Toys you would love to see? (but the odds are impossible)
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to seriously answer the question. i really would like for them to finish the arah line up, up til like 89 or whatever year it was when i stopped, maybe let in a few things in from the years that followed that were cool and i did not know about.
but no toys.. that is my answer. i have a hard enough time getting motuc and select joe stuff. hasbro wore me thin in 08 09. they made a shit load of money off me.. im still feeling it today.
but if i was rich or better off than i am, i'd want to see a mask line joe size and built exactly like a joe.
maybe black star and dungeon and drgon figures..
but no toys.. that is my answer. i have a hard enough time getting motuc and select joe stuff. hasbro wore me thin in 08 09. they made a shit load of money off me.. im still feeling it today.
but if i was rich or better off than i am, i'd want to see a mask line joe size and built exactly like a joe.
maybe black star and dungeon and drgon figures..
noooo. you know what i want to see? that knock off motu that was at woolworth and a&p , like everywhere. herculese, i always forget this lines name. it started out as a comic in the 70's and a toy line in the 80's from some small toy company in the greatest state out of the united states.. nj..
i would like to see them done like the motuc by mattel and the four horsemen. i bet if mattel got the lic and the fhm did it, all motuc fans would eat these up. cus we all had em as kids and they all joined motu.. and updated version would be sick..
i would like to see them done like the motuc by mattel and the four horsemen. i bet if mattel got the lic and the fhm did it, all motuc fans would eat these up. cus we all had em as kids and they all joined motu.. and updated version would be sick..
You could, though this ones not specific to 1:18th like the other is...then again, has there been a request in this thread that isn't 1:18th?...maybe merge the two and keep this thread title?
I don't care, I was just digging through the archives to try and stir up some conversational threads to get some of the new members chatting again. Saw that one was similar.
If you want to merge that's cool, I referred to non 1:18 stuff in the OP (due to my love of NECA product). But if you wanna merge, it ain't a problem.
And, I want to see 1:18 Battlefield 3 figures.
And, I want to see 1:18 Battlefield 3 figures.
Actually, yeah it does.
I dunno what a "sprut" or a "Vodnik" is, but everything else....
Definitely agree.
Would also love to see 1:18 scale releases of the F-4 Phantom and F-111 Aardvark. Modern MIG would also be great.
Hasbro/Takara needs to re-issue G1 die-cast versions of Wheeljack, Mirage, Sunstreaker and the rest of the 1984 line to compliment Prowl, Soundwave, Megatron, Hound, Ironhide, etc....
Also wish that Mattel wouldn't screw up and ultimately cut short the MOTUC line before Battle Ram, Ninjor, Saurod and Blast Attak get their releases. Given what's going on right now, I doubt those items will ever see the light of day.
Tron related figures need to be re-released with Hasbro POC style detail and articulation.
GI Joe needs to release Rampart, MSG Savage, Laser Viper, Bullhorn and the rest with POC articulation.... Mouse and D-Day should be re-issued with a 1:18 scale Sherman tank with an "experimental plasma cannon" as it's main weapon.
Lastly, I secretly wish that Hasbro would re-issue the Visionaries line with modern articulation, and electronic "light up" hologram style figures, accessories and vehicles.
Sssshhh!!!!
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I was reading this thread, and you guys have some great ideas. Many that I've always wondered about.
Video games are HUGE now. Heck, they even have a Minecraft series out now, and Lego Minecraft. With such a enormous market out there, why is this issue ignored ?.
Some do have toys/collectibles, but they're either too huge, or too damn small.
Do you guys think it's because they don't want to pay for the official licenses ?
Why do the toy companies keep re-hashing the same ol', same ol' ?.
Why aren't they making "playsets" any more. I know I'd kill for a new terrordrome. Even the old Deathstar is my favorite piece in my collection.
Why we don't have a COD, Bioshock, Resident Evil, Halo, and Walking Dead. and so on, line in 1:18th literally just baffles me to no end. It isn't like there isn't a market for them.
The last time I looked, Bungie said they had at least 12 million players on Destiny, alone. They honestly don't think all these people wouldn't like a customizable action figure line to be able to make their own personal avatar ? I know I sure would.
And what was posted before; why not any Skyrim or Fallout figures in 1:18th ? The only thing I can think of is price. Heck, even the Walmart here had "Despicable Me" minion figures priced at $10.00, and they were peg warmers. No one is going to pay that for one tiny figure.
Video games to me are such a huge untapped market. And it seems only Lego and ilk, have seen it, which to me is a utter damn shame.
For me, and I know many here think it also; for the new Star Wars "Rebels" line go back to 5 POA, is just two steps forward, and three steps back.
