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Anonymous No.11603246 [Report] >>11603261 >>11603279 >>11603379 >>11604002 >>11604199 >>11604444 >>11604988 >>11607263 >>11610519
Tron general "yay a thousand backers" edition
https://www.hasbropulse.com/product/G35465L00
Looks like they finally made it to 10% of the way there.

This is still sad watching the merch crash and burn with the Ares movie. And it could have been saved if only if it were more reasonably-priced.
Anonymous No.11603261 [Report]
>>11603246 (OP)
> if only if it were more reasonably-priced.
It's likely priced this high to account for lower anticipated sales volume and maybe higher licensing fees. Most (All?) other Haslabs were for IPs they already had the license and were making product for.
Anonymous No.11603271 [Report] >>11603277
Yeah, this ain't happening. Not after Ares crashed harder than the Hindenburg.
Anonymous No.11603277 [Report]
>>11603271
It would have sold well in spite of that if it weren't for the price. Ares flopped because it didn't give fans what we wanted, which was a continuation of the Sam and Quorra story. It didn't flop because there are no fans.

On the bright side you can dumpster-dive behind movie theaters for rare Tron popcorn buckets no one bought.
Anonymous No.11603279 [Report] >>11603282 >>11603316 >>11603329 >>11603486
>>11603246 (OP)
Still didn't see ares, should I?
Anonymous No.11603282 [Report]
>>11603279
Why not? It'll be your last chance to see anything Tron on the big screen again.
Anonymous No.11603316 [Report] >>11603343
>>11603279
its not great, it's not horrible. It just is. Nice visuals and soundtrack make for a fun time if you just go turn your brain off and have a snack.
Anonymous No.11603329 [Report]
>>11603279
The YouTube reviews about it are more entertaining. And also free.
Anonymous No.11603343 [Report]
>>11603316
>soundtrack
Haven't seen it but I did skip through the soundtrack and it seemed very mediocre almost like someone playing with synthesizers for the first time. It was also very same-y, Legacy had more variety in it's sound
Anonymous No.11603359 [Report] >>11603425
At least the 6" Legacy figures are still coming.
Anonymous No.11603379 [Report] >>11603391
>>11603246 (OP)
How many backers has this thing been averaging per day?
Anonymous No.11603391 [Report]
>>11603379
It got several hundred on the first two days, then it slowed down to maybe a dozen backers per day.
Anonymous No.11603425 [Report]
>>11603359
I hope they make the 80s Tron in 6” too. The Legacy figures look a bit underwhelming. I guess the light up suits are hard to pull off with mere paint but with the old white/light gray suits instead of black, it might look a tad better since there's less contrast. But anyway this is gonna be another Adventure Series probably will hit Ollies eventually
Anonymous No.11603486 [Report] >>11603614 >>11603681 >>11603727 >>11604522 >>11605780 >>11615213
>>11603279
It was absolutely terrible (not in a fun way.) I don’t know who it was made for. It’s fitting because whoever thought this Haslab was a good idea at Hasbro is equally out of touch and should be fired.

How can focus groups and market research still be a thing and mega corporations still be so clueless? It seems like everything is done in spite of the consumer and public consensus now.
Anonymous No.11603614 [Report] >>11604522 >>11605783
>>11603486
>How can focus groups and market research still be a thing and mega corporations still be so clueless? It seems like everything is done in spite of the consumer and public consensus now.
When they're pushing an agenda, they tend to ignore shit and create their own studies that speaks positively about their agenda.

It's like when cigaratte companies funded studies on the benefits of smoking or how circumcizing dicks is the greatest thing since indoor plumbing. So they use those super biased documents to convince accountants and higher ups of all the great shit that comes from making a super biased product, while doing their best to ignore all established knowledge or more researched studies.

