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Originally Posted by Comedian

There seems to be a nostalgic mood of late for Tim burton and the Schumacher films.

Not me. I still kinda like the first Burton film, but otherwise Batman Returns and the Schumacher flicks are super-runny diarrhea.

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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

Funko Pops are also a lot less expensive to produce that any scale action figure. Like Webz said, no need to worry about any likenesses is a major cost and time saver. But the overall production on a Pop is low cost, and solid profit per unit. That is why they hit every license they can, no matter how poorly they sell in the end. The ones that do sell well, easily cover the costs of any that don't.

Funko can acquire a license and have product on shelf within 6 to 9 weeks as well (via their prospectus when they went public). No other company can really do that.

Wow, interesting. I didn't know a lot of that info, especially the turnaround time.

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Originally Posted by Comedian

Understood on money. But pay it, charge more for the figure. Arnold can’t be that tough, neca has made about 50 figures of him.

From what I've read, I believe that Arnold was the most that NECA ever has or ever would splash out for a likeness, mostly because it can be used for multiple properties and they know it'll sell no matter what they use it for. I mean, it's fucking Arnold. Meanwhile if you give Carl Weathers an island full of cocaine and hookers for a Dillon likeness, you get just one figure out of it. Not worth it, as much as we'd all love a Dillon figure.

That's provided that I was correct about NECA's Arnold deal. Not 100% sure if they have the general rights to his likeness to use for whatever they want or if they have to set it up by movie. It sure seems like they just have overall rights considering where his likeness keeps popping up, like the Kenner homages and videogame figures.

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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

Peter Weller, I can't imagine the total they paid. He literally refuses all attempts at Robocop involvement. He's refused NECA's offers multiple times, and the guys making the Robocop Documentary (RoboDoc) have basically held up the entire process for over a year trying to get him involved. Weller is pretty much the only living person involved with Robocop who won't be interviewed for that documentary (they are using archive footage).

I'd really like to know what Weller's deal is. I know he's supposed to be a rather weird and unhinged guy in real life (I mean, the guy has a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art History), but I've seen videos of him talking about Robocop at conventions so I don't know what his problem is with being involved with retrospective stuff on the movie, especially since it basically made his career.

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Carl Weathers is another example. His likeness was included in the Rocky franchise (everyone was except for Hogan I believe). But Predator didn't include any likenesses, and NECA has failed at every attempt to get a Dillon figure made.

He's another odd duck (I love that term, lol). He keeps feigning interest, then drops out of discussions cold.

Seriously, it's easy enough to make a near-perfect Dillon custom with a NECA Apollo Creed figure, a Dutch figure, the right accessories, and a wee bit of paint.