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Post by @Chair.Shot on Sept 27, 2024 8:30:40 GMT -5
I am not a huge fan of his but he has a huge following here with people in my age group at least. Maybe for people not in USA he is not known but here he definitely is. The figure looks great too. I won't buy it and I dont know if people who would buy it have any idea what ZST is but whatever. I would bet my life that a lot more people know who Bruce Campbell is than know who Kurt Fuller is. Yeah after doing a bit research and seeing some reaction on socials, I'll concede that I'm probably in the minority here. It is hard to explain it or compare him to another level of celebrity, really. He isn’t as iconic as Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, or Leatherface but he is in that mix. It might be like people knowing who Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Rock, and Cena are but not being familiar with Randy Orton. Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 were basically prequels to Army of Darkness. AoD had an actual budget whereas the other two were just silly independent horror. Even though AoD did terrible financially and critically, it created this cult fan following. Its legacy continued to grow throughout the years and I think the only reason it has slowed is due to the age of the actors and the director (life long friends). My experience with the films are that AoD was on tv fairly often for a few years. I seem to recall it playing a bunch on SyFy. I had seen parts of it but didn’t actually watch the entire series until I was in high school. The two Evil Dead movies were creative for their time but I wouldn’t call them good. Army of Darkness was far more professional and ambitious. They produced a fair amount of merch over the years (shirts, posters, figures, etc.) so there was always this cultural awareness of it with people around my age. At the very least, people would know about the guy who has a chainsaw for a hand or they have heard a gun referred to as a “boom stick.” The franchise did go on to get more movies made, comic books, a tv series that went 3 seasons, video games, etc. If anyone wants a Bruce Campbell wrestling connection, look no further! (You can also do your own research if you want to hear the story about Macho having relations in close proximity to Bruce…it’s an interesting story)
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Post by punksnotdead on Sept 27, 2024 14:04:14 GMT -5
Ordered Tajiri and Awesome. I like the Flair but passed. May pick that one up down the road.
Ash is really cool, and I collect some horror, but it doesn't fall into my group of favorites. I like that he's doing more of those and I really do hope he does a Kevin Costner from Robin Hood or a Crash from Bull Durham eventually. Lots of space for him to do cool stuff from movie or entertainment icons.
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Post by parrish on Sept 27, 2024 14:15:50 GMT -5
Yeah after doing a bit research and seeing some reaction on socials, I'll concede that I'm probably in the minority here. It is hard to explain it or compare him to another level of celebrity, really. He isn’t as iconic as Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, or Leatherface but he is in that mix. It might be like people knowing who Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Rock, and Cena are but not being familiar with Randy Orton. Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 were basically prequels to Army of Darkness. AoD had an actual budget whereas the other two were just silly independent horror. Even though AoD did terrible financially and critically, it created this cult fan following. Its legacy continued to grow throughout the years and I think the only reason it has slowed is due to the age of the actors and the director (life long friends). My experience with the films are that AoD was on tv fairly often for a few years. I seem to recall it playing a bunch on SyFy. I had seen parts of it but didn’t actually watch the entire series until I was in high school. The two Evil Dead movies were creative for their time but I wouldn’t call them good. Army of Darkness was far more professional and ambitious. They produced a fair amount of merch over the years (shirts, posters, figures, etc.) so there was always this cultural awareness of it with people around my age. At the very least, people would know about the guy who has a chainsaw for a hand or they have heard a gun referred to as a “boom stick.” The franchise did go on to get more movies made, comic books, a tv series that went 3 seasons, video games, etc. If anyone wants a Bruce Campbell wrestling connection, look no further! (You can also do your own research if you want to hear the story about Macho having relations in close proximity to Bruce…it’s an interesting story) Army of Darkness had a budget of 11 million with a box office return of 21.5 million. It has gone on to make money for another 30 years worth of re-releases and merchandise. Calling that terrible is almost as much of a stretch as Zombies arms.
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Post by Bandalero on Sept 27, 2024 14:34:42 GMT -5
even with all my bitching I pre-ordered Abby. Whether I pre-order now or wait til it's in-stock it'll still be $35 and it'll still be shipping of $32 to Canada, so what am I gaining by waiting, I still have to wait anyway.
I'll tell you I have totally fallen off the ZST bandwagon though. His upcoming roster of potential names is so heavily ECW-centred, and his disproportioned vanilla sculpting is so lackluster, and this other direction he's taking with Bruce Lee and Ash, just aren't for me. I'm glad Epic, WSW, and Hasttel are picking up their game.
