Should there be a new forum for licenses or manufacturer?

[King Darkness]

I just use the "New Posts" to search, but an Aliens/Pred/Terminator thread would be cool.

 

[dekadentdave]

Well, now that Dave has removed the Sandbox and Shai with it, he might as well keep restructuring the board....

 

[The ill Jedi]

I voted for the Alien/Pred/Term forum, because that is type specific, regardless to companies.

Can I change my vote to Alien/Predator/Terminator?

I now see the need for it over a Hot Toys or Medi section.

 

[Darklord Dave]

There is a good point that I hadn't considered before - that this board, unlike most others is broken down by license rather than manufacturer.

But do we classify it as anything that has touched a Cameron movie?

Then the Barbie Rose doll from Titanic would fit...

 

[dekadentdave]

Why not? Buffy has her own forum under "Whedonville" so maybe we should do a "King Cameron" forum.

 

[MaulFan]

Except Cameron isn't a good divider, for Aliens, that covers 1 film and you'd be reading all over the place for what you want Aliens related. Granted HT's body of figures of late is only from the 2nd, Cameron film, it is likely with the line's popularity that the original film will be touched one day, and unless Gladiator merchandise starts coming from SSC or one of the big players of late, there won't be much to build a Ridley Scott section around. Not to mention, much as people have their issues with it, T3 related things wouldn't fit under Cameron either.

 

[dekadentdave]

Which is why I voted for seperate forums for each individual licenses. It would make it easier to organize and search threads. As for Gladiator from SS, forget it. I asked Tom Gilliland at SDCC and he said that Russel Crowe would not license his likeness or something like that.

 

[MaulFan]

Ya, I know Gladiator's a never will be, but that was the only Ridley Scott movie besides Alien I could think of that had collectible potential. I think Marvel and Star Wars show it's best to have the general topic for the forum and then any range of threads within it. For me, if I feel like talking about a topic, I go looking for that stuff, and at times, I find I miss some of the Alien and Terminator threads because other Other Film/TV threads clutter up the list and shift threads to other pages where I don't get to.

 

[dekadentdave]

Blade Runner would be the other hot Ridley Scott license but Sideshow already looked into getting the rights and the license holder would not make them available.

 

[screamingmetal]

None of the Predator films would fit a Cameron forum either. With Whedonville, it at least makes sense to group Buffy and Angel and to a degree, Firefly. With the Terminator, Alien, and Predator films, we have a tendency of just grouping them together because they have something intangible in common, it's just not something that really fits into any category.

 

[Batty]

Blade Runner would be the other hot Ridley Scott license but Sideshow already looked into getting the rights and the license holder would not make them available.

I cry a little every time I think about that.

 

[galactiboy]

Damn, if we got a Hot Toys Deckard I'd be dropping my Hong Kong no-name figure in a heartbeat... even though I do love him so

But you know Hot Toys would rock Blade Runner figure Even if Deckard would have blond hair.

 

[dekadentdave]

I cry a little every time I think about that.

Like Tears in Rain...

 

[MaulFan]

With the Terminator, Alien, and Predator films, we have a tendency of just grouping them together because they have something intangible in common, it's just not something that really fits into any category.

I think one thing that binds them together is that they're like classic slasher flicks told through science fiction. You have a killer, seemingly unstoppable, plucking victims one by one until all hope is lost and one hero or heroine is left to rise above the odds and take down the monster.

 

[screamingmetal]

I think one thing that binds them together is that they're like classic slasher flicks told through science fiction. You have a killer, seemingly unstoppable, plucking victims one by one until all hope is lost and one hero or heroine is left to rise above the odds and take down the monster.

Yeah that's it, well put. And they're all from the 80's.
Maybe we need a 80's classic slasher flicks told through science fiction Forum?

 

[dekadentdave]

I was thinking of a general 80's thread but the problem with that is you have sequels like T2, T3, Alien3 and 4 and AVP and Predator 2 that would not fit under a general 80's forum so by licenses is the way to go.

 

[MaulFan]

It's a shame we can't even segregate them by an actor, they're are so many instances of cross-license acting.

Lance Henriksen
The Terminator, Aliens, Alien 3, AVP

Michael Biehn
The Terminator, Aliens

Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Terminator, T2, T3, Predator

OOOHHH, I just thought of one, the Bill Paxton Background Character Film Thread

Bill Paxton
The Terminator, Aliens, Predator 2

 

[Grange Wallis]

A medicom/Hottoys forum would be good, but not nessessary...

 

[Kabukiman]

If there were more than one or two threads on Aliens/Predator/Terminator per page in the general forum, I'd say you have a point. As it stands, that's not the case.

People have enough problems staying on-topic and not posting second or third topics on one subject in different forums, why would we want to add to that problem?

The only reason this is being proposed is because some people think a line having it's own forum legitimizes it or something, that's not a good reason, imo. The last thing this place needs is another clique.

 

[dekadentdave]

That's beside the point. The Aliens and Terminator threads are stuffed full of posts that are all over the map and need to be broken up according to topic. By allocating individual forums for each of those licenses it allows us to post a variety of different topics which will make specific information easier to locate rather than sorting through hundreds of pages in one mammoth thread.