by TroyObliX » July 22nd 2010 11:21 am
It is an interesting idea, and looks pretty neat. But yeah, fuck it for $85. Thats a whole tank of gas, a couple packs of smokes and McDinner right there. For $85, I want a big figger with more detail and less retro-charm, personally. Still, good to know if one ever gets hit by some 1950's gamma-powered growth ray, they will still be able to play with some action figures.
This, and the Super Shogun Stormtrooper that was put out a while back, while both "neat sounding" ideas, seem almost like a slipping backward of the collectible evolution to me. Are collectors (the ones with $ or jobs, anyway) really so mesmerized by size and retro-chic that they will drop that kind of loot on something I'd personally be paranoid to open or put out prominently because I'm pretty sure I'd ebay it off a few years from now? I dunno. I want things to progress a little more.
Like robotic figures. Sonys cancelled Q-rio robot meets C-3PO or something. GI-Joe movie had a gigantic robo-figure that, while uninteresting to me and not worth the $, had it been a talking/moving Boba Fett, would have flown off the shelves. They ended up in the clearance aisle at my local store instead (for stupid$ still, like $50). If Star Wars/Sci-fi and even comics collectible grade figures would get the robo treatment, they would sell like discounted crack. Especially if you could get them to interract. That would be like pulling a $100 out of every collectors wallet every time you released one. I'd say I want credit if it happens, but those concepts are already out there and I'm shocked none of the big collectible producers has picked up on it.
Ideas like giant stormtrooper retro toys just makes me wish they would reproduce the original Super Shogun series itself. I have several originals, but me and my brother destroyed them battling the late 70's and lost all the little bits. Still, I cleaned them up a while back, and for what is now an inarticulate, somewhat cheaply produced and designed gigantic figure, the originals look awesome.
The short version of this post, looks cool, sounds like a neat idea, but costs too much.
