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Post by RSCTom on Jul 25, 2023 6:52:15 GMT -5
I really haven’t seen any plans for the spin master brands from SDCC. And Spin Master made a Penguin? I don’t recall that. Unless you are talking about the one from the Pattinson Batman movie. I am indeed talking about the Pattinson Penguin. I'm a big fan of that version. That said, I don't have it on hand because it's packed in a moving shipment but it seems to be also a larger scale than the newer stuff they're doing. I think it's safe to assume they're not going to get into the nitty gritty of characters from different franchises and movies I think, which is a shame but that's life!
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Post by RSCTom on Jul 25, 2023 3:13:12 GMT -5
I got the Spin Master RC Batmobile finally and it's definitely awesome. The sound effects are great and the 'smoke' that comes out of it is a dope touch. It's also insanely fast.
Disappointing for me though is that the old Mattel Movie Masters don't fit inside..they're like just too large. I was collecting those and hoping to have a nice little cross section from the different movies (I have both masked and unmasked Batman, a Spin Master Penguin and a custom Joker from TDK) but now that I invested in the Batmobile I guess I'll be waiting for Spin Master to expand their line.
Did anyone see any plans of this being the case at SDCC? Seems to me like they just produce stuff for kids play and that's it so it's unlikely to get a TDK Joker in their scale, more classic '89 Batman, etc.
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Post by RSCTom on Jul 25, 2023 2:58:22 GMT -5
Not that I want to ease all the unbelievable bellyaching but I did ask the question and it did get answered
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Post by RSCTom on Jul 14, 2023 6:08:21 GMT -5
The SDCC Exclusive this year is a Spielberg and Dilophosaurus figure. I will always love Spielberg but I don't really have any desire to have his action figure. Good Dilophosaurus for anyone who missed out on the Hammond Collection, though.
I'm looking forward to seeing the gates in person, if only to just feel sorry for myself over something I'll never get haha. They're just too cool.
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Post by RSCTom on Jul 11, 2023 6:41:35 GMT -5
Probably going to miss the early bird tier here which is a bummer and is kind of setting up the bigger bummer of this not happening. I'm not sure what the future holds but I'm hoping if it's on display at SDCC people will be wowed by it and there's a chance we could still see it happen. My optimism is waning, though.
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Post by RSCTom on Jul 7, 2023 13:08:39 GMT -5
Met Droz and Scorpio at my first ever house show and it completely changed how I thought about wrestlers and wrestling. I won't ever forget that. He'll be missed.
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Post by RSCTom on Jul 7, 2023 12:17:33 GMT -5
Can't say I hate these, it's unique and consistent if anything haha. Better than most knock offs for that reason. It's a mixed bag. Haha. Your opinion will vary greatly when I get into posting the "who the feck is this? Like this guy. He was in the WWE/WWF bag. Who the feck is this? No markings on him. just a guy wearing black with a black beard............? Hmmm...it's the no kneepads that really make it difficult. I obviously want to say Steve Blackman but I don't think so. Still fun haha
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 30, 2023 19:03:09 GMT -5
Ugh I wish they’d retire the awful plastic rubber coats where their arms are stuck in the most unnatural positions ever They will probably retire them when people stop calling them rubber, which they are not and never have been made out of
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 28, 2023 19:03:01 GMT -5
To be fair, Hasbro doesn’t ship to all international markets (Australia for instance), we have to use 3rd parties. But I completely agree with your points, it seems Mattel is just out of touch and/or unable to over come market conditions (costs, buyer demand etc.)! Not allowing international buyers until it’s backed likely has something to do with the costs involved in issuing refunds if the project doesn’t make it. Seems very short sighted, but i guess they’ve done the research. Crowd funds used to be for smaller/start up companies to help generate capital for projects. Failures are a part of the process, but the costs will be starting to build if this doesn’t get over the line for Mattel, with zero return. I feel like these big companies have turned to crowdfunding due to the demise of ToysRUs and KB. Also a great point. If retailers, both online and in store, were demanding this in a way that they'd pay to carry it and feel like they could move the items it'd probably show up more often. But TRU not existing anymore definitely hurts it. Target having 4 or 5 of these per store on shelf might get lucky if they move 1-2, right? Alas, here we are...
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 28, 2023 19:01:10 GMT -5
These gates are not nearly as bad as they are getting heat for. I understand the price point is steep but this is a premium toy and a premium offering...as was the WCW Nitro Stage. I don't really understand how it's so hard to wrap around that for some people. The days of giant hollow pieces of plastic with a built in rotator chair and launching missiles are over. Steep price or not, it is what it is. I still have my old Ghostbusters firehouse but how could someone expect something like that to be released in the modern era of toys being more detailed than ever before? See: the McFarlane Batmobile from Flash...bare bones but in person not even close to as good as a crowdfunded version would be. I'm going to get the remote control SpinMaster one instead.
