Thread 11450076

Looks like the elite series that started with the Dark Ages Doomslayer is gonna have other video game characters too. Fallout, Diablo, and most surprisingly, Persona.

>>11450076 (OP)
Loot box scam

>>11450076 (OP)
McFarlane made the same quality figures in the year 2002 for 10 bucks. 60 is too much. And no I don't care about paint app costs.

Here’s your $30 repaints

>>11450076 (OP)
What the fuck is this? Figures with actual accessories and alternative hands? who killed Todd and took over?

WHOLE LOTTA SASSY BENDY WIRE

>>11450173
They’re $60 with random redeemable digital point cards packed in. Todd is alive and thriving.

>>11450174
Klassic

>>11450176
Of course, he couldn't just make simple figures with things collectors want, he had to add some bullshit to it.
Well the fact he has the persona license is pretty funny.

>>11450178
>the fact he has the persona license is pretty funny
And the figure is taller than doom guy. Weebs will not buy that shit.

>>11450076 (OP)
I didn't know the P3MC was ten feet tall and towers over demons from hell and guys in power armor.

I'll accept it just because i'm a huge faggot for Fallout and even though we've been getting a steady stream of merch for years, no one wants to fucking do a decent scale poseable Power Armor figure.
Right now this is my placeholder. Even Mcfarlane is better than this shit.

Every time they do another series with an anime art style I am surprised, because they always seem so phoned in and done out of obligation. Only decent looking one I can think of was Stain from MHA, and it's more because the character already happened to look like a Mcfarlane design.

>>11450186
Here's a sassy little secret: the neck pegs for the Fallout power armor are the same as many Spawn, MK, DCMV figures. You can slap a Spawn or Batman head onto it and pretend they're in the future. Pretty cool right?!

>>11450076 (OP)
>60 bucks
lmao at least Todd is good at one thing and that's making his competition look fairly priced and as a good deal
>>11450187
>because they always seem so phoned in and done out of obligation.
That's because they are, if Todd could he would just sell Spawn and Batman figures but even he has to face the fact he needs more modern licenses to survive and kids today want anime figures so he'll make them in protest which is why they're so bad and filled with McFarlane-isms, he really doesn't care about collector's needs other than his own

>>11450190
From my experience a lot of existing Mcfarlane figures don't even use the same size head pegs.

I'd be cool with him getting P3 if it meant demons, but this is probably going to be Saitama/OPM situation. In which case it's pointless cause the P3 MC has better figures.

>>11450076 (OP)
>An absolutely fuckhuge P3 MC
Well if he made some Personas that might be cool since they don't really have to be a specific size for the most part but who the hell wants Persona characters in that bizarre Todd scale when there is already an expansive Figma line?

>>11450186
Same, I’ll take the power armor but that’s it for now. I have all the Persona figmas and while this mcfarlane one would be the new reload design, it being so huge ruins it for me.

>>11450076 (OP)
It's so funny seeing McFarlane being forced to take on licenses Todd clearly does not care for because they lost the DC license, and they're not realizing why they lost it and keep making the same mistakes

>>11450076 (OP)
>McF Persona
barf

>>11450076 (OP)
>Persona.
can't wait!

>>11450186
>decent scale

What scale?

>>11450213
>and they're not realizing why they lost it

Because Mattel is a big company with bigger interest?

>>11450076 (OP)
>Fallout armor
this is all i wanted in my life figure collecting wise FOR 20 FUCKING YEARS
20+ FUCKING YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEARTS

and we FINALLY getting a normal size armor?
what
the
fuck

>>11450174
>>11450177
Wow, only took him 5 years to get to classic Mortal Kombat figures (of which 2 years were MK Spawn skins and 1 year of almost no activity)

>>11450289
Had McFarlane done a good job then DC would've probably stuck with them, but McFarlane didn't and never will

>>11450308
>Had McFarlane done a good job then DC would've probably stuck with them

Didn't Mattel lose the license for all the lazy unsellable shit they made over the years? What will change?

