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Is she really spilt? How did that happen? The TV show?
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Is she really spilt? How did that happen? The TV show?
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Yep. She is primarily owned by Marvel Ent. due to the tv show. They could figure something out to use from the films but it's just additional complications which adds time and cost...and she's not going to sell more then another character without those issues...so it's a risk they may not feel is worth it
bransen2099
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Is that why we may also not get and Defender figures from Netflix unless they're in the movies? It would actually explain a lot.
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It's a big part of it. The split with marvel means twice the amount of work involved in getting and maintaining a license. More approvals and time and other stuff. Doesn't mean it's impossible but it just adds more risk and less chance
And the head of M. E. Got his start and built his name running a toy company. Which you would think would make him more likely to do a deal, but it's the opposite. Strangely. On top of him having established relationships with people at other company's and not hot toys so that doesn't help.
And the head of M. E. Got his start and built his name running a toy company. Which you would think would make him more likely to do a deal, but it's the opposite. Strangely. On top of him having established relationships with people at other company's and not hot toys so that doesn't help.
BagginsOfBagEnd
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Mine too! Damn, I didn't know there were complications like that.
Hopefully something can be worked out....
Brainiac
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Hopefully she gets made, she'd make a great figure and TFA Bucky would also be pretty awesome
BagginsOfBagEnd
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A trio of the TFA heroes would be AMAZING. TFA Bucky by himself is pretty far down the list, but combine him with a Peggy...
Sure would!!! 
bransen2099
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They might have expired already. Someone was talking about how the Thor movie rights could've been lost since no new figures has been released. TFA was released the same year so...
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That was from the Winter Soldier
I would think so
bransen2099
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She was also in TWS and Ant-Man but Motuxmen mentioned that her rights are co-owned by Marvel Entertainment, which is now separate from Marvel Studios, because of her TV show Agent Carter.
Just mentioned how it is one more hoop they have to jump thru to make a figure.
We really need an interview with Howard to at least give us a solid idea of the extent of this line.
bransen2099
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I do miss the little OSR Q&A's that they used to do with him. I think it's been close to a year since I saw the last one.
Yeah every once in a while Mark takes questions that amount to nothing. He either doesn't get to interview Howard, or doesn't ask any pertinent questions. It's something sorely missing from HT, and has been for a long time: a roadmap. Marvel and DC are predictable, yes, but within those licenses there isn't much certainty aside from the heavy hitters. I feel bad for the fans of the other licenses they have too.
Mark is what I call a master reposter: he is great at posting and reposting what other sites report across various accounts. Ultimately it's just news you can find if you just bookmark HT's Facebook. Any useful info he may have provided in years gone by is now ancient history.
Mark is what I call a master reposter: he is great at posting and reposting what other sites report across various accounts. Ultimately it's just news you can find if you just bookmark HT's Facebook. Any useful info he may have provided in years gone by is now ancient history.
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Your assuming those questions can be answered in any type of public manner, or that those answers do anyone any good. Part of why hot toys has pulled back from doing them is that people would take and twist or read to much into the interviews...or throw it back in hot toys face. Hot toys does not have control over what makes it to market. They are at best a partner. They present ideas to the license holder and that company chooses what gets made. Factor in time table and scheduling and profit and everything else and no matter what they may say they may not be able to deliver.
On top of that, every single answer given to these q&a sessions requires legal approval from both hot toys and the license they are talking about.
And after a few years of trying to tell people what they want to make only have plans change and get those plans thrown back in there faces (over and over and over) that's not something they want to do. From green painter to smooth criminal to penguin to xmen every time they said they where working on something and they didn't bring that piece out they got destroyed. And it does no one any good. And on top of that, other companies would see what hot toys said they had planned and then try to make the same thing.
If hot toys had full control and owned these items then an interview would do both sides good. As it is, all it does it piss people off when they don't hear what they want, or something changes or hot toys can't explain fully and there is zero added benifit for hot toys.
The lack of those interviews is due directly to the people's reaction to them.
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