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Also a new body might make current P1 owner's more inclined to buy Classic especially if the body is taller.
It would make me buy one.
Also a new body might make current P1 owner's more inclined to buy Classic especially if the body is taller.
As I lost out on the P1, I'll be buying the Classic and trying to make it look as much like P1 as possible....if I can.
Now why on earth would they take this photo showing how their already-released predator is in scaled with Berserker if they were going to release a classic Predator that was taller, thus putting them once again out of scale with one another?Also a new body might make current P1 owner's more inclined to buy Classic especially if the body is taller.
Now why on earth would they take this photo showing how their already-released predator is in scaled with Berserker if they were going to release a classic Predator that was taller, thus putting them once again out of scale with one another?
No, the picture is to show Berzerker is bigger than classic, like he's meant to be, NOT to show they ____ed up the original Predator.Because the P1 figure was heavily criticized for being shorter than all of HT's previous Predator figures and the picture of Berzerker's to demonstrate that they're back to making them on the larger side...
Because the P1 figure was heavily criticized for being shorter than all of HT's previous Predator figures and the picture of Berzerker's to demonstrate that they're back to making them on the larger side, probably fearing people might expect Pred figures from them to be shorter form here on so they needed to highlight that it's not the case. Berzerker's the first figure on a new body since P1, the Lost P2 Preds have been recycled parts.
No, the picture is to show Berzerker is bigger than classic, like he's meant to be, NOT to show they ____ed up the original Predator.
The answer is money, guys. They are a toy company looking to make profit.
but why would they make another new body so soon...
it took them almost 1 (and a quater?) year (from the P1 up to the berserker)
to come up with the new realistic look for the predators trio.
It just sounds weird (or unreasonable) that they gonna put that body away
Like I said a new taller body might give current P1 owners more incentive to buy Classic that way collectors could just take the bone trophies and tricep armor from P1 and put on Classic and display the taller Classic as P1 and shorter P1 as Classic. Also if the Classic's body is indeed taller, I won't be suprised if HT releases a new P1 with the new body. Again though, this is all just speculation and wishfull thinking on my part so who knows if the new body Classic will be sporting will be taller or not.
Not sure HT could get away with a new P1 that's improved over the last one so soon, DX Joker and Batman caused a stir, if they're smart, the only way they'll put out an improved P1 is under the guise of it being the PREDATORS Classic, that ways it's semi-justified and not a blatant update to a year old figure, it'd save them a little PR trouble. While it wouldn't hurt sales to release an update P1, as far as fan relations, I think HT needs to be cautious with their collectors after the poor handling of the DX Batman situation, or some day sales could be hurt.
Yeah. But releasing a new and improved classic predator would be far more of a pr disaster. DX Batman and Joker came partially because the original figures were created and released before enough reference material was available to make them great. With the original Predator, they had 23 years to get it right, no real deadline, and all the source material they were ever going to get. There's no excuse for why the first release couldn't have been the perfect and only release necessary. Know what i mean?Not sure HT could get away with a new P1 that's improved over the last one so soon, DX Joker and Batman caused a stir, if they're smart, the only way they'll put out an improved P1 is under the guise of it being the PREDATORS Classic, that ways it's semi-justified and not a blatant update to a year old figure, it'd save them a little PR trouble. While it wouldn't hurt sales to release an update P1, as far as fan relations, I think HT needs to be cautious with their collectors after the poor handling of the DX Batman situation, or some day sales could be hurt.
Yeah. But releasing a new and improved classic predator would be far more of a pr disaster. DX Batman and Joker came partially because the original figures were created and released before enough reference material was available to make them great. With the original Predator, they had 23 years to get it right, no real deadline, and all the source material they were ever going to get. There's no excuse for why the first release couldn't have been the perfect and only release necessary. Know what i mean?
Yeah. I guess the good news is they're getting less predictable. For a while everyone expected every figure to get a second "battle-damage" release, and then out comes the Mark VI on it's first release that's two figures in one. And hell, they even revealed the thing before the Mark IV was released so people can actually make an educated buying decision between the two.Oh I hear ya, but even with TDK, they didn't HAVE to have figures out as early as they did, they wanted to have them out for the film's release so I consider it an equally avoidable situation. HT figures, for the most part, don't need film hype to sell, fans will either want figures or they won't, if you come out with them a few months after the theatrical release, they'll still buy.
Either way though, they have to be careful with updating their own figures, if they do it too often too close to the original releases, people will really become hesitant to buy first release. OC Batman, it came 3 years later and many fans, myself included, didn't even know about Hot Toys in 2005 when the first came out, plus Hot Toys in general grew leaps and bounds in quality and you could see the 2008 figure was beyond them in 2005. If they start remaking too many figures just a year after the first one, it's going to create a paranoid collector base, the 2 DX figures already did that a bit, you read a lot of skeptical posts around here when new figures debut with any sort of flaw that a better one is expected later.
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