i never said it was a bad thing, just my personal preference. i actually do want enterbay to remain like a "professional band of private customisers serving their own particular niche" whereas you may not. which is probably why you don't get my argument.
i'll bet the prison break figures by enterbay will have a lot more thought and energy put into them than HT's, which were released while the show was still hot. Enterbay are releasing 3 or 4 yrs later, you're right. which means it's probably a license they care about and are fans of, not just coz it's popular right now. sometimes i get the feeling HT release things quickly because they're flavour of the moment. sometimes this means rushed work, QC issues and incomplete lines. look at the watchmen line, and the pirates line etc. they lost interest once the hype was over.
i've collected HT since the beginning, trust me. when this board was still in love with sideshow 1/6 in fact. but i bet HT will never release anything as leftfield as mr. bean. that's the difference between EB and HT. we don't need 2 companies doing the same things. which is why i want EB to continue in the way they are.
I see your point about HT jumping on every 'flavour of the month' license (Avatar, Inglorious basterds, Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans etc) - this in itself is not a problem, only if it leads to the other things you mention like spreading their resources too thin and rushed work, QC issues and incomplete lines. Yeah those can be annoyances. IMO the HT Big Chap Alien falls under 'rushed', DX Batman, previous Alien figures and probably some other figures fall in the QC area and I can definitely name figures I would have liked from various of their licenses that never happened.
As to 'incomplete lines' though - I see no evidence that Enterbay can claim superiority there. Surely '24' could have had more than 2 characters made. And not even any variants of those 2 characters. The entire license amounted to 2 figures. What a let-down. At least if HT get a big license they milk it 3/4 of the way - yes its frustrating that they don't go 4/4 but its still better than a company who show such promise, who get you excited about the possibilities...and then they just drop it.
Since there isn't any new episodes thats not saying much
i wonder if they will do any <s>other</s> characters from the line.
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