mrh
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Post by mrh on Jan 7, 2022 23:24:25 GMT -5
Jeremy has REALLY dropped the ball on marketing this -- look at how Steve manages the line, compared to Jeremy and AEW.
The figures are good -- but their horrible outreach has def. damaged the excitement about it
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Jonny Flashback
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Post by Jonny Flashback on Jan 8, 2022 5:26:18 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever been so back and forward on whether I'll continue a line or not than AEW figures. So I do understand the original post. I've started so it's harder to stop. You haven't started so it's harder to start lol.
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Post by LA Times on Jan 8, 2022 9:14:52 GMT -5
Horrible. I have only ever seen 2 AEW figures in stores who are giving the shelf space to jazwares UFC instead.
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Post by shanieomaniac on Jan 8, 2022 12:33:14 GMT -5
In my opinion
How is the TV Product: Blazing How is the Figure Product: Hot
How is the Marketing for Product: Ice friggin cold.
If I wasn't on here and also following MDT on YT, I wouldn't have the slightest idea what was going on with this line. I almost never see it in stores, so I can't go by that. I don't even think an advertising campaign exists. Reveals are terribly sporadic and don't showcase much at once (outside of maybe one mega-reveal of the year). And, as stated, the only real social media rep we have for the line is annoyingly silent on it.
I love the line, don't get me wrong. Many of the figures are absolute gems and the product quality was so good from day one that I'm actually collecting the women all MOC. I never collect MOC! But these are just such gorgeous figures that I can't help it.
Do I feel the line has a future? Well, as long as AEW is around, I feel there will be figures of it, if that means anything. In my opinion, AEW's habit of hiring all of WWE's rejects and bloating the crap out of their roster is more concerning than the decisions of Jeremy and Jazwares.
I don't think the figures will be going anywhere soon.
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Post by The Madness on Jan 8, 2022 13:41:51 GMT -5
The chase figures will always hold their value, but some may go for more or less than they initially did on the secondary market over the years.
Buy the ones you like, skip the ones you don't. I'm not huge into the line unless they start doing some legends-style figures, but there have been some like Luchasaurus that I've bought just because they look cool.
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Post by marklud on Jan 8, 2022 14:24:41 GMT -5
Hey guys, just wanted to get your thoughts on the future of the AEW figure line. I’m heavily contemplating starting and completing a collection from the line, but I have an uncertainty in my gut about the future of the line. It seems like the line started off white hot, which was expected considering it was a new brand and new product of figures hitting shelves. I fully anticipated the initial Hype to die off some, while there still remaining continuous rollout of new product and reveals. It seems as if the line has gone cold and stagnet though. I vaguely remember their being promises and new two packs and new figures to be released, but it just seems as if everything on Jazwares/JP’s end has gone silent. We haven’t been given many reveals as of late (yes I’m aware we saw dark order, but it was a series we already saw renders for), no new line up with the addition of the unmatched series and seeing two packs (slowly) roll out even if they were re-releases/repaints. I know they can’t show all their cards at once, but it’s almost like they have just let the hype fizzle out almost completely. It went from appearing like this was going to be a huge project for JP and now all I see him posting about are cards, capitalizing on market values of NTF, high dollar trading cards and crazy priced collectible items. It seems like his passion for the AEW line is few and far between. My fear is this becoming an deluxe impact 2.0 line and dying after a few releases. Maybe my hopes are too high and I’ve just had higher expectations? I don’t know. It just seemed like all the communication we were getting at the start had great promise of a bunch of different product and, in my opinion, we haven’t seen that as of late. I really just want this to be an open discussion about the future of the line/everyone’s opinions. I want to see this line thrive and take off so this is in no way meant to be a bashing of the product, just a general perspective of how I have viewed the line since it’s launch. Let me hear your guys opinions! I think you're going way too deep to try to justify one decision or the other, lol. If you like AEW and like the figs, buy them! If you don't, don't. This stuff shouldn't be super complicated at the end of the day. Whatever Jeremy posts on Instagram has 0.000 percent to do with my enjoyment or lack of enjoyment with the line. (Also, because you really did stress the Jeremy point there ... he's not like just the brand manager for the AEW line. He's way, way, WAY up there at Jazwares and just got another promotion the other day to Chief Brand Officer. I think the fact that he does any social for the line at all has more to do with his passion for wrestling and his previous work at Jakks. He oversees way more than just a wrestling line for them.) Also when you said you're contemplating "starting and completing" ... I don't know, it really doesn't have to be completing or none at all. Especially with the way they're going to follow the Jakks model and pump out repaints, stick to one per character or just get your favorites. I dig AEW and am perfectly content with the line at the moment personally, but I'm definitely picking and choosing at this point.
