1/6 Star wars 1/6 SDCC 2019 Speculation

[DarkChocobi]

Back in 2016 Hot Toys dedicated a whole exhibition solely just for Rouge One...

 

[fantasticfrog]

We get passed over for Stan Lee and a two face from a movie that’s several years old? Wow! Hot toys won’t drop Star Wars until after tros, but wow...
This is telling. We will never get the minor characters we crave like greedo or rebel troopers. However, they make Stan Lee from a minute appearance in a movie. All respect and RIP, but really?
This is four months now of nothing. Those of us that only collect Star Wars will eventually move on to something else if they are not careful.
They couldn’t even slap boots on hoth leia and give her bespin leia’s Head for a bespin escape figure.

 

[user 67922]

Hopefully The Mandalorian will revive Star Wars again. Let's hope Episode IX doesn't kill it again a month later.

 

[DarthAlias]

HT knows Marvel sell more than SW right now. No surprise 3/4 exclusives are Marvel. Anakin still available on sideshow I believe. Makes sense they skipped it this year.

 

[Darth KirBayBey]

HT knows Marvel sell more than SW right now. No surprise 3/4 exclusives are Marvel. Anakin still available on sideshow I believe. Makes sense they skipped it this year.

Well hopefully Marvel will slow down a bit now that the Avenger movies are done. As far as Anakin still being available, well the HT's dumb a$$ fault! Don't release the same figure months from each other and except everyone to go ooh and ah over it. It should've been one figure with both head sculpts. If they had done that, I'm quit sure if would've sold out long ago.

 

[Darth KirBayBey]

The Dark Knight current? Two-face is an old character and has already been released before - I suspect Hot Toys knew there would be newer fans who would like a shot at owning this figure but not enough to go full production, so it makes sense.

Marvel makes sense.

Star Wars is a mixed bag financially these days, so it doesn't make sense - I'm as disappointed as anyone else, but feelings about the various incarnations of Star Wars are polarized and businesses know this. I deleted the previous comments I made on this issue, it's already all been said before - and no matter how you feel about any version of Star Wars, businesses follow the money.

This is very true! The Asian market for Star Wars is nothing compared to the Marvel market. After watching the Hong Kong tour videos on MISB channel and seeing all our hard to find Star Wars figures just lining their shelves, it's apparent that Star Wars figures just don't sell as well over there. I wish I had the money to fly over there and clean them out of those figures. Lol. I would make a fortune with them here.

 

[DarkChocobi]

Well hopefully Marvel will slow down a bit now that the Avenger movies are done. As far as Anakin still being available, well the HT's dumb a$$ fault! Don't release the same figure months from each other and except everyone to go ooh and ah over it. It should've been one figure with both head sculpts. If they had done that, I'm quit sure if would've sold out long ago.

Slowing down ? Nope, obviously Spiderman has become a new flagship of Marvel after the step down of Ironman in EG.

There were rumors Marvel studio will make total 9 movies circulate around Spiderman from his transition in highschool to adulthood...lol.

 

[CrankbaitJon]

Slowing down ? Nope, obviously Spiderman has become a new flagship of Marvel after the step down of Ironman in EG.

There were rumors Marvel studio will make total 9 movies circulate around Spiderman from his transition in highschool to adulthood...lol.

If Hot Toys can make another Iron Spider that doesn't need to wear a suit, like an Iron Man figure, they got my $.

 

[TaliBane]

Hopefully The Mandalorian will revive Star Wars again. Let's hope Episode IX doesn't kill it again a month later.

Yeah, what SW needs is a hot property and a united, excited fanbase focused on new stories that have the right balance of old and new, and also the cool factor. The Mandalorian so far does feel like that - the long preview positovely oozed classic SW - but I guess who knows.

One thing's for sure, it feels like a show that if it connects with fans in a major way we would get a lot of very cool HT figs from it.

 

[CrankbaitJon]

It would be interesting. HTs didn't really make a lot of figures from a single TV show so it would be a first if they do.

 

[DioramaMaker]

Yeah, what SW needs is a hot property and a united, excited fanbase focused on new stories that have the right balance of old and new, and also the cool factor. The Mandalorian so far does feel like that - the long preview positovely oozed classic SW - but I guess who knows.

One thing's for sure, it feels like a show that if it connects with fans in a major way we would get a lot of very cool HT figs from it.

It doesn't matter how good the show is, this Star Wars fanbase unification is NEVER going to happen. No one, NO one, hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans. The show could literally be perfect, and half the fanbase will riot.

