William Shatners Toupee
Super Freak
Re: New Doctor Who Figures?
I try to remain optimistic about the Classics future even though I've gotta say I HATE CO's business practices and the way they both run it and treat us communication wise. I am anxious to see what develpoments 2010 might bring for this line beyond what we know. The UK toyfair can't be far away, so I am hoping to hear something snuck out of there (although exclusives usually aren''t shown, right?)
I dunno if a companion could be a BAF and be financially viable. It MIGHT be since they are "sneaking it out" as it were. and it is part of every set.
One thing to consider for companion re-use too is the idea that if they sculpt a character, (say Leela), you could make that figure in both her brown and tan skins, so thats two uses, and if they made her hair a seperate piece, they could use the same head for a Talons variation with just the hair-piece re-tooled for her head (so no new sculpt), so there is some cost savings. THEN say they later released Leela in a ROBOTS OF DEATH boxed set with other re-issued vocs and re-painted POM Tom so they'd get to use her mold again. They can get good use out of a popular companion than just the initial release.
Much like if CO were to make a fur coated Troughton, as a cheaper variation, all they'd need to tool is new fur covered arms and a vinyl fur coat to hang over the already existing figure, using the rest of the original figure. He wore a fur coat in ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN, ICE WARRIORS, and FIVE DOCTORS (Five Docs was a different coat but lets assume CO wouldn't get so specific to as sculpt two different fur coats).
They could release him individually (or more likely rape us with a useless two-pack), then use him again in future episode specific boxed sets. That saves money. Now if they made Jamie, he too could be re-used in ep specific boxed sets (and wore the same costume in ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN and ICE WARRIORS, as did Victoria). All they'd need to add is an exclusive Ice Warrior varient with different head and an exclusive Ice Lord in the ICE WARRIORS set (and an Ambominable Snownan exclusve to an A.S. set and we'd be suckered into rebuying the same figures again for the 1 or 2 new ones. Common practice for CO.
I'm just giving an example for how they can re-use a sculpt all they want once it's made to get their money back. As has been mentioned by other people, in multiple character sets you can sneak whoever you want in them as long as there are strong sellers in there too.
I try to remain optimistic about the Classics future even though I've gotta say I HATE CO's business practices and the way they both run it and treat us communication wise. I am anxious to see what develpoments 2010 might bring for this line beyond what we know. The UK toyfair can't be far away, so I am hoping to hear something snuck out of there (although exclusives usually aren''t shown, right?)
I dunno if a companion could be a BAF and be financially viable. It MIGHT be since they are "sneaking it out" as it were. and it is part of every set.
One thing to consider for companion re-use too is the idea that if they sculpt a character, (say Leela), you could make that figure in both her brown and tan skins, so thats two uses, and if they made her hair a seperate piece, they could use the same head for a Talons variation with just the hair-piece re-tooled for her head (so no new sculpt), so there is some cost savings. THEN say they later released Leela in a ROBOTS OF DEATH boxed set with other re-issued vocs and re-painted POM Tom so they'd get to use her mold again. They can get good use out of a popular companion than just the initial release.
Much like if CO were to make a fur coated Troughton, as a cheaper variation, all they'd need to tool is new fur covered arms and a vinyl fur coat to hang over the already existing figure, using the rest of the original figure. He wore a fur coat in ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN, ICE WARRIORS, and FIVE DOCTORS (Five Docs was a different coat but lets assume CO wouldn't get so specific to as sculpt two different fur coats).
They could release him individually (or more likely rape us with a useless two-pack), then use him again in future episode specific boxed sets. That saves money. Now if they made Jamie, he too could be re-used in ep specific boxed sets (and wore the same costume in ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN and ICE WARRIORS, as did Victoria). All they'd need to add is an exclusive Ice Warrior varient with different head and an exclusive Ice Lord in the ICE WARRIORS set (and an Ambominable Snownan exclusve to an A.S. set and we'd be suckered into rebuying the same figures again for the 1 or 2 new ones. Common practice for CO.
I'm just giving an example for how they can re-use a sculpt all they want once it's made to get their money back. As has been mentioned by other people, in multiple character sets you can sneak whoever you want in them as long as there are strong sellers in there too.