Here's a minicomic made by one of the creators of the Green Lantern cartoon about his experience with testing the cartoon with kids. Pretty funny shit, especially given how the GL:TAS and Bruce Timm's career ended up.
Anonymous No.11603681 [Report] >>11603692 >>11603708 >>11604195
>>11603486
Look closely at the figures. They're 3.75" figures with the same level of sculpt quality and detail as 6" figures. Hasbro has apparently reformatted the way it does 3.75" figures now, and they noticably upped the level of quality to them. I think they look awesome. The only catch is that price that makes them to be unobtanium.

And if this is the level of detail and quality that Hasbro plans on or 3/75" scales, then I am all for it IF they can do something about that price.
Anonymous No.11603692 [Report] >>11603735
>>11603681
Those aren't just renders, either. Hasbro showed the actual fgures at NYCC. They're great figures with great details. The price just sucks.
Anonymous No.11603708 [Report] >>11603714
>>11603681
>They're 3.75" figures with the same level of sculpt quality and detail as 6" figures
Hasbro's 3.75" figures have had the same level of quality and detail since the late 00s. Only the paint apps were lacking, especially when they started doing the printed paint apps.

BTW, you're looking at professionally painted figures. So of course it looks much more detailed and won't have the plastictically look that production figures will have.
Even Mattel's prototypes can look great when they'er hand painted.
Anonymous No.11603714 [Report] >>11603752
>>11603708
Look at the face sculpts on the Tron figures. They're definitely better than they were in that size in the past. They're even better than many figures in the 6" size. Also look at the proportions. Gone are the disproportionally short legs and overall off proportions.
Anonymous No.11603727 [Report] >>11603774
>>11603486
Hasbro knew exactly what it was doing. It knew it was in the riskiest market for toys ever and it wants the fans to bear the cost of any risk for it. It knew Ares would do poorly and provide no boost to this haslab. It knew Disney demanded a Tron tie in offering like the Reva lightsaber before it. It knew the only people who would buy this are adult collectors. This haslab was never intended to succeed. It was sent out to die to fill a licensing quota.
Anonymous No.11603735 [Report]
>>11603692
Too bad this is DOA. I want that sexy weird looking girl.
Anonymous No.11603740 [Report] >>11603774 >>11605060 >>11605069
NO stretch goals
NO hints at continuing the line further
NO Red Light Cycle
NO Ram
NO Guard army builder
NO way to buy more of Program the army builder
MUST buy the display stand whether you want it or not, will NOT fit inside a Detolf
$260 BASE price, but $323 after surcharges, tax & shipping

Any 80s Tron fan will always note the missing Red Lightcycle, this was never a "complete" collection like they want to claim it is. It has so much against it as it does for it, and the cherry on top is that shitty pricetag.
Anonymous No.11603752 [Report]
>>11603714
>Gone are the disproportionally short legs and overall off proportions.
oh, you're literally talking about 3.75", meaning o-ring turds?
Because actual 1:18 got great when HAsbro started making them 4" (6 feet person = 4" in 1:18) back in the late 00s.
And you literally can't make them anymore detailed than they were since probably the 90s, because molding technology hasn't improved since the 70s or 80s and top tier sculptors have been taking advantage of that molding tech since the late 90s.

Still, those Tron figures are hand painted prototypes and we've seen how top tier sculpts can be completely ruined with shitty paint jobs.
Anonymous No.11603771 [Report] >>11615508
Whats a worse flop, this, or McFarlene's Joker fiasco.
Anonymous No.11603774 [Report] >>11604098
>>11603727
Or they expect fans to shoulder the cost of the Ares stuff that was NOT produced to hedge against what they spent on aquiring the license.

>>11603740
>NO stretch goals
This gets me. Unlockables are motivators. Having RAM and a "warrior" as unlockables would have easily helped boost the number of backers because that's more you'd get for the money.
Anonymous No.11603777 [Report] >>11603783
Where’s Daft Punk when you really need them?
Anonymous No.11603783 [Report] >>11603785 >>11603821 >>11612702
Let's break the price down. Five figures at retail for $25 each would come to $125. That retail price is assumed from the price Reaction+ and others sell figures in that size for now. So that leaves two lightcycles and a light-up "grid" base for $130. Since the lightcycles aren't exactly big and ellaborate, I could see them retailing for $30 each. So that's $100 for a small light-up display base.

