Questions for Asmus

[hoodonit00]

Asmus has a golden opportunity here to get back in the LOTRs game. With people complaining about QC issues and rising costs with InArt. It all comes down to the sculpt. If I stand my Asmus Aragorn and my InArt Aragorn next to each other I really can’t see a whole lot of difference from the neck down. Especially for the price difference. If only they could put better sculpts out. This is where InArt shines. They don’t even need to nail it. Just 10% to 15% better than what they’ve released. I don’t have much hope though with how Ace Ventura is looking. Guess we will see.

 

[Johnny Utah]

@Asmus did you pass my suggestion for Cyber City Oedo 808 on to your design team?

 

[Mooch]

Asmus has a golden opportunity here to get back in the LOTRs game. With people complaining about QC issues and rising costs with InArt. It all comes down to the sculpt. If I stand my Asmus Aragorn and my InArt Aragorn next to each other I really can’t see a whole lot of difference from the neck down. Especially for the price difference. If only they could put better sculpts out. This is where InArt shines. They don’t even need to nail it. Just 10% to 15% better than what they’ve released. I don’t have much hope though with how Ace Ventura is looking. Guess we will see.

They should certainly try to nail it, though!

 

[spindrift]

Asmus can step it up and still be alot cheaper than Inart. Time to realize if you do high quality work you can charge $400 a figure and people won't even blink at that.

 

[chrisstbh]

 

[Sassafras]

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Where is Thranduil???? oh yeah, Hobbit license mess....

 

[Bucky Underbelly]

So ... what is the exact deal with the Sideshow partnership now? Are we supposed to order through them in the States? Are we not supposed to order directly with Asmus anymore? Is there a benefit either way with shipping costs?

 

[Sassafras]

So ... what is the exact deal with the Sideshow partnership now? Are we supposed to order through them in the States? Are we not supposed to order directly with Asmus anymore? Is there a benefit either way with shipping costs?

Maybe the deal was Sideshow somehow funded them or eased getting products into the U.S. to the benefit of all. Only say this because way back getting Iron Studios pieces via Sideshow took some working out. But you can now order IS from their store or Sideshow.

Whether there's a shipping benefit I think is still gonna depend on what people want to pay and/or if there is a deal going on. For U.S. folks *in general* they are probably happier ordering within U.S., but if you are in Asia why go through Sideshow. Europe I don't know what the UK/Europe prefers? Sideshow customer service has been awesome when I've used them, but have had some nice correspondence with ASMUS as well. But I haven't had many problems - actually arguing with WETA at one point was the most tedious.

 

[superdoug]

My guess is you will be good to order from either and they might still throw in their freebies from time to time if you order from them direct. The Sideshow reveal thing might just be a way to try to increase visibility. By having a figure first announced at one of Sideshow’s events it might have more visibility than Asmus just launching it on their site and plugging it on their social media pages.