Hey Orange I got this bridge I want to sell ya......
Seriously. How naive can a person be? They only did it once for production reasons.
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Hey Orange I got this bridge I want to sell ya......
Seriously. How naive can a person be? They only did it once for production reasons.I personally don't care either way. So long as sideshow doesn't exceed their original set ES on any piece, I don't care how they finish a run.
But muh ES...
Seriously. How naive can a person be? They only did it once for production reasons.I personally don't care either way. So long as sideshow doesn't exceed their original set ES on any piece, I don't care how they finish a run.
Seriously. How naive can a person be? They only did it once for production reasons.I personally don't care either way. So long as sideshow doesn't exceed their original set ES on any piece, I don't care how they finish a run.
Statues have and still have their full edition sizes made. Some end up being done in waves/batches (such as Stormtrooper, Batman PFs...for example). Batgirl (since she was quoted earlier) was one in which a wave was made then she went back into production (after the factory making her confirmed another wave was good to go and gave the time frame it would be done) and the rest of edition size was produced. At the time of my answer to that question there were a few items that were going back into another production run and there were a couple pieces (it was either Vampirella, Dr. Doom, Lobo...I think but it's been so long I cannot recall exactly) that looked like they weren't going to be completed due to factory capacity but in the end they were able to get done.
The only piece that I have ever known to not have it's full run completed was one of the older TMNT comiquettes (but the written ES on that piece ended up being adjusted to the final among produced on the statue during production). The Obi-Wan Mythos is one that ended up being made in one batch and was stopped due to factory capacity issues and so sold out. Once it was worked out that the item was able to go back on schedule for production to complete the entire ES it had the rest produced.
Dude, if sideshow started releasing OG Doom PF today for PO and said muh ES...the collecting community would have a heart attack.I don't care what an ES is, but once it's set, it should never be exceeded. Otherwise, don't bother with an ES at all if they aren't going to honor it.
Damn I wish my wonder woman PF had magnets, my ****ing Axe Ex Hand wants to fall out if you blow on it. I can get it to stay by twisting it a bit (which has scratched some of the paint (but its not visable because its covered by the hand attachment). However, if I complain to SSC about this, they will just send me a regular and I will lose my EX. Ill just stick with this and just use blu Tac if I have too, it hasn't fallen out yet but it could easily fall if someone bumped it or touched it. Luckily I have her in a room nobody really goes into.. off limits to idiots with touchy fingers
You should buy a really strong magnet and rub it across the face of the weak magnet. This won't strengthen a magnet beyond its initial strength when it was first produced, but it will strengthen a magnet that has lost strength. Either way, you can buy a really strong neodymium magnet for very little money and it certainly won't hurt to try and strengthen your magnets. You really don't have anything to lose giving it a try. Its worked with a few of my weak magnets in the past.
I don't think the early batches have magnets, just pins. This most recent batch is the first one with magnets, so it sounds like Skywalker(OG)Kush may have the version with the pins.
Damn I wish my wonder woman PF had magnets, my ****ing Axe Ex Hand wants to fall out if you blow on it. I can get it to stay by twisting it a bit (which has scratched some of the paint off the stub the hand attaches too (but its not visable because its covered by the hand attachment). However, if I complain to SSC about this, they will just send me a regular and I will lose my EX. Ill just stick with this and just use blu Tac if I have too, it hasn't fallen out yet but it could easily fall if someone bumped it or touched it. Luckily I have her in a room nobody really goes into.. off limits to idiots that like to look at things with their fingers instead of their eyes
Now I feel like I got rip off with no magnets on the first batch. SS should recall them all and do them right. Sadly this company doesn't do this often.
Now I feel like I got rip off with no magnets on the first batch. SS should recall them all and do them right. Sadly this company doesn't do this often.
You should talk. To think that you know something when you have absolutely ZERO proof of it is laughable at best. This entire topic was discussed at LENGTH on StatueForum and SSALex came right out and stated:
https://www.statueforum.com/showthread.php?t=148664&highlight=Edition+Size&page=275
https://www.statueforum.com/showthread.php?t=148664&highlight=Edition+Size&page=276
So basically, just 1 statue in the entire history of Sideshow didn't have its full edition size completed and Sideshow publicly adjusted the edition size to the proper number produced with that 1 statue. And thats straight from the mouth of Sideshow/SSAlex and I trust what SSAlex says a 1000 times more than some misc forum member that doesn't even work at Sideshow. SSAlex has always been honest with members at Statue Forum so unless you have some definitive proof that you can post up that proves that SSAlex was blatantly lying....well, I will continue to believe Sideshow/SSAlex over some misc internet user that is basically grasping at straws and has absolutely no proof to back up their claims. Honestly, this is one of the biggest problems with the modern day internet, people running around pretending they know what their talking about when they clearly don't. There are potential legitimate legal ramifications if companies do halt production and do not update the publicly stated edition size for that statue. Not to mention, there is absolutely no reason why Sideshow wouldn't come out and state that a full run wasn't completed and update the edition size since NOBODY is going to complain about a smaller edition size as smaller edition sizes actually benefit collectors who have purchased that piece. So if Sideshow really was going to cease production of a run early, I have absolutely ZERO doubt that they would publicly update the edition size, just like they did with the TMNT statue, the one statue Sideshow admits didn't have its full run completed..