Lose the base to bring the prices down.

>>11603777
>holy 7's confirms truth
Anonymous No.11603785 [Report] >>11603795
>>11603783
Derp I did the math wrong. After two lightcycles, the base is $70.
Anonymous No.11603795 [Report] >>11603812 >>11603821
>>11603785
The base clearly doesn't cost even close to $70 to produce. It's just there to pad the total number even more and give you the illusion that you're getting your money's worth. It doesn't even have a battery course in it. It's a cheap USB plug powered base

Really not sure what made them think this price with these offerings was a great idea. Maybe there's some kind of licensing restriction and they had to get it above a certain amount like McFarlane claimed theirs needed to be? DST was making classic Tron figures a few years ago but I'd assume their license was expired by now.
Anonymous No.11603812 [Report] >>11603883 >>11612709
I really want the Diamond Select figures so much, but they got the scale wrong. They made them to be 7" instead of 6". That screws up the ability for them to go with anything. That's probably why their values are so low for convention exclusives.

>>11603795
Yeah I know it doesn't cost that much. Someone on Etsy could probably make one for half that price. It's all padding to kick up the price. I think you might be right with Hasbro having requirements placed on them by Disney because these days Disney is good at losing a lot of money, and they're probably putting a tight squeeze on licensors to get as much back as possible.
Anonymous No.11603821 [Report] >>11603828
>>11603783
>>11603795
Haslab prices are what they are literally just for their profit margins. It's probably like a low risk high reward thing for them. If they meet/exceed the profits, they are happy they got away with fleecing suckers. If it doesn't reach minimum backer count, they are not gonna bother going into production at a lower price to make less or lose money and will just move on and try something else later
Anonymous No.11603828 [Report] >>11603851
>>11603821
If it doesn't get backed, then they already lost money in the license as well as the development costs for the production samples.
Anonymous No.11603851 [Report]
>>11603828
Development costs for the samples and prototypes is a drop in the bucket. Just a couple thousand dollars in the artists' time and putting together the prototypes.

Since they're producing the 6" figures apparently no matter what, they're already paying licensing fees to whoever is the Rights holder for Tron. These 3.75" figs would just be extra money going that way if they funded.
Anonymous No.11603883 [Report] >>11603887 >>11603903 >>11612709
>>11603812
>THEY GOT THE SCALE WRONG ITS WRONG ITS WRONG ITS WRONG

what a little incel
Anonymous No.11603884 [Report] >>11603903
I'm a pretty casual Tron fan, I'd buy some glow in the dark, translucent, led lights, black light paint or whatever gimmick to mimic the aesthetic in a cool way. It seems they aren't doing that.
Anonymous No.11603887 [Report] >>11603895
>>11603883
He's saying there's a smaller set of collectors who prefer 7" over 6" which is true. But the main issue with those was that it was DST making them. Almost all their figures are poorly articulated pieces of shit with outdated sculpting, joints and paint.
Anonymous No.11603895 [Report] >>11603901 >>11603903
>>11603887
Bruh, you collect toys. Why should it matter? Do you get a stroke if Optimus is the same size as heman in that glass cabinet of yours?
Anonymous No.11603901 [Report] >>11603907
>>11603895
Are you seriously trying to argue that people shouldn't care about scale? Obviously people who enjoy collecting accurate representations of characters from films or shows they love, they want them to be in scale.
Anonymous No.11603903 [Report] >>11603910
>>11603883
Fuck off, Michael.

>>11603884
Diamond Select did do that with their 7" figures in a special blacklight arcade-style box, which was actually pretty cool if you don't mind the size.

