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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

You might want to pull that stick out of your ass. I have no idea why you are being a jerk.

Read your own comments from time to time. Instead of being "This sucks", "Why are they doing this", "Where is this character", "This company is bad", maybe don’t say anything for once. Your constant negativity is simply annoying.

You can complain all you want, but don’t be surprised when people get fed up with it.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Clearly you don't understand what I mean. Okay, ignoring KotM, when was the last time they did a non-Godzilla esque MonsterArt for the Godzilla series that wasn't just a repaint?

I do understand perfectly what you mean. You care only about very specific instances of the same 2-3 franchises from Tamashii, they aren't giving those to you anymore, now you're mad.

Anyways, I would assume MechaGodzilla is "Godzilla-esque" so probably Mecha King Ghidorah from like 4 years back. But that surprises nobody as MonsterArts is on live-support for over 5 years now. Mostly because collectors don’t care for anything non-Heisei apparently.

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ALso, how many versions of Iron Man have they done compared to say Thor or Black Widow?

A lot more. Mostly because there are a lot more Iron Man armors than there are Thor and Black Widow designs.

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Also, when was the last time they released an OT Star Wars dude that wasn't a redo or repaint?

Boba Fett, last week. But again: It’s blatantly obvious that you measure Tamashii's worth by them releasing the very specific items you care about. They've done prequel-stuff, new trilogy-stuff and redone some characters from the original movies. Just because you don’t care about them doesn't mean they don’t exist and aren’t selling.

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I don't even get what you mean here. What does nostalgia have to do with anything?

Because the Showa Ultraman era is long over, and the only way you're selling specific characters and monsters based on it is nostalgia. But that only works on the really popular monsters like Baltan and Zetton. Stuff like Twintail flopped, and that's the reason they can't continue doing every single alien and monster: They won’t sell as well as the big guns.

Would a Dinosaur Tank be amazing? Absolutely. Would it sell well? Probably not.

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To be more specific then, they haven't done anything for Ultraman 66 nor Ultra Seven in over a year now.

Yup, because they already did Ultraseven himself, his human identity, and a few popular, well-known enemies. Everything else becomes a bit too niche or might not work anymore.

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Then they shouldn't bother doing them at all. If they can't commit to releasing figures of at least the main cast, don't do it.

You'd be surprised how many people are perfectly fine with only owning the poster boy of their favorite franchise. That is in fact a huge factor as to why full lineups are rarely done: There just aren't that many instances were a show and its entire cast is so well known that collectors jump on every release possible. Especially given the cost of Japanese premium figures.

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Now for Sailor Moon, they got most of the main cast, but they never bothered to do any villains outside of Black Lady. They even showed of Wiseman and did jackshit with him. They also didn't do the Starlights nor the Crystal version of Tuxedo Mask.

Now I become the broken record: Probably because the interest wasn't there, probably because it wouldn’t be worth releasing financially-wise.

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I guess I should have been more specific for Kamen Rider. I meant actual monsters, not just evil Kamen Riders.

Probably the Phantoms. And they were the last ones for a reason: Both the Zodiarts and the Phantoms sold abysmally. Most are available for bargain sale prices to this very day. No one wanted them.

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That's because they couldn't commit to releasing an entire team. Who the hell wants to buy half, if that, of a ranger team?

Many people, including me. They buy the Red Ranger and the Sixth Ranger because they are the most unique and then skip the rest, mostly since the costumes are too identical to warrant a purchase of such a high number of expensive collectibles.

Hasbro actually knows this, which is why they’re releasing single members from multiple teams in each wave instead of pumping out full teams every half a year.

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They should have just done box sets for the ranger teams, especially when all they needed to do was create two bodies, a male and a female one and the only difference between the bodies was the paint job with the helmets being the only unique sculpt.

By offering a boxset for the combined price of all figures you lose the only reliable costumers you had to begin with: Those who pick and choose. They can’t possibly make a profit from a 200-300$ boxset.

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That's because they're too busy focusing on gimmicks instead of actually evolving the show.

Absolutely agreed. That's the fault of people who have nothing to do with making collectibles for adults though.