Competition is a good thing I agree and they have Bowen to generate that. However, as licensing things go usually if one company get a license its hard for someone else to get it in that same scale I believe.
I believe Marvel statue collecting will go on but Sideshow will decline. Just wait for Enterbay or Hot Toys to start making the statue, reasonable price and pure quality. Sideshow keeps jacking up their price and their quality is getting worst. When I start collecting, all the SS's exclusives are very hard to get. Look at them now, they have so many exclusives sitting in their stock. Love SS but.....
Have you seen the prices of Hot Toys? The figure are almost statue prices! Imagine if they did 1:4 scale how much the statues will cost? They would be the most expensive statues ever made. Your logic of SSC on a decline is not valid. They are still the best when it comes for value for dollar wise.
You forgot Captain America, The Avengers, and Iron Man 3. Although the latter is a bit further away and maybe not far enough along to be counted.
Cap comes out this summer and even though Avengers is next year, its already got a cast, a director, a script, and too much leading up to it to not be done.
I didn't know they were doing a Deadpool movie. Is it gonna be continuation from Wolverine: Origins?
If I'm not mistaken Koto & Bowen make the same scaled statues and that seem to be working up until this point. So, like I was saying we just need another suitable statue company to garner this particular license and we'll start to see better product output from Sideshow.
Koto makes kits though not statues and I'm not sure their stuff or Bowens for the most part is in the same scale as most of SS stuff.
I have a few Koto statues/mini bust and I never had to put them together or paint them. So yes, Bowen and Koto statues are pretty much of the same scale.
Eventually yes when mainstream loses interest in superhero movies. This will happen Im sure but only for a while then they will come back with some more reboots.
Here are some of my personal ideas that would help strengthen the line:
- Scale Consistency- If comiquettes are going to be 1/5th, make them all 1/5th so I know to pass on all of them.
- Quality Control- I am hesitant to preorder items with the NRD; no more bad paint apps, lazy eye, dark tan skin, and for goodness sake produce an Ironman w/out major issues. I have only had one major QC issue, but when talking about $500 statues we shouldn't have to worry at all.
- Take 'fan feedback'- Bowen, PopCulture, and Hot Toys all show work in progress clips and then get feedback to improve the items
- Dios- go "back to basics" with the epic battles that got the line started. One idea that I would love to see would be a dio set such as multiple X-Men dios that connect to make a scene vs. Apocalypse, Magneto, or Sinister (I have a feeling the dio line will be 'on hold' soon)
- LSB/1:1 Busts- no complaints other than Venom's goofy eyes