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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Aug 23, 2016 19:16:47 GMT -6
I wouldn't put it past super7 to have sculpted Dark Crystal figures from scratch in an attempt to look like they were cast from original molds. They had to do that with at least one of the Alien figures that got the Reaction toy line started. Don't think I ever heard that before. What was the story? I bought the Star Trek figures mainly because I'm a Trek collector, not because the sculpts were wonderful or anything. I also picked up the Universal Monsters because I collect them plus those figures were at least decent looking in my opinion and the first Aliens series which I sold off in my down sizing of my collection. The only other ReAction figure I bought was "The Gentleman" from the Buffy line because he was cool looking. My wife likes Dark Crystal and the one piece I have seen actually looks pretty good. On the topic of the Star Trek one:12 collective figures I actually found Spock and Sulu at around $40 each so I figured I better get those while I had the chance at that price. Another license they are going to do I might have interest in is Universal Monsters. Wow, $40! Niiiice. Interested to see where Mezco could go with the classic monsters. The line is built around clothed figures with many accessories, so if they ever did the creature what would he have?? Would he be significantly cheaper? The old Mego green scaly jumpsuit just wouldn't cut the mustard for this line. Not sure how they would do a mummy either. I guess we could still get a pretty killer Drac, Phantom, Bride of Frank, maybe even a Metaluna Mutant. I think the Reaction monsters are okay, not so much the modern baddies like Jason and Freddy which are godawful. I prefer the old Remco versions, but at a fraction of the price I guess you can't go wrong--the likenesses are decent and the proportions don't seem super wonky like some of the other ones.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Sept 13, 2016 13:18:31 GMT -6
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Post by ucsf on Nov 13, 2016 16:02:46 GMT -6
There are some major changes behind the scenes: "They have announced that Funko will no longer be producing or distributing ReAction Figures. The ReAction Figures will now be solely produced and distributed by Super 7."
Press release via Toyark:
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Post by spockoda on Nov 24, 2017 20:53:17 GMT -6
It's been quite some time since I genuinely got excited about new figures coming out but last night I was sitting at my computer wondering if any new figures from the Planet Of The Apes franchise were coming out and I got a big surprise when I did a search as I discovered a how slew of new 3.75" figures being released by Super 7 that I wouldn't mind getting. Outside of Planet Of The Apes, I also discovered new Masters Of The Universe, Shogun Warriors, and some sort of Halloween themed line. Plus, Toxic Avenger(my wife is a fan). Granted I'll likely be watching these from the sidelines but I guess it showed I still do have some interest in figures although it pretty much has to be muted and contained at the present time. I hadn't been this excited about figures since I heard about ReAction's Star Trek line, at least until I actually saw them . I bought them anyway, though.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Dec 3, 2017 11:01:59 GMT -6
The Shoguns look quite good. Given that the classic Mattel 3" diecast figures go for about $10-25 apiece, the price isn't too bad, but I still have trouble rectfying a $15 price tag with a 5POA retro figure. Shoguns and POTA may go some way to persuading me. Hey spockoda have you seen the Monstarz 3.75" Morlocks? They look pretty sweet.
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Post by spockoda on Dec 3, 2017 21:32:08 GMT -6
The Shoguns look quite good. Given that the classic Mattel 3" diecast figures go for about $10-25 apiece, the price isn't too bad, but I still have trouble rectfying a $15 price tag with a 5POA retro figure. Shoguns and POTA may go some way to persuading me. Hey spockoda have you seen the Monstarz 3.75" Morlocks? They look pretty sweet. They have multiple color Morlocks, right? I believe I have seen them and they do look cool. I had some of the 3" Shoguns when I was young but they had stopped making them with the missiles or fist flying off by the time I got them unless that was only on the 5" and 24" ones. I did have one of the 24" Shoguns(missing his flying fist)that was given to me by a family friend and I remember pretending he was Galactus since he was so much bigger than the mostly 3.75" figures I had .
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Dec 4, 2017 18:51:36 GMT -6
They have multiple color Morlocks, right? I believe I have seen them and they do look cool. I had some of the 3" Shoguns when I was young but they had stopped making them with the missiles or fist flying off unless that was only on the 5" and 24" ones. I did have one of the 24" Shoguns(missing his flying fist)that was given to me by a family friend and I remember pretending he was Galactus since he was so much bigger than the mostly 3.75" figures I had . They have GITD Morlocks and 2 or 3 other colors I believe. The 3" Shoguns never had the gimmicks. The 5" line did have the rocket fists but those were the ones that were eventually castrated with non firing ones. The pool of boys with cool eyepatches tragically plummeted after that.
