Hot Toys Sucker Punch....more figures?

[Oscar_the_Gungan]

I'm still holding out for a Quorra. I know its a long shot but for some reason it feels less elusive now than it did six months ago. Its helping to get a weekly Tron fix with Uprising.
I haven't been collecting Sucker Punch just because I couldn't add anything else to the pile, but I'd like to see the rest get made, just because I'd like to see how they turned out.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I'd just like them to state "yes we will be continuing [insert license]" or no we will not be continuing [instert license]

it'd stop the constant hope and wondering

 

[Wah]

well, everyone has a valid point, but i definitely agree more so with your view nova. just baffles me. but who knows, maybe they have a great reason that we are all missing. you're right though nova, i don't get why they don't just announce if they're stopping with a line or not instead of leaving people in the void? it makes you wonder sometimes how companies always say they have the consumer in mind and work for the consumer and to please the consumer when sometimes they don't tell us anything. it doesn't seem too much trouble to let us know. but whatever.

 

[Oscar_the_Gungan]

Im guessing that we don't always get a statement from HT about whether a line is done or not is because they honestly don't know themselves. A lot of people who ordered Amber or Sam Flynn haven't gotten theirs yet. Its possible strong word of mouth and good reviews cause these to be snatched up and the secondary market value climbs. That is information they don't have right now to make a decision with. I don't believe making a new Iron Man Mark I and II were part of their plan when they made the original figures, but seeing secondary market prices climb past $500 made them take notice.

 

[Damien]

when are the asian cons where we MAYBE could see more?

 

[TotalDominAsian]

when are the asian cons where we MAYBE could see more?

I believe Ani-Com is on the 27th... But expect any news to come next year. They have too large of a backlog to be announcing even more figures for previously released movies.

 

[Mister D]

GG has made a ton from Sucker Punch & Babydoll is a hit figure. Can't think of a reason not to do at least one more figure and see how it goes.

Limited resources. HT has only enough resources - meaning money, talent and manufacturing - to devote to a limited number of figures at once. Making one more SP doll means that they are not making one for another franchise. Its not just whether or not the SP figures prove profitale, its whether they will be AS profitable as another figure from Dark Knight, Avengers, Terminator, Predator, etc.

Sure they can expand, and based on the announced product, they are expanding, but there is a real risk in that too. Many companies have expanded quickly during a boom, overextended, and got crushed when the market collapsed.

Of course there is a risk in them continually announcing new product and failing to deliver. While the number of Watchmen/Platoon/Sucker Punch/Green Lantern/XMen First Class/Tron collectors may not be much on their own, if they start getting a reputation for failing to deliver what's promised, they could find fans reluctant to pull the trigger on, say, the Batman '66 line, or Justice League.

 

[Josette]

Nova's summed it up perfectly.

Their character choices lack common sense in regard to their franchises and character popularity/main character knowledge.

Watchmen is proof of this, but Thor and Sucker Punch, as Nova said, are also perfect examples.

Silk Spectre would have sold more released after a Rorschach and a Nite Owl. Rorschach was the money character. It's not hard math. It's obvious. HT screwed up. With Rorschach, comes Nite Owl as they were partners, and Silk Spectre would fit in many a collection next to those three (due to the prison sequences). Making Rorshach and Nite Owl may have gotten the Watchmen line to the end of the main characters, or would have at least gotten it through 3-4 releases instead of 2.

I like Silk Spectre. But I know she's not as popular as the others (Rorschach, Nite Owl, The Comedian). She shouldn't have been released first.

With Thor, I knew people who were passing on Odin because they were wanting a Thor version of Loki. I myself didn't buy Odin because I was waiting on Loki.

With Sucker Punch, Sweet Pea was the second most important character, and Babydoll and Sweet Pea makes sense on a display shelf in a way that Babydoll and Amber do not - unless they make the whole team.

None of this stuff is hard to figure out, yet HT makes it out to be mission impossible.

Now, if they actually make First Class figures, and start with Xavier, you'll have people wanting to wait to make sure they get a Magneto. And I would be pretty surprised if more than two figures come out. So let's see if they're smart enough to reveal Xavier and Magneto at the same time. Magneto is the obvious Rorschach of that line.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Now, if they actually make First Class figures, and start with Xavier, you'll have people wanting to wait to make sure they get a Magneto. And I would be pretty surprised if more than two figures come out. So let's see if they're smart enough to reveal Xavier and Magneto at the same time. Magneto is the obvious Rorschach of that line.

To not make Magneto would be beyond stupid, he's the big draw afterall

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Well - regardless of whatever way you choose to look things..

Where's my Blondie.

 

[Oscar_the_Gungan]

I would think once Catwoman and the Hulk are unveiled will start seeing some other things. Committing to 8 Avengers figures most of which will be out by the end of the year or close to it was pretty ambitious and I think it ate up most collector's budgets. I can't imagine they don't want to shake things up again soon to avoid burnout.

 

[MisterToyNYC]

And what about the Planet of the Apes line? How can you start a line and not include Cornelious and/or Zira?? Baffles the mind.

Eric

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

And what about the Planet of the Apes line? How can you start a line and not include Cornelious and/or Zira?? Baffles the mind.

Eric

Could've been like how the Star Wars license works. They lease it from Sideshow under the condition they don't make figures sideshow has done, seems likely as none of the figures were the main ones sideshow already made

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There's ALOT of buzz on HT's FB about Sucker Punch, good to see the line getting support, i'm betting it's people who bought Babydoll and Amber were expecting more by now

 

[hunnipot85]

Is there really a lot of buzz though? It's the same one girl keep posting stuff

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I've seen at least 4 people

 

[steven.giunta]

I think it will deppend on sales,if the 2 sell great then they will make the others,but if they don't I wouldn't count on it.look at the watchmen line,they went as far as to make a prototype of rorshack and we still have yet to get him.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

In the end.. they'll just do what they want.. we should know this. HT are pretty confident that we're in love with them, no matter how lathered up into a fit we get.

Making predictions is frustrating, because we're talking about a company that wants to do way too many things - all at at once.

Their focus is constantly shifting..

..except for when it comes to Batman.

 

[Wah]

yeah i have both babydoll and amber and my line looks so weird without the other 3 girls in there with them. it just looks empty. incomplete. come on Hot Toys! lets actually finish a whole line for once.

 

[Niceman]

I just don't see the point of Amber without the other 3. I love Babydoll, but I have no plans to grab Amber unless I'm doing the whole set.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

I don't see the point about buying anything unless you like / want the item beforehand anyway.