SSC - Marvel - 1:6 scale Wolverine figure

[ridetofight]

I don't suppose anyone can identify the wolves featured in Sideshow's Diorama photos on the Wolverine product page? They'd be a pretty cool addition to display with the figure, actually.

It is from sideshow's gi joe dio line - recon at waypoint. agree on it being a cool addition.

 

[Joda]

It is from sideshow's gi joe dio line - recon at waypoint. agree on it being a cool addition.

Thanks. If they sold the wolves separately, I might be more inclined to pull the trigger just to re-create that diorama. Pretty awesome.

 

[wolfcustom]

Look on eBay for 1/6 snake eyes timber.

 

[Auel]

Or get the SS V2 Snake Eyes which comes with a posable Timber

 

[Plastic Bateman]

Specificity and lack of options by which to amortize costs are no indication of the price of a license.

Please explain why the Ash figure Sideshow just announced is the same price as this Wolverine figure, give or take ten bucks, with this line of logic in mind.

The DOFP figure cost $250 (the same) and had no accessories. The black and yellow one had a stand and cost $15 less. The Origins figure cost $10 less than that and was loaded. You see how license is not a factor that explains anything in isolation? Just like popularity of a character explains nothing in isolation; just like manufacturing costs, or regulations, or any single aspect. But you keep singling them out as though one is adequate to discredit any other presented as a justification.

And yet the entire line of argument thus far has been that the licensing costs are behind the pricing of this figure. Way to defeat your own argument.

Nice smear. I'm criticizing the concept of overpricing itself. People are conferring the status of objectivity on their distaste for the price, when the only people who have a real grasp of how the price is arrived at are the manufacturers. That is not only because they're the only one's privy to their own economic situation, but because they are producing the figure to sell, not to satisfy a demand. Demand is a means to their own objectives, it's not the objective. That's the consumer's business. If they wish to participate or not is subjective as far as the producer is concerned.

Do you really want to talk about 'smears' when you've been calling forum members 'shortbus' and equating anyone complaining about the price of the figure to an '*** kissed princess' crying wolf about '****'? I kept copies of those posts, incidentally.

I wasn't making a joke. You're complaining about a word being in a sentence.

I'm complaining about the context. If you weren't joking that just makes it even more cheap and crass on your part.

EDIT: One other thing I've really got to know - considering the derisory tone you've used throughout your posts in reference to 'consumers', as if you're somehow above such things - while defending to the hilt a company that makes consumer products and that you purchase said consumer products from - what does that make you, exactly?

 

[ridetofight]

For those like me, who aren't really happy with the unmasked hs, I give you DAMtoy's bootleg Wolverine. I like the hs, and especially the cigar, but so many unknowns. Looks like the neck and head are one piece. The "blocky" style of the sculpt might not look quite right with the arms of ss's figure, let alone skin tones matching... Diamond 5-Ralap & The Wolf-Ghost_DAM

 

[Took]

either Sideshow has gone completely mad, or they listed the wrong number: shipping costs to the Netherlands are $62.

in comparisson: the shipping costs for the premium format are $40. And that thing is bigger and heavier.

 

[GeneralZodLives]

Those extra elbows are really, really heavy.

 

[drakEP3]

For those like me, who aren't really happy with the unmasked hs, I give you DAMtoy's bootleg Wolverine. I like the hs, and especially the cigar, but so many unknowns. Looks like the neck and head are one piece. The "blocky" style of the sculpt might not look quite right with the arms of ss's figure, let alone skin tones matching... Diamond 5-Ralap & The Wolf-Ghost_DAM

Yep. All the gangster kingdom figures have the head and neck are 1 piece

 

[Plastic Bateman]

Those extra elbows are really, really heavy.

Adamantium skeleton

 

[devilof76]

Please explain why the Ash figure Sideshow just announced is the same price as this Wolverine figure, give or take ten bucks, with this line of logic in mind.

I don't know why. What makes you think every figure is priced according to the same formula?

And yet the entire line of argument thus far has been that the licensing costs are behind the pricing of this figure. Way to defeat your own argument.

I said licensing was the exclusive factor? Or just the case in comparing Snake Plisskin's cost to Wolverine's?

Do you really want to talk about 'smears' when you've been calling forum members 'shortbus' and equating anyone complaining about the price of the figure to an '*** kissed princess' crying wolf about '****'? I kept copies of those posts, incidentally.

