Harvinger Studios, Savage Crucible

Maybe.

I'll also say this, Frankie Frazetta told me that Death Dealer's pre-orders have outsold Elric's and tey'r not making many more units then they did of Elric. Now I may have misheard, but forewarned is forearmed if you're still on the fence about Death Dealer.
 
Dek said:
I'll also say this, Frankie Frazetta told me that Death Dealer's pre-orders have outsold Elric's and tey'r not making many more units then they did of Elric. Now I may have misheard, but forewarned is forearmed if you're still on the fence about Death Dealer.
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Given that these have to be helping the popularity of the museum, and may in fact be a draw for people to visit, I have to think if the museum - aka the license holder - asks for more to be made, they will be made...maybe as museum exclusives?
 
fac said:
They could probably get away with blind box un-armored Lemurians for $25 each at this point, basic packaging
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Don't give them ideas. I'm willing to roll with the komodos since those are a side thing, but for full figures nuh uh.
fac said:
I am definitely the outlier in this forum in that I am mostly interested in the lizards and the piranhas....and really don't have much interest in the human fantasy stuff.
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I'm at least a little picky about the human stuff. Varnoks is as normal human as I'm willing to get and I'm doing that for the huge bone mask look. Nashorn has literal black skin so to me he reads more as some sort of demon or lich. Elric it's specifically because he's *Elric*. The other dudes... Krieger and the Frazetta dude and the not-He-Man don't do anything for me.
GrumpyMatt said:
People say things — and then their full allotment of figures sells out in 3 minutes or whatever. I think that changes the conversation a bit.

My guess is they'll be release something with a small cosmetic change or something to distinguish it from the first release and not make it a full reissue.
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Perhaps, though that would really show the whole philosophy as entirely hollow. At that point might as well just do bigger runs or occasional refreshes. Why pretend to still uphold it at that point?
 
fac said:
I have to think if the museum - aka the license holder - asks for more to be made, they will be made...maybe as museum exclusives?
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They could ask, but it's a license not a suicide pact. If SC doesn't want to put the money down for more production they don't have to, and I doubt the license gives the Museum ownership of the molds.
 
GrumpyMatt said:
People say things — and then their full allotment of figures sells out in 3 minutes or whatever. I think that changes the conversation a bit.
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It doesn't change anything. It reinforces that their strategy works. Tell people something is super limited and won't be run again and you basically guarantee sellout of the entire production run. This is the result they -want-. And Elric selling out this fast is a massive service to them going forward because people aren't going to sleep on the next figure either. Every figure going forward will always have that 'mmm, I should definitely just grab it in case it sells out immediately' - which will help make sure they DO sell out immediately.

This is best case scenario for them happening in real time.
 
JakeEkiss said:
They could ask, but it's a license not a suicide pact. If SC doesn't want to put the money down for more production they don't have to, and I doubt the license gives the Museum ownership of the molds.
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I wasn't suggesting they'd ask for a case of 24 and it would go back in production, it would have to make sense all around. But if you want an out, the Frazetta Museum limited edition with a couple of changes and updated packaging is your out. They are your partner after all.
 
Damien said:
It doesn't change anything. It reinforces that their strategy works.
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While I agree they will probably draw that conclusion, an alternate theory is that Elric is a unique case for them in terms of character popularity and there are thousands of fans wanting that figure who have no interest in buying another figure from them.

Its the problem with a marketing strategy, it is hard to test in terms of a real experiment. I mean they might be correct and long term it will help future sales, or they might be overthinking it and therefore are leaving money on the table right now with no future gain.
 
fac said:
While I agree they will probably draw that conclusion, an alternate theory is that Elric is a unique case for them in terms of character popularity and there are thousands of fans wanting that figure who have no interest in buying another figure from them.

Its the problem with a marketing strategy, it is hard to test in terms of a real experiment. I mean they might be correct and long term it will help future sales, or they might be overthinking it and therefore are leaving money on the table right now with no future gain.
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I'm not arguing that their strategy is a good one. But I think I'm probably comfortable arguing that I'm 100% correct about how they will read the situation.
 
Damien said:
I'm not arguing that their strategy is a good one. But I think I'm probably comfortable arguing that I'm 100% correct about how they will read the situation.
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I know, I think you are right that they will do that (hence the "while I agree...")...

I just feel that false scarcity to feed the ego/delusions of "these are valuable collector items" consumers annoys me about the hobby more than just about anything else...these are $40 mass market consumer products...
 
Managed to score a Krieger the Shunned. Had to preorder it in the middle of watching Masters of the Universe - I was able to get it done with Shopify.
 
I don't know about Elric but I wanted four but decided on two blind box komodo dragons. I couldn't put two in the cart together and got a caution from the cart of a limit of one so I had to do two separate orders and pay for shipping twice. Maybe Elric was the same, people got past the limit of one by placing multiple separate orders and paying for shipping each time.
 
jayjonah said:
I don't know about Elric but I wanted four but decided on two blind box komodo dragons. I couldn't put two in the cart together and got a caution from the cart of a limit of one so I had to do two separate orders and pay for shipping twice. Maybe Elric was the same, people got past the limit of one by placing multiple separate orders and paying for shipping each time.
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I believe they cautioned that people who place multiple orders will have their orders cancelled. So... we'll see, I guess.
 
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