Venom Life Sized Bust #2

[Sweet Rabbit]

Yeah, the bust is draw-dropping imo. Excellent rendition of Venom imo. Maybe the best @ this scale? Owners of the original 1:1 may disagree; either way, SS did well here. $600 is steep, yes. But this was always going to be for those niche buyers that are willing to shell out the extra.

Gorgeous, gorgeous piece

 

[Mister Ski]

Yeah, the bust is draw-dropping imo. Excellent rendition of Venom imo. Maybe the best @ this scale? Owners of the original 1:1 may disagree; either way, SS did well here. $600 is steep, yes. But this was always going to be for those suckers that are willing to shell out the extra.

Gorgeous, gorgeous piece

Fixed

 

[worstgamerever]

I'm sorry did I say something funny? Don't we all agree that this is the best venom bust, and at such an affordable price?

On an ever so slightly more serious note, I wonder wy the newer busts are so much lighter than the ones from several years back.

SS has made lots of nice changes (like having smaller boxes, I was shocked when I saw the boxes for the Darth Talon and Black Panther) but I'm not so sure that making hollow pieces and lighter busts are some of them. Ah well. off to play some ssf4

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I'm sorry did I say something funny? Don't we all agree that this is the best venom bust, and at such an affordable price?

On an ever so slightly more serious note, I wonder wy the newer busts are so much lighter than the ones from several years back.

SS has made lots of nice changes (like having smaller boxes, I was shocked when I saw the boxes for the Darth Talon and Black Panther) but I'm not so sure that making hollow pieces and lighter busts are some of them. Ah well. off to play some ssf4

I think sideshow is using a fiberglass mix instead of straight polystone

 

[Skiman]

Galactus was great but I just don't care for the scale.

 

[Captain Spidey]

Are all the positive posts meant to be ironic??? I mean this bust sucks ass. This ain't Venom. SSC screwed up the eyes just like Carnage's.

 

[woozie0]

I was looking forward to buying this as a companion piece/different version of Venom ... but I have decided based on the pics, and the price for it, it is a pass.

When one has the original Venom, and then this beside it ... just makes no sense.

Yea I can't see how the original Venom and this Venom can look good in the same display.

IMO this Venom would look great in the box though!

a big, yes, is my guess. According to Mr Wang, this is a 3 part thing for SIdeshow and my guess is that Spiderman will be the 3rd member.

Wow, I didn't hear about this! I'm interested to see what his Spidey will look like. I really hope it turns out a lot better...

We've already witnessed the birth of a legendary Spidey/Venom/Carnage trifecta in FS 1/4 scale...we may be on the road to the EXACT opposite in 1:1 bust scale

Excellent post.

Its seems Sideshows arrogance in assuming what fans will like instead of actually asking them is why they have so many unsold items filling up their warehouse.

Thats one thing i admire about Bowen designs, he actually previews his sculpts to get fans/customers reactions and if the majority of the comments are negative then he will sometimes tweak certain aspects of the sculpt based on fans suggestions.

At least there can be no nasty surprises with the Daredevil and Green Goblin 1:1 busts as we have already seen early sculpts of those two.

Last I heard, Sideshow said these forums makeup a tiny percentage of their customer base...so I doubt they care what we think.

 

[The Mike]

Someone once posted that forums, all of them worldwide, make up less than 10% of the buying force, I don't remember who.... You also have to take into account the retailers who will buy it just to stock it even if it never sells which eats a large chunk of the regular orders. I wouldn't say they don't care what we think since they do chime in here and there and have referenced certain comments on their Q&A, etc but I would say they aren't worried about the small segment in the grander scale.

People still think that Hot Toys changes stuff based on consumer feedback and that Sideshow pulls things when we the forums don't buy it disregarding the global picture in both so I say continuing your _____ing, it's like pissing in the wind or screaming at a brick wall but it gives us something to read and discuss.

 

[Corrose]

 

[Mister Ski]

Someone once posted that forums, all of them worldwide, make up less than 10% of the buying force, I don't remember who.... You also have to take into account the retailers who will buy it just to stock it even if it never sells which eats a large chunk of the regular orders. I wouldn't say they don't care what we think since they do chime in here and there and have referenced certain comments on their Q&A, etc but I would say they aren't worried about the small segment in the grander scale.

People still think that Hot Toys changes stuff based on consumer feedback and that Sideshow pulls things when we the forums don't buy it disregarding the global picture in both so I say continuing your _____ing, it's like pissing in the wind or screaming at a brick wall but it gives us something to read and discuss.

That percentage seems way too low to me. I wonder where this person got their numbers?

