, so I still don't think it makes a difference. For all I know, every single one of McFarlane's toys would've been works of art from the start if they were 15". The point remains the same, be it the sculpting itself or shrinking the sculpt, they hadn't mastered the technique right away.

As far as the 2 months thing goes, McFarlane can out sculpt practically every other toy company out there, so them having the process sped up isn't without question. Also, at that time, McFarlane himself was selling the #1 comic through a company he owned during both comics' and action figure's highest selling period. Furthermore, McFarlane is known to be a ridiculously shrewd business man, so I'm sure he sank more money into his company than Wicked Cool Toys are even able to at this point, not only because he had the capital to, but also because he would give his all to turn 99¢ into $1, and action figures at the time were a huge money maker. So, yeah, McFarlane would definitely improve faster than average.

This is not meant to be a knock in any way I know WCT is just getting it's feet off the ground here, but their merch looks like it has dollar general written all over it from those pics.