Super 7 Ultimates Thread

I'm not a fan of gotcha interviews and never had a problem with submitting questions in advance. The objective should be getting answers to questions, and if they can prepare answers ahead of time, all the better.

I've also found Brian to be pretty forthcoming in interviews about challenges and decisions. I don't agree with those decisions, but that's not the interviewers fault.
 
Fletch said:
I'm not a fan of gotcha interviews and never had a problem with submitting questions in advance. The objective should be getting answers to questions, and if they can prepare answers ahead of time, all the better.
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It's not a 'gotcha' interview to want to ask questions relevant to the product, that the customers of that product want answered, and that the viewers of the channel doing the interviewing are asking. We can't qualify every question that might be difficult or non-positive as a got'cha question. It's a question. You shouldn't even have to submit that question for Super7 to already know some of what you want to ask. It's not like every toy forum, YouTube comments section, Reddit thread, and Twitter/BlueSky thread isn't filled with the exact same questions. Super7 knows what we want answered, and they specifically demand no one with a microphone ever ask them those specific questions. The only reason shady dipshits like Brian keep getting platformed is because people like Veebs like being 'in.' Not because it serves any legitimate benefit to any of us as viewers/customers.

Fletch said:
I've also found Brian to be pretty forthcoming in interviews about challenges and decisions.
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Naaaah. Brian lies a lot. Tells a lot of bullshit. And it's very clear no one doing an interview with him is ever going to be allowed to challenge anything he says. It seems forthcoming because he's only being asked things he approves of being asked and that he -wants- to answer. And even then he knows he can lie his face off and the interviewer will treat it as gospel because that is what's required of them. Easy to seem forthcoming when you have complete control of every element of the conversation.

Let one interviewer ask him why Super7 has NEVER adequately addressed quality issues with their figures like loose joints and see how forthcoming he is.
 
Damien said:
It's not a 'gotcha' interview to want to ask questions relevant to the product, that the customers of that product want answered, and that the viewers of the channel doing the interviewing are asking. We can't qualify every question that might be difficult or non-positive as a got'cha question.
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No, I only meant surprise questions meant to catch the interviewee off guard.

I was in journalism for 14 years and I always found more value in the subject being able to prepare an answer versus the sound bite of them stammering to react.

We might be in different pages here, though. What information are you really trying to drag out of them? They could sell figures to us for cost but they'd rather make a profit? No shit. This isn't deep investigative reporting about what's going on in the sausage factory, it's asking a dude why he doesn't like articulated figures. And his answer has always been because he prefers the retro, cartoon-accurate design. We may hate it, but he's already answered the question.
 
Fletch said:
No, I only meant surprise questions meant to catch the interviewee off guard.
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But who is suggesting they should do that? I said Veebs could, but that he won't because that kills his access - which is why we're only going to see the interviews as we tend to see them; without any real substance.


Fletch said:
What information are you really trying to drag out of them? They could sell figures to us for cost but they'd rather make a profit? No shit. This isn't deep investigative reporting about what's going on in the sausage factory, it's asking a dude why he doesn't like articulated figures. And his answer has always been because he prefers the retro, cartoon-accurate design. We may hate it, but he's already answered the question.
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Come on. You're being incredibly disingenuous here. I have a hard time believing you've followed general discourse around Super7 for any length of time and this is an honest assessment of what you think people like myself would want Brian to answer to. When has anyone (or anyone serious, that is) said 'why don't they sell me figures for cost?' or 'why does Brian hate articulation?' That's ridiculous.

Here and on Fwoosh we've gone over all kinds of things we'd all like real answers to. Lots of things, I'd argue all of the things, Super7 is just not going to tell us. Not because it's trade secrets or anything - but because it reveals a pattern of not giving a shit about the product and there IS no answer they can give that isn't just 'we didn't give a shit.' And that'll make them look even worse than these stupid softball interviews with Brian saying nothing of value for 45 minutes.

Super7 isn't obligated to answer a single question, softball or otherwise. No one saying otherwise. But if they're going to do these interviews, I think it's fair game to criticize them for choosing to do a 'Now You Know' interview while refusing to let us know the things people have actually asked.
 
