Thread 11516023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBGjzom-N3A

Holy shit this is hilarious. At this point this company going out of business will be a mercy killing.

What went so wrong?

>>11516023 (OP)
>What went so wrong?
Todd's always been like this. Are you new? I always assumed the praise he gets here is because 4chan always has to be comtrarian about everything.

>>11516037
Even if you don't like McFarlane figures, any reasonable person can see this is a new low. $60 for a Titan Series shampoo bottle with a few dabs of paint. What a catastrophic decline this company's had in the last three years.

do you always cry about toys that aren't made to your personal desires

>>11516071
Just because you like being a bottom doesn't mean the rest of us want to watch without saying how disgusting it is.

>>11516023 (OP)
>>11516143
all hobby companies have betrayed their customers over the last decade, but especially during and after COVID. Hasbro, WotC, LEGO, Games Workshop, you name them - they all fucking deserve the guillotine at this point.

>>11516023 (OP)
this looks so cheap that if you stared at the shitty plastic too intensely, you just might pierce it lol

>>11516071
dude, this isn't even a matter of taste at this point, it's just a complete failure to uphold any kind of standard on behalf of the company producing this shit. There is not one person with a functioning brain on this planet that would consider 60 dollars a worthwhile price for a 6 ounce hollow plastic figure that has half-assed coating with intention of making it look heavier. Even calling it cancerous dogshit would fall short of describing it, more like extinction-level slop.

>spawn line is trash and dead
>40k line is trash and dead
>Anime stuff is trash and dead

Honestly McF is completely dead after they lose access to the batman gravy-train. $60 video game characters ain't going to work.

>>11516229
This is why there isn't a McFarlane general anymore. The only thing he makes that anybody remotely cares about is DC, and even that line is only sustained by sunk cost faggots trying to complete character rosters rather than buying toys they like, or for their actual quality.
Everything else that he makes now is just an attempt to wring a few more shekels from the retards that still worship him. Soon the only shit he will be making is Mcstatues for movies that not a single person on the planet gives a fuck about.

>>11516270
It's just crazy just how little they are actually TRYING though. The Spawn line became so low-effort after the first couple of waves. That's Todd's baby and he apparently couldn't give a fuck about it. The Mortal Kombat toys were pretty decent for the price. They just dropped it and didn't replace it with any other fighting games(despite fighting games still being hot right now).

Thier 40k line could have been great low-cost alternative to JT if they actually bothered to release new sculpts on a semi-regular basis but it's mostly repaints of the shitty first-wave marine. Plus now they are way more expensive.

Why didn't they pick up any new franchises? He could be making Invincible toys right now.

>>11516299
Oh whoops didn't realize they were gonna be making some mortal kombat classic figures. Hopefully they step up the articulation for those.

>>11516023 (OP)
Ugh, listening to his western-euro accent turned me off even more.

Anyway, yes, the figure detail is awesome but the use of materials and lack of articulation is sad.

No better than those $10 shampoo bottle figures

>>11516270
I assume shit like this is paid for by Amazon and it literally doesnt matter if the junk sells or not

>>11516367
>western-euro accent
LOL
I immediately turned off his review when i heard him, because people with his accent mostly make clickbait shit, but that definitely isn't western accent, muchless euro

>>11516180
I can't comment on board games, but there is no major toy company whose products have declined in quality more precipitously than McFarlane. Everyone has raised prices - that's the reality we created by empowering the billionaire class to hoard unlimited wealth with impunity. You can even argue the quality of some toys or toylines have declined in some specific instances (e.g. Mattel's Masterverse She-Ra has an unusually ugly face, Hasbro is still selling Marvel Legends with old, gummy, pinned appendages, etc.). However, overall, most toy companies are killing it quality wise. MOTU figures keep looking better, Marvel Legends are getting improved articulation, and smaller companies like Jada and Storm are releasing Street Fighter figures that are challenging the big two on price AND quality. Competition is fierce right now, which is why McFarlane is only falling further and further behind.

