Super 7 Ultimates Thread

Damien said:
It's literally like Brian is obsessed with proving my point every time I talk.
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Just as an experiment, make a couple posts about how Brian is smart enough to up quality and drop prices as a way of earning customer loyalty and building a long-term customer base. Let's see how much actual influence you have here.
 
Fletch said:
Just as an experiment, make a couple posts about how Brian is smart enough to up quality and drop prices as a way of earning customer loyalty and building a long-term customer base. Let's see how much actual influence you have here.
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I fear not even the baby Jesus his very self could make Brian act against every instinct he has.
 
I thought $65; for the Vultureman repaint was bad. $72 each for the diminutive Kit and Kat is ludicrous highway robbery. I thought the $55 ask was high. Wait a year and they'll be available as Deluxe figures - without the hoverboards of course
 
It'd be nice if Veebs did something other than another fluff piece in his next interview with Brian but I don't see that happening. I've asked several times for things to be brought up (like tarrifing in stock items) and never heard a peep back.
 
He hasn’t done one since before Toy Fair. Makes me wonder if they were paid spots and Super7 dropped them.
 
He won't. I love Veebs but he has no interest at all in potentially damaging his access to these guys. Whether it's Brian or Kyle or Randy or whomever else. You will never get a single hard question from Veebs. The guy won't even push back on incredibly obvious lies and bullshit. Never, ever think of a Veebs interview as anything more than free publicity for whoever he's talking to.
 
Justice said:
The rerelease Wily Kit and Wily Kat are $71.99 each at EE. This is insanity for those tiny figures.
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Especially when you consider they don't even stay on their boards. Every time I put mine on display with the other 'Cats and fool myself into thinking they would look good on their boards, they fall off in a day or two. The peg on the board is much, much too tiny and the board itself is too loose on the ball joint for the little base it has, so it shifts due to gravity and they go tumbling.

They just aren't made well. If they weren't required to complete the team, I'd probably just sell them. They don't hold weapons well, their accessories are pretty useless, and they can't even stay on their boards. Very poorly made, I wish nearly anyone but Super7 had this license.
 
Damien said:
He won't. I love Veebs but he has no interest at all in potentially damaging his access to these guys. Whether it's Brian or Kyle or Randy or whomever else. You will never get a single hard question from Veebs. The guy won't even push back on incredibly obvious lies and bullshit. Never, ever think of a Veebs interview as anything more than free publicity for whoever he's talking to.
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I forget who it was that I was watching but they made it clear that most of the interviews you get with any company reps be it Mondo, Super7, Hasbro, etc. etc. are prescreened for the most part. You won't get hard hitting questions because the companies have no interest in that kind of interview.

Yes you can see from time to time questions that can be considered uncomfortable at best. The only time you will see tougher questions is when someone is more on their own time, but even then they will still cover themselves. Even Kyle was doing the rounds after getting fired and he still only went so far because he might be liable legally if he says the wrong thing. Or, of course, you don't want to burn future bridges by becoming known as the guy who bad mouths employers/employees/companies/products. Because then who would want to hire you?

So it all becomes a game and I have come to expect softball interviews most of the time.
 
SalemCrow said:
EE is charging almost $10 more than BBTS. BBTS still has the kittens for $64.99.
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EE adds tariff charges into the price. BBTS will add tariff charges later. Which one will work out better in the long run, who knows. I think EE still has a 10% off coupon going for in stock items, EARTH10 or something like that.
 
TheRealSmallville said:
Especially when you consider they don't even stay on their boards. Every time I put mine on display with the other 'Cats and fool myself into thinking they would look good on their boards, they fall off in a day or two. The peg on the board is much, much too tiny and the board itself is too loose on the ball joint for the little base it has, so it shifts due to gravity and they go tumbling.

They just aren't made well. If they weren't required to complete the team, I'd probably just sell them. They don't hold weapons well, their accessories are pretty useless, and they can't even stay on their boards. Very poorly made, I wish nearly anyone but Super7 had this license.
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Yeah those pegs suck. I put Wiley Kit back on hers every couple of days. So annoying. They have a sleeker look than the Mattel kittens but they don't function as well for sure.
 
TheRealSmallville said:
They just aren't made well.
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What?! Come on. You're joshin' me.


canprime said:
I forget who it was that I was watching but they made it clear that most of the interviews you get with any company reps be it Mondo, Super7, Hasbro, etc. etc. are prescreened for the most part. You won't get hard hitting questions because the companies have no interest in that kind of interview.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying here. Sort of. I think a good existing relationship like Veebs and Brian have might just amount to a quick 'hey, this is what we're going to talk about' and Brian trusts Veebs to know where the lines are and how to spin everything. Whereas if I wanted to interview Brian, I might have to pre-submit all my questions and promise not to veer off course.
In either case, the threat is the same; if you say something I don't want you to say, I'm going to turn my computer off and never talk to you again. So whether Veebs is 'following a script' or just knows semi-instinctively what to ask and not to ask - he's not going to say or do anything that's going to result in Brian saying 'I don't want to talk to you anymore.'


Veebs could absolutely STILL ask those questions, and I think that would be incredibly interesting because either Brian has to squirm his way through some answers and try to get back on his sales pitch, or he shuts the interview down and Veebs gets footage of Brian basically saying 'I'm not going to answer that!' Which would make Brian look like a fucking twat if it were a question about quality concerns or whatever. So Veebs has the power, essentially, to fucking torch what's left of Brian's reputation and probably make a meme out of him. The problem is - Veebs will never interview Brian again, and possibly will lose out on -other- interviews and insider information from other people also not wanting to talk to him based on that.

So I'm not saying Veebs has lots of choices. But we still have to admit that acting like an unpaid (?) publicist for toy companies is itself a choice.
 
I think it was Mad Hatter who said he looked into doing an interview with Brian and it ended when they asked him to submit the questions ahead of time. The online toy space is pretty small so I would guess they all mostly get their way with this kind of stuff. The perception being the person with a channel needs them far more than toy companies needing a YouTube personality.
 
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