Re: Hot Toys – MMS 293 & 294 Batman Returns: Batman and Bruce Wayne (Keaton) Set
They didn't promise anything.
Yes, they did. The infamous announcement poster (with the three main characters) in 1/6 and 1/4 scale was the promise.
Every year (heck every day) companies produce thousands of prototypes and make plans for releases and make concept cars and very little of it actually makes it to market.
Yes, and when it becomes announced the way the license and products were announced in that poster, then it ceases to be internal R&D. At that point, it becomes an implied promise to consumers and fans.
We're not talking about "behind the scenes" photos and concepts here. This was a planned announcement.
The amount of time it takes to go from concept to production is immaterial. It takes as long as it takes.
People aren't upset that Catwoman and Penguin are taking a long time. People are upset because they believe Catwoman and Penguin simply aren't coming. Given Hot Toys' behavior, past and current, as well as their few public statements on the matter, consumers have every right to believe this is true.
There are multiple steps that are not even in hot toys control.
And you'd have to be pretty obtuse to believe not following through on Penguin and Catwoman was because of something beyond Hot Toys' control. It's possible, but unlikely, so none of us are going to believe it until there's actually evidence for it.
Mattel teased a couple motu projects at SDCC that never made it to market (those wrestling stuffed doll things done with MOTU is one that I recall), play imaginative had 135 prototype iron men figures at NYCC two years ago and not a single one has moved past that stage
I don't know about these, so I can't comment very intelligently on them, but if your point is simply that other companies also don't follow through on promises then...so what? That doesn't make this any less of a broken promise.
every year at the Detroit auto show 100 plus cars are shown that never make it to market...and the list goes on.
The context is very different at the Detroit auto show. "Concept cars" come with the implication that these aren't final products - you probably won't see many, if any, of them in production. They're just neat ideas that the automakers are toying with.
This is entirely different than the implication that comes with the Batman/Catwoman/Penguin poster, which was an announcement that these characters were coming in 1/6 and 1/4 scale.
Until then it's just a glimpse into the behind the scenes process.
No, a pic of an unpainted prototype head or an unpainted, half-assembled armory is a "glimpse into the behind the scenes process." Those are entirely different than planned, intentional marketing announcements. Anybody in marketing and sales would be able to tell you this.