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Post by spockoda on Dec 4, 2017 21:26:30 GMT -6
We probably all know about the Battlestar Galactica toy incident that changed the action figure toy industry for a while but if memory serves me correctly the Shogun Warriors came before that but maybe Shoguns made after the Galactica thing happened had the shooting features removed. I also remember hearing, at least once or twice, something about a "Rocket Fett" maybe....
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Dec 5, 2017 8:41:48 GMT -6
I think with the BSG toys kids actually shot the missiles into their mouths and choked on ‘em. As an adventure in social Darwinism, I’m all for missile firing toys. Let this be a lesson to kids everywhere that if you’re a mouthbreather you shouldn’t launch missiles in the direction of your agape jaws.
Considering both lines are made by Mattel, it’s safe to say the BSG toy incidents probably played a part in nixing the springy goodness of Shoguns.
The rocket firing Fett supposedly never was actually released. A few pieces have made it into the hands of collectors over the years though and there are also a good amount of counterfeits and custom copies available.
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Post by spockoda on Feb 13, 2018 17:48:23 GMT -6
I received the EE exclusive Nosferatu glow in the dark figure today. This is my first Reaction purchase minus the Funko involvement and the sculpt appears to be strong, maybe a bit better in detail than the initial Reaction releases. I'm pleased with it and I hope to own the regular and sepia tone versions of him.
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Post by rihia2k on Feb 14, 2018 23:23:20 GMT -6
I received the EE exclusive Nosferatu glow in the dark figure today. This is my first Reaction purchase minus the Funko involvement and the sculpt appears to be strong, maybe a bit better in detail than the initial Reaction releases. I'm pleased with it and I hope to own the regular and sepia tone versions of him. Incredible character. And cool looking toy from what I've seen. Does it seem Reaction toys were quantity over quality coming out the gate and may grow a little more refined now? I haven't read up on much behind the scenes tween Funko and Super7, but S7 seem dedicated to quality.
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Post by rihia2k on Feb 15, 2018 0:10:13 GMT -6
Rant approaching; I have to throw my two cents in about Super7's 3-3/4" MOTU line. Firstly, they're very Kenner Star Wars, I cant help feeling if Mattel put out some 3-3/4" MOTU in the eighties they woulda packed a completely different kind of punch, rather than the police suspect line-up look S7 have for these. Secondly, ... Black & White? Black & White Masters of the Universe??!! There is just NOTHING about MOTU or anything of its ilk that screams the need for monochrome. Mono is a beautiful offering where relevant - Twilight Zone, Universal Monsters, modern affair like Sin City or The Spirit. But the tooning and comic era of MOTU was where kids pretty much became allergic to B&W - it was about colour upon colour, squeezing as many hues out of what 80s printing and painting tech allowed. I'm not sure I can think of a human MOTU character with less than six colours ...
*Alfredo Alcala's initial 'King of Castle Grayskull' mini-comic illustrations were coloured ...
*Earl Norem's painted covers - coloured ...
Outside of line drawn instruction sheets or colouring books, there is nowhere Mattels original Masters tread without spewing colour all over the show.
Just felt like Super7 did that part cos they could, because somebody might relate it to the word 'retro'. But to me it sorta insults genuine 50s or 60s material that might deserve the B+W treatment.
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Post by spockoda on Feb 15, 2018 16:57:23 GMT -6
Also, MOTU was all about action. Manly, over the top in your face action. I'm not quite sure a Super 7 5 poa line does MOTU justice anyhow. And b&w MOTU figures? I could easily see why big fans of MOTU wouldn't be too crazy about this line.
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Post by rihia2k on Feb 17, 2018 18:26:41 GMT -6
Yeah, it's funny, I have a big cry about MOTUs in ReAction style - but on the other hand I'm all for these Legends of Lucha Libre guys - they just look so darn purdy.
They suit a vintage Kenner line-up despite the muscle-manliness of their wrestling nature. This type of thing is where the B&W treatment seems obvious to me as appropriate.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Feb 18, 2018 15:40:55 GMT -6
I’m kinda digging their offerings since the split with Funko. rihia2k They look like the sculpt quality has improved significantly to me also. I’m with you on the B& W coloring also, seems forced and does nothing for me, but as variants they probably only appeal to a small group of people anyway. Makes as much sense to me as the practice of reusing molds, releasing them in prototype and test shot colors, which even some big toy companies have been known to do. The MOTUC line is insanely good under Super 7 though. Can’t wait to see how Mattel is eventually going to screw up that relationship. Speaking of, while I’m really no big fan of Funko, one of their reveals at Toy Fair was a MOTU style line with Thundercats, Conan, and He-Manized horror characters. Kinda interesting.