As someone who has been waiting and hoping for exactly these, probably more than anything else across any toy line including wrestling, the gates look incredible and it's going to really sting for me if they don't get backed. Not only that, and it was kind of the same thing with the WCW stage to a degree, these gates are absolutely the most iconic and recognizable aspects of the brands. The only thing arguably more recognizable than the JP gates is the T-Rex itself, so I don't know why people wouldn't expect these to be suped up and turned into premium offerings. They have specialized, collector based packaging which is clearly catering to the collector market and also goes into the budget. Personally, and this is no disrespect to Mattel's talented packaging teams, but I open every single item I get, even rare things, so I could do without all that stuff but I am not the only one this is being sold for and I am very aware of that.
Don't get me wrong...I would pay for a bare bones, hollow version (probably would have for WCW stage as well) just to have the look in place but how can anyone deny the electronics and lights on pieces like this don't make them way beyond anything we ever had for toys as kids, those of us who had these types of things in the 80's and 90's? They're creating pretty awesome things here with a level of accuracy and detail that just hasn't been done up to this point.
As far as some of the items being repaints, that to me is just how it is with a line at GI Joe scale...you're going to get some reused molding. Especially with a line where the T-Rex models are essentially the same throughout all movies and most casual collectors out there dipping their toes into JP really only need one. These projects are meant to pull people into lines they don't typically collect. With that said the fact that reusing so many molds should probably lower the cost a bit is a valid criticism. It does make me wonder if it was possible to get this to $200 with all included if people would be more open to it. $50 bucks definitely makes a difference...especially after shipping and tax. But I still can't help but feel like people would be complaining.
The criticisms about these types of things being so large it's hard to fill up a room I also find valid, but that I think makes it even easier to say if you don't have the room, you don't have to get it or you can make space. Not everyone has to have everything always even when it feels like that sometimes and that's something I think sometimes a lot of people lose sight of. I get being a perfectionist and wanting things but your life won't end not getting certain pieces if you can't afford it/don't have the room.
Anyway, I'm still backing this and I was planning on backing the WCW stage to support my friends on that team. I am not a major fan of crowd-funding and the way it works in general but there are certain things that are undeniable necessities for me in regards to my collection, personally, and this is close to the top of the list. I can't stress enough this is like...a centerpiece and I can't imagine something else beyond this I would even want as much. I don't need a giant building like the visitor's center or anything like that.
I also am going to have to get this shipped to an international address believe it or not so I was bummed to find that I wasn't able to back it right away, but I want the gates and everything included bad enough that I'm going to have it forwarded. If it hits 5k I will cancel my US order and have it shipped to me directly in my country of residence.
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 28, 2023 10:12:18 GMT -5
Yeh I just saw this, it's a nice piece for JP fans. Jurassic Park as a franchise isn't something I'm that into personally, but I actually do collect the Hammond Collection just because they're nice dinosaur figures. I have no interest in the humans, accessories or fictional dinosaurs, but I'll buy all the real dinosaurs they make and I hope they make lots more, including all the real dinosaurs featured in the film, a bigger Triceratops hopefully (since the previous one was way too small), and also (real) dinosaurs not featured in the films if possible, like a Plesiosaurus. Licensors should allow toy companies some freedom to expand the franchises IMO. Feels to me like that's basically what's going on here...the Metriacanthosaurus was just in Hammond Collection and that's never even been on screen I don't think other than a name written on a DNA tube. I have a few of the Plesiosaurus figures from the Camp Cretaceous line and it's pretty decent...also the Dino Trackers Elasmosaurus. For the Triceratops, you might want to look at the Habitat Defender which has less articulation but is a lot bigger in size.
