If Sideshow ends the line, could Hot Toys pick it up?

[Deak Starkiller]

Hot Toys Indys threads, I hate these guys.

 

[thenammagazine]

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[Mightytrex]

 

[Deeznutz6]

 

[aussieinnyc]

Re: Hot Toys indiana Jones?

Hot Toys is not the right company to do this. They have only showed the most half-hearted interest in lines outside Iron Man, Terminator and Predator, all in the robots and aliens category.

We need a Western-based company like Sideshow but one with a real passion for 1:6 like Hot Toys to deliver in-depth licences like LotR or Indy. Sideshow has failed because they have made bad design decisions, had poor quality control and suffer a polystone addiction.

I'm not sure what the company's geographical location has to do with anything?

Frankly I think people's expectations of product lines are stuck in the past. The days of lines with 20 - 30 figures including every character who even blinked on screen are gone...the cost of the figures, the multitude of different licenses available, and the fickle, changing nature of people's tastes have changed that. Hot Toys, whether you like them for it or not, have a sustainable business model when it comes to things like this. They release the most important, lead characters and then move on. By doing that they get a lot of highly desirable product out into the market place. Contrast that to Sideshow who tried to draw out the LOTR line by putting non-core fellowship characters in there and you ended up with an incomplete line. The sooner people (and collectible companies) realise that Star Wars is an anomaly in the collecting world and should not be used as a business model for other lines, the sooner we will end up with "complete" collections, that may only have a few figures in each line (rather than collections that have undesirable repeats like German Indy, etc).

I would much rather have a Hot Toys quality Indy sitting on my shelf, and no other Indy characters, than a Sideshow Indy and Toht lying in their boxes under my bed because my limited space means I didn't want them taking up the display space of other, better, product.

 

[chalkyYT]

lets see what kind of input hot toys have on the development of the tod figures first

 

[Johnny Utah]

I'm hoping HT makes a one-off TOD Indy this year.

 

[Wake]

lets see what kind of input hot toys have on the development of the tod figures first

How about 'they MAKE them'? That's the input I'd like.

 

[thenammagazine]

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[Mookeylama]

i'd love an HT Indy! i still don't have an Indy in my collection because i don't like any made yet and it makes my brain bleed trying to figure out the customs.

 

[jediknight120]

HT Indy is less likely than HT finishing the Watchmen line.

 

[Something Sexy]

Exactly! This thread needs to die now.

 

[Mookeylama]

HT Indy is less likely than HT finishing the Watchmen line.

why? just curious

 

[THE JOKER]

Its not that unlikely, hot toys have already borrowed the terminator 2 license and the godfather license of sideshow.

 

[thenammagazine]

why? just curious

Because while there might be a bigger chunk of people here who'd buy one (personally, some of the customs are better than what HT would do), overall, it wouldn't be a successful figure. We don't represent the majority of collectors out there and save LEGO, Indy hasn't sold well.

 

[ShadowX81]

Because while there might be a bigger chunk of people here who'd buy one (personally, some of the customs are better than what HT would do), overall, it wouldn't be a successful figure. We don't represent the majority of collectors out there and save LEGO, Indy hasn't sold well.

Indy doesnt sell well because first off the sideshow Indy isnt that good, but also there arent that many characters outside of the man himself that are worth dolling out any kind of cash for.
Howeversince Hot Toys focuses more on characters than licences (especially if there is only one noteworthy character from a movie) you would think that they would want to do an Indy, especially given his huge iconic status. I garentee you that Indian Jones would sell more figures than Aldo Raine, Sheva from Bioshock, or yet another Predator varient.

 

[EVILFACE]

ROTLA Indy may not have been a great figure, but it was better than any verison of the character that came before it. PLus he can be had off ebay for $50-60, that is a deal for a nice figure that can be made better.