This board alone has over 12,000 members. I know that not all of them are active or buy everything SSC offers, but it seems fair to estimate, on the extreme conservative side, that 10% of the members here buy from SSC on a regular basis. That gives us an active customer base of 1200.

Let's use the Cyclops PF for edition sizes. The EX is 500 and the non-EX is 1000 for a total of 1500 pieces.

Now not all 1200 members would buy Cyclops, but another conservative estimate of half probably would which means 600 pieces or approx 40% of sales for this piece. If we only made up 10% of their buying base, then based on their edition size, we would only account for 150 pieces, which seems waaay too low to me. And these numbers do not even include other forums.

I realize that there is probably a good deal of error in my numbers, but my point is I think we make up more than 10% of SSC customer base. Unless you are a SSC sales person, I don't think an accurate percentage of sales from this board is easy to calculate.

Do any of the mods have access to the number of sales from the board members who buy from SSC by clicking on the banner links in this forum? If that is how the 10% number was calculated then it might make sense because I bet not every member of this forum buys from SSC by clicking on the banner links here, myself included.

 

[The Josh]

I don't know what the actual percentage is but I agree with Mike that the freaks board and other boards like statue forum don't make up a massive percentage of the sales for SS.

 

[Skiman]

I agree .

 

[The Mike]

The search function isn't the best here so I can't find the quote but I remember vividly that it was posted by an SSC rep a couple of years ago and shocked people then. Remember the Patient Zero PF Ex? There were only 100 of those and I think only 30 went to board members. If you look at the tally threads, the numbers are usually low.

While not the same, it does fit, Amy the old CS manager for the now defunct Master Replicas once went into the boards at Rebelscum, a site that was even working with MR via discussion groups and feedback sessions online and in person for those who lived close (I got to go to them ), a site that seriously was devoted to that company saying that RS and the other forums made up 3% of the buying force. The numbers of forum consumers is much lower than you'd think

 

[Randy_S]

I know that for the eFX X-Wing, 9% of total sales were RS members. Those boys sure do love their lists over there.

 

[Kabukiman]

You're killing me, Mike. I know what post you're talking about, but I can't find it either. I think it happened around Spooktacular, but I don't see it in the Spook thread... Maybe it came up in chat?

 

[The Mike]

No I remember it posted on the boards, just around the times where they came into one of Marvel threads and admitted that each "universe" for Marvel including Ultimates and Zombies were considered separate licenses that they had to acquire and that is why we hadn't seen that stuff because they only had the 616 license....I've tried the search function for a while now and I'm over it

People know what I'm saying and the vague recollection of them en mass backs me up

 

[Mister Ski]

Using the Patient Zero PF numbers, 30 out of 100 is 30%.

I'll have to check out these tally threads you mention because I was unaware of them. The more I think about it, the number is probably not as high as the numbers in my previous example, but I thought they would be higher than a measly 10%, especially considering this is a board specific to Sideshow.

We will probably never know the real numbers, but at least this took my mind off of the Venom bust monstrosity for the last 30 minutes.

Cheers!

 

[The Mike]

Using the Patient Zero PF numbers, 30 out of 100 is 30%.

The numbers will be different for each piece but for Patient Zero Exclusive it turns out 50/100 went to board members. 50% of that ES.

The international version which had an ES of 125, 11 went to board members. So roughly 8%.

Of the standard which had an ES of 300, 31 went to board members. Just over 10%.

Overall though of the entire ES only 17.5% went to board members which would be in the range they originally said. I'm sure if you look at the threads that detail this you'll find the same. Now that is dealing with a 525 ES on a product that was wildly hot when it was produced so much so that the complaining threads of not getting an Ex were in the dozens. Looking at Marvel and Star Wars the biggest cash cows with the largest ESs on their products I would say that our numbers are probably lower.

 

[Mister Ski]

Can you point me to the tally threads? Thanks!

Nevermind. I found them.

 

[Skiman]

The numbers will be different for each piece but for Patient Zero Exclusive it turns out 50/100 went to board members. 50% of that ES.

The international version which had an ES of 125, 11 went to board members. So roughly 8%.

Of the standard which had an ES of 300, 31 went to board members. Just over 10%.

Overall though of the entire ES only 17.5% went to board members which would be in the range they originally said. I'm sure if you look at the threads that detail this you'll find the same. Now that is dealing with a 525 ES on a product that was wildly hot when it was produced so much so that the complaining threads of not getting an Ex were in the dozens. Looking at Marvel and Star Wars the biggest cash cows with the largest ESs on their products I would say that our numbers are probably lower.

I agree .