Just what are these toy companies thinking ???. I know Mego may have gone bust, but if they were around today, they'd be right on this issue.
I can't help but think that if some company could make a "new" line of Micronaut toys, with the creatively sense that they had at the time, and that Lego understands now; they'd be sitting on a gold mine, and could literally print their own money.
I'm just baffled.
Video games are HUGE now. Heck, they even have a Minecraft series out now, and Lego Minecraft. With such a enormous market out there, why is this issue ignored ?.
Some do have toys/collectibles, but they're either too huge, or too damn small.
Do you guys think it's because they don't want to pay for the official licenses ?
Why do the toy companies keep re-hashing the same ol', same ol' ?.
Why aren't they making "playsets" any more. I know I'd kill for a new terrordrome. Even the old Deathstar is my favorite piece in my collection.
Why we don't have a COD, Bioshock, Resident Evil, Halo, and Walking Dead. and so on, line in 1:18th literally just baffles me to no end. It isn't like there isn't a market for them.
The last time I looked, Bungie said they had at least 12 million players on Destiny, alone. They honestly don't think all these people wouldn't like a customizable action figure line to be able to make their own personal avatar ? I know I sure would.
And what was posted before; why not any Skyrim or Fallout figures in 1:18th ? The only thing I can think of is price. Heck, even the Walmart here had "Despicable Me" minion figures priced at $10.00, and they were peg warmers. No one is going to pay that for one tiny figure.
Video games to me are such a huge untapped market. And it seems only Lego and ilk, have seen it, which to me is a utter damn shame.
For me, and I know many here think it also; for the new Star Wars "Rebels" line go back to 5 POA, is just two steps forward, and three steps back.
Just what are these toy companies thinking ???. I know Mego may have gone bust, but if they were around today, they'd be right on this issue.
I can't help but think that if some company could make a "new" line of Micronaut toys, with the creatively sense that they had at the time, and that Lego understands now; they'd be sitting on a gold mine, and could literally print their own money.
I'm just baffled.
I've got a few theories.
1: Gamers aren't necessarily toy collectors as well. That's pretty much it. The guy that goes to the gym after work and then relaxes with an hour or two of Call of Duty before getting ready to go knock the bottom out of some trick ain't got time for little toy army dudes. Neither does the average G.I. who plays CoD after work or coming in after a patrol.
2: The costs of development and production are high enough to make taking risks no bueno for a lot of manufacturers. Look at McFarlane's history to see how often they got it flat out wrong as to what properties the public wanted to buy. The number of misses they've had would have killed other manufacturers. What costs the most money? Play sets. Expensive toys just don't sell anymore. Kids are picking up electronic forms of entertainment sooner and sooner, and leaving traditional forms of distraction behind.
3: Why don't we have 1:18 The Walking Dead figures? Why are the Halo figures in a scale that hasn't been the industry standard in twenty years? McFarlane has the license, that's why. McFarlane has to be a special snowflake and make 5" figures incompatible with everything else. McFarlane also hates 1:18. I forget my source for this knowledge (I believe it was alluded to in an interview), but there you have it. I guess McFarlane is working under the faulty assumption that sculpting technology hasn't moved on from 1985 and that you can't do detailed 1:18 figures. We all know this is false, but apparently that flake doesn't. Bbi's paint apps are better than the one's on his TWD figures, so go swing on that. As an aside, here in America license rights are pretty restrictive, unlike in say, Japan, where it's possible to have multiple companies do figures in similar scales of the same characters.
4. Unimax, god bless them, tried doing multiple video game lines in 1:18. It didn't work out, unfortunately. 1:18, generally speaking, isn't the "collector's" scale. 1:12 is. 1:18's renaissance was largely a fluke, I think, and certainly one the big 1:18 military manufacturer's missed the boat on.
1: Gamers aren't necessarily toy collectors as well. That's pretty much it. The guy that goes to the gym after work and then relaxes with an hour or two of Call of Duty before getting ready to go knock the bottom out of some trick ain't got time for little toy army dudes. Neither does the average G.I. who plays CoD after work or coming in after a patrol.
2: The costs of development and production are high enough to make taking risks no bueno for a lot of manufacturers. Look at McFarlane's history to see how often they got it flat out wrong as to what properties the public wanted to buy. The number of misses they've had would have killed other manufacturers. What costs the most money? Play sets. Expensive toys just don't sell anymore. Kids are picking up electronic forms of entertainment sooner and sooner, and leaving traditional forms of distraction behind.