>>11603895
Do you come ehre just to nit-pick any excuse you can so you can argue with people?
Anonymous No.11603907 [Report]
>>11603901
>obviously we need toys to look hyper realistic for a BADASS kino display of excellent taste show casing the best of media

this is how we end up with boring ugly niggers in star wars toys. because you faggots want realism and super accurate scaling when even Retro Blasting highlighted toy companies can't get scales right at all in his marvel legend break down video
Anonymous No.11603910 [Report] >>11603912
>>11603903
It's really funny COOMer tards cry about scaling all the time when they're busy jerking it off to dolls like the perverted freaks they really are
>NOOOOO MY DOLLS ARE TOO SMALL I CANT COOOOOOM NOOOOO
Anonymous No.11603912 [Report]
>>11603910
What the fuck is wrong with you? No one's jacking off to these, nor being perverted in any way. You pulled that retarded crap out of absolutely nothing because of my complaint about the different scale.

You're good at fabricating any scenario that helps you believe that you're always right. You're totally mental because of it.
Anonymous No.11604002 [Report] >>11604007 >>11604009
>>11603246 (OP)
Does this mean they’re not doing the legacy toys? Because I really want rinzler good legacy merch is surprisingly rare all I have is the Lego set
Anonymous No.11604007 [Report] >>11604053
>>11604002
They're still a "go" as far as I know. I hope they're not cancelled.
Anonymous No.11604009 [Report] >>11604014 >>11604053
>>11604002
no, those 6" ones were never shown off as a Haslab or dependent on the campaign. Those should still be coming though I doubt we'll get more than a wave or two since there's no shot they sell well. It'll probably be even shorter lived than the Indiana Jones line
Anonymous No.11604014 [Report] >>11604156
>>11604009
Well there's zero chance of getting Zuse and Gem unless they sell well.
Anonymous No.11604053 [Report]
>>11604007
Geez I hope not
>>11604009
Really Other than the girl & the troopers what more do you need? I guess a white outfit for The Dude would be cool too
Anonymous No.11604066 [Report] >>11604076 >>11604092 >>11604151 >>11604327
Anonymous No.11604076 [Report]
>>11604066
What the fuck. What are those leg proportions. Why are their knees all so damn low?
Anonymous No.11604092 [Report]
>>11604066
Damn they were NOT that fat in the movie lmao
Anonymous No.11604098 [Report]
>>11603774
Stretch goals would increase the price people are already mad about since they are factored in the base price
Anonymous No.11604151 [Report] >>11604190
>>11604066
These are so lame bruh. They needed to be light up or glow in the dark or something. Also their complexions should be paler
Anonymous No.11604156 [Report]
>>11604014
Need Gem's fat ass
Anonymous No.11604190 [Report] >>11604230 >>11607793
>>11604151
Light up? Come on, be real. You can't have super articualted figures and have room for all those spots to light up. Best they could do it GITD paint on the stripes
Anonymous No.11604191 [Report]
This new pic just made me realize all the blue parts of these are just printed on! The torsos are totally smooth and this is just going to be printing like they've been doing faces on the larger figures. That's lame! The should have all had raised sculpted detail for the cost they're charging.
Anonymous No.11604195 [Report]
>>11603681
> They're 3.75" figures with the same level of sculpt quality and detail as 6" figures.
