1/6 Price vs. quality poll

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Which is more important for your 1/6 figures - detail or cost?

  • Toybiz got it right - $25 is the right price and their figures were fine.

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • $40 would be right for a hobbit, I don't need a lot of accessories or a ring.

    Votes: 17 16.5%
  • I'm okay with $70 - seems like a good balance of price and detail.

    Votes: 43 41.7%
  • Let's go the HT route - make them $100 and pull out the stops on accessories and detail.

    Votes: 41 39.8%

  • Total voters
    103
...I'm fine with the $70 SRP. Looking at the photos of the Hobbits with all the accessories and knowing what SS did with HT to make the new bodies, it seems justified (I know a lot of people don't think so). I just think they really need to start cracking down on QC for the paint apps. If I'm going to pay $70, the paint apps should reflect this.

Indeed Batty...I agree. Like Josh, it's figure-by-figure for me. Alot of R&D went into these guys, and while they look a little tall, they are packed with accessories and the materails used for their outfits looks great. I'm crossing my fingers that the protos we've been enjoying are real close to what we'll see when they finally hit production. Paint apps has been the only occasional stumble with these figures of late...

I don't mind that certain characters may end up costing more if the quality is there and an effort is made to balance the cost with things like extra accessories and detail and with the hobbits, it's plain to see this is the case.

Having all four of the other LOTR figures now, it's clear that this line, like SW, requires that extra "something" in getting it right. The extra mile that Sideshow goes with the intricate costumes and accessories gives these figures a great edge. Just look at the recently released Leia/Boushh, an absolute stunner...and Assaj looks like another great figure packed with detail.

Looking a these hobbits gives me hope that when those unique Star Wars characters (like the armored ones) start appearing with the inevitable raised price, Sideshow will make sure we're getting plenty of bang for our collecting buck...
 
i would pay 10 bucks extra for a figure if SS change their paint factory than the one they have right now
 
I agree its a case by case basis, with the Hobbits I think the $70 is a reasonable price all things considered. But there are other figures I'm willing to pay more for if need be and others that should be less. I think each figure is a case by case dependent on what the needs of the production are.

For instance Jedi should probably stay at about the same price since their outfits don't require much new work. But a Stormtrooper would probably be more due to all of the extra sculpted details... although probably not a whole lot more since I imagine their edition size will be substantial and SS will likely get a lot of mileage out of variants (Black Hole, Sandtroopers, etc.).
 
Which do you value more? Details and as much realism as possible, or are you happy with a simpler figure if it's cheaper?

great poll dave. you forgot to add some that cost as much as $200, like firespecter. what happens when the price goes way high? imo, anything more than $120 is getting too much.
 
Detail is and quality is all that matter to me.
For this I am prepared to pay more and buy less.
(Be honnest how many figures have you not bought just to have them, but are not thrilled to have - just be more selective, because a collection will never be complete and you can not have all you see)

PF is too big and there is no challenge to put details in bigger figures.
Hot Toys is giving me more and more the impression to make 1/6 figures that can look even better than PF

Also most of the accessories stay in the box - so I would be fine if they put more of the production cost in the figure (paint, clothes,sculpt) itself and less accessoiries.
 
I can't vote in the poll, because it uses as its premise the assumption that Sideshow could not have released the hobbits at any lower price point without a) sacrificing quality, b) dropping accessories, or c) losing money. None of these assumptions have been established as fact, they are only speculation.

Bingo

i've got nothing to add
 
I think SS is very close to a real good balance. I would like to see the 1/6 scale figures come down about $10 (the original SW price point), but we all know that won't happen. I don't think any of us realize how much R&D goes into making these and that is factored into the cost I'm sure.
 
Quality is my number one priority and as long as that doesn't decline I don't mind paying the kind of prices that Hot Toys & Medicom charge for their 1/6 figures. My collection is a lot smaller as a result but I'd take 2 Star Wars figures of the quality of the Medicom Fetts over the entire SSC 1/6 SW line any day of the week.
 
i would pay 10 bucks extra for a figure if SS change their paint factory than the one they have right now

I agree.

I'm still waiting to get my Exc. Faramir in my hands but after seeing many of the horror paint jobs here I'm cautiously optimistic. We shouldn't have to send the heads to someone else to paint them correctly for the type of money that is spent.
 
Give me the best and I'll be more than happy to pay for it. Once you've had high quality it's hard to go back and settle for mediocre releases. Regardless of price, quality rules over all.
 
