General Marvel Legends

Honestly, even if it's a horse statue, coming in at that price point would be impressive.

Also, in all honestly, a horse figure WITH articulation doesn't get you very far. I have a 4 Horsemen Headless Horsemen figure, a McFarlane horse, and a Mattel Swiftwind. On all of them there's basically only one way to pose those legs where they don't fall over. So if either Nacelle or Hasbro where to just give us a horse statue for the shelf presence and keep any alleged high costs down, then I think it could be worse things.
 
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I have no need for a horse in my collection so my opinion probably doesn’t matter much, but if it were me I wouldn’t need or necessarily want something extravagant. I’d be fine with minimal articulation or even none. Or the Mezco 5 POA approach where you just have swappable parts and throw a stand in so you can do running or rearing.

Though one way to save some tooling costs would be to introduce the horse first in a GI Joe line and then reuse the tools for Marvel.
 
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Yeah, I'm just saying there has to be a happy horse medium. Not a free pack in like Nacelle is allegedly doing, and not one step away from impossible like Hasbro is implying. Happy hose medium......it has to exist somewhere.
 
I wonder if Hasbro is allowed to share tooling across lines. I remember Mattel had that weird thing in their contract where they couldn't use DCUC sculpts in other lines, but they COULD borrow tooling from any license they owned to use in DCUC. Thus giving us the Superman and Batman figures they did on the MOTU bodies.

If that's a standard thing in these types of contracts, then Hasbro could make a horse for G.I. Joe and then repurpose it for Marvel (but NOT the other way around). While there was never a horse in the original Joe line, there's LOTS of reasons to make one anyway.
 
We’ve seen the Starting Lineup tools make the jump to other lines, but since that line is dead it might not matter. I would guess it’s more of an accounting thing - do they want GI Joe to shoulder a bunch of tooling they intend to share with the licensed toys division?
 
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I would guess it’s more of an accounting thing - do they want GI Joe to shoulder a bunch of tooling they intend to share with the licensed toys division?
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I think it's more like 'can both brands benefit from this?'

I imagine what happens, and I haven't asked anyone I know about this so total conjecture here, is the Joe team has to plan out if creating and selling a horse, on its own, will make them money. Then they plan out if there's an additional benefit to 'leasing' (or 'selling') that tooling to the Marvel team, who then has to take on some portion of the associated costs.
Then the Marvel team has to decide if they can make money selling that item based on their portion of the tooling costs and whatever other tooling costs they would incur to make that tooling into the thing they need (new chest, wings, whatever). So yeah, I imagine it's a complicated process, but not an impossible one.
 
Those Fish Toys horses are really nice and if they didn't have those soft goods tails I would already have ordered some.

But I have to imagine that Hasbro could do something a tad simpler in $50 range.
 
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