Looking at the post right above, I think they duped us all with those digital renders that made these look nicer. Now that we know all the blue and red line work is just printed on and none of it is sculpted, there's a LOT more parts sharing here going on than I first thought. Several male torsos and legs are the same flat sculpts with just new printing on top. This feels even more a rip off now
Anonymous No.11604199 [Report]
>>11603246 (OP)
>only 9 new backers in the past 28 hours
Wow, cringe. This is absolutely not getting funded.
Anonymous No.11604230 [Report] >>11604246 >>11604250
>>11604190
Then just don't bother making them desu because they look very unimpressive. It's just a generic black figure buck with some white lines on it. At least blue lines would've looked better even if less accurate
Anonymous No.11604246 [Report]
>>11604230
There is such a thing as "day-glow" florescent paint. They just don't use it on Tron or any figures now.
Anonymous No.11604250 [Report] >>11604291
>>11604230
Did you seriously think it was possible to have electronics and lights in all the figure so that everything lights up on all their limbs and torso? Seriously? With all that articulation?
Anonymous No.11604291 [Report]
>>11604250
I know it's not possible. My point is the paint does not imitate the lights well at all and therefore the figures look lame
Anonymus No.11604327 [Report] >>11604329 >>11607819
>>11604066
See, they needed to lead with this.
Not the shitty 3.75 figures
Anonymous No.11604329 [Report] >>11604403
>>11604327
These are coming regardless. The 3.75 are the crowdfund. How does releasing the 6" figs for a totally different film and scale help the 3.75 ones get made?
Anonymus No.11604403 [Report] >>11604513 >>11604789
>>11604329
Cause you start with what people remember well (Legacy is more recent than OG, popular among 20-30s ppl that have money and love 6in).
Let that be the lead, cause OG tron just isn't in anymore.
Anonymous No.11604444 [Report]
>>11603246 (OP)
That Steve dude comes off as a weird corporate useful idiot, he's a kiwi so they are normally breed to be inoffensive yes men so it makes sense.
I assume his choices as well as the people above his are to blame and totally tone deaf. They just keep things in a certain way to ensure they all get their bonuses.
Back in the day I think they would hire more passionate people.
Anonymous No.11604513 [Report]
>>11604403
Also og tron has readily available diamond select figures on Amazon eBay Walmart.com and every other comicbook shop I’ve ever been to
Anonymous No.11604522 [Report]
>>11603486
>>11603614
Look into the making of Ares. Jared Leto was one of the lead producer that got the movie funded and made in nine years (He started work on this in 2016) Leto strongly influenced every choice and the reason it took so long was the suits desperately wanted to make the Legacy sequel that follow what happen to Tron and him finding the main charterers from the second movie while the programs started to leak out into the world and assimilate everything grey goo style. Leto was having none of it and was beating the ears around everything that wasn't about his OC. In order to get his way the comprise made was making sure this movie had sequel bait that tied to Legacy, and that Disney control composer for the movie. It's why the merc was so late t even happen, Disney was not interested in trying a another time to making Tron merc, Leto was.

