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Damien said:
Anyone think they'd be crazy enough to try doing a horse as a made-to-order item? I can't see 'build-a-horsy' being a popular idea for an incentive figure on retail shelves or even Fan Channel. So the only way I see them doing a horse is DTC or in a boxed set of some kind, the latter of which would make the 'Phantom Rider needs his horse' comments kind of a kick in the balls, since a boxed set or deluxe two-pack would also mean buying some other random figure(s) to get more horses.
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Didn’t Todd try a build-a-horse wave? No idea how that worked for him, or if the horse was any good. I do think it sounds like a MTO thing, but I’d be surprised if it didn’t include a rider. Like Mephisto getting an obnoxious base, it feels like they aim for a certain price with these things and if they want to charge 100 bucks they probably need to add something more.
 
Misfit said:
Didn’t Todd try a build-a-horse wave? No idea how that worked for him, or if the horse was any good. I do think it sounds like a MTO thing, but I’d be surprised if it didn’t include a rider. Like Mephisto getting an obnoxious base, it feels like they aim for a certain price with these things and if they want to charge 100 bucks they probably need to add something more.
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Todd did all kinds of weird shit that no other (and publicly-traded) company would attempt. And given he's already losing DC, I have a feeling not all of his gambits pay off.

That being said, and hear me out; what if there is no rider. What if the MTO item is a white horse with all the necessary gear/extra parts (kind of like Boss Fight did with their kits) to make a regular horse or a pegasus, and with the appropriate extra parts (tack, etc) to function as either an Old West horse or different versions of Aragorn. And what if the MTO pre-order goes live at the same time as a new Avengers wave that includes comic versions of Black Knight and Valkyrie.

What if.
 
Misfit said:
Didn’t Todd try a build-a-horse wave?
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Yes, part of the Dark Knight Returns wave. It turned out fairly well I thought, if you work under the premise that the horse is mainly there to support a rider and isn't super articulated itself.

Batman may, by a smidge, be more popular than Phantom Rider however.

(Just checked, BBTS has the wave of four figures on sale for $65 - that gets you a DKR Batman, Robin, Joker, Superman and a horse.)
 
Damien said:
That being said, and hear me out; what if there is no rider. What if the MTO item is a white horse with all the necessary gear/extra parts (kind of like Boss Fight did with their kits) to make a regular horse or a pegasus, and with the appropriate extra parts (tack, etc) to function as either an Old West horse or different versions of Aragorn. And what if the MTO pre-order goes live at the same time as a new Avengers wave that includes comic versions of Black Knight and Valkyrie.
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If they do the interchangeable parts aspect, I hope they do it so there are no exposed holes say where the wings plug in if I'm not using the wings. That would look terrible. Did Boss Fight find a way to disguise that?
 
Schizm said:
If they do the interchangeable parts aspect, I hope they do it so there are no exposed holes say where the wings plug in if I'm not using the wings. That would look terrible. Did Boss Fight find a way to disguise that?
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I know Mattel (and maybe Mondo) made the wings plug into the harness for their Swift Wind which looks nice when you want it to just be a horse. I don't know enough about Marvel horses to know if that would work with whatever winged horse people have in mind.
 
Schizm said:
If they do the interchangeable parts aspect, I hope they do it so there are no exposed holes say where the wings plug in if I'm not using the wings. That would look terrible. Did Boss Fight find a way to disguise that?
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Boss Fight used an interchangeable.... chest?... section. So you pop on the section with holes for wings, and you pop on the section without holes for no wings.
 
Well, now I want them to redo Sam Elliott's GR with his horse...

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Damien said:
Anyone think they'd be crazy enough to try doing a horse as a made-to-order item? I can't see 'build-a-horsy' being a popular idea for an incentive figure on retail shelves or even Fan Channel.
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I love the MTO model. No funding minimums or stretch goals to track. (Both are almost totally out of your control, by the way.) Click the order button and forget about it for a year.

I was worried that Dragon Man was a risky test case, but clearly he did well enough to warrant more.

If anything, I want them to use the MTO model more often.
fac said:
(Just checked, BBTS has the wave of four figures on sale for $65 - that gets you a DKR Batman, Robin, Joker, Superman and a horse.)
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But then I'm stuck with four crappy McFarlane figures.
 
Thor-El said:
Judging by what they said it seems like they like the MTO model a lot better than a HasLab anyway. Which I’m more than okay with.
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I'm very happy with the MTO model over a high stress Haslab. I do miss the excitement of having the main item + its complementary pieces - the Prime Sentinels, Galactus' heralds, etc. Obviously the strategy of those being locked behind tiers in a crowdfund was high risk, and backfired on the EoV. I'd love if they put up some "sets" in the MTO model to see how they do. Awesome Android + Mad Thinker, team box sets, etc.
 
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