Would you have spent $450 for Fett if he was polystone or metal?

[Khev]

I ask because that was the retail price for the General Grievous PF. If polystone or metal meant $450, and let's just say for argument's sake that SS would *have* to charge $450 to maintain the same profit margin as their other PF's, would you have bought it? Or given a $450 polystone Fett vs. a $325 plastic one are you happy to have the less expensive piece?

 

[customizerwannabe]

I cancelled it.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

PLastic=toy

 

[Polystoner]

Yeah, whatever the price. Basically it comes down to the fact that I am Sideshow's ******.

 

[Bonehead15]

Yes I would.

 

[tomandshell]

This is such an interesting question--I was wondering the same thing.

I wonder what the response had been if we had all read in the blog this week that increased challenges in the development process had forced Sideshow to increase the price to $450. How would our reaction have compared to what happened today?

I have to think that most people would have been absolutely livid and Sideshow would be faced with more cancellations than they might be getting now. I wonder if the on again/off again delay with Fett has anything to do with the change to ABS. Maybe this decision saved it from a long term production nightmare. Would we rather have a $450 Fett several months late? Some people would--a large proportion of which probably post on message boards like this one. However, I think that most wouldn't. In fact, I would venture a guess that the majority of the people who will be purchasing one of the 4000 Fett PFs would rather that Sideshow bring in the figure at the originally announced price.

Personally, I would have paid $450 for Fett. BUT--I don't assume at this point that a $450 Fett would be superior to the one we're getting. I don't believe that the switch to ABS was a cost cutting measure. It was the answer to a development/production challenge. I think that as Brant said, the new material will give it more durability and uniformity than polystone would have. They're not going to make a change like that just to save pennies. He told us that doing it in plastic is not actually cheaper for them in the long run, and I believe him. So it wasn't a money issue, but a quality issue.

I would have paid $450 for a Fett that was of superior quality, but it remains to be seen whether or not an extra hundred bucks would have given us a superior product. As with Grievous, they decided what it would take to give us the best product possible and then set the price from there. They didn't start off saying, "OK, Fett is going to cost $325. Let's make all production decisions based on that." If they thought that the best Fett they could make would cost $450, that's what they would have charged. I am naive enough to trust that this is the very best Fett they could give us.

As far as I'm concerned, they are making this one just for me--and they aren't going to let me down.

 

[Darklord Dave]

I think it's safe to say that they would have eaten the difference and not raised the price even if they were losing money on the piece. Of course whoever had set the price before the production research was done would have been sacked.

And then they would have sacked the Norweigans.

 

[dunedain]

Wouldn't have bought it

 

[The Josh]

I'm with Tom. I think in the end SS would have taken a beating on it if they had it at this price or had to raise it up.

 

[Titan7170]

Yes I would.

 

[Bullseye]

I guess if SS emailed me and said there was two options:

Option A: We can produce Boba out of ABS plastic for +$300 and you save on shipping

or

Option B: We continue with Polystone which to date all SW pieces have been produced and we need to raise prices as we need to spend more money on packaging to protect the Polystone as it is more fragile.

I would have chosen B.

 

[DarkArtist81]

I'm with Tom. I think in the end SS would have taken a beating on it if they had it at this price or had to raise it up.

I agree as well.... And really this all doesn't bother me as long as I have a quality collectible in the end. If it looks like garbage, I'll be pissed.... but I highly doubt that will be the case.

 

[DetroitSportsFan]

This is such an interesting question--I was wondering the same thing.

I wonder what the response had been if we had all read in the blog this week that increased challenges in the development process had forced Sideshow to increase the price to $450. How would our reaction have compared to what happened today?

Perhaps they shouldn't solicit preorders for items so early in development, so they know exactly what to charge?

I know, that makes too much sense.

 

[Mini-Rock]

I would have paid what ever the asking price if it meant not sacrificing the integrity of the product.

 

[kierbaudy]

I would have spent the extra money... hate to say it. I don't really care if there are MINOR plastic parts but to make the entire body plastic... no way am I spending $350. I think it comes down to spending appropriately. I will spend extra for quality, but not overspend. Assuming the whole thing is ABS plastic.

 

[Darth Madden]

Just out of curiosity has SSC ever changed the price on an item after a pre-order?

 

[DarkArtist81]

I would have spent the extra money... hate to say it. I don't really care if there are MINOR plastic parts but to make the entire body plastic... no way am I spending $350. I think it comes down to spending appropriately. I will spend extra for quality, but not overspend. Assuming the whole thing is ABS plastic.

That's what matters to me as well.... I don't mind a few armor parts to be ABS. That's ok, and it helps the product come together accurately and be a little harder to damage... That's cool.

But a hollow plastic body underneath it all? I'd expect to pay a little less than I normally would for a full on Polystone statue. Just my opinion there...

 

[FlyAndFight]

I voted "no". But then again, I thought the original price was too high to begin with.

This Plastic Fett now really comes across as a larger scale action figure without the "action".

 

[user 1190]

One question where did it every say that Boba was made of polystone? I know we all assumed that it was but was it ever said? I don't remeber seeing it.

 

[DarkArtist81]

I still have it on order and am still really looking forward to it... So hopefully this all will work out and be ok in the end. So no cancellation drama on my end. SSC is still cool and I am still their B*tch...

Just don't like my statues to be hollow and not solid. Reminds me too much of Vinyl kits. And they are not really statues to me due to that very fact.