Re: Hot Toys Green Lantern - Official License Announcement
It doesn't matter, though. They were under no obligation (even ethically) to produce the product. It's that simple. The rest is just semantics. I'm bummed, too, because I'm a GL fan and wanted a good 1:6 movie-based figure. But it is what it is and thems the breaks. Products by different companies in different industries are announced and shelved all the time.
Of course, and I was never arguing the opposite what I was pointing out is that HT has never announced a license without giving at least one figure and now they have which is just a chance in the way they are doing business than they have before.
Whether its an industry standard or not, or obligation or not is moot, the point I was making was that HT has never done this before and now they have, it's a change in the system.
Well as I and many have said over and over, the constant addition of licenses upon licenses and the resulting lengthening backlog was always going to come back and bite someone in the ass. It's already bitten us customers via QC issues, now, it strikes again.
Not only the backlog but the continuing of business. HT is still adding licenses as their statement made unofficial announcements, and continuing to add product so it creates a bottleneck. They've rushed out figures before, the Spirit figures for example were halfassed by HT's standards even at the time but now they've simply felt there is no need for follow through.
Something a business established can do where as an upstart cannot, it's kind of HT's puberty being able to do this and not worry about backlash or even care really whereas smaller companies still fighting for a foothold couldn't.
But companies aren't obligated to produce because they solicit figures, either. Sideshow canceled that Mummy PF awhile back, when they realized it was a lost cause. Mattel did it recently for some DCUC figures. DST has done it with Godfather and Rocky III Minimates, etc.
All definitely true but the major point was that it wasn't the mode of operations for HT before and now it is.
Agreed. I'm just pointing out that they never even officially solicited this figure, so they were under even less "obligation" to follow through.
I like the ThreeA way better, too. Don't get me wrong... I, too find the waiting game and uncertainty at least mildly frustrating. But this is the Hot Toys way. They're very big on proclaiming things then going back into their holes and working on it as long as it takes before they're actually comfortable showing it. It's just the way they operate.
The only caveat is that there was a point where they were comfortable putting out product no matter the length, now they aren't, they just scrap it. From another quote posted it seems like multiple attempts were done to try and make it work so it's safe to assume that multiple failed prototypes exist probably even headsculpts for what they were done. It's a possibility that those will make it to the web like the Rorschach proto that made the rounds a while back.
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I just wonder about the GL License and how HT got it.
Was it- 1. They get it, and if they dont produce anything they lose it. Someone else might be able to pick it up, and more than likely at a cheaper price. 2. They have the license for so many years, even if they dont make anything.
As I understand it, when they buy it they have it for x number of years, so like Watchmen they could just sit on it and do nothing before it expires. Since they "canceled" it, I guess someone else like EnterBay could buy it now if they wanted, since I'm assuming by that language HT is simply walking away.