Well, aren't you diligent. I'm sure the nuns will give you an extra cookie at lunch for that.

My insults weren't submitted as a case against anyone's argument. They were just insults, and well earned at that.

Also, you have yet to grasp the comment about being ***** by higher prices. If anything, the histrionics over higher prices denigrates genuine violations, and therein lies the pettiness of all this clucking. People act as though some great injustice were being done, going so far as to cry price gouging as if it were some kind of crime. But maybe you're not in the position to comprehend because you're expecting an asskissing. I don't know.

I'm complaining about the context. If you weren't joking that just makes it even more cheap and crass on your part.

Christ on a stick, you're a bore.

EDIT: One other thing I've really got to know - considering the derisory tone you've used throughout your posts in reference to 'consumers', as if you're somehow above such things - while defending to the hilt a company that makes consumer products and that you purchase said consumer products from - what does that make you, exactly?

It makes me not a consumer who thinks their role invokes some kind of exalted status. My apologies for speaking imprecisely. In the future I'll tailor my posts to be bore-proof.

 

[BuddyGus]

I know one thing for sure. This thread is more interesting than both stand alone Wolverine movies.

 

[devilof76]

I know one thing for sure. This thread is more interesting than both stand alone Wolverine movies.

 

[Asta]

And both stand alone Wolverine movies are more interesting than this figure.

I only drop in to catch up on the latest developments in the clash over prices.

 

[devilof76]

That's crazy talk. This figure kicks ***.

 

[Hellion]

I know one thing for sure. This thread is more interesting than both stand alone Wolverine movies.

This. I could care less about this figure but I find I have been dropping in on this thread over and over again for the past 24 hours!

 

[Plastic Bateman]

I don't know why. What makes you think every figure is priced according to the same formula?

I don't know, maybe the consistency in price across Sideshow's 1/6 line even for figures from wildly different properties? In 2014 the ballpark seemed to be $150, in 2015 $200, and now moving into 2016 $250. Seems pretty arbitrary to me.

I said licensing was the exclusive factor? Or just the case in comparing Snake Plisskin's cost to Wolverine's?

Yes, the entire thrust of your argument was that licensing costs are like some unfathomable cosmic mystery and therefore we should just accept company's pricing structures based on the nebulous assumption that it all falls down to said cost of licensing, with reassurances from another poster claiming some intangible degree of authority on the subject.

Unless you're actually petty enough to go back and edit your posts so that no longer seems to be the case, of course.

Well, aren't you diligent. I'm sure the nuns will give you an extra cookie at lunch for that.

My insults weren't submitted as a case against anyone's argument. They were just insults, and well earned at that.

I'm sure any passing mods or admins will be thrilled to see the amount of contempt you apparently hold them in, and that you feel it's perfectly acceptable to attack other forum members with impunity like a playground bully.

Also, you have yet to grasp the comment about being ***** by higher prices. If anything, the histrionics over higher prices denigrates genuine violations, and therein lies the pettiness of all this clucking. People act as though some great injustice were being done, going so far as to cry price gouging as if it were some kind of crime. But maybe you're not in the position to comprehend because you're expecting an asskissing. I don't know.

And you act as if you're empowered as some moral arbiter tasked to quell all protest. Many people have, quite reasonably, stated that they feel the product is overpriced in relation to previous Sideshow purchases and expectations of quality relevant thereto. I'm 'expecting an asskissing?' No, if I see a product I like I'll buy it, I have no expectation from the company supplying it other than it arriving in good condition and not having any glaring QC errors. My problem here, now, is your repellent attitude to anyone who dares to disagree with you and your seeming utter contempt for the other users of this forum.

I also have to seriously wonder what's going on in that head of yours if people voicing their opinion of the pricing of a toy is somehow equivalent to crying '****'.

Christ on a stick, you're a bore.

I'll happily take bore over 'specious internet tough guy'.

It makes me not a consumer who thinks their role invokes some kind of exalted status. My apologies for speaking imprecisely. In the future I'll tailor my posts to be bore-proof.

I'm sure you will.

 

[EVILFACE]

People People. The longer your posts are, the smaller your pecker is.

 

[Asta]

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[Snake Plissken]

People People. The longer your posts are, the smaller your pecker is.