Hot Toys getting kinda stale?

[tinister]

:I'd love some licenses that only need one figure from them...

Escape from New York
Big Trouble in Little China
The Running Man
The Thing
Beverly Hills Cop
Die Hard
Kickboxer


They've done Indy and Supes

I'd kill for a couple figures from Lynch's "Dune". And going way back - some figures from:
"Barbarella"
"Flash Gordon" 80's movie
"2001: A Space Odyssey"
"

 

[King Darkness]

Joker was my last HT on order, he'll be here Tuesday. Then, nothing.

 

[tinister]

Stale? Maybe for some of you,... but it's not uncommon for people to loose interest in something and move on to other things that do interest them after a while. You only have to go on youtube to see all the people that are genuinely over the moon about HT offerings, though. I say thank God for HT innovations and style. Where would the 1/6 world be without them?

https://www.youtube.com/results?uploaded=w&search_type=videos&uni=3&search_query=hot+toys

https://youtu.be/aPYW7HlEFDo

Again. I'm not arguing that HT shouldn't make Bats items. I myself just got 89 Bats and think it is brilliant. And I have Joker on pre-order. But unless you are a Bats, Predator, Avengers, or Terminator fan - there really isn't much else.

 

[Lejuan]

And going way back - some figures from:
"Barbarella"
"Flash Gordon" 80's movie
"2001: A Space Odyssey"
"

Been thinking about getting this one:

 

[tinister]

LOL!

The back side is a Hand in Carbonite PF.

 

[Grosby]

Again. I'm not arguing that HT shouldn't make Bats items. I myself just got 89 Bats and think it is brilliant. And I have Joker on pre-order. But unless you are a Bats, Predator, Avengers, or Terminator fan - there really isn't much else.

But HT isn't the only 1/6 manufacturer. They might be your favourite, you might like their products best, but there are others out there. It's crazy then to insist that HT tackle every license. If they're wrong for not taking on your preferred licenses, what does that make every other 1/6 maker out there?

And some of the licenses thrown out here are just crazy for HT (but probably not crazy for other companies). It seems to me extremely unlikely HT would ever do Barbarella or Beverly Hills Cop, for example.

 

[tinister]

But HT isn't the only 1/6 manufacturer. They might be your favourite, you might like their products best, but there are others out there. It's crazy then to insist that HT tackle every license. If they're wrong for not taking on your preferred licenses, what does that make every other 1/6 maker out there?

And some of the licenses thrown out here are just crazy for HT (but probably not crazy for other companies). It seems to me extremely unlikely HT would ever do Barbarella or Beverly Hills Cop, for example.

Not suggesting they get every license out there - of course. And not suggesting they only get licenses I like

 

[rivera2171]

Why we havent seen any 1/6 Matrix pieces yet?

Exactly what I was thinking.
I'm still waiting for my 1/16 scale APU to go with my Sentinel.

 

[rivera2171]

Been thinking about getting this one:

I got 2 of these. They're great!

 

[OSCORP]

Joker was my last HT on order, he'll be here Tuesday. Then, nothing.

No luke????

 

[Minimodel]

They ve said they re making Bruce Willis and they ve hinted at Xavier in the wheelchair.Let them pile up the cash from this years great releases at the cinema-probably the best year for films that I can remember-and use it for development.And next year maybe go back to licences that are nt so much in the public eye but that we,none the less,enjoy.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I have every Iron Man figure up to VI. Started getting burnt out on IM when they announced MII Unleashed. Lost more interest when they started announcing what looked like just color variations of VI. Then lost complete interest when I saw MI V2.

Love Iron Man - and the Iron Monger looks pretty cool - but enough already.

Same here, i've got four iron man figures and just got bored of them, cos they never stopped and moved onto to newer projects

Again. I'm not arguing that HT shouldn't make Bats items. I myself just got 89 Bats and think it is brilliant. And I have Joker on pre-order. But unless you are a Bats, Predator, Avengers, or Terminator fan - there really isn't much else.

slim pickins

But HT isn't the only 1/6 manufacturer. They might be your favourite, you might like their products best, but there are others out there. It's crazy then to insist that HT tackle every license. If they're wrong for not taking on your preferred licenses, what does that make every other 1/6 maker out there?

Yeah, but insisting they make figures from the licenses they do have rather than repeating the same bunch of licenses is not unreasonable. They have a big catalog of licenses and tackle hardly any chaacters from them in favour of the same ones over and over, boring and stale

 

[RyanSD]

Let's see, in the past year we've had or seen;

marvel U
predator
terminator
avengers
Star Wars
spider-man
avatar
sucker punch
resident evil
superman
batman
sweeney todd
potc
bruce lee
Indy
Tron
Plattoon
Metal Gear

Yep, seems pretty stale to me. Of course they're going to be making tons of Avengers and Batman stuff, its their big money maker. So they go heavy with the Terminator stuff when a new movie comes out, and make one-off characters like Leonidas, Perseus, etc. Its not like this is new for them. They're making plenty of things from plenty of licenses. Its just some feel that all they've been making is Batman and Iron Man, which isn't true at all. The big licenses will always get more releases, and the smaller niche licenses get 1 or 2 releases at most.

My only complaint is they've been releasing too much stuff in a short period of time, and over producing it too. Most of their releases in the past 6 months are still available from SS and other retailers.

 

[Kuzeh]

I think they are caught up in the "what's popular" trend now...
which is unfortunate as I love when the do odd-ball figures like Mars Attacks, POTA or Sucker Punch...
They should definitely do more obscure stuff... and space out the mainstream stuff a little more...

With that said, I have Sam Flynn with Bike, Joker, Black Spidey and Jack Sully on pre-order!
!

 

[ShadowX81]

Im hoping things change next year after the whole Superhero movie overload is over. If you think about it, this is really the last year for half a dozen superhero movies every summer, with the Nolan batman films being over with, an atleast a couple years until the next spiderman and avengers hero movies. Im hoping that the vaccum created by the lack of obvious licences gives them a chance to branch out a bit.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

@RyanSd most of those figures are licenses/characters that have been done multiple times already, hence stale. They've got a few new ones but they've been delayed or stopped after two figures

 

[Animal Mother.]

Im hoping things change next year after the whole Superhero movie overload is over. If you think about it, this is really the last year for half a dozen superhero movies every summer, with the Nolan batman films being over with, an atleast a couple years until the next spiderman and avengers hero movies. Im hoping that the vaccum created by the lack of obvious licences gives them a chance to branch out a bit.

I think next year is Thor 2 and Iron Man 3.

 

[King Darkness]

No luke????

Nah, I'm on the fence about it. I want to see in hand pix first.

 

[Fremen]

I do believe the Joker is my last HT figure on order as well. It too has been many years since I've had no HT figures on order.

I do want to get the Luke though. I just don't feel like I need to pre order these anymore and will pick them up if I feel like it when they come out.

 

[persuazion]

The only thing I don't like is when they keep pushing back releases like Tron's Sam Flynn and Sucker Punch but yet release more Predator and Iron Man figures in the meantime....