3: Why don't we have 1:18 The Walking Dead figures? Why are the Halo figures in a scale that hasn't been the industry standard in twenty years? McFarlane has the license, that's why. McFarlane has to be a special snowflake and make 5" figures incompatible with everything else. McFarlane also hates 1:18. I forget my source for this knowledge (I believe it was alluded to in an interview), but there you have it. I guess McFarlane is working under the faulty assumption that sculpting technology hasn't moved on from 1985 and that you can't do detailed 1:18 figures. We all know this is false, but apparently that flake doesn't. Bbi's paint apps are better than the one's on his TWD figures, so go swing on that. As an aside, here in America license rights are pretty restrictive, unlike in say, Japan, where it's possible to have multiple companies do figures in similar scales of the same characters.
4. Unimax, god bless them, tried doing multiple video game lines in 1:18. It didn't work out, unfortunately. 1:18, generally speaking, isn't the "collector's" scale. 1:12 is. 1:18's renaissance was largely a fluke, I think, and certainly one the big 1:18 military manufacturer's missed the boat on.
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1:18 Half-Life figures would be pure gold... at least for me, until the company making them went belly-up because I was alone and couldn't purchase the entire production run.
And playsets died because WM said so. They take up a lot of room, and they don't churn often enough to justify the shelf space. It's not that they don't sell... it's that they don't sell as fast as something else WM could put in that shelf slot. It's pure stats with WM. And if WM doesn't want it, chances are the toy manufacturers won't bother.
And playsets died because WM said so. They take up a lot of room, and they don't churn often enough to justify the shelf space. It's not that they don't sell... it's that they don't sell as fast as something else WM could put in that shelf slot. It's pure stats with WM. And if WM doesn't want it, chances are the toy manufacturers won't bother.
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I can't believe I missed this thread before.
I'd like to see a line of 1:18th The Thing (Carpenter) figures. Heck, I'd even take them if Super 7/Funko made them as part of the ReAction line.
I'd also take some classic TRON figures with more articulation like the Medicom versions from 2002.
Micronauts? Hell yes!
I'd like to see a line of 1:18th The Thing (Carpenter) figures. Heck, I'd even take them if Super 7/Funko made them as part of the ReAction line.
I'd also take some classic TRON figures with more articulation like the Medicom versions from 2002.
Micronauts? Hell yes!
What I would like to see, is a series of sub lines based on the GI Joe action figures... It would consist of movie tie ins in the 4' scale
-Things that are in scale, under the Joe format but no nessessarly in the Joe universe. Kind of how Star Wars & Joe are compatable.
But this would be marketed so that a "No it would never get its own line" could be turned into a wave of figures under movieverse
Think an expendables wave, followed by popular summer franchise movie here.
Granted it would be smaller collections but would encourage stores to stock regularly.
--It is similar to what Funco is doing. Including popular & classic movies
--each helping to drive sales to the toy format & GI Joe sale.
--The cost for retooling every new Duke, Cobra Commander Snake-eyes & Storm Shadow could easily be converted over to newer products. Sci Fi waves might encourage some Star Wars fans to purchase more.
wave ideas.
Agents of Shield
Star Gate
Marvel Movies
Expendables
-Things that are in scale, under the Joe format but no nessessarly in the Joe universe. Kind of how Star Wars & Joe are compatable.
But this would be marketed so that a "No it would never get its own line" could be turned into a wave of figures under movieverse
Think an expendables wave, followed by popular summer franchise movie here.
Granted it would be smaller collections but would encourage stores to stock regularly.
--It is similar to what Funco is doing. Including popular & classic movies
--each helping to drive sales to the toy format & GI Joe sale.
--The cost for retooling every new Duke, Cobra Commander Snake-eyes & Storm Shadow could easily be converted over to newer products. Sci Fi waves might encourage some Star Wars fans to purchase more.
wave ideas.
Agents of Shield
Star Gate
Marvel Movies
Expendables
4" scale Cosmo Falcon from Starblazers 2099
4" scale Ronin Warriors with removable armor.
4" scale new Battlestar Galactica line
4" scale OV-10 Bronco
4" scale Rook Bartley Cyclone that doesn't fall apart when you look at it or the cancelled Masterpiece Collection or Megahouse versions.
An Alpha Fighter in scale with the old Matchbox/Exosquad Veritech Fighter.
4" scale team and individual vehicles from the Gatchaman OVA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmNs5DuXDdg?t=17m16s
4" scale Ronin Warriors with removable armor.
4" scale new Battlestar Galactica line
4" scale OV-10 Bronco
4" scale Rook Bartley Cyclone that doesn't fall apart when you look at it or the cancelled Masterpiece Collection or Megahouse versions.
An Alpha Fighter in scale with the old Matchbox/Exosquad Veritech Fighter.
