CryptDemon
Super Freak
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- Feb 10, 2013
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Yes one issues with G.I. Joe and Transformers is that fans like to buy figure not statues. I remember when F4F was just able to release 2 statues from those lines and had to give it up due crummy sales. Diamond Select had almost same issues. About 7 years ago they had Megs and OP statues protos neither one got released. The OP was up for order and got canceled, Megs didn't come up for order. They were awesome pieces. And cheap they were 12 inches and $150.00 retail today a tiny 12 inch GG statue cost almost $300.00
For transformers, I understand why. A huge part of it is that you get two toys in one. Buying a transformers figure that doesn't transform defeats the purpose. I don't particularly care as long as it's a nice statue, but I get why other TF fans wouldn't be for it. Then there's the whole issue with official 3rd party licenses not being allowed to make transforming versions of the characters. I would love to see some transformers from 3A with the ability to actually transform, but since they can't, I'm not going to bother buying a movable figure with only half of it's functionality present.