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Ninjinister · 01-13-2020, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Madame Warlock

it's absolutely wild how Star Wars and GI Joe bit it too. At least Legends is sort of a Legacy 6" thing but not many people collecting were alive to remember any Joes bigger than 1/18th and Star Wars has always been that scale, AFAIK, which makes sense since it's good for vehicles and playsets.

It just proves that it's absolutely some crappy ideologue preference with not much regard for what people really want. Some people will defend businesses as just responding to the market as if they're hyper logical naturally occurring entities but that's BS.

Hasbro pretty much forced us to switch to 1/18th back when they bought the License as it was the 6" ones that had a drop in quality and frequency of release. Their modern 6 inchers are very good but the price is ridiculous. Wages & welfare(since we're still in a recession don't forget) have stagnated and yet we're paying at least twice as much for a similar quality of product as we did under Toybiz.

Granted Toybiz MLs haven't aged quite as well in retrospect(with some exceptions, and the later ones were generally pretty great) but they did have a style and character(and generally more detail/blackwashing and stuff) a lot of the modern ones lack.

As I've stated before and I will hold to my heart, if it were up to me, I'd work on a way to make everyone happy. I mean in a way where all regular scales get good support.

01-13-2020, 10:29 PM	#39140
Ninjinister Reverend Shinobi Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 3,299	Quote: Originally Posted by Madame Warlock it's absolutely wild how Star Wars and GI Joe bit it too. At least Legends is sort of a Legacy 6" thing but not many people collecting were alive to remember any Joes bigger than 1/18th and Star Wars has always been that scale, AFAIK, which makes sense since it's good for vehicles and playsets. It just proves that it's absolutely some crappy ideologue preference with not much regard for what people really want. Some people will defend businesses as just responding to the market as if they're hyper logical naturally occurring entities but that's BS. Hasbro pretty much forced us to switch to 1/18th back when they bought the License as it was the 6" ones that had a drop in quality and frequency of release. Their modern 6 inchers are very good but the price is ridiculous. Wages & welfare(since we're still in a recession don't forget) have stagnated and yet we're paying at least twice as much for a similar quality of product as we did under Toybiz. Granted Toybiz MLs haven't aged quite as well in retrospect(with some exceptions, and the later ones were generally pretty great) but they did have a style and character(and generally more detail/blackwashing and stuff) a lot of the modern ones lack. As I've stated before and I will hold to my heart, if it were up to me, I'd work on a way to make everyone happy. I mean in a way where all regular scales get good support. __________________ My Want List (Updated July 17, 2018)