From what I can tell from the Pics... $70 for the Hobbits is Justified! Not only are you getting the quality of the body/sculpt but loads of material/accessories. Most of us Paid $65 for the others... and they weren't anybetter. The extra $5 is for the smaller body.

Colletors by now should know that size doesn't equaly $$$!! Just look at these $140 and up Dios!!!!

I love the Hobbits Love the Price and Love SS!! :monkey3
 
Oh RoboDad, you can say these things so much better than I can!

I can't vote in the poll, because it uses as its premise the assumption that Sideshow could not have released the hobbits at any lower price point without a) sacrificing quality, b) dropping accessories, or c) losing money. None of these assumptions have been established as fact, they are only speculation.
 
+1 on RoboDads comments.

Even if you did make the assumptions, I can't agree with the poll because I think there are a lot of shades between $25-$40-$70.

As insignificant as it may seem to many of you, I think even $10 less would be a much more reasonable offer.

SSC is perhaps picking the wrong times to raise prices or maybe they aren't explaining themselves well enough.

The first time I really complained about SSC prices was when they charged $5 more per figure for the Endor Soldiers. Why raise prices for obscure characters? My choice would have been to lower prices for obscure characters in order to sell more.
People needed incentive to buy these, not more deterents.

Now this price increase occurrs when many people believe that smaller figures should equal smaller price.

Maybe these weren't the figures to choose to up the prices? Or maybe SSC should come out and give a justification for the increase like they did with the Anakin and Kit Fisto.
 
They probably should make more of an effort to explain themselves.

What confuses me is how companies like Kotobukiya can sell vinyl statues for the same or more than SSC figures, but that doesn't register as overpriced. I have the ESB Yoda, and his detail is excellent, but I got him for $35. I would not have paid $50-$80 for it, nor would I for the clones, or any other full height characters.

I'd rather SSC's figures were $10 less. It's possible that after initial negative reactions, they decided to invest more to stem the backlash on future figures, and that this is what we're seeing now.

Whatever is behind it, I don't need the alleged quality of $130+ figures, other than in rare exceptions like the current Hot Toys POTC (an interesting example of higher quality figures that cost less than their closest competitors).

SSC Star Wars/LOTR are great and I can accept them for the prices they've been offered at. Though I wouldn't mind having a better grasp on why they cost what they do.
 
I never have high expections for these 1/6 figures. The scale is too small to produce a "perfect" figure. And they always look like dolls. :D
 
I never have high expections for these 1/6 figures. The scale is too small to produce a "perfect" figure. And they always look like dolls. :D

With a comment like that please insert ----> :monkey3 Instead of ----->:D! Thank you for your future cooperation. :monkey3
 
Jedi Luke Skywalker (from ROTJ) was originally $49.99 when he was released (limited ed. 6500).
Endor Rebel Infantryman (ROTJ) was released at $59.99 (limited ed. 4500).

A ten dollar price hike (although recent SW 12" figs, ex. Leia and Padme, are back at $54.99) in a few years' span-- I can dig that.

The $70.00 range is where you get into dicey waters. The closer you get to $100 is the closer you want to perfection. I've been very happy with the SS 1:6 lines that I, the completist, have been collecting--save for a few bumps (Michelle YEOH indeed... ugh)... and the money factor hasn't deterred me from my completist ways... yet.

There's no way I could afford to be a completist in the PF category (damn:monkey2) and there's also no way that I could afford to be a completist in any of the Hot Toys lines, no matter how phenomenal they are. If SS products (at least their 12" lines) continue to move northward that's when the completist has to re-evaluate his (or her) purchasing decisions. I had that discussion seriously with the three Endor Troopers but I eventually rationalized buying them (and I'm glad that I did)-- but a $100 Wormtongue sometime in the future?... That'll be a little tougher to swallow.

Let's hope we stay in the $50-70 range with the fantastic quality that we've come to expect.
 
I voted for $70. For me to continue to be able o afford to buy fro Sideshow dictates that we stay as far away from $100 as possible.
 
If SS products (at least their 12" lines) continue to move northward that's when the completist has to re-evaluate his (or her) purchasing decisions. I had that discussion seriously with the three Endor Troopers but I eventually rationalized buying them (and I'm glad that I did)-- but a $100 Wormtongue sometime in the future?... That'll be a little tougher to swallow.

Let's hope we stay in the $50-70 range with the fantastic quality that we've come to expect.


For me (and I suspect many more) its a very slippery slope between no longer being a completist and all and all just quiting the line.

Those that never considered themselves completists might not know what I mean.

Once you stop being a completist its easy to pass on a lot of figures. Once you pass on a lot of figures its easy to pass on entire lines.
 
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