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Post by mrh on Sept 27, 2024 21:01:40 GMT -5
Did the price for these come down a lot? Weren't series one $50 on first sale?
$35 seems like a really fair price. How many do you need for free shipping?
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Post by @Chair.Shot on Sept 27, 2024 21:32:58 GMT -5
It is hard to explain it or compare him to another level of celebrity, really. He isn’t as iconic as Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, or Leatherface but he is in that mix. It might be like people knowing who Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Rock, and Cena are but not being familiar with Randy Orton. Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 were basically prequels to Army of Darkness. AoD had an actual budget whereas the other two were just silly independent horror. Even though AoD did terrible financially and critically, it created this cult fan following. Its legacy continued to grow throughout the years and I think the only reason it has slowed is due to the age of the actors and the director (life long friends). My experience with the films are that AoD was on tv fairly often for a few years. I seem to recall it playing a bunch on SyFy. I had seen parts of it but didn’t actually watch the entire series until I was in high school. The two Evil Dead movies were creative for their time but I wouldn’t call them good. Army of Darkness was far more professional and ambitious. They produced a fair amount of merch over the years (shirts, posters, figures, etc.) so there was always this cultural awareness of it with people around my age. At the very least, people would know about the guy who has a chainsaw for a hand or they have heard a gun referred to as a “boom stick.” The franchise did go on to get more movies made, comic books, a tv series that went 3 seasons, video games, etc. If anyone wants a Bruce Campbell wrestling connection, look no further! (You can also do your own research if you want to hear the story about Macho having relations in close proximity to Bruce…it’s an interesting story) Army of Darkness had a budget of 11 million with a box office return of 21.5 million. It has gone on to make money for another 30 years worth of re-releases and merchandise. Calling that terrible is almost as much of a stretch as Zombies arms. You get a half point for being right in that it made back about double its budget so technically that isn’t terrible but that is still underperforming. Most studios are going to want to make 2.5-3x whatever the budget had been. You lose a full point though for not continuing to read the rest of my post where I acknowledge how successful the franchise was.
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Post by @Chair.Shot on Sept 27, 2024 21:35:15 GMT -5
Did the price for these come down a lot? Weren't series one $50 on first sale? $35 seems like a really fair price. How many do you need for free shipping? The price is a pre-order incentive. And I know nothing of free shipping. I ordered Abby and Brown but still had to pay shipping and tax (came to around $80).
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Post by Jackass Pacific on Sept 27, 2024 21:55:13 GMT -5
Army of Darkness had a budget of 11 million with a box office return of 21.5 million. It has gone on to make money for another 30 years worth of re-releases and merchandise. Calling that terrible is almost as much of a stretch as Zombies arms. You get a half point for being right in that it made back about double its budget so technically that isn’t terrible but that is still underperforming. Most studios are going to want to make 2.5-3x whatever the budget had been. You lose a full point though for not continuing to read the rest of my post where I acknowledge how successful the franchise was. thats modern times though. back then, that was HUGE profit for a movie of that caliber
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Post by @Chair.Shot on Sept 27, 2024 23:51:27 GMT -5
You get a half point for being right in that it made back about double its budget so technically that isn’t terrible but that is still underperforming. Most studios are going to want to make 2.5-3x whatever the budget had been. You lose a full point though for not continuing to read the rest of my post where I acknowledge how successful the franchise was. thats modern times though. back then, that was HUGE profit for a movie of that caliber To the best of my knowledge, percentages have not changed.
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Post by mrscream on Sept 28, 2024 2:11:33 GMT -5
Did the price for these come down a lot? Weren't series one $50 on first sale? $35 seems like a really fair price. How many do you need for free shipping? Nope, the 50 dollars seems to be banded on here a lot but were always $40. Raven was 45 though due to jacket. Anyway going to order all this set bar Flair I think.