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 27, 2023 19:24:50 GMT -5
...guilty. I don't talk much about this but I started with the SDCC Rex last year and have been gradually picking up all sorts of JP stuff (tons of dinosaurs and people) and beyond like bushes, trees, modeling goo, etc. My goal is to build a massive setup similar to a model train but just for these figures and the park. I'm not shooting for accuracy, mostly just a general sense of 'Jurassic Park' with some of my favorite elements included (I'm a huge fan of aquatic dinosaurs so I'm trying to work that into a water table and a river). I think they really hit the sweet spot scaling these at 3.75 as it allows for maximum playability and still some collector considerations for higher end pieces (Hammond Collection). It's pretty ambitious but I have amassed so much stuff I can't back out now haha. With that, these gates are amazing and if they don't get funded I am going to cry. The custom printed ones on Etsy aren't nearly as good and it's not something I'd look at making myself so this is a key part of my ambitious 'model park' that I don't want to have to make. I'd love fence pieces, etc but those look much easier to build. Also if anyone wants a thread about this line in general I'd contribute. I'd love to see pics of your setup when it's done! Hoping to do some type of video of the development for fun. Might take a while but I don't want it to be something I just do forever that never ends...so you for sure will!
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 27, 2023 14:35:29 GMT -5
This is a line I wouldn’t mind jumping in to if I didn’t have so much other crap. I’m completely overwhelmed with the lines I currently collect so I definitely don’t need to be adding anything else. But if I had unlimited space, I’d be all over this. I hear you on that...I like this line because it's a little more...neutral, if that makes sense. With wrestling, comic books, even some stuff like TMNT, the personalities and infighting overwhelm me a lot of times. No one can really fight much about dinosaurs (although I've come to find that people who prefer paleo accurate things and of course film specific details can be just as cranky as detail oriented folks anywhere else).
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 27, 2023 13:55:13 GMT -5
...guilty.
I don't talk much about this but I started with the SDCC Rex last year and have been gradually picking up all sorts of JP stuff (tons of dinosaurs and people) and beyond like bushes, trees, modeling goo, etc. My goal is to build a massive setup similar to a model train but just for these figures and the park. I'm not shooting for accuracy, mostly just a general sense of 'Jurassic Park' with some of my favorite elements included (I'm a huge fan of aquatic dinosaurs so I'm trying to work that into a water table and a river). I think they really hit the sweet spot scaling these at 3.75 as it allows for maximum playability and still some collector considerations for higher end pieces (Hammond Collection).
It's pretty ambitious but I have amassed so much stuff I can't back out now haha.
With that, these gates are amazing and if they don't get funded I am going to cry. The custom printed ones on Etsy aren't nearly as good and it's not something I'd look at making myself so this is a key part of my ambitious 'model park' that I don't want to have to make. I'd love fence pieces, etc but those look much easier to build.
Also if anyone wants a thread about this line in general I'd contribute.
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 23, 2023 13:57:16 GMT -5
I grabbed Riddler in this series thinking I'd be able to get a scale version of Batman characters from all different series but I was disappointed to find the '66 figures are significantly smaller than McFarlane's newer ones? What gives? Was it always this way? Yeah, its always been like that. McFarlane's DC stuff is 7in scale, but his Batman '66 stuff has always been 6in scale. I too have thought it was weird that McF.'s main scale is 7in, but for this one line he went 6in. Bummer. I wish there was some consistency there but I suppose that's the life we live spoiled by wrestling toys!
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 23, 2023 12:22:28 GMT -5
Can't say I hate these, it's unique and consistent if anything haha. Better than most knock offs for that reason.
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 23, 2023 10:01:53 GMT -5
I grabbed Riddler in this series thinking I'd be able to get a scale version of Batman characters from all different series but I was disappointed to find the '66 figures are significantly smaller than McFarlane's newer ones? What gives? Was it always this way?
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 8, 2023 18:48:10 GMT -5
Ringside unboxing is live on YouTube
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 7, 2023 16:07:51 GMT -5
Start feeling good vibes
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 1, 2023 18:32:24 GMT -5
That Q&A was not very news worthy to be honest :-( As far as the Q&A goes, and this goes for Mattel too, a lot of times obviously a ton of questions asked are answered before it happens or day of. This has been a regular occurence. Obviously I want to be conscious of the time of our team and the Jazwares/Mattel teams when these are recorded but questions are typically always similar. I try to avoid running down a list of "when will we get this-person-and-this-person" because that has been answered and explained so often. Typically I'll look for questions that I know give room for the teams to give as much insight into their processes as they allow and possibly find something that gives everyone stuff to look forward to. There are no guarantees obviously as it depends on what info the teams want to share in their answer but we give it a shot. I am not going to angrily turn the screws on these teams and yell at them for what people find as shortcomings, etc. like I think is sometimes expected, but I don't have a problem pressing and discussing issues, hence the two production questions we asked Magic in this case. Beyond that, I don't know what the expectations are in terms of being 'newsworthy' and I am happy to consider something more specific and as I've said before, if there's something you or anyone else wants asked that is more specific and still respectful that would better hit the newsworthy button my ears are always open.
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