Sideshow skipping SDCC 23

[jamescoolber]

I wonder if they will announce anything exciting I remember they teased Forrest gump like 2 years ago.

Hoping to see decent stuff at sdcc, pretty certain Blitzway will show MJ smooth criminal. But as for their own show I don't have high hopes.

oh yes? They have Forrest Gump?

 

[Godfather1408]

oh yes? They have Forrest Gump?

Had it was teased ages ago but nothing came of it.

 

[dukefett]

That's really disappointing. And they were a huge space in the middle of the floor too, always full of people checking out and taking pics too. That really blows.

 

[Sidewinder]

I don't know if they are having money issues or not, but I do not buy anything from them anymore and I'm just letting my reward points expire because it isn't even worth purchasing anything from them.

Example, I wanted to buy a 1/6 figure from them, added it to my cart and they wanted to charge $116 for shipping to Australia! On a 1/6 bloody figure! Went to BBTS and bought the figure from there, $35 to ship. They've completely priced themselves out of sale with their ridiculous shipping costs.

 

[RandomHero]

I’ve heard the same from other sources.

There are some things happening behind the scenes that are troubling.

I feel like I really want to know more about this...

 

[Wor-Gar]

There are some things happening behind the scenes that are troubling.

That would make sense considering so many long-time employees have 'jumped ship' recently.

 

[JacktheRipper]

Now that SDCC and Sideshow Con are done was it a mistake for SS to skip SDCC? Granted, I don't do much in the way of social media but it seemed much of the talk for SS was really low. I registered for their Con, but didn't attend anything. I'm not SS's future. I'm barely their present.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Aside from the Lost Boys figure, nothing of note stuck out to me.

I asked about an Unforgiven Clint figure in their livestreams and while others were being answered around me, they ignored the question.

 

[JacktheRipper]

Other than 1/6 I don't follow much of what SS produces. I too only found David to be interesting. Yeah, no protos for upcoming Clints. No comic Marvel. No quirky license tease.

 

[Gipetto0812]

I liked some of the new PFs they showed. And while the David proto is very nice, I was pretty disappointed to not see any new Marvel Xmen figures. I though for sure we'd at least see their take on Rogue since the SooSoo figure is well, so-so.

 

[JacktheRipper]

So no loss or gain? Just business as usual. SDCC came across as very eh. Seemed subdued as well. SDCC was my kids and I summer trip. We stopped a few (several) years ago. Perhaps my interest is waining. Nothing like anticipating that umpteenth version of Heath's Joker.

 

[Mr.NoCredit]

I think Sideshow decided it was too much money to pay for their booth this year. It was easier to produce some “social media” events where it’s a whole lot less expensive to put some people on video talking about new releases and upcoming figures and such. I had a friend who attended SDCC and said it was lacking this year quite a lot from previous shows he’s been to. No famous people signing autographs or much of anything which I found surprising. The world is changing and not in so many good ways. Maybe it’ll be better next year. Who knows, who cares!?! My thoughts are that the people putting on the show want ultra thousands of dollars for booth rentals and some companies are just saying nope. It’s simply not worth paying for if your just showing off up and coming figures and not selling boxes and boxes of items for several hundreds of dollars each to cover your booth rentals. The world is turning into greed mongers…

 

[jsgord58]

Recession.

A wiser word has not been typed. A deep recession, if not an outright depression, is dead ahead. There are so many indications brewing under the surface that the general public is not picking up on but companies are more aware of them and trying to plan accordingly.

 

[Entropy]

I think Sideshow decided it was too much money to pay for their booth this year.

No doubt Hot Toys helped pay for that booth in recent years and when they decided to pull their product and $ for their own Summershowcase it certainly became not worth it for SSC to pay double to display less product.