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Post by walter7paisley on Sept 28, 2024 2:48:00 GMT -5
It is hard to explain it or compare him to another level of celebrity, really. He isn’t as iconic as Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, or Leatherface but he is in that mix. It might be like people knowing who Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Rock, and Cena are but not being familiar with Randy Orton. Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 were basically prequels to Army of Darkness. AoD had an actual budget whereas the other two were just silly independent horror. Even though AoD did terrible financially and critically, it created this cult fan following. Its legacy continued to grow throughout the years and I think the only reason it has slowed is due to the age of the actors and the director (life long friends). My experience with the films are that AoD was on tv fairly often for a few years. I seem to recall it playing a bunch on SyFy. I had seen parts of it but didn’t actually watch the entire series until I was in high school. The two Evil Dead movies were creative for their time but I wouldn’t call them good. Army of Darkness was far more professional and ambitious. They produced a fair amount of merch over the years (shirts, posters, figures, etc.) so there was always this cultural awareness of it with people around my age. At the very least, people would know about the guy who has a chainsaw for a hand or they have heard a gun referred to as a “boom stick.” The franchise did go on to get more movies made, comic books, a tv series that went 3 seasons, video games, etc. If anyone wants a Bruce Campbell wrestling connection, look no further! (You can also do your own research if you want to hear the story about Macho having relations in close proximity to Bruce…it’s an interesting story) Army of Darkness had a budget of 11 million with a box office return of 21.5 million. It has gone on to make money for another 30 years worth of re-releases and merchandise. Calling that terrible is almost as much of a stretch as Zombies arms. Evil Dead 1 and 2 were and are also absolute benchmarks of the Horror genre and have gone on to influence a generation of filmmakers in many many ways. Honestly, they're as influential and as innovative as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was, and that's saying something. I'm a huge fan of 1&2, 3 is the more glossy, almost "family friendly" version, but it's not as good as the previous 2, or anywhere near as influential. That being said, I'm not that interested in a ZST version of Ash, or of any Horror character, really. There are far better Horror figures out there 🤷
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Post by Roy Alrumblay on Sept 28, 2024 5:17:16 GMT -5
Got a ZST email stating Series 4 is the fastest selling wave yet. Does anyone know what that specifically means? It was sent 16 hours after they went live.
Also, chair.shot have you done any more research about photo likeness used for ZST card backing dating back to Series 1? This could be huge…the community owes you a debt of gratitude for starting the thread and pursuing accountability!
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Post by misterfigi on Sept 28, 2024 5:28:29 GMT -5
Did the price for these come down a lot? Weren't series one $50 on first sale? $35 seems like a really fair price. How many do you need for free shipping? Nope, the 50 dollars seems to be banded on here a lot but were always $40. Raven was 45 though due to jacket. Anyway going to order all this set bar Flair I think. People say $50 because they are $40 but you have about $10 shipping you have to pay, so if you buy one figure its $50.
Flair is the best one!
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Post by walter7paisley on Sept 28, 2024 6:11:21 GMT -5
Nope, the 50 dollars seems to be banded on here a lot but were always $40. Raven was 45 though due to jacket. Anyway going to order all this set bar Flair I think. People say $50 because they are $40 but you have about $10 shipping you have to pay, so if you buy one figure its $50.
Flair is the best one!
In the UK, some are nearly £60. There's a few that are cheaper, but last I checked, the likes of OMG was £57.
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Post by mrscream on Sept 28, 2024 6:22:26 GMT -5
Pretty certain that’s Rock n Roll rasing the price as he sees fit (not denying it’s a lot) series 4 is up for £42 each (including postage)
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Post by 3poajamie on Sept 28, 2024 10:23:42 GMT -5
Got a ZST email stating Series 4 is the fastest selling wave yet. Does anyone know what that specifically means? It was sent 16 hours after they went live. Also, chair.shot have you done any more research about photo likeness used for ZST card backing dating back to Series 1? This could be huge…the community owes you a debt of gratitude for starting the thread and pursuing accountability! Think it’s just a weird term to use for an unlimited pre-order that is still available for order Unless of course he means someone purchased one quicker than other series which doesn’t make a whole heap of sense
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Post by brad on Sept 28, 2024 11:33:59 GMT -5
Got Bad News, a crucial piece of the missing Hasbro puzzle. Really wanted Abdullah but funds are tight, looks great imo
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Post by walter7paisley on Sept 28, 2024 12:26:11 GMT -5
Got Bad News, a crucial piece of the missing Hasbro puzzle. Really wanted Abdullah but funds are tight, looks great imo Yeah, my budget for wrestling figures is pretty tight these days. If I was gonna buy any of this series, it'd probably be Tajiri, but honestly it doesn't look like a Hasbro to me, and frankly looks like a weird take on a Charapro more than anything. Mike Awesome is a huge letdown, because I've been wanting a figure of him for a while, but this one doesn't cut it for me. I'll still try and buy a Jarret one day, which is definitely his best figure, imo, along with OMG, Bundy and Sullivan.
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Post by CM Tusk on Sept 29, 2024 4:18:46 GMT -5
That Ash is pretty ing cool if I’m being honest.
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Post by @Chair.Shot on Sept 29, 2024 6:29:35 GMT -5
That Ash is pretty ing cool if I’m being honest.
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