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Post by rihia2k on Feb 19, 2018 3:06:13 GMT -6
Speaking of, while I’m really no big fan of Funko, one of their reveals at Toy Fair was a MOTU style line with Thundercats, Conan, and He-Manized horror characters. Kinda interesting. Yes, sir! Yes, sir! Savage world! I saw these a earlier today. Bits of me exploded. Particularly for the Conan gear. The horror-inspired dudes work out nice too. It's prolly good they din't make Subotai or Valeria - I mighta' fainted and caught on fire from the perfection of it all. (really, though, they MUST have mulled it over ... surely)
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Post by rihia2k on Feb 19, 2018 3:20:14 GMT -6
AAAaaaagh! Aah. I'm honestly a gibbering mess!! dkjf I just returned for a better look to check the link, I was squizzing at it through my phone last time and din't notice the gray proto-figures differed from the others!
Aw, man! (I need to shake a poodle or have a glass of water or something!) Fricking 5.5" Subotai and Valeria right there, not a few minutes later than my sarcastic whining about it. I am soo glad these two characters might actually be achievable - furthermore, they're not made as silly dolls or static statuesque material.
I can't say how many cliffs I'm gonna' walk off of or lamp-posts I'm gonna crash into in the coming days just dreaming about this release.
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Post by 3 3/4"collector on Mar 4, 2018 12:43:05 GMT -6
alot of the reaction figures just looked horrible, i have bitched for years now about it. i just for the life of me cannot understand paying somebody to sculpt a figure for you, and then telling them to purposefully sculpt it badly because these are retro style. the 5poa i can live with, but they are purposefully now sculpting them well, i just cannot grasp that. it boggles my mind. no thats too much detail it looks too good, this is suppose to be a hasbro figure from the early 80s make it look worse. oblivious to some of the spectacular sculpts that some of the return of the jedi figures and other things had. personally since super 7 and funko split i think the 9poa figures funko have been making are way way better than the figures super 7 have been making. the funko game of thrones, twin peaks and stranger things figures look so much better to me than what super 7 is doing. as far as super 7 and MOTU go. i have also been bitching up a storm, its so sad when you see what they are giving us for motu, then you see what the exact same company at the exact same time is doing for motu in the 6" scale. i mean look at that picture, that is insulting. and i still have retro collectors that argue with me and tell me they would never buy this 3 3/4" if it looked like that 6" figure does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i just cant understand.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Mar 4, 2018 13:28:12 GMT -6
3 3/4"collector I always go back in my head to this style of figure is not worth the $15 price point. When you have Marvel Universe, SW Black 3.75", and Vintage Collection at the same price or less and they are light years ahead quality wise, it makes these seem like a joke. Even small companies are making lines like Hiya Toys Predator figures and Acid Rain that are so much better than anything else in the same 3.75" or 1:18 scale and they're only about $20-25 really cementing that point. The Funko Legacy figures are kind of underwhelming me, especially with brittle joints and other QC issues. I do appreciate they give us semi-decent collectible figures for some properties like Firefly and Rocketeer that may not have gotten stuff otherwise though. I agree on their 9poa stuff, they are really doing a good job with them.
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Post by 3 3/4"collector on Mar 7, 2018 3:41:55 GMT -6
and yet i see people that are totally excited about the retro style and eat it up. and say they have no interest in modern style. i just cant understand it. and the people that like these or only collect vintage star wars, and say they like these because it reminds them of the toys they played with as kids. and i just, i was a kid then too, and all i remember is wishing the figures looked a little better, wishing my star wars at least had knees so they could sit down. i was super excited when figures started to get a little better sculpting and articulation.
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Post by spockoda on Mar 7, 2018 17:53:43 GMT -6
Hmmm....I remember after seeing quite a few of the very first Reaction figures in the flesh at a Hastings store I thought what a shame. These companies had a chance to do really great and put out figures that well, weren't. Then someone pointed out (was it Thor Laserpunch?) that these were figures that were basically put out for some nerds to have them on a shelf or maybe their desk at work and think of the franchise whatever figures they bought were from making these basically for the lowest common denominator of consumer and maybe not so much the seasoned collector that is more into the aesthetics and finer details and/or functionality of a figure. Does this make any sense, what I have written here? These types of figures aren't really being made for the target audience of action figures collectors is basically the point I am attempting to make. The larger figures for the most part are being made for the more collector-minded audience. I feel very few 3.75" figures made these days are being "aimed" directly at the adult collector market.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Mar 8, 2018 11:19:18 GMT -6
I remember saying something to that end a couple pages back. Maybe a little bit of a snobbish attitude, but I’d have to guess fairly accurate. When you look at stuff at the retail level though, most of it has to be made with kids in mind. Not so much NECA or McFarlane, but if you look at Marvel Legends, SW Black, WWE, and whatever 6” DC figures Mattel is crapping out nowadays, they may be made with collectors in mind but they have to be playable for kids. There are definitely collectible type stuffs beyond that in various scales, but you don’t really see it in toy stores or department stores. TRU and maybe some other outlets like book stores may have legit adult collectibles like Figuarts or MP Transformers but mainly you have to go online for them or maybe your lcbs. I still am not personally sold on Reaction, but at least they are looking better to my eye. And I’d have to agree with 3 3/4"collector that the unpainted product actually seems sharper.
