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The figures are taking a while to be shown and im thinking it will be revealed around comic con. Its anoying how they show a clash of the titians perseus and no jake sully. I just want some decent merch from this movie.
 
Perseus was easy. It's a dude in a skirt. Creating an entirely new figure with basicly new everything....well, that's harder
 
After watching the movie again last night, I am as excited as ever for these figures. I can't believe that we still haven't seen pics though. I imagine these will be AWESOME.
 
Holley Hell!
These last few pages were a B!^<-fest! :mad:

DANG! Here I thought HT pictures were released. :banghead
Please guys.... I'd like to continue respecting you all, so leave all this bickering to the 12 year old girls. Please!

*takes some Tylenol*

:peace
 
After watching the movie again last night, I am as excited as ever for these figures. I can't believe that we still haven't seen pics though. I imagine these will be AWESOME.

Loved the film but can't really say am excited for the figures. Just not sure of how they will turn out
 
Chase Valdez told me they werent making any figures anymore.
 
One set for every format (VHS, laserdisc, and DVD.) Again, how is it greedy to give a consumer more than one option?



It would have been impossible to have an ultimate edition, complete with brand new visual effects, available for release now. Yet there are plenty of people who just want the movie itself and don't want to wait. It was either just the movie or nothing. You're upset that you have the option to get it now or simply wait a few months for a more comprehensive edition?

I feel like I'm being roped into an argument I don't care to have. This is not a new thing in home video releases, I know, but it doesn't mean I have to like the scheme just because Avatar is a big deal. I'll keep this concise and that'll be all I'll say of it:

Fox is out for the money. Consider this:

Blu-ray + dvd : 2010
Blu-ray + extra features : 2010
Blu-ray + 3D : 2011
Blu-ray + 3D + more extra features (if the rumor is to be believed). : 2011 (?)

TV manufacturers are rolling out 3D TVs NOW. Don't you think including 3D functionality on this Blu-ray release of Avatar this month would've been a great incentive for consumers? No. they'll pad it out and rope as many people into buying the early versions as possible. 3D blu-ray discs are compatible with standard, non-3D machines (but you can only watch in 2D, obviously).

There is so much existing behind-the-scenes stuff about Avatar floating around, interviews, trailers and featurettes and whatnot, some of it undoubtedly in a high-def format, that fitting it into a second blu-ray disc seems so so so easy. Wouldn't it have been nice to be able to watch that stuff from your couch? How about an 80 megabyte commentary track from James Cameron? Is that too big to fit on a freaking 50gb disc? Give me a break. Including a few features would not turn this into a special edition, and it would have made a lot of people happy.

It's so obvious they are going for the corporate cash grab, especially considering the ironic release of this blu-ray/dvd in order to coincide with and to celebrate Earth Day (April 22nd). Yeah, firing up the manufacturing plants to press a ____ ton of discs only to make more later in the year for this flick is totally environment-conscious, especially on Earth Day (that's unrelated, but still.). And you know what? The movie was re-released in theaters last weekend! This all ties into Fox's corporate plan. Bogus.

Screw it. I'm going to save my hard earned money and use it towards the Hot Toys figures, which, if Shai is to be believed, won't happen....:lol
 
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I feel like I'm being roped into an argument I don't care to have. This is not a new thing in home video releases, I know, but it doesn't mean I have to like the scheme just because Avatar is a big deal. I'll keep this concise and that'll be all I'll say of it:

Fox is out for the money. Consider this:

Blu-ray + dvd : 2010
Blu-ray + extra features : 2010
Blu-ray + 3D : 2011
Blu-ray + 3D + more extra features (if the rumor is to be believed). : 2011 (?)

And with that knowledge you can wait and buy the one version you want, if multiple options upset you so much. I still don't see how turning a profit = greed.

To me greed is something that characterizes releases like what Lucas did with The Phantom Menace. He was very adamant in 1999 about stating that NO Star Wars movies would be released on DVD until after 2005 and they'd all come out as one giant set. So when TPM came out on VHS many of us DVD playing owners begrudgingly picked it up. Then two months later suddenly there's a surprise announcement that TPM will be out on DVD soon. THAT is underhanded and greedy, not announcing well in advance what releases are coming when.
 
You're getting hung up on one word that I quickly chose to clarify another person's post. It's all the same capitalist agenda to me, these studios putting out constant releases, often within the same video format generation and within a year of one another and then some. Fox and Avatar just took that one step too far.

I can't imagine a less consequential debate and my previous post pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter. Done.
 
Are the avatar figure's really canceled i keep hearing that they are.
 
Are the avatar figure's really canceled i keep hearing that they are.

The two people you've heard it from are Shai and King Darkness. It's fairly easy to disregard most of what they say, even if sounds somewhat truthful. Shai could say "1+1=2" and I probably wouldn't believe him. :lol
 
Speaking of the various Bluray releases, is it fair to say that the video and audio quality would be best on the initial no-extras release, since the manufacturer is using all space on the disc for the movie itself? Would the quality be lesser (even if nominally so) on the bonus features Bluray release?
 
Speaking of the various Bluray releases, is it fair to say that the video and audio quality would be best on the initial no-extras release, since the manufacturer is using all space on the disc for the movie itself? Would the quality be lesser (even if nominally so) on the bonus features Bluray release?

Special Features would be given its own disc(s)
 
no not yet but we are waiting, while hot toys pumps out needless other crap like clash of the titans. Not iron man tho becuase thats awesome.
 
Are the avatar figure's really canceled i keep hearing that they are.

Blame this dude.....Because of him, Hot toys decided not to release them.


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Looks like someone who wants to bring the blue people down. ____ing racist. Is he a King or something? He looks like one.
 
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