Most Wanted 1/12 scale figures

JakeEkiss said:
That's ok, that's why Fringe was made ;)
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Ah man... That is the show about which I could say what cmoney said above. I have binged that show twice and still not finished the last season. I get so close and just lose steam altogether.
 
Ru1977 said:
Ah man... That is the show about which I could say what cmoney said above. I have binged that show twice and still not finished the last season. I get so close and just lose steam altogether.
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The last season is a hard switch, but I do think it manages to turn out ok. At least, that's what I recall. I think I've only done that series twice all the way through.

OMG the final ep was seven years ago.
 
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JakeEkiss said:
That's ok, that's why Fringe was made ;)
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My boyfriend actually showed me Fringe a couple years back for the first time. He loved it growing up, and it was his turn to pick what series we watched together. I quite liked it for the most part- John Noble and Michael Cerveris were great in it, though the whole cast was quite strong. A few plot holes or dropped storylines that bummed me out a bit (JJ's gonna JJ), but overall quite a strong series. I'd gladly take figures of it too!
 
Many of the properties I'd like are admittedly terrible designs from a toy perspective - Twin Peaks, Lost - just people in mostly normal clothing. X-Files and Buffy have a bit more potential - but not sure I really need them. Back when some of those lines were being made, I disliked the soft likenesses and decided to go more abstract with the PALZ, Kubricks, MiniMates lines...and they still work to have something for those IPs.

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I'd love a Time Bandits line - would never get retail support (the 1:18 line from Plastic Meatball went nowhere - tragic to me that Wave 2, which had prototypes made of Cleese as Robin Hood, Connery as Agamemnon, Fidget and one of Evil's henchmen) but could be so toyetic with the Bandits themselves, Evil and his minions, Agamemnon vs the Minotaur, etc.

Looney Tunes seems like a no-brainer, I hope that maybe the success of Sesame Street might get someone to look into that as a line.

A well done Akira line would be cool.

After Super7 faceplanted with the Disney Robin Hood Ultimates, I would love a full cast from that film.

Kroft characters - HR Pufnstuf, Banana Splits, Land of the Lost, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Bugaloos....

Finally - Buckeroo Banzai! (Someone mentioned Big Trouble in Little China - would go for that as well).
 
For several years during the early seasons we would have a watch party every week for X-Files. Like, 8 eight people crammed onto a sofa and loveseat jumping at flukeman and the freak-of-the-week... Good memories.
 
I binged the X-Files in college. I loved the monster-of-the-week episodes and loathed the overarching story episodes. Had I started the show today, there's no chance I would've finished all nine seasons.

In the TV thread, I mentioned that I watched a smattering of the best Simpsons episodes. The X-Files is another show that would benefit from that treatment. Same with Doctor Who, really.
 
joshsquash729 said:
It's WILD to me how hard McFarlane dropped the ball on the Game of Thrones line. That and the Harry Potter lines were guaranteed moneymakers that could've lasted for years if done right due to the huge roster of characters in both franchises.
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Not that McFarlane doesn't mismanage lines all the time, but I really have to wonder if there's something in the appeal or audience of both GoT and Harry Potter that action figures never get off the ground for long with either. Traditional fantasy stuff seems to have a ceiling at big box retail, so there's an immediate hurdle; the last time a line like that really hit with general audiences feels like ToyBiz LotR, which was bolstered by then-relevant movies and came out under much friendlier market conditions. It feels like both franchises are missing components that you'd want in a fantasy toyline at retai: either colorful designs and monsters (GoT), or literally anything cool (HP). And the Hasbro D&D line had all of that and sunk anyway.

Both franchises seem to do well in tulip-bulb presentations like POPs, so maybe it's just the audiences. GoT skews older and less fun, which puts you in the realm of Maybe One or Two Things for My Work Desk, while the core HP audience before the mold spoke to Joanne used to be kids, ladies, and the LGBTQ community, which screams blind box collectibles and cute hyperstylized formats more than figures to me.
 
There's no practical way to make decently articulated figures for Elephantmen but if some company could work plastic magic I'd be all over a Hieronymus Flask, Ebenezer Hide, Tusk, Obadiah Horn, Trench... Yvette would be easy and a must-have.
 
I remember liking Fringe. But much like X-Files, the standalone episodes were more interesting. The overarching “main”’storylines weren’t as appealing to me.

Been discussing it in the Monster Force thread, but I’d like Big Trouble in Little China figures. Surprised NECA hasn’t tried that property yet. Nor a 7” (non-Mego style) Snake Plissken.

Regarding Mad Max figures. From my understanding (friend used to work for WB) George Miller has tight controls/influence over the property. And he’s not really into merchandising it. It’s amazing those 5poa figures and Funko Pops exist at all. If true, it may explain the lack of merchandise for the property.
 
secondwhiteline said:
Not that McFarlane doesn't mismanage lines all the time, but I really have to wonder if there's something in the appeal or audience of both GoT and Harry Potter that action figures never get off the ground for long with either. Traditional fantasy stuff seems to have a ceiling at big box retail, so there's an immediate hurdle; the last time a line like that really hit with general audiences feels like ToyBiz LotR, which was bolstered by then-relevant movies and came out under much friendlier market conditions. It feels like both franchises are missing components that you'd want in a fantasy toyline at retai: either colorful designs and monsters (GoT), or literally anything cool (HP). And the Hasbro D&D line had all of that and sunk anyway.

Both franchises seem to do well in tulip-bulb presentations like POPs, so maybe it's just the audiences. GoT skews older and less fun, which puts you in the realm of Maybe One or Two Things for My Work Desk, while the core HP audience before the mold spoke to Joanne used to be kids, ladies, and the LGBTQ community, which screams blind box collectibles and cute hyperstylized formats more than figures to me.
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Harry Potter did get a pretty extensive line over in the UK, it seems, from the company Cards Inc./PopCo. Obviously, there's even more of an appeal to British kids than to American ones, so it makes sense they'd have a bigger toy market, but still. Such a shame that things became what they did with that property; don't think I could ever in good conscience buy anything related to that franchise ever again.

I would still like a Firefly line. The old and new Funko Pops and the little Mini statue things are cute, but I'd love articulated figures. Again, Funko's Legacy line was pretty nice, at least for the time, but as usual, they only got around to half the crew. Best AXN was supposed to take a stab at a couple figures, but never got around to it. Hey, if we got a line of figures for The Expanse, albeit crowdfunded, maybe the same could be done for the Firefly crew!
 
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