Once more, with feeling...NO MORE LOTR 12" figures...

[Entropy]

Faramir was not a good choice.

Screw you Faramir! Only Kanye is more hated.

 

[pixletwin]

For the record, I love my repainted Faramir fig. Its just that given a choice I would have preferred Gimli, Merry, Pippen, Wringraith, Galadriel, Elrond, Eomer, Theoden, Gollum, and even Grima Womrtongue to him.

 

[Entropy]

For the record, I love my repainted Faramir fig. Its just that given a choice I would have preferred Gimli, Merry, Pippen, Wringraith, Galadriel, Elrond, Eomer, Theoden, Gollum, and even Grima Womrtongue to him.

*cough* Saruman *cough*

Fairy-mir was indeed a poor choice.

 

[pixletwin]

Saruman was so obvious that I neglected to include him.

 

[Shai]

PF's are better anyway.

 

[pixletwin]

Yes. PF's are better if you like an even larger and more expensive incomplete representation of core characters.

 

[Blu Falcon]

When this old world starts getting me down and people are just too much for me to face, I climb way up to the top of the stairs and all my cares just drift right into space.

 

[thenammagazine]

Which, in part, is why Gimli was never made.

For the record, I love my repainted Faramir fig. Its just that given a choice I would have preferred Gimli, Merry, Pippen, Wringraith, Galadriel, Elrond, Eomer, Theoden, Gollum, and even Grima Womrtongue to him.

*cough* Saruman *cough*
Fairy-mir was indeed a poor choice.

Yes. PF's are better if you like an even larger and more expensive incomplete representation of core characters.

When this old world starts getting me down and people are just too much for me to face, I climb way up to the top of the stairs and all my cares just drift right into space.

WTF?! Drugs are bad!

 

[Blu Falcon]

WTF?! Drugs are bad!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PR_rzF8ofw

 

[The Ween]

Pretty much every line from Hot Toys is missing Key characters as well i know it has been said many times but Sideshow is a business that makes money from selling products if said products don't sell (like the Lord of the Rings 12 inch figures) then the said business will stop making the product.

If they didn't sell, then why aren't there any in stock?

 

[creecher]

It's a question as old as the hills, Ween. It didn't sell fast enough. How fast is enough? About a piece of string this blue. I think it's called spin. An answer you use when you want the question to go away, for whatever reason. Companies don't like giving reasons, by which I mean, too much insight into their boardroom meetings.

 

[thenammagazine]

If they didn't sell, then why aren't there any in stock?

Truth be told, the figures that should've sold out immediately, the best damn figures in the whole line, rotted on Sideshow's website for like ever, even after the cancellation notice, before sinking into giftcard doom and Hastings $20 clearance sales. Either that or Sideshow's hiding a crate of Middle Earth cash repellent that they're looking to spring on us at Spook via a "Look what we just found in our warehouse!" Spooky 2nd Chance!

 

[-Super Hans-]

"Look what we just found in our warehouse!" Spooky 2nd Chance!

I still need gandalf

 

[denger4000]

They didn't sell that bad, at all, the problem is with a major license like LOTR they did sell bad, what I mean is they were excepted to sell more then did. I'm sure they sold just as good as most Jason's or Indy, but those lines had lower exceptions. I think they excepted LOTR to sell like Star Wars numbers. Either way I know I personally would of bought any LOTR character in 1/6 scale, Sideshow doesn't want my money apparently because they aren't even making good star wars choices recently with the exception of Vader and Lando.

 

[thenammagazine]

They didn't sell that bad, at all, the problem is with a major license like LOTR they did sell bad, what I mean is they were excepted to sell more then did. I'm sure they sold just as good as most Jason's or Indy, but those lines had lower exceptions. I think they excepted LOTR to sell like Star Wars numbers. Either way I know I personally would of bought any LOTR character in 1/6 scale, Sideshow doesn't want my money apparently because they aren't even making good star wars choices recently with the exception of Vader and Lando.

As they put it during chat so long ago, to make a profit on the LOTR figures, with all the R&D time and effort, etc., they needed to sell at least 3k. One would think it a nobrainer to believe that there were at least 3,000 LOTR fans who'd want a 1:6 Gandalf and snatch him up at full price. But apparently that wasn't the case and so the axe fell.

 

[ProgMatinee]

when the hobbits failed that was definately the ax. i bet gandalf was already in preproduction and they just said what the hell throw the kids a bone.

i still believe the price tag was the reason the hobbits failed. of course this is all heresay, but I really think if they bumped the prices down on the hobbits $10 maybe they would have sold right away and never hit the gift card and clearance shelves, but one they get the Gift card tag I think its a permanent label. lol.

I just think a lot of people had heartburn that 9" figures were going to be $70.

I don't know, maybe SSC should have cut some corners or something. Also, I think if they made the elven cloaks the exclusive rather than lembas bread and the sword that it would have at the very least guaranteed an ex sell out.

 

[choopie]

Regarding Faramir, I still say he was produced to appease the WETA collectors. Also, I think it was strategy on Sideshow's part to bring the statue collectors into the 1:6 world. When you think about it, Sideshow was faced with the challenge of convincing people, who already had an extensive character collection with the statues, to continuing buying LOTR and in a different format. Start off with a character that wasn't represented in statue form. Enter Faramir. And the fact that collectors were so angry about the fact that they didn't get Faramir, they were willing to buy 1:6 just to have the character in the collection.

It was working well, until the final product came out, of course. I say the quickest way to lose a customer is to not live up to their expectations.

 

[Buttmunch]

I still need gandalf

Me too. I had to cancel him when he originally shipped and then the line was axed so I never got around to picking him up. But I I could find one for the grea $20-30 price I'd pick him up in a heartbeat. But with the line dead I don't have much other motivation.

 

[thenammagazine]

when the hobbits failed that was definately the ax. i bet gandalf was already in preproduction and they just said what the hell throw the kids a bone.

i still believe the price tag was the reason the hobbits failed. of course this is all heresay, but I really think if they bumped the prices down on the hobbits $10 maybe they would have sold right away and never hit the gift card and clearance shelves, but one they get the Gift card tag I think its a permanent label. lol.

I just think a lot of people had heartburn that 9" figures were going to be $70.

I don't know, maybe SSC should have cut some corners or something. Also, I think if they made the elven cloaks the exclusive rather than lembas bread and the sword that it would have at the very least guaranteed an ex sell out.

Eh, Frodo and Sam, with all the delightful attention to detail and the new bodies (despite the crap here, mine were all perfect and I have 5), were easily worth the measly $70 tag. It's just that nobody cared at that point. Which is sad. LOTR collectors are like gang bangers. They'll swear up and down that you're "la familia," but when the heat comes down, everybody else runs!

 

[ProgMatinee]

well its kinda like the "perception more important than reality" thing. I'm not saying the hobbits weren't extra special and extra well done, but I think from day 1 of the product announcement the perception was that paying as much or more than any other LOTR figure up to that point for a figure 3/4 the size was hard to swallow. plus they released at the same time so double the $ outlay...then adding to that the lackluster EX items, well...they needless to say they fell flat. I can't remember exactly, but I think even Faramir, as much as we deride that release now, sold out quicker.