WHAT AM I MISSING? Why doesn't Hot Toys have the Pulp Fiction License?

[Monger]

And the answer is to have some prickly goofy colorful looking thing from 2 second screen time from a crappy movie like Iron Man 3? Just because it can look as stupid "posed" in 29 different positions?

Your argument is totally biased, unfounded and defies the very principal of collecting at it's core.

I'm not a supporter of the random Iron Man and Predator stuff either, but I can understand why it's done.

I don't really care what you think of my argument. Hot Toys probably believes similar things as I and that's all that matters since either way you guys won't get figures of that stuff from them and I don't get why you would expect otherwise.

Next we should get Hot Toys Citizen Kane.

 

[Lejuan]

There are quite a few "guys in suits" from high-end manufacturers and many have sold well enough

I think when people say, "why doesn't HT do this or that" they're really saying they'd like a particular character to get the high-end treatment - doesn't have to be HT specifically.

 

[OSCORP]

Good thread! Would buy!

 

[Intruder04]

Start more threads stating you are willing to pay top $$$ for custom Pulp Fiction figures. Maybe then HT will notice.

 

[lerath666]

Start more threads stating you are willing to pay top $$$ for custom Pulp Fiction figures. Maybe then HT will notice.

this IS why we got a coulson figure.

 

[krec9]

same reason no inception figures.

" a series of normal guys in suits is boring"

I agree its pointless.

 

[Lejuan]

...even though the bootleg Bros Prod Inception figure sold out two runs - yep, pointless

 

[punisher1974]

If a particular figure is made someone will buy it. Even if you don't like a specific character someone else might. Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction would indeed sell very well if a high end company did them. There are lots of characters I would like to see some day and I really can't afford some of the customs out there as they are produced in smaller numbers and have a higher price tag even though the quality is just a high quality as hot toys.

 

[Raymond F.]

...even though the bootleg Bros Prod Inception figure sold out two runs - yep, pointless

Yep.

Scarface... Carlitos Way... The Godfather. No problem selling there.

Try and get a Godfather under 600 bucks and you'll see what the "point" is.


Or you can stick to all the prickly colourful goofy Iron Mans, Predators from their horrible sequels simply because they are not characters in common clothing even though you'd have to be chained to a chair to sit through their movies more than once and in some cases even once.

Or I got word that there is a modern Tonto and Lone Ranger coming your way, I bet you can pose them in all sorts of positions. Forget about the fact that the movie sucks, you can pose them. And even though Lone Ranger is wearing a suit its a less boring suit and he has a tiny mask so it's not boring anymore. Lets make sure Hot Toys keeps making figures like that.

 

[dominishin]

I like to have figures from movies I like. So I don't see how it's any more pointless than any other figure.

Having stuff from Pulp Fiction, Inception, Blade Runner, etc. just looks classy. I'd rather have those than some 50 nerdy Iron Mans!

My Godfather gets a lot of attention from guests.

 

[lerath666]

Anyone think Beatrix Kiddo would've sold better than Lone Ranget Tonto and Crow.

It's gotta be bigger in Japan than both of those.



*cough* colson

They're iconic.

Besides they will be doing Banner which is almost the same as a guy in a suit

For a record, "Becuase a series of normal looking guys in suits is boring" is a Direct quote from J.C. Hong.

Yes, WE got Coulson. He's a guy in a suit with an obscenely big gun, from an obscenely popular movie that Hot toys was already making figures for.

Banner is more or less the same deal.

I wanna be clear here. I'm not AGAINST HOt Toys making anything, I'm simply answering OP's Question. He wanted to know WHY hot toys wasn't making figures from, or even bothered to ersue the liscense for Pulp Fiction.

 

[karamazov80]

Different people collect different things for different reasons. Seems that some people have a hard time understanding this reality.

Personally, I'm sort of in-between in that I like interesting looking figures on the shelf, which means a minimum of suited guys. But I don't want colorful characters from crappy movies. And the really iconic suited characters like Corleone, Vince and Jules, or Sam Spade/Rick Blaine (if anyone ever does them justice) do definitely warrant a spot on the shelf.

But Lerath is correct. Chan or Hong or whomever explicitly stated their reason for no, say, Inception guys, even though HT obviously makes exceptions.

 

[Raymond F.]

Exactly. which is why they have the aforementioned Godfather, Coulson, Banner, and Leslie Cheung and Bruce Lee in suits.

A healthy mix of fad choices and iconic choices and market specific choices.

And whoever put the Crow and the Lone Ranger in the same sentence needs to get a reality check.

The Crow is iconic, from a movie that is good, a classic highly regarded by fans, mostly embraced by critics and has the stigma of the death of Bruce Lee's son Brandon.

The Lone Ranger sucked now and it will suck 19 years from now and it won't even be remembered.

But as karamazov80 stated the point is really moot because it all depends on what YOU want to collect. Even if its the Lone Ranger. It's your prerogative to buy something that a manufacturer puts on the market and the success off the product is directly related to the supply, demand and production costs. If someones getting a product they want and someone can maintain a healthy business model because of it everyone wins.

I dismissed this thread as another newb post on a topic that has been discussed to death until I had to pipe up about the totally ridiculous claim about how some movies "simply don't need figures of them" and are "pointless" to make. Or that it's stupid thing to make because you can only "pose them in one way" (possibly the silliest part of that argument).

I said it defied the entire point of collecting, but didn't elaborate because that statement was plainly obvious to me but karamazov basically summed up in one sentence. "Different people collect different things for different reasons. Seems that some people have a hard time understanding this reality."

Then one could argue the business reasons. As to why a claim like that is purely ignorant but that's a whole other story.

I won't even go into the angle is something is "nerdy" or juvenile because in reality no matter which way you slice it or how it breaks down, male (or female) adults spending over 200 dollars on dolls is all just a varying level of something that could (and probably should, let's be honest) be considered juvenile. Weather it's something from a pointless popcorn flick for teens or an academy award winning indie film. It's why throwing stones when you already live in a glass house is pretty damn irrational.

But Hot Toys gave us Crow and Robocop, those are wild cards and you have to be at least a little endeared to Hot Toys for pulling those random cards out amongst the 90 absurd Iron Mans.