Re: 1000toys - TOA Heavy Industries Synthetic Human
There could be other reasons for them producing only a certain amount. It might have nothing to do with hype, or purposefully trying to make peeps miss out. Could be financial (not necessarily meaning they don't have the funds to make more, but maybe they've reached the quota they were aiming for, or another money reason), or even time restrictions. Sometimes you simply want to move on to your next creation. They might have already laid out a figure release plan, & are trying to stick with it.
We simply don't know.
face it, it's most likely about hyping it up. that is what new companies do, especially those HK/China companies coming up with fantastic products. you do notice that right?
money a problem? can't think of why as they take full payment for preorders, worst case for not getting enough orders would be a refund?
quota? what kind of company would set a quota on their profits? whether it's 1000toys or the factory. i doubt the factory is fully booked that they can't make new runs. Unless the license holder specifically set a limit on them. But that would be silly.
no time? they need to hire more people.
Their next creation is still based on the Synthetic human base body, meaning they will still produce the same base body, unless they have no time to re-print the Synthetic human boxes & papers, i can understand that. There's reasons why HT is selling TT base bodies, to keep the production volume up so they can lower their cost per unit while using the same body on their full figure releases.
From a financial point of view, i don't see how a company would not produce more of their mass produced product and rather let scalpers/bootleggers profit out of them. We aren't talking about 100% hand made figures where i would understand the makers would want to move on to their next creation.
From marketing point of view, i can fully understand, but it's a huge risk since by producing very limited quantity of their product, they get less exposure to the market, less people know about them, it does help boost their hype but it won't bring them to a HT level where everybody would own at least 1.
But i respect the company's decision, however whatever bootleg issues they are facing, it's somewhat the result of their company strategy, so please don't blame collectors for purchasing bootlegs, blame the bootleggers for trying to profit out of it and blame their marketing strategy. Remember when HT started, there weren't many bootlegs until the supply couldn't match the demands.
However we do appreciate the fact that they actually willing to make a 2nd run.
I wonder how much they actually made out of such few sales on both Synthetics.
