Ecto-Thread: Ghostbusters! (SDCC 2011 News Pg. 18)

[NoisyDvL5]

The movie guys are close enough in size that I can at least live with it. The folks that want RGB repaints of these figures though ? No way! I understand there are real world limitations that some times keep things from being done right, but that would be so far off the mark that it's not worth doing... like if they were to get confused about how old their buyers are and make Mego versions or something...

The interesting thing is the need to cancel the subscription. They have to - they're not keeping up their end of the bargain, but why not try to resell a sub for these four? Too embarassing? Not worth the hassle of Digital River? I just wonder - if there is a 2013 line, will they try to sub that?


It also makes me consider the fact that the Mattycollector's success is due in large part to the existence of He-Man.Org, i.e. a centralized, concentrated place for the fanbase to have met up for all these intervening years. Would MOTUC be as popular if the fanbase weren't self-energized? Even DC struggles with that...

Ghostbusters does sorta have that, but the fans of the films might be collectibles buyers and that might extend to action figures - it doesn't necessarily (and it is hard to figure out where to go to talk about Matty GBs, their own forum is probably the most active place - how sad). The cartoon has toy nostalgia going for it, but according to Mattel's tried and true research and polling department less people would buy those than movie items.

[TSR]

The interesting thing is the need to cancel the subscription. They have to - they're not keeping up their end of the bargain, but why not try to resell a sub for these four? Too embarassing? Not worth the hassle of Digital River?

The freedom to fully cancel if these start to perform poorly. That's the only thing I can surmise.

I just want to know why was there never a thermometer to let GB fans know the line was ailing that badly? I hate toy conspiracy theories, but it starts to make those who say the thermometer was always BS and just a means for Mattel to drive DC further sales look correct.

GB is a great line to pick and choose from. I could easily see people wanting some ghosts, but not wanting to be stuck with slimed or marshmellowed main 4 cast. So if it was doing that bad on subscription orders, then it actually needed the thermometer.

[PrfktTear]

Maybe they just don't want to bother with any new tooling... They'll sell what they can make now but not put a single cent into anything new...

[TSR]

seems like they should have just flat out canceled Dana then

[PrfktTear]

I think Dana is kind of useless. IDK. If she's going to be tied to that base, why not just make her a statue then?

Why oh why didn't they ever do the Terror dogs? I'd buy a set of 2 for $30. They'd have made a mint.

[TSR]

If a the standard GBs, all sharing bodies and only having unique heads cost $20 each; no way they were going to sell terror dogs for less than $30 each.

[TSR]

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* Stay Puft Marshmallow Man will be sold at the regular price of $70 each.

I'm actually surprised there is a "sale." I thought this was just them reselling stuff, but the figures being discounted is nice. However I expect to see complaints from those who paid full price in the past.

Also, it seems that nothing ever sells out. These can't be new runs if they're discounting the price. So why keep listing things as sold out if there's still this much stock left over???

[PrfktTear]

Very nice. I wonder if the Stay Puft MM will sell out again so quickly. The going rates on eBay seem to have leveled out slightly above Matty’s asking price. I had one in my cart when they originally went on sale, but I just couldn’t bring myself to fire the gun. After seeing all the reviews I was sure I had to have one, and was hoping they’d either go back on sale, or just to pick one up when I had extra cash. However now I’m going back to wondering whether I need him or not.

Anyone who begrudges Mattel for having a sale has their head in the sand. Stores have sales all the time, it’s a way of getting you in the store, enticing you to buy more, moving more product, etc. I guess my qualm is that everything is 20% off except for the Stay Puft MM, but I honestly didn’t expect it either. That said, getting 20% off would really help ease my apprehension about picking him up.

[NoisyDvL5]

The only mark against Stay-Puft (and this may be a dealbreaker for you) is that he does take damage pretty easily, little impressions and creases if you're not careful with him. I didn't realize that my 12" GI Joe Marine's rifle was butting up against his back side and there's a permanent little pinhole where the rifle was. I'm happy with him as a display piece at the back of my top shelf, so I don't mind the fragile material (too much), but if that's going to bother you, than I'd say no.

Otherwise, I completely love him. He makes me positively giddy and it's completely about how huge he is. Staypuft can bitchslap Unicron and there's nothing he can do about it. It's just silly/dumb how big he is compared to everything else. I haven't been able to review him because I'm not setup for anything that massive.

[PrfktTear]

just reading that makes me kinda excited about him. I'm a little nervous about how fragile he may be. I'm kinda expecting him to be the same kind of texture like one of those spongey stress balls you get at job fairs might be.