>>11450319
Mattel gave it the license up

>>11450319
Discovery + ATT buy out.

Shit load of people got fired at WB/DC, so everyone who remembers that Mattel wasn't allowed to have the license anymore no longer works at WB.

Plus, Discovery is in need of money AND is looking to sell WB. So for the short term, Mattel has a shitload of cash that they've been willing to burn ever since they lost the DC license and they want the DC license back.

The sticker shock is palpable. I don't like any of these IPs enough to drop $60 on a figure of even the main. Especially when it will likely be poorly articulated

TODD
GIVE ME A DEATH CLAW AND MY LIFE IS YOURS.

>>11450076 (OP)
Toe-tickulation, and like McFarlane getting out of low priced toys, PIVOT

>>11450076 (OP)
Forgive me, I haven’t played Diablo 4, but why are they doing so much merch of Lilith? I know she’s the big bad of 4, but was she even well received from fans?

>>11450529
It's her turn.

>>11450447
I like these IPs plenty I don’t like mcfarlane toys enough to drop $60. At the end of the day they make cheap shit. Pick a lane and stick to it. I’m tired of these retail toy companies trying to pretend they sell premium products.

>>11450452
Deathclaws are remarkably similar to one of the best modern McFarlane figures so this is actually a good fit. I have no idea how much an "elite" big fig will cost though.

>>11450567
I got this for 30 on sale. Something tells me no elite edition will ever be clearanced that cheap because only a tiny amount are made

>>11450581
Also if regular elites are 60 I can only imagine what a big one will start at.

>>11450170
>2 extra hands
>buck body to be repainted at least 3 more times for Smoke, Reptile and Ermac
>pin joints
>$20
How is a vetran toy company struggling so hard keeping the prices competitave. Even with JADA hiking up the price of there base figure you still get so much more than what TODD is offering. The MK classics are going to be 3 waves and quits when they don't sale at retail price and pop up at ROSS. It'll just be repaints of P2 colors like red Raiden

>>11450076 (OP)
I'll buy all P4 figs if they make chie satonaka

>>11450596
Doesn’t Todd hate making female figures? Doubt that’ll happen

>>11450588
Struggle? They are clearly putting their feelers out to find a sweet spot before diminishing returns on their pricing. It was never Todd's intent to stay cheap. Remember the successful Spawn figure Kickstarter predates most the current lines. He's been wondering if he could wring that much money out of average collectors for a while now.
The earlier DC figure that cost more just for a digital code no one cares about was another example of testing the waters.

>>11450596
I just want an Arsene figure. Had no Idea how how I needed to use water for it's stickers.

>>11450588
What makes you think they'll be 20 bucks? Not even DC is that low anymore. These will be 30 minimum.

>>11450604
There was a $40 wave exclusive to MTS that was also testing it. The CEs tested it with $30 and many still sold out, so they greenlit $60 elite editions. These are selling out so I expect them to go higher eventually. The whale audience will be all that is left.

>>11450651
There’s the pop up parade coming out, yes it’s not articulated, but it looks so much better than that janky model kit and will scale with the figma stuff.

>>11450722
Fans sure are getting destroyed in this modern toy market. The imports have gotten to the price where only major characters from a work can be made without too much risk, and so now we just get supplementary unarticulated statues of characters that would've been figures 5 years ago. This is a dark time. It only gets worse doesn't it?

>ANOTHER Doomguy

The franchise has more than one character, Todd. Like, I dunno...all the demons?

>>11450822
Demons dont sel*Todd drops Lilith*

Ok McFarlane Toys is just being inconsistent now

>>11450567
>>11450581
People always bragging how they found this guy for cheap and I've never seen him drop below $45ish. He seems like he'd be a fun big bad monster, but I've been disappointed many times after buying a big McFarlane figure at full price.

>>11450831
I don't even like Diablo, but Lilith is the only one of these I'd even want to buy. Demon chicks are cool and I could always use more monsters and villains in my collection.