Just look at what McFarlane was offering a few years ago: Clayface, Frost King, Kotal Kahn, Mandarin Spawn. Great sculpts, decent paint, reasonable prices. Now? Most figures are boring, sometimes unpainted (!), with prices jacked up to obscene levels, terrible distribution under the guise of "collectability"... The list goes on. Every toy company could be doing better at something, but McFarlane isn't doing well at ANYTHING. I don't know if Todd is checked out or just out of touch, but I can't imagine this company surviving long after DC handoff. It would require a shakeup of staggering proportions to get this company back on track.

>>11516440
>there is no major toy company whose products have declined in quality

Hasbro

>>11516475
Are you incapable of reading the words that immediately followed what you quoted? How is it that a message board is teeming with illiterates?

>>11516180
shf got hit the hardest. Not a single release for years without QC issues. Not buying that trash anymore.

>>11516440
Don't worry lol, this fag >>11516475 isn't me, the anon you replied to at >>11516180. And yes, I agree with you, cutting corners yields greater risk of alienation when there are better and cheaper alternatives. I don't see how they plan on surviving with essentially no viable gameplan for foreseeable future.

>>11516311
It will be the same joints they use on everything else.

>>11516602
how does one know if it's a problem with the figure or if the shipping people had a very bad week?

>>11516023 (OP)
Pity Hugo Martin is a whiny manchild who only alllows his Doom to get toys, instead of what Carmack created

>>11516647
figuarts is just bad. It has nothing to do with shipping

>>11516229
>Honestly McF is completely dead after they lose access to the batman gravy-train.
good

>>11516180
Then why are you still buying their products?

>>11516229
>$60 video game characters ain't going to work.
You underestimate what the average consumer will slurp up. The Fallout game figures are against all sense selling alright despite the ridiculous and unwarranted price tag (not so much the alien girl one from the TV show). NCR Ranger is sold out at 6 of 7 major retailers he is offered at, the power armor at 3 of 7. Doomguy also sold pretty well unless he has come back in stock after the preorder sell outs. But Doom cant sell too much at that price so...

>>11516270
Pretty much any line that goes on long enough gets full of team builders who buy their teams regardless of quality or people who buy their favorite characters even if the figure is horribly made. Just like DCMV, ML is full of this type of behavior. Star Wars collectors are always on the look out for their favorite Glup Shitto as well.

>>11516299
>Thier 40k line could have been great low-cost alternative to JT if they actually bothered to release new sculpts on a semi-regular basis but it's mostly repaints of the shitty first-wave marine. Plus now they are way more expensive.
They likely can't really afford to make many new 40k sculpts anymore.

>>11516440
>terrible distribution under the guise of "collectability"
This is entirely intentional and 'collectability' or 'the hunt' are just their bad excuses for it. The reality is that they have cut back on making figures to avoid shelf warming to thus avoid losing retail buyers--because if too many retailers drop them, its over. It's something every toy company does at specific points, although it's certainly to the extreme here.

>>11516143
You're literally saying you want to watch while saying how disgusting it is. Sicko.

>>11516224
cry more

>>11516023 (OP)
It's a fail for people who fell for the scam, but for McFarlane it's a great success to find a way to sell soap bottle heroes for $50

>>11518870
lick the boot more

>>11516023 (OP)
>Subjectanon will defend this

>>11519470
i find it hard to believe anyone can defend that. i think they can ignore it but not defend.

>>11516023 (OP)
THIS is from the guy who invented the revolver joint? What the hell happened?

>>11519843
People get more risk averse in their old age and lose the will to take chances.

>>11519843
The Japanese are already copying his big overpriced low articulation shampoo bottle figures with something called Sofubi. Those sneaky Japs. First Pearl Harbor, and now they can't stop copying Todd.

>>11516023 (OP)
these new games and design are so lame why does anyone care

I've always said Todd is a hack. None of you believed me.

>>11520853
I'm glad more people are realizing this company is a joke

>>11520853
I believed you, anon.

>>11516440
his stuff used to look so organic. this shit is so bland.

>>11516023 (OP)
Hey is this guy a pole? I know a polish guy and this guy sounds like him.

>>11528117
Todd should be ashamed of what his company has become. That Reaper figure is absolutely bizarre in its texturing too. It's like someone whose first day using Zbrush just threw on some textures randomly and called it a day. I can't even imagine how they sold more than like 5 figures of that.