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Post by newgenandy on Jan 9, 2022 7:18:10 GMT -5
Hey guys, just wanted to get your thoughts on the future of the AEW figure line. I’m heavily contemplating starting and completing a collection from the line, but I have an uncertainty in my gut about the future of the line. It seems like the line started off white hot, which was expected considering it was a new brand and new product of figures hitting shelves. I fully anticipated the initial Hype to die off some, while there still remaining continuous rollout of new product and reveals. It seems as if the line has gone cold and stagnet though. I vaguely remember their being promises and new two packs and new figures to be released, but it just seems as if everything on Jazwares/JP’s end has gone silent. We haven’t been given many reveals as of late (yes I’m aware we saw dark order, but it was a series we already saw renders for), no new line up with the addition of the unmatched series and seeing two packs (slowly) roll out even if they were re-releases/repaints. I know they can’t show all their cards at once, but it’s almost like they have just let the hype fizzle out almost completely. It went from appearing like this was going to be a huge project for JP and now all I see him posting about are cards, capitalizing on market values of NTF, high dollar trading cards and crazy priced collectible items. It seems like his passion for the AEW line is few and far between. My fear is this becoming an deluxe impact 2.0 line and dying after a few releases. Maybe my hopes are too high and I’ve just had higher expectations? I don’t know. It just seemed like all the communication we were getting at the start had great promise of a bunch of different product and, in my opinion, we haven’t seen that as of late. I really just want this to be an open discussion about the future of the line/everyone’s opinions. I want to see this line thrive and take off so this is in no way meant to be a bashing of the product, just a general perspective of how I have viewed the line since it’s launch. Let me hear your guys opinions! I think you're going way too deep to try to justify one decision or the other, lol. If you like AEW and like the figs, buy them! If you don't, don't. This stuff shouldn't be super complicated at the end of the day. Whatever Jeremy posts on Instagram has 0.000 percent to do with my enjoyment or lack of enjoyment with the line. (Also, because you really did stress the Jeremy point there ... he's not like just the brand manager for the AEW line. He's way, way, WAY up there at Jazwares and just got another promotion the other day to Chief Brand Officer. I think the fact that he does any social for the line at all has more to do with his passion for wrestling and his previous work at Jakks. He oversees way more than just a wrestling line for them.) Also when you said you're contemplating "starting and completing" ... I don't know, it really doesn't have to be completing or none at all. Especially with the way they're going to follow the Jakks model and pump out repaints, stick to one per character or just get your favorites. I dig AEW and am perfectly content with the line at the moment personally, but I'm definitely picking and choosing at this point. I did have to stop following Jeremy just because all he seemed to talk about was money and value snd I found it boring but that’s just me personally He shows s card, I’m interested to see it, don’t need to know how much he paid/it’s worth/one sold for etc - cost / value to me is not the reason I collect
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Jan 9, 2022 10:48:05 GMT -5
Jeremy is an NFT crypto bro snake oil salesman, the more I see him tweet the less I want Jazwares running this line tbqh
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Post by Jim Cornette’s Wendy’s Order🍔 on Jan 9, 2022 12:33:24 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever been so back and forward on whether I'll continue a line or not than AEW figures. So I do understand the original post. I've started so it's harder to stop. You haven't started so it's harder to start lol. Exactly.
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marklud
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Post by marklud on Jan 9, 2022 13:56:06 GMT -5
I did have to stop following Jeremy just because all he seemed to talk about was money and value snd I found it boring but that’s just me personally He shows s card, I’m interested to see it, don’t need to know how much he paid/it’s worth/one sold for etc - cost / value to me is not the reason I collect I hear ya. I find it annoying too. But I'll stress that whatever he posts/etc. has 0.000000 percent to do with my enjoyment or lack of enjoyment with the line, lol. I dig AEW and dig the figs. He can do what he wants on his personal accounts and the AEW line is like 1/25th of his responsibilities over there. Based on his original post it sounded like OP's main reason for not getting into the figs was his thoughts on Jeremy. Which is his prerogative. I just think at the end of the day either you like the figs and have some emotional attachment to them or you don't, lol.
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Post by newgenandy on Jan 9, 2022 16:12:27 GMT -5
I did have to stop following Jeremy just because all he seemed to talk about was money and value snd I found it boring but that’s just me personally He shows s card, I’m interested to see it, don’t need to know how much he paid/it’s worth/one sold for etc - cost / value to me is not the reason I collect I hear ya. I find it annoying too. But I'll stress that whatever he posts/etc. has 0.000000 percent to do with my enjoyment or lack of enjoyment with the line, lol. I dig AEW and dig the figs. He can do what he wants on his personal accounts and the AEW line is like 1/25th of his responsibilities over there. Based on his original post it sounded like OP's main reason for not getting into the figs was his thoughts on Jeremy. Which is his prerogative. I just think at the end of the day either you like the figs and have some emotional attachment to them or you don't, lol. Oh yeah totally - some dudes tweets wouldn’t affect me enjoying a line unless the tweet etc is specific to the line and is misleading or similar which could make me go from anticipating a figure / line to being disappointed in it E.g. hypothetically if someone related to the company tweeted “Owen will be coming in one of his recognisable classic attires” then it’s revealed snd it’s nothing like his classic attires etc
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Post by Tye Hyll on Jan 10, 2022 0:10:29 GMT -5
Yeah Jeremy has proven to be the worst kind of capalist dork. To me that was proven when he defended his extremely rare chase figures that have unique sculpts and numbering and seeing no issue with scalping.
But his recent tweets are just complete cringe. Almost teetering on "lol stop being poor everyone, see how rich I am, be more like me!"
And I'm growing less and less interested in AEW figures as thier quality is reflecting Jakks; Poor scaling, wrong attires, crap like the wrong Britt head on a $40 exclusive. Just pure sleeze.
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Post by mikey1974 on Jan 13, 2022 20:56:59 GMT -5
They absolutely need to figure out the retail situation. A year and a half later and I’ve seen them on pegs like 5 or 6 times total. Empty peg after empty peg, for months and months on end around here
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Post by nzgypsy on Jan 15, 2022 0:52:17 GMT -5
I'm still on board with hardcore collecting. The time between sets gives international fans some space to catch up with the shipping prices. I'm not too familiar with the state of collecting in the States but in New Zealand we're lucky to find the most mainstream of sets. Most of us over these ways collect online exclusively now and don't bother with the hunt.
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Post by Top 1% Aaron on Jan 18, 2022 16:06:32 GMT -5
Jazwares absolutely stink at marketing TBH. They have the Pokemon license (easily one of the biggest licenses in the world) and they never bother announcing anything. You don't even know figures exist until you randomly find them in a store or see them on eBay.
All they need to do is throw some photos on Instagram and say "Coming this summer!" but they just can't be bothered.
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