>>11450210
The power armor is gonna suck wont it? It probably wont be able to hold his weapons properly

>>11450915
By all means find an alternative. Isn't weird how gamers cry so hard about companies not making toys of their franchises when it's clear they don't give a fuck?

>>11450888
It was mostly just chance back after the wave had been out for awhile and Amazon happened to drop him to $30 randomly. I'd say he isn't disappointing for $30. I wouldn't pay any more for him though.

Deluxe figures are rarely worth the upcharge any company puts on them, especially considering their articulation is usually worse.

This was kind of a 'show piece' for the Spawn line so they tried a bit harder than usual with him. Still, I have him posed with one hand on the shelf just in case rather than trusting just his legs though to avoid toppling.

Glad someone other than figma got persona, I got school joker and Yu from the new years lucky box thing and while Yu is kinda ok, joker is a steaming pile of shit so I really doubt these could be any worse than they are especially for how expensive the figma ones are

>pin joints in 2025
>on a $60 figure

>>11451085
It's weird how they can't just tell the factory to hide the pins and have it done given most factories do it with other companies by now

>>11451223
Other companies don't tell the factory to hide joints, it's dependent on how the sculptor designs the figure.

>>11450722
i own the model kit and it's easily the worst figure i've ever own

>>11451392
I thought it was more on the engineer as the sculptors should already all know how to do pinless since they are contract sculptors who also work with Hasbro and Mattel who do pinless.

>>11451412
Maybe. I don't know how much difference there is between engineers and sculptors because I think I’ve heard of sculptors pitching new articulation techniques as well. But regardless whoever is in charge of such design decisions needs to say no more pin joints they are so ugly

>>11450170
>>11450172
>Btfo 6 years ago by Storm

>>11450927
Nah McFarlane is a damn monkey paw. You see them grabbing all these licenses, making these half ass figures and just calls it a day. Damn halo/ destiny stuff were basically statues with shit articulation.

>>11450076 (OP)
At last promised Persona toys from the infamous McFarlane dude.
>WTF with this scale? 1/10 or even bigger? Forget about figma. They will be taller than Marvel Legends.
>Very barebone accessories.
>60$
>FUCKING PINS!
>Some jewish scam with digital points or whatever.
>Probably very limited choise of girls or no girls at all. Plus all animu faces will be uglyfied by burger standarts.

>>11450888
>>11450936

>He seems like he'd be a fun big bad monster
I bought mine at full price and even then I felt I had spent my money well worth. I don't care all that much for Spawn personally but Violator makes a good generic demon monster thing. He's also pretty damn big and has some seriously dense plastic. You can legitimately hurt someone if you hurled it.

But yeah, if you can manage to get him cheaper, all the better. Top 5 easily of the modern Spawn line.

>>11450076 (OP)
Did this dude lose the Fortnite licence? Those figures where good. He should have made more.

>>11451938
They didn't lose the license. They simply didn't bother to renew the license, hence no one bothering to make collector (7") Fortnite figures after McFarlane dropped it.
Jazwares MIGHT have lost the license, since Hasbro started making 6" Fortnite figures for kids, but who really knows, since Hasbro didn't go guns blazing with a hundred million Fortnite figures like a normal kids retail line does. So maybe Jazwares ditched the license and Hasbro picked it up, thinking making special/deluxe versions for a reduced audience would sell.

Either way, the Fortnite license wasn't worth it to anyone. I don't think Jazwares even makes new 1:18 Fortnite figures anymore either and are coasting on the license with just re-re-redecos to save money.

>>11450598
>Doesn’t Todd hate mak-
You really think him specifically is the one making this anime slop?

People don't realize Todd was one of the first to make anime figures (well, stactions) back in the late 90s, early 00s. He made some Akira, Trigun, GitS, SoulTaker, etc. stuff. That said, Todd is a different being now. He's basically just delegating everything as far as I can tell and isn't as involved as he used to be.