LOST! Anybody picking up this license???

[The Entity]

LOST just isn't a show that works well with 1:6 scale. There are just too many 'main' characters on the show to make. You'd have to be as successful as the SS Star Wars line to get a decent amount of them.

To be honest, 3 3/4" scale is where a LOST series needs to be. Its worked for Star Wars for over 30 years. You can get multiple characters and variant outfits, playsets, vehicles, and best of all, they are cheap enough you can get lots of characters. So frankly I'd love to see a 3 3/4" LOST line because otherwise any other scale/line will die before it gets to everyone's favorite characters. McFarlane only lasted 2 series at the 6-7" scale. Plus nobody could go together. They were all stand alones.

Yeah I agree with the part about there being too many main characters. But I think if a 1/6th company would start with just the 4 that I mentioned before they could see if there was a market for more. Because the 4 characters I summed up are like the main characters from the main characters. They would be the most popular IMO, not only to the hardcore collectors, but also to the more occassional collector who wants a good representation of a characters he or she loves.

To be honest, 3 3/4" scale is where a LOST series needs to be. Its worked for Star Wars for over 30 years. You can get multiple characters and variant outfits, playsets, vehicles, and best of all, they are cheap enough you can get lots of characters. So frankly I'd love to see a 3 3/4" LOST line because otherwise any other scale/line will die before it gets to everyone's favorite characters. McFarlane only lasted 2 series at the 6-7" scale. Plus nobody could go together. They were all stand alones.

I couldn't see a 3 3/4" line doing any better than 7" or 1/6th. That scale is really aimed at kids and you can barely approximate a likeness at that size. For a lot of kids the show was probably too boring for them to want toys from it and the adult market for anything other than Star Wars at 3 3/4" I expect is quite small. Would any of us really be interested in finger sized Jack and Locke figures that can only have a passing resemblance to the actors and would probably have ugly joints all over the place?

Ide go for mcfarlane style figures but with super articulation. That'd be sweet. I think. Of course though, 1/6 would be a dream come true.

I really agree with a-dev here. Of course there are a lot of possibilities to make a lot of versions and characters in 3 3/4" but it's the likeness that really is a problem for me. Plus the fact that they would look very toyish among the rest of my collection is another thing that would not make me buy them.
The McFarlane figures have a great likeness overall, but they have other problems, like no poseability and scenespecificness. They're LOST line is good, but it's major flaw is that they chose to make the characters little plastic statues IMO. I mean "Tied Up Running Jin"... sure nice try, good likeness even in this dynamic pose, but if I'd make a scene specific Jin, I'd make a more neutral one where he's just throwing out a fishing net or something.
It's like Buttmunch said nobody can go together.

A 1/6th line could and should deal with these problems IMO. They can have an extremely good likeness to the characters, plus give them a lot more poseability, and they could go great together.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

If HT made 1/6th LOST figures of Jack, Kate, Locke & Sawyer I'd pick'em up.

 

[Kuzeh]

I think it's pretty safe to say that, besides those crappy mego-style figures, LOST action figures are done...
I don't see SS or HT picking them up at all...
Even the 7-8" figures that EE previewed last year during SDCC are MIA...

 

[lforigno]

I too would buy them, but I highly doubt anyone is going to be picking up the line. There are too many main characters to please everyone and the show is over. Even though it is my favorite show of all-time I doubt that the line will ever be made.

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

I'd be so poor.

 

[a-dev]

At least with 1/6th there'd be the possibility of changing the outfits...

 

[wesker]

1/6 scale could work as long as each character is released in a lower number than figures from other licenses. As popular as the show is I don't see anyone other than the real die hard fans going out of their way to buy them.

The other thing that would make the line successful is choosing the right characters. You have to balance who's the most important in the story with who's iconic to the show and who's the most popular. In this case Jack, Locke and Sawyer are the only ones that fit in all 3 catagories. Anyone else could kill the line before it starts.

 

[The Entity]

1/6 scale could work as long as each character is released in a lower number than figures from other licenses. As popular as the show is I don't see anyone other than the real die hard fans going out of their way to buy them.

The other thing that would make the line successful is choosing the right characters. You have to balance who's the most important in the story with who's iconic to the show and who's the most popular. In this case Jack, Locke and Sawyer are the only ones that fit in all 3 catagories. Anyone else could kill the line before it starts.

I completely agree!

 

[superdoug]

In my opinion if it was to have suceeded they would have needed to do it when the show was still going on. If someone picked up Lost now by the time they started making figures a lot of people will have moved on.

Ideally they would have started during the 5th season at the latest and then they could have had maybe 6 or 7 out by now as the intrest really starts to die.

 

[Memnoch]

I'd give anything for 3 3/4" LOST figures because there's just so much potential there. Sadly the parts in the JOE library are sorta lacking for this project in my eyes otherwise I'd be doing customs of them.

 

[RandeG]

They were all great!