[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by UrsaMagnus

The argument I've heard Stall make is that regardless of the fact that these figures are only 1/3 of the size of Legends, they still require an equivalent amount of tooling and paint costs. So in order to keep the price at a level the stores are willing to sell them at (around $10-$12 or so) they have to cut a TON of things like articulation and accessories to keep the costs at that level. Because otherwise we'd be spending $20 for a 3.75" figure, which I think none of us wants or is willing to do. Again, this is all from him (see his SDCC interview with ShartimusPrime and an interview at Marvelousnews).

Couple that with the fact that unlike Joe (which Hasbro owns), Hasbro has to pay a fee to use these characters, and we get the decline in the figures we've seen while the Legends keeps going up and up.

Quite frankly, I call (a certain amount of) bullsh!t on this. When Neitliech (or however his damn name was spelled) ran the DCUC for Mattel, he was first and foremost a MOTUC guy and it showed in his bias toward the lines. Stall is demonstrating the same attitudes here.

When Neitliech left Mattel and the DCUC line ended I was hoping I was done with that kind of bias. Obviously not.

When Hasbro announced they were developing this line, the possibilities seemed endless. I was excited, and I made the choice to jump in full-force. I sold my Legends figures (that wouldn't be useful at this scale) and embraced it. Now I feel like I've been betrayed, and I refuse to dance to their tune and go back to Legends. It would be far too costly to try to catch up at this point.

I would gladly spend $20 (possibly more) on a figure if it was a quality figure of a brand new never released character. I go back to the suggestion that this line would be best served as being a subscription line (or in additon to). Making a choice, either 12 or 24 figures a year, $25 a figure, all new never done before characters or dramatic costume changes only, with decent articulation and accessories. Repaints are acceptable on a rare occurance but should not be the default offerings, and repaints using parts of various figures could be partially acceptable, but we'd definintely want some new molds in there as well.

Maybe I'm bitter. I feel there not not a lot of support and enjoyment for them in making this line. And it shows, IMO. And as a customer, if I feel they don't put an effort into making this line, why should I make an effort to buy into it? SDCC choices - there were maybe 6-7 figures they showed I'm planning on getting, and only one on my want list and very low at that, equals very little enthusiasm from me towards this line for the next year. WHich I guess mirrors hasbro's own enthusiasm towards it. But if they were charging twice as much and the customer was willing to pay it for figures done right, maybe they and we would have more faith in the product.