Suspicious attack on Hot Toys?

[Hamanu]

First there was this gigantic debate about Indy DX which nothing alarming. Some people liked the figure, others didn't (I'm with the latter ), but then, after Captain America was released, a fiery debate started on FB how the final version is totally off with an elongated face, crappy uniform etc.

Now in Cap's thread the following post appears:

https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3910639&postcount=4022

which wouldn't be out of the ordinary it it wasn't the same picture found on

https://www.toysdaily.com/discuz/thread-168786-1-1.html

And looking at some of the more vocal "protestors" on Facebook I noticed that most of them are Chinese (or from Hong Kong) and don't appear to have any facebook friends.


https://www.facebook.com/poon.spoony?sk=wall
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000130779351


This one is even called: Hot Toys dislike

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003068815011&sk=wall


I wonder, did a competitor get a whiff of the debate with Indy and now organized a coordinated smear campaign against Hot Toys?

 

[preeny101]

That is interesting. Definitely shady, whatever this is about.

 

[preeny101]

And this post was from someone with no other posts.

https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/fo...postcount=4022

 

[Demimatt]

Not that I did as much research as you, but I have been noticing alot of hate lately from forum members with <10 posts who just joined the site. Most interesting.

 

[pixletwin]

I think problem is clear. This fellow needs to get a girlfriend.

 

[siquisiri]

I think problem is clear. This fellow needs to get a girlfriend.

 

[EVILFACE]

So someone doesn't like HT. Who cares.

 

[Hamanu]

I think problem is clear. This fellow needs to get a girlfriend.

Already got one

Not that I did as much research as you, but I have been noticing alot of hate lately from forum members with <10 posts who just joined the site. Most interesting.

Actually, it took me just a few minutes after I saw that post in Cap's thread. After I got a friend request on FB (having voiced my own displeasure with Indy) from Hot Toys dislike I gave the Hot Toys FB pages a look and, voila, there's a bunch of Chinamen with torches and pitchforks crying for blood

So someone doesn't like HT. Who cares.

Well, its going to get annoying if every new release gets its thread spammed by an army of anti-Hot Toys ants working for another company (maybe) and pointing out flaws that are visible only to them.

 

[YoNoSe]

Well, its going to get annoying if every new release gets its thread spammed by an army of anti-Hot Toys ants...pointing out flaws that are visible only to them.

That's business as usual here.

 

[COSMOSTARX]

Maybe the problem is that Hot Toys needs to get their management and production in order for some of the figures.

 

[transhi100]

I usually don't buy into conspiracies but I do think you might be onto something. It's definitely suspicious.

 

[pixletwin]

Already got one

I was talking about the guy with the OCD issues.

 

[Hamanu]

I was talking about the guy with the OCD issues.

Ah, ok. Misunderstood

As for this anti HT campaign. It certainly won't change my mind (I got 4 figures on pre-order atm), but if its true, it means that the companies are moving from competition in quality to a smear campaign... sigh, turning into politicians.

And I'd rather they fight on the plane of quality than through marketing.

 

[ProgMatinee]

What makes you say its the competition? There are a lot of just bored and lame losers out there with nothing better to do. Someone is probably doing it out of spite of all the equally psycopathic Hot Toys fans out there that think HT is responsible for the start of the universe that go out and ruin the boards with endless....

 

[pixletwin]

What makes you say its the competition? There are a lot of just bored and lame losers out there with nothing better to do.

 

[Hamanu]

What makes you say its the competition? There are a lot of just bored and lame losers out there with nothing better to do.

I hope you're right. Wow, feel very sorry for the sort of people who'd go about creating accounts on FB and SSC just to thrash a figure. Sad really if that is indeed the case.

 

[Cheungkinmen]

HAHA, nice!

 

[Mister D]

What makes you say its the competition? There are a lot of just bored and lame losers out there with nothing better to do.

From China?

 

[pixletwin]

From China?

Since their population is in the billions I would say there are exponentially more of them in China.

 

[Voorhees27]

I think problem is clear. This fellow needs to get a girlfriend.

Or a boyfriend.