So to state it again, Sideshow did sell 9000 Red Sonja statues in the last couple years. Wonder Woman is more popular than Red Sonja and Wonder Woman's edition is only 500 more than the 2 Red Sonja statues that sold out, which is why I am surprised it still hasn't sold out yet. I am betting were getting close to the final batch with WW.
You have to figure from a business perspective it makes sense, if you set an edition size of say 3000 statues and the initial sales plummet into the toilet it only makes sense that you stop production and don't do the whole run... It's not like anyone is going to know, well unless you wait a year and start it up again like they did with Obi-Wan Mythos, then they didn't have a choice but to explain why all of a sudden they're selling them again, and it just happens to be after people were buying used ones on Ebay for $1000 ea, imagine that........ After the whole "Signed by the artist" fiasco I don't really believe much of what SS says anymore... They're like most companies there never going to tell you the whole truth.... Just the way it is...
I was talking to one of the guys who works at Cinemaquette, he told me that sure they will set the Edition Size to say 500 but if sales don't warrant it they will stop production so it could end up with a ES of 326 for example.... The guy was honest about it... We've even seen Prime 1 reduce their edition sizes when sales are not strong for a statue...
Batch production and open ES aside, the old Sideshow is dead
You should talk. To think that you know something when you have absolutely ZERO proof of it is laughable at best. This entire topic was discussed at LENGTH on StatueForum and SSALex came right out and stated:
https://www.statueforum.com/showthread.php?t=148664&highlight=Edition+Size&page=275
https://www.statueforum.com/showthread.php?t=148664&highlight=Edition+Size&page=276
So basically, just 1 statue in the entire history of Sideshow didn't have its full edition size completed and Sideshow publicly adjusted the edition size to the proper number produced with that 1 statue. And thats straight from the mouth of Sideshow/SSAlex and I trust what SSAlex says a 1000 times more than some misc forum member that doesn't even work at Sideshow. SSAlex has always been honest with members at Statue Forum so unless you have some definitive proof that you can post up that proves that SSAlex was blatantly lying....well, I will continue to believe Sideshow/SSAlex over some misc internet user that is basically grasping at straws and has absolutely no proof to back up their claims. Honestly, this is one of the biggest problems with the modern day internet, people running around pretending they know what their talking about when they clearly don't. There are potential legitimate legal ramifications if companies do halt production and do not update the publicly stated edition size for that statue. Not to mention, there is absolutely no reason why Sideshow wouldn't come out and state that a full run wasn't completed and update the edition size since NOBODY is going to complain about a smaller edition size as smaller edition sizes actually benefit collectors who have purchased that piece. So if Sideshow really was going to cease production of a run early, I have absolutely ZERO doubt that they would publicly update the edition size, just like they did with the TMNT statue, the one statue Sideshow admits didn't have its full run completed..
So to state it again, Sideshow did sell 9000 Red Sonja statues in the last couple years. Wonder Woman is more popular than Red Sonja and Wonder Woman's edition is only 500 more than the 2 Red Sonja statues that sold out, which is why I am surprised it still hasn't sold out yet. I am betting were getting close to the final batch with WW.
I don't think the early batches have magnets, just pins. This most recent batch is the first one with magnets, so it sounds like Skywalker(OG)Kush may have the version with the pins.
First off my comment was speculative, I never said I have 100% proof, but my comments were based on what I've seen of SS over the years and were my opinion... Where as you said I was 100% wrong even though you have zero proof other then SSAlex (who is a nice person) but just repeats what marketing tells her to say. At least that's the impression I've gotten from her comments over the years...
As for your comment that there is no reason why SS wouldn't state it if they quit the run on a statue, I disagree there is a downside to it, that their statue was a failure and SS screwed the pooch on the design. That's something SS seems to try and avoid... It's one of the reasons why Igo said that the forums only make up 3% of their customer base, it's to delegitimized any bad reviews of their statues, there basically saying sure 3% don't like it but 97% of our customers love it.
When SS LIED about the artist signing their artwork (at least technically, since it was a machine signing it) and got caught they lost creditability, for me at least, along with the "I checked all our statues and there are none better looking then what you sent pictures of but hey here's $15 if you keep it", like a guy is going to check hundreds of boxes and get back to you a few hours later.... so yeah I take anything they say with a grain of salt.
BTW, if SS makes less then what they state, how is there legal consequences? Like someone is only buying a statue because they know there will be min. of X amount, now if they make more then what they state then that's a different story...
If you want to believe everything SS says, more power to ya.... And to make it clear for you "THIS IS JUST MY OPINION"
I have proof. Obi was listed as sold out. It wasn't. I don't need more proof, but you keep drinking that Kool Aid...you obviously like the taste.
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