wasn’t talking about what photos -you- have seen. You’re correct in the idea that this notion is relevant to nothing and almost nobody.
Got it. That's all - just confusion because I was assuming you were mixing these two things as one overall point. But yeah, we totally agree here. Mattel's photography is pretty terrible. In fact, I'm genuinely surprised they've never stepped that up considering they seemed to get a lot of traction from MattK's MOTUC reviews back in the day, and more recently from the Origins stop-motion stuff. So clearly someone at Mattel understands the relevance of people getting a chance to see your figures looking cool.
I guess maybe the simplest answer is that a good photographer costs money and if Mattel is pinching pennies, that's probably one of the first places they're going to start?
We can have whatever silly toy opinions we like and we really don’t -need- to defend them.
Let me clarify - I don't think 'defending an opinion' needs to be aggressive or suppose there's a deeply adversarial relationship between two people. We defend our opinions all the time on this forum (and elsewhere). Any time you tell a friend you like a show and tell them why you like it - you're defending that opinion. That's normal and usually pretty mellow. You defended your opinion, unprompted, as to why Mattel should put more effort into photography.
And no - no one needs to defend their opinions or give them any context. But that seems to be a very shallow way to interact with other people. We all just pop in and say 'I like this' or 'I don't like this' and no one engages anyone else on those opinions at all? Seems weird to me.
Sir I believe you when you say you’re not interested in “agree to disagree”
lol I've read your posts.
Lol Fair enough.
You really shouldn’t be so provincial. I’m sure a Smart guy like you knows that language/words is/are fluid.
Not that fluid. It's cool though - Mattel is innovative because they make action figures. What an innovative thing to do, since words don't mean things anymore. I might go buy a TV this weekend -- I'm hoping it has one of those innovative screens that lets you see the pictures in motion.
Furthermore, we -still- don’t know the last figure you’ve picked up? Even if it holds no relevance to you personally.
Is it like a secret or something?
I did answer this. I honestly don't know. I said that. Twice, I think. I don't remember what the last figure I bought was, and I don't know if the last figure I bought was newer or older than the figure before it. Short of making a list of every figure I have owned from this line, or spending my time reading through checklists to try to figure it out, I genuinely don't know the answer.
Keep in mind these are kind of expensive in Canada, so I don't always buy figures as soon as they come out and try to wait for sales. The only figures I've pre-ordered, I think, and therefore gotten pretty quickly were the movie figures (again, I did mention I have all of those currently). If I had to guess at the newest figure we have it would be ... Man-of-War (the white MAA from Revolution). Or the Skelcon? Which one is newer? And I couldn't tell you if either one of those is newer or older than movie Beast Man and movie Lyn (I do -think- I remember that Lyn came out after Beast Man?).
I'm really excited to get Ninjor, but I don't know when I'll be picking that one up. I'd like to find it locally (or, at least, from a Canadian e-tailer) before running to BBTS.
Is this what happens on slow news days? Good lord. Arguing semantics when discussing toys is so...well...it's something.
Come on. This can't surprise you.
