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Originally Posted by Comedian

This Kickstarter news story is 6 pages long with comments. Most stories don’t go past a page or 2. So this is a big news story for this site. I remember this site covered the sail barge and covered each new piece of news. Not many comments were with that story, but this site isn’t a big Star Wars or 3.75 inch site. And yet it was still covered.

Second. Most kickstarters have all the rewards announced at the start. Mcfarlane keeps himself in the news by adding new rewards every day or 2. So that gets this a lot more attention. Maybe he’s on to something.

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Originally Posted by deecee4

IIRC, Sectaurs got a couple of headlines during its KS campaign.

But, yeah,I don't know...it's not as if this place is bustling with a ton of activity and the Spawn KS is keeping people from missing other things here. And anyway, McFarlane has been around for decades at this point and is something of a major player in the toy industry, so the company doing a KS campaign that is doing crazy numbers IS a huge deal and newsworthy, IMO. Also, while I personally don't care about Spawn and didn't back, I'm fascinated by this because I feel like the success of this could have ramifications within the toy industry with more of the major players going the crowd funding route.

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Originally Posted by Tony_Bacala

Basically what was said above - it's a larger company, established brand, bringing back a popular character that's been on time out for a bit, in a way that hasn't been done by this company, or, by many larger ones in industry.

And, as with all news we cover here, it's something one of us is personally into. We give more attention to brands and characters we actually dig. Joe digs Horror, I dig DBZ, Super Heroes, Mechs, DESTRO does Marvel Legends style stuff, etc. And I am into Spawn personally.

We aren't pure journalists, we aren't following Associated Press standards or anything. Just some dorks running a fan site.

This is true. It would be nice if Playmates did a Kickstarter to do some vintage TMNT stuff. They could do it to fund Scratch, Hot Spot and the Shogun Triceratron. I read some of the molds they had for some of the vintage figures were destroyed. We need some vintage TMNT. Not sure why playmates is lagging behind