Sideshow 6" figures?

[Buttmunch]

Dave from Rebelscum's new website:

https://www.cooltoyreview.com/story/front/Toy_Fair_Rumors_103816.asp

Says Sideshow may be making 6" figures. Does that mean 6" figures like McFarlane and NECA or 6" figures as in 1:6 scale small people like Hobbits? Either way, it sounds like good news/rumors.

 

[King Darkness]

Now what's the totally unqualified buzz about Sideshow creating some smaller scale (6") figures (not necessarily SW)? A midprice would be excellent! Stay tuned!

 

[dekadentdave]

We already have 6" figures... they're called Medicom.

 

[Batty]

Hmm, it looks like GG is getting in on the act too.

 

[Buttmunch]

We already have 6" figures... they're called Medicom.

Good one. I'm wondering if these are supposed to be just scaled down versions of 12" figures complete with cloth clothes.

 

[IrishJedi]

Gawd, this would be a DUMB idea (if it's indeed 1/12 scale figures).

 

[TOE]

Why are they downgrading?

The reason why I collect Sideshow is because they are not too well known like Neca or Spawn. Are they trying to mass produce like the past?

 

[Darklord Dave]

It does say smaller SCALE, so that would be the scale of other action figures. But I'd really hate for this to happen, the 1/6 line doesn't get enough love as it is.

Funny thing the Legion of Super Heroes "rumor" - I thought it was well known that DC isn't using the name "Superboy" right now because of a lawsuit stemming from the Shuster or Siegel estate?

Personally I'd rather they just call him Kal-el in LSH - most of the other heroes use their given names fairly often.

 

[thamesvalidude]

As for the Golden Compass actors being pernickity about their action figure likenesses.....I wonder if Mr Craig is being precious again. We'll never see a Casino Royale Bond at this rate.

 

[Seaward]

I would hope that licenses that already seem spread thin don't suffer more. After all, it's nice to collect a line, but when they offer so many variations on one line, it tends to get watered down some. It's already splitting collectors between 12-inch, PF, Legendary Busts, and now Dioramas just for the LOTR line.

Leave the 1/12 plastic action figures in the dusty old Toys R Us and shuttered Kay-Bee's, and keep making the 1/6 scale stuff.

Maybe, just maybe it's meant to suggest that Sideshow has developed the Hobbit/Jawa/Ewok scale bodies, but in order to make the most of their investment, they will be offering a smaller scale line.

 

[jgatienza]

this sounds interesting. i wonder what the first line is going to be. hopefully they will be affordable.

 

[Geb]

Is there any possibility that Sideshow could have acquired the LOTR license for 6" figures? Toybiz droipped it like a bad habit in 2005 and there have been serious questions about it's destiny ever since. There was still life in the line IMO, but I am a LOTR homer...

If they were to say partner up with Marvel Toys and create more LOTR figures...hell yeah, I would totally be on board with that.

My fear is that if they indeed go this route, that: 1) the 12-Inch and PF line would likely suffer a bit, and 2) the price point may be a bit too high...something around the $10 per like the current ML Hasbro line (which is WAY overpriced for my taste).

Just my thoughts...

Geb

 

[Josette]

If this is true, it would just enhance the disappointment I've been feeling lately. If I wanted smaller scale figures, I would definitely turn to NECA, as they're making some of my favorite licenses that I've always wanted in 1/6th - Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, V for Vendetta..... but I don't like the scale. I just have no interest in regular small plastic action figures.

It would be a poor move for Sideshow to make, IMO.

 

[sladesuperagent]

I would hope that licenses that already seem spread thin don't suffer more. After all, it's nice to collect a line, but when they offer so many variations on one line, it tends to get watered down some. It's already splitting collectors between 12-inch, PF, Legendary Busts, and now Dioramas just for the LOTR line.

Leave the 1/12 plastic action figures in the dusty old Toys R Us and shuttered Kay-Bee's, and keep making the 1/6 scale stuff.

Maybe, just maybe it's meant to suggest that Sideshow has developed the Hobbit/Jawa/Ewok scale bodies, but in order to make the most of their investment, they will be offering a smaller scale line.

I thought Sideshow realized that their stuff didn't sell at Spencer's/Suncoast years ago. Why would they think it will sell at a Hot Topic now? Weird announcement. I'm beginning to feel a little f'd as a 1/6 collector. Oh well, maybe I'll finally finish my Thundercats collection.

 

[pixletwin]

Not interested in 1:12 figures at all.

 

[Seaward]

Sideshow has been branching out to independent retailers again in the last few years, and it may make sense as a direct market toy line, but I think that the days of 1:12 scale toys made out of plastic are behind us for a while. Parents don't seem to be buying them for kids, and collectors aren't a big enough market to keep toy lines, let alone retailers, alive. I hope that it is really just a way to justify the cost of engineering new bodies for other scales that they might be making these lines. Keep the sixth scale lines alive!

 

[bluesparrow]

I think that the days of 1:12 scale toys made out of plastic are behind us for a while. Parents don't seem to be buying them for kids, and collectors aren't a big enough market to keep toy lines, let alone retailers, alive.

What? Some of the most successful toy lines of the past few years have been 1/12, such as Marvel Legends, WWE, DC Superheroes and the Spider-Man movie lines. Marvel Legends itself is a collector-driven line that succeeds at mass retail, with manufacturing runs into the hundreds of thousands. Toybiz is releasing a 1/12 series of independent comic characters at mass retail this summer, even, and that's obviously aimed at collectors. If the market couldn't sustain it, then they would not be doing it.

 

[TOE]

perhaps the first line to go is WoW craft.

 

[thamesvalidude]

Sideshow have made some of the best 1/6 figures ever. Their licences have been sublime. i got into 1/6 through Hasblow and Playmates, having been an Action man afficianado in my youth. i then moved into bbi and dragon military before discovering Sideshow bond and buffy lines. i have collected DST star trek figures and their Buffy range and 1/12 is not the way for sideshow to go. Come on S/S, respond to the challenge of Hot Toys and medicom by being better, not just becoming a subservient distributor. We know you can do it!

 

[screamingmetal]

perhaps the first line to go is WoW craft.

DC Unlimited is already doing WOW in that scale (or very close to it). I don't know about this, I don't think it's true and there's a ton of 6"-7" figures already being done out there- too much competition. It can't be related to the small Hobbit sized bodies they're developing because they would be very basic bodies that would require cloth outfits like the 12" lines. Maybe that's what Sideshow is developing, 6" clothed action figures like those import Bruce Lee figures done some time ago (which I think tanked).
And I can't think of a license that already exists that doesn't have 6" sculpted figures except for one, the one license I always wanted 6" figures from- Star Wars. I would go nuts over those. Unfortunately the report said that's not an involved license. Maybe they're going back to Universal Monsters for 6"?