Can't wait to get my pre-order in tomorrow. Price is steep, but I think has more to do with the hobby's continued price creep along with increased quality. Would we rather have a $180 figure with Nathan Drake paint? As long as the final product is in line with how their Ash turned out, I'll be at peace with it (this time, for this character).
SSC Jack Burton Big Trouble in Little China Sixth Scale Figure
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Threezero are doing that. Their quality is steadily growing while their prices are relatively low. The last year especially has seen their likeness game improve considerably.
GeneralZodLives
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Or throw in a Henry Swanson head and clothes.
Could have been a DX! Though the price would have jumped to $385.
It's like they think " well were trying harder now so we get to charge more ". Still i can't say no to this as there won't be another.
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Yeah....not liking the price. I Just hope the final product looks as good as the prototype. 
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We will find out in a year and a half when he ships!
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This one is a dilemma...great license...but I have been spoiled by Hot Toys, Blitzway, even Enterbay...when I pay this price point for a figure I expect that quality...if this figure had the Hot Toys logo on it to match the Hot Toys price people would be tearing it apart and declaring that Hot Toys has lost it releasing a figure like this! Sideshow gets a pass because it looks really great...FOR A SIDESHOW FIGURE...but when Sideshow figures are priced the same as Hot Toys the goodwill has to end. Tough one because at least they are making a figure that is not Star Wars or a Superhero...but I should not have to pay a premium because of what something is NOT...this figure should definitely have been under $200 until Sideshow dramatically improves their sculpting and painting capabilities...
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So no exclusive and only 1,500 that's a really small ES. Kind of justifies the price; but still $240 is outlandish. At $200 these would be selling like hotcakes.
1,500 ES for the initial release. Then in about 2 or 3 years, we'll see the exact same figure minus the floating head...
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The good news is that no one is forcing you to DO anything. If it's not worth the money to you....don't buy it. Vote with your dollars. It really IS that simple.
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Truth plus maybe $20 more. I just got my e-web that was supposed to be limited back in the first release....
At risk of sounding like a 'sideshow apologist', I think people are missing a huge factor when complaining about the price. Any figure based on an 80s movie with an actors face will be more expensive than a similarly accessorized contemporary movie figure because they are truly more expensive to license.
These days when you buy a movie license the characters with their faces are included. Back 80s, actors retained the rights to their own faces on merch separate from the main license. Now anyone doing an 80s figure with an actor face has to buy the movie license to do the character PLUS buy the likeness rights to include the actual actor's face. (If you recall, Hot Toys had the aliens License with the characters, but not actors likeness rights when they did the Aliens figures).
Those extra costs show in our prices. Any talk trying to comparing a figure with a real 80s actor likeness to figures of faceless troops, creature figures, movie monsters with unrecognizable actor faces, video game characters, artistically stylized faces (looking at you ThreeA and DAM gangster kingdom) or figures based on movies this decade are not apples-to-apples comparisons. Those actor-free faces and contemporary figures truly are cheaper to make.
The reason so few companies tackle our 'vintage' icons is rarely that they "don't care". The hard fact is it is more work, more expensive and therefore a bigger risk.
If you want to complain about quality as it relates to your dollar, I am not arguing with you. Sideshow earned the right to have you doubt them. I am just saying the extra cost to get our icons made is a real thing, not just corporate greed.
These days when you buy a movie license the characters with their faces are included. Back 80s, actors retained the rights to their own faces on merch separate from the main license. Now anyone doing an 80s figure with an actor face has to buy the movie license to do the character PLUS buy the likeness rights to include the actual actor's face. (If you recall, Hot Toys had the aliens License with the characters, but not actors likeness rights when they did the Aliens figures).
Those extra costs show in our prices. Any talk trying to comparing a figure with a real 80s actor likeness to figures of faceless troops, creature figures, movie monsters with unrecognizable actor faces, video game characters, artistically stylized faces (looking at you ThreeA and DAM gangster kingdom) or figures based on movies this decade are not apples-to-apples comparisons. Those actor-free faces and contemporary figures truly are cheaper to make.
The reason so few companies tackle our 'vintage' icons is rarely that they "don't care". The hard fact is it is more work, more expensive and therefore a bigger risk.
If you want to complain about quality as it relates to your dollar, I am not arguing with you. Sideshow earned the right to have you doubt them. I am just saying the extra cost to get our icons made is a real thing, not just corporate greed.
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Actually the bad news is that I want either an "A" BTILC for $240 or a "B" figure for under $200...now thanks to my friends at Sideshow neither is going to happen...so...yeah...still not seeing that "good news" that you were so happy about...
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Just sitting here waiting patiently for the pre order.
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I'm happy about getting a great looking figure of a license that fills my heart with joy. Would I like to pay less? Sure, but that's what it costs so I have to either let it go without crying about it and spend my money on other stuff....or I suck it up and pay what I am willing to pay and be happy with what I have.
I've just gotten a little weary of these forums filling with posters who are so negative all the time and drag themselves and everyone down into a pit of cynicism. It just gets old.
Jacking up the price with modest quality and lack of accessories will do that for some
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Wow...well some unsolicited advice my friend...if the opinions of strangers can actually have a negative effect on your ability to anticipate or enjoy the purchase of an item that you know that you want you may want to avoid forums like this because people are gonna have their own opinions, agree with them or not and other people come here to read them...
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I'll have to ponder on this one. Tailoring looks great. Still looks a little bobbleheaded and I'd probably body swap.