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Post by spockoda on Mar 8, 2018 17:27:12 GMT -6
I feel like the action figure collector market has shrunk considerably in the past decade. It may not be completely dead but it does have some tumbleweeds blowing through it. For the better part of a decade, up until 2008, I was sort of a "weekend warrior" on the hunt for figures. I probably blew through thousands of dollars on gas alone per year on weekends as there were tons of retail outlets with figures that while maybe being made for kids were also definitely made for the person like me, the adult collector that had "disposable income". The internet was just a nice compliment to the collecting. I estimate online purchases were somewhere between 15-20% of my collecting. Nowadays it has flipped where the online sales are about 90% of my collecting and the retail outlets are now more like 10% of my collecting, if even that much.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Mar 8, 2018 18:02:18 GMT -6
Vintage toy collecting may be down overall, but action figure collecting is basically a subculture like cosplaying now. If anything, the thrill of the hunt has really gone away. There is not much use in setting your sights high of finding gems in the wild, it's all online. But the diversity of what's out there is really mind-boggling and the number of companies exclusively catering to the adult collector market is kind of incredible.
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Post by spockoda on Mar 8, 2018 18:19:07 GMT -6
Vintage toy collecting may be down overall, but action figure collecting is basically a subculture like cosplaying now. If anything, the thrill of the hunt has really gone away. There is not much use in setting your sights high of finding gems in the wild, it's all online. But the diversity of what's out there is really mind-boggling and the number of companies exclusively catering to the adult collector market is kind of incredible. This all is true. The closer I got to 2008 the more weary of the chase I became. It is nice to be able to sit at my computer and instantly find things I want, if it's at a price I'll pay. Once in a while I do miss my trips to look for figures, or "toy runs", as I used to call them but that was all in my late 20's/early 30's. Honestly I'm not sure I would have the energy now for all that constant running around on the hunt but I was also working a 4 day work week back then as well.
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Post by rihia2k on Mar 8, 2018 22:20:58 GMT -6
... Then someone pointed out (was it Thor Laserpunch?) that these were figures that were basically put out for some nerds to have them on a shelf or maybe their desk at work and think of the franchise whatever figures they bought were from making these basically for the lowest common denominator of consumer and maybe not so much the seasoned collector that is more into the aesthetics and finer details and/or functionality of a figure. Yep. Funko knows it too - and it's paid off for them. The tagline "Everyone is a fan of something" actually appears on the Funko website.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Mar 11, 2018 8:15:55 GMT -6
Yep. Funko knows it too - and it's paid off for them. The tagline "Everyone is a fan of something" actually appears on the Funko website. Funko churns out what I consider the kids' ugly macaroni art of the toy world. It'll never find its way onto my fridge, no siree!
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Post by 3 3/4"collector on Mar 13, 2018 17:22:51 GMT -6
i work at a wal mart super center and i dont even go look in the toy department anymore, there is nothing. joes are gone, marvel universe is never there, and star wars is 5poa figures i already have long had nice SA versions of. the onlt other stuff in my scale are various film lines that come and go and are usually not done well, and they are mostly just film versions of superheroes and i dont really like my superhero figures looking like some actor i usually dont care for in the first place. but i dont really need to go anywhere to look these days, i can barely keep up with the kickstarters, its a bunch of money all at once then trying to scrape enough together for the next kickstarter a few weeks maybe a month later. and yeah like we were saying these companies come out with these retro properties im interested in but then they completely underwhelm me. i see customizers too that work on just reaction figures, why would you want to waste your time and money on such lame bases.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Mar 14, 2018 9:02:23 GMT -6
3 3/4"collector 3.75” must be a bitch to collect anything modern. Like you say, there’s jack out there aside from the KS stuff and they tend to end up costing $30 a pop or whatnot. I feel for yas. Some customizers do amazing stuff with not very much though, so can’t slag ‘em off too hard.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jul 2, 2018 16:59:38 GMT -6
Super 7 is doing Universal Monsters in funky vibrant colors for SDCC. One of the other exclusives is a POTA “playset” display piece. Kinda remotely cool, but it’s $75 for a chunk of plastic (a beach terrain base) with a cardboard backdrop of the Statue of Liberty, so no. I can get behind the mini-monsters though.
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