GeneralZodLives
Super Freak
Why? Just why?
Well done!
Spoiler:on a side note I will be purchasing this entire line.....
I've been watching your signature for five minutes straight - it's equally hysterical and terrifying.
I want a complete set of Age of Ultron figures with faces like that.
They even released a good looking Harley Quinn statue
To be honest, $40 at 5.5" for these puts them in very competitive territory with other vinyl art toy products such as KidRobot or The Loyal Subjects.
The problem is most of the people who are into that kind of thing would be too discerning to buy something cranked out in the thousands by Hot Toys, which means their next most obvious competition is Kid's Logic - who produce better-looking figures with full electronic features and in one case, maglev. Bypassing them you get to Funko, whose products are obviously a lot more cheaply-made and rough around the edges - but only cost $10 and can be easily obtained from bricks-and-mortar retail without having to jump through hoops a casual collector would most likely be unwilling to.
Maybe I'm completely wrong and Hot Toys will make money hand-over-fist from these somehow, but honestly I don't see who is going to buy them. The Funko audience is most likely never going to know they even exist, the Kid's Logic audience will stick with Kid's Logic, the KidRobot audience would rather buy something designed by Frank Kozik - unless Hot Toys have some kind of arrangement in place to get these into retail outlets worldwide, in which case I'll probably be eating humble pie when Howard buys a new Lamborghini or three next Christmas.
I'm guessing it's definitely the Kids Logic crowd that they are after. They are the same size, at less than half the cost. Sure they don't have lights (or Magnetic levitation), but they are only $40 instead of $110 (or $170 for the magnetic levitation one). To those who buy the Kids Logic figures, these will look like a bargain.
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