WOW! That is a phenomenal toy. Granted, the protos always look better than the finished product, but just the same... WOW. If they're all up to this quality, and if they all present classic versions of the characters like this one does, I'll definitely find the cash for each and every one.
As for this...
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Originally Posted by Lava Boss
3. $7 or less. Joe fans aren't Star Wars fans...actually based on the last VOTC releases, Star Wars fans ain't star wars fans. So much of that went on markdown and is still there in some places. And that pushes parents away in droves. An 8-inch figure next to it on the pegs for $10 or less...why buy 3 3/4"?
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Everyone seems to think they'll be charging a lot because of the prices on the VOTC Star Wars figures, but no one seems to remember that Hasbro pays a licensing fee to Lucasfilm.
As an example: Wizards of the Coast (a Hasbro subsidiary, as it happens) owns Dungeons & Dragons. A typical Wizards of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons book costs $20.00. When WoTC was making the Star Wars RPG, their books of the same size and page count cost $30.00. This was because of the licensing fees they had to pay to Lucas in addition to the cost of making the book itself.
I see no reason to think action figures are any different. They have to charge more because they're paying more to Lucasfilm for the Star Wars rights in addition to the cost of just making the figures. But since Hasbro owns G.I. Joe, I would guess these Joe figures, if comparable to the VOTC figs in quality, will cost less than their Star Wars counterparts.
01-22-2007, 07:02 PM
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