I’m surprised they’re still trying with GI Joe Ultimates, even if they are just repaints. The prices are insane, and yet if they throw up Heavy Metal Raph tomorrow at $65 I’ll pay it just to be done with them.
 
Misfit said:
I’m surprised they’re still trying with GI Joe Ultimates, even if they are just repaints. The prices are insane, and yet if they throw up Heavy Metal Raph tomorrow at $65 I’ll pay it just to be done with them.
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Remember the new $65 price point doesn’t include the 8% tariff surcharge!


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This is probably old news as I have no idea when this figure was solicited, but a great question to ask Brian would be why does Wild Bill have six fingers on his trigger hand? Would Super7 go low enough to use AI art for its cardbacks?

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G.I. Joe ReAction+ Wave 03 (Cartoon) - Wild Bill (Cartoon)

Captain William S. Hardy—codename: Wild Bill—takes to the skies once more in Super7’s latest 3.75” scale ReAction+ Figure line! Inspired by the animated series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, this Wild Bill figure features cartoon-accurate sculpt details and comes equipped with a blaster and a...
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Misfit said:
Would Super7 go low enough to use AI art for its cardbacks?
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You know the answer to that.


Misfit said:
The prices are insane, and yet if they throw up Heavy Metal Raph tomorrow at $65 I’ll pay it just to be done with them.
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Yeah, Raph is kind of a 'last piece of the puzzle' for me. If he happens and matches the vintage toy, I'll have to get him at some point. Besides that, S7 can die buried in a mountain of overpriced shit.
 
Damien said:
Come on. You're being incredibly disingenuous here. I have a hard time believing you've followed general discourse around Super7 for any length of time and this is an honest assessment of what you think people like myself would want Brian to answer to.
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It doesn't seem to me that you're looking for answers to anything. You just want someone to say to his face how annoyed you are.
 
Fletch said:
It doesn't seem to me that you're looking for answers to anything. You just want someone to say to his face how annoyed you are.
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First of all, we're not only talking about me. I'm not the only person complaining about Super7, or in fact complaining about Super7 interviews.

Second of all, I've asked why this or why that or how this or how that a thousand times. But the reality is that, at some point, it does just devolve into 'fine, every time they fuck up I'm just going to pop in to say Super7 sucks.' Because you're not getting any of those answers and the people best positioned to try to get them, even in the nicest possible way, simply cannot or will not do it.

What does that leave for people irritated with these issues? We could all just stop talking about Super7 altogether (this thread would basically be dead), or we can commiserate with each other, as we often do. If nothing else, it can be cathartic to be like 'yeah, fuck that guy.'

Don't forget, I'm also the guy that came here (or.. over there) to praise the shit out of Classic Rock Leo when that figure came out. That figure is literally everything I want Super7 to do on every figure. Why can't they all be like that? I don't think that's an unfair question. Nor do I think it's accurate to say I don't actually want an answer to it. I do. I very much do.
I just don't think anyone has the balls to ask Brian that question to his face, no matter how nicely worded one tries to make it.
 
I think both Hasbro and S7 were caught using AI for their card backs. 🤡 🤦‍♂️

Honestly I think companies don't answer questions that make their company look bad. I can't really disagree with that I suppose, when I think about their perspective. Like "hey Brian, why do your figures kind of suck some times?" "well, it's because we don't pay our factory workers enough to make a better product. This way, we keep more money in house. Chuh-ching. Or we don't have the experience or connections in China to make a decent figure. Or we don't think they suck because we don't put these things in cool poses, it's box to shelf baybee. Or we don't really think about action figure connoisseurs when we make them, we think about kitsch collectors" "Hey Brian, are you going to change any of that?" "Uh maybe. I got in trouble and now the turtles have double joints. Kind of a crapshoot here really"

Hasbro is similar, but those guys hang out with more wild cards like Unparalleled Wade and Shartimus who kind of exactly ask "hey why do your figures kind of suck some times?" The answers they get are always non answers though so there's no real point in asking them, they just probably do it so they don't get called a shill like Veebs. The guys will say "we can't talk about that" or "there's stuff behind the scenes".

I think NECA pretty much ghosted the PR scene after Donnie's Lab-gate.
 
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