Keep in mind that we are dealing with people who bully actors and actresses to the point of near suicide. I don't think TLJ (regardless of what one personally sees in it) severed the fanbase, I think it just highlighted what has been festering for a long time. That's bad for getting a wide audiences game for new merchandise.

Disney inherited more than they may have anticipated there, and botched the merch rollout these last few years. And I can't blame them, SW has been a hot commodity where people buy every character, even if they're wildly useless and have less than 5 seconds of screentime. Star Wars has been reaching a saturation point; people can only have so many Lukes, Vaders, and Yodas before they say they have their definitive release. That taps out your long term consumer, and if we have a schism in the market towards ST content, then you're cutting retail in half, and the product languishes as it has.

Like I said, I think the societal support of SW has just reached it's carrying capacity, and the toxicity of some of the fanbase isn't going to go away, which isn't going to help marketing or sales of product. I get why HT isn't pushing Star Wars hard right now. The money is with other properties.

I doubt there is any move Disney can make from here on out to mend that, even if it really began with the PT (maybe even a little with ROTJ). They've adopted the franchise and all the worms and fleas associated with it. It might be lovable at the core but it's going to be a good while before it can be integrated with everyone else again.

 

[ZE_501]

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I doubt there is any move Disney can make from here on out to mend that, even if it really began with the PT (maybe even a little with ROTJ). They've adopted the franchise and all the worms and fleas associated with it. It might be lovable at the core but it's going to be a good while before it can be integrated with everyone else again.

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to DioramaMaker again."

Good post.

This property has some of the most toxic, psychotic, whackjob fans I've ever seen. They make hardcore Trekkies look super-chill.

I would hope that's just a weird minority, but who keeps tabs on these things?

Is there a Toxic Fan Registry?

Half-joking.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

It doesn't matter how good the show is, this Star Wars fanbase unification is NEVER going to happen. No one, NO one, hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans. The show could literally be perfect, and half the fanbase will riot.

Keep in mind that we are dealing with people who bully actors and actresses to the point of near suicide. I don't think TLJ (regardless of what one personally sees in it) severed the fanbase, I think it just highlighted what has been festering for a long time. That's bad for getting a wide audiences game for new merchandise.

Disney inherited more than they may have anticipated there, and botched the merch rollout these last few years. And I can't blame them, SW has been a hot commodity where people buy every character, even if they're wildly useless and have less than 5 seconds of screentime. Star Wars has been reaching a saturation point; people can only have so many Lukes, Vaders, and Yodas before they say they have their definitive release. That taps out your long term consumer, and if we have a schism in the market towards ST content, then you're cutting retail in half, and the product languishes as it has.

Like I said, I think the societal support of SW has just reached it's carrying capacity, and the toxicity of some of the fanbase isn't going to go away, which isn't going to help marketing or sales of product. I get why HT isn't pushing Star Wars hard right now. The money is with other properties.

I doubt there is any move Disney can make from here on out to mend that, even if it really began with the PT (maybe even a little with ROTJ). They've adopted the franchise and all the worms and fleas associated with it. It might be lovable at the core but it's going to be a good while before it can be integrated with everyone else again.

The franchise was doing quite well with most fans relatively happy after TFA. Then along came Rian Johnson's TLJ backed by Kathleen Kennedy. Those two are the ones who got us here.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Also, if they can make Stan Lee for the second time, now in a damn space suit why not make this...

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[TonTon]

Also, if they can make Stan Lee for the second time, now in a damn space suit why not make this...

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I’d buy that George figure.

 

[Darkseed]

Clone Wars TV Show was relatively well received I thought....I am rewatching now going into season 6

 

[DiFabio]

 

[Wor-Gar]

George in his sad later years. Covers the brilliance from Howard the Duck onward.

I want young George. American Graffiti George. Star Wars George... Empire George... Raiders George... Stop!

 

[Mike86]

I don’t think there’s a need to be concerned with no exclusive. I’m sure we’ll get some new reveals at SDCC as well as a pre-order for Force Friday in September. The latter part of the year should be heavy with The Mandalorian and Episode IX.

The exclusives are generally re-releases or variants of an existing figure. Not sure what existing figure they’d do a variant of, and realistically they could do a new Trooper but it always seems like those sit in stock forever. Heck even the Dark Side Anakin which so many people acted like they wanted is still available a year later.

 

[Captain Rex AU]

Very upsetting to see no star wars exclusives but so be it. Lets hope that at the actual con they deliver with some much needed OT characters as well as some prequel ones!


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