[AlanThCollector]

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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

At retail yeah. They talk in the video about it. If Toys R Us was around, there would potentially be shelf space. But their biggest physical retailer is Target, and space is generally limited and interest from the retailer has to be there to carry it. An item like Ghidorah needs to be in stores for them. They don't do crowd funding, it's not their business model.

I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but it is kind of hard to believe that you can have space for a Deluxe Queen Alien and an Ultimate Quarter-Scale Deadpool and some how not have enough space or drum up enough interest for a King Ghidorah figure.

I also question why King Ghidorah would be so much more expensive than any of their deluxe or Quater-Scale offerings. In roughly the same scale, they are able to make a $20-$25 Godzilla figure where S.H. Monsterarts makes a $75-$80 figure of the same design. S.H. Monsterarts Ghidorah figure is retailing for around $150-$180. What on earth is NECA doing that makes an attempt so financially unfeasible? They’ve proven that customers are willing to throw down over $125 or more a figure or set of figures. And I seem to recall there being preorders for a 1/2 articulated Deadpool figure for nearly $700. How is there any kind of market for that online or otherwise, size and price withstanding and yet a Ghidorah figure is simply not possible?

Also, Also they are selling Diorama pieces that never see the light of day on a retail shelf for over $100 and somehow there is still enough of an online market for more pieces of the detail and scale of the street scene Diorama they just released. Obviously the work that goes into an articulated three-headed dragon is likely more complicated than a building that's just supposed to look pretty, but still.

I always imagined a NECA Ghidorah would require some assembly anyway. Detach the wings, the three heads, and the tails and artfully cram those pieces in a box the size of the Queen Alien and I’m sure they could make work for $50 cheaper than the Monsterarts offering.

I don’t pretend to know the numbers and the folks at NECA must know what there talking about, but the excuses they've given so far sound like stretch. Regardless I’ll take them at their word, because that’s honestly the only thing you can do at this point.

In reality I’m OK if they don’t make King Ghidorah. I’ll take a MUTO from the 2014 movie instead.