4" scale team and individual vehicles from the Gatchaman OVA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmNs5DuXDdg?t=17m16s
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I'd like to to see Edge of tomorrow mech suits and figs, Chappie figs, Chronicals of Riddic figures, Elysium figures and drop ship, Fury figures and Sherman tank, new Road Warrior figs an vehicles, and or any new Modern MRAP styled trucks or vehicles all in 1/18 of course.
When I got out of the Army way back in '87, I got a part time job at TRU, and we had an entire wall of Joe stuff, and it all sold like mad.
But I have to agree with the fact that "Vidya" must've ruined everything.
And that's a damned shame.
I have a friend that's also a fellow collector,and except for the last Dr. Who toys, he's stopped buying because of the prices now. Right now the Black series Tie pilot, is selling for the exact same price of the Titan size Tie pilot at Wally World. That's just insane !!!! How can one little figure; cost the same as a figure that's three feet tall ?.
And tiny Lego sets selling for $13.00.
I guess it's just me being an old fart with nostalgia goggles, but it made me sad to see all the comic book and hobby shops closing down, because of Vidya.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a high ranking member in my video game Clan, that's one of the largest in the U.S.
I LOVE video games, and they're a big part of my life, even at my age now. I get it.
But when I remember all the fun I had with my Micronauts, Star Wars figs, building model kits, etc. Yeah, video games are fun, but it's not the same as holding something in your own hands, and letting your imagination just run wild....Looking at someone's amazing train set layout, and marveling at all the little details they added.
And that's why I love this site. Because you guys all *get* it too.
Video games are a fun distraction, but nothing like building something with your own mind first, then your hands, painting it up, and being able to share it with everyone. Gosh, the adventures I had with my large Space 1999 Eagle, Micronauts, or my Death Star playset.
No video game experience can even begin to touch that.
And I'm glad I can come here, and experience that magic once again, with all the great work you guys do. I truly thank you guys for it.
At least kids today still have Lego, Kreo, and Mega Blocks to exercise their creative muscles.
I like pretty much everything I've read in this thread, esp the calls for a new Micronauts line. It's flabbergasting that Hasbro hasn't done anything with the license, and pretty much the start of my hatred for them of late. Whoever's making the decisions over there is a dickhead, imho.
Here's my list, obviously all in 18th since it's the only scale that matters:
Stargate & Farscape
More Ghost in the Shell from GoodSmile
Soul Reaver would be my #1 videogame want
DC by anybody other than the execreble Mattel, who have *never* done anything good for 18th fans aside from the vehicles/playsets in the Captain Power and Secret Wars lines.
Star Trek done to the depth and quality of Star Wars (except with ball hips, of course). Who wouldn't armybuild Klingons, Redshirts, and Borg?
I'd kill for other Wayne Barlowe lines, like critters from his Expedition and Inferno/God's Demon books.
Here's my list, obviously all in 18th since it's the only scale that matters:
Stargate & Farscape
More Ghost in the Shell from GoodSmile
Soul Reaver would be my #1 videogame want
DC by anybody other than the execreble Mattel, who have *never* done anything good for 18th fans aside from the vehicles/playsets in the Captain Power and Secret Wars lines.
Star Trek done to the depth and quality of Star Wars (except with ball hips, of course). Who wouldn't armybuild Klingons, Redshirts, and Borg?
I'd kill for other Wayne Barlowe lines, like critters from his Expedition and Inferno/God's Demon books.
Also, some Pacific Rim Jaeger pilots with head/cockpit playsets, and Kaiju Masters figures.
And whatever needs to be done to get some damned 18th fully-articced gorillas and chimps.
And whatever needs to be done to get some damned 18th fully-articced gorillas and chimps.
AC-130? I would even take an AC-27J Stinger... Pave Low of course. V-22 in 1:18
Maybe a cougar or buffalo MRAP...1:18 Stryker OV-10 Bronco
How about a McF Halo Falcon? Not the micro scale BS
Maybe a cougar or buffalo MRAP...1:18 Stryker OV-10 Bronco
How about a McF Halo Falcon? Not the micro scale BS
The 1983 G.I. Joe Headquarters made by IGear! This is the company that made the TF007 Computer Control Center! A true 1/18 scale Headquarters with different rooms like a med bay, conference room or a computer/communications room! An actual hangar where the Skystriker or similar planes can fly out of! This would be awesome but is so not going to happen!
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Shit naw. Green Shirt aircrew on Rockblock M3s layin' down suppressing fire for a fast-ropin' insertion team. No chicks, natch. :trollface:
John Carter from the movie.
I wouldn't care if it was 4 inch scale or 6 inch...
and I don't count the Hot Toys version because its not official.
I wouldn't care if it was 4 inch scale or 6 inch...
and I don't count the Hot Toys version because its not official.