This is the exact opposite of a corporate made movie, this was one lone man's desperation for his big budget black tank top vanity project to happen.
Anonymous No.11604789 [Report] >>11604851
>>11604403
Yes Anon... That's why the OG toys are 3.75 and crowdfunded for the people that still remember that film and are more attached to that scale. Your argument doesn't make sense here.
Anonymous No.11604851 [Report]
>>11604789
I agree with you. There's probably very little overlap with people who want the 3.75" OG figures and the ones who want the 6" sequel figures. I don't see how one helps the other that much.
Anonymous No.11604988 [Report] >>11604990 >>11605007
>>11603246 (OP)
This is looking like it might be the biggest haslab failure yet.
Anonymous No.11604990 [Report] >>11604997 >>11605007
>>11604988
Can't be worse than Reva's lightsaber
Anonymous No.11604997 [Report] >>11605111
>>11604990
that needed 5000 and got 1400
no way this hits 2800
Anonymous No.11605007 [Report] >>11605058 >>11605111 >>11605379 >>11605716 >>11605784
>>11604988
>>11604990
You mother fuckers just gonna forget about me? I failed so badly they don't even have me archived on Pulse's website!

>624 out of 3000 backers needed
Anonymous No.11605058 [Report]
>>11605007
He deserved it.
Anonymous No.11605060 [Report] >>11605069
>>11603740
No MCP is the biggest WTF for me. If this is intended to be an all encompassing Tron 82 set, how the fuck do you not include the MCP with some sort of spinning gimmick?
Anonymous No.11605069 [Report]
>>11603740
>>11605060
I'm fairly certain the goal of this was to gauge interest and have some tooling paid for that they don't need to take the full risk on. If this were to be a gangbusters project, pretty sure in a couple of years they'd be doing another wave leveraging the existing tooling (probably reissuing Flynn and another figure in blacklight reactive deco) a couple of new figures, and an MCP playset.
Anonymous No.11605111 [Report] >>11605356 >>11612661
>>11604997
>needed 5000
>>11605007
>3000 backers needed
The Haslab minimums have really crept up over the years. For Ghostbusters it went from 7k needed for the first one to be backed, to 10k for the second, to 12k for the most recent. Haslabs started as super low run things, which helped justify the higher prices, yet as they increase the minimums needed their pricing doesn't becomes any less absurd.

If this Tron set only needed 3k backers I'd understand the $260 price. Super niche thing, high price to justify the extremely low number sold. But at 10k there's no reason this should be so damn expensive for 3.75" scale stuff.
Anonymous No.11605243 [Report] >>11605332 >>11606245
hasbro is spamming emails now, the desperation is setting in
Anonymous No.11605332 [Report] >>11605516
>>11605243
I can't believe Hasbro honestly thought this had even a snowball's chance in hell at that price. If so their hubris is insane.
Anonymous No.11605356 [Report]
>>11605111
Corporate greed is a helluva thing.
Anonymous No.11605379 [Report] >>11605421
>>11605007
sad thing is I think had they actually advertised this correctly that one easily could have funded, there’s definitely a big muppet fan base hasbro just had no idea what they were doing with these haslabs at first
Anonymous No.11605421 [Report] >>11605735
>>11605379
isn't Muppets about creating your own doll? why can't you make your own cookie monster are you lazy?
Anonymous No.11605516 [Report] >>11605579
>>11605332
People want the figures. They just can't afford or rationalize the price.
Anonymous No.11605579 [Report] >>11605715 >>11607119
>>11605516
Hence why I said "at that price". The Rancor couldn't get 9k backers for the same reason, it was stupidly overpriced for what it was, and yet they thought a significantly less popular IP could pull 10k for this? How is this billion dollar company so far removed from reality? Their website is literally called "Pulse", yet they employ people who couldn't have their finger further from the pulse of what the consumers want if they tried.
Anonymous No.11605715 [Report]
>>11605579
This was never intended to fund. Disney wanted them to do Tron and they need to remain in Disney's good graces to keep Marvel, so instead of putting out an Indiana Jones line that goes straight to Ollies they make the customer bear the risk with a haslab
Anonymous No.11605716 [Report]
>>11605007
They overhauled the site recently so they removed a whole ton of previous HasLabs, successful or not.
That said, Cookie Monster got memory holed the second he was DOA
Anonymous No.11605735 [Report]
>>11605421
can’t you come up with an original shitpost chungusthena? Are you lazy?
Anonymous No.11605780 [Report] >>11605787
>>11603486
>How can focus groups and market research still be a thing and mega corporations still be so clueless? It seems like everything is done in spite of the consumer and public consensus now.

They probably farm reddit and other social media for ideas. Maybe look at fan custom figures and look at how many likes the photos get on social.

Normally you could blame really poorly made market research surveys and test groups at malls and shit. But there would be no point in doing that for products aimed at fans and not the mass market
Anonymous No.11605783 [Report]
>>11603614
Come on anon, no one paid for a study in regards to these crowd funded tron figs
Anonymous No.11605784 [Report]
>>11605007
real glad this piece of shit didn't fund
Anonymous No.11605787 [Report]
>>11605780
No wonder toy companies are going broke if they're asking Reddit for advice.
Anonymous No.11606245 [Report] >>11607347
>>11605243
Just got back from a trip, checked my email, saw DESPERATION emails for this (two in a row!) as well as several from Super7. Sad.
Anonymous No.11607001 [Report] >>11607005
>it's losing backers
KWAB
Anonymous No.11607005 [Report]
>>11607001
You're right. It was at 1,064 last night. Now it's at 1,060.
Anonymous No.11607007 [Report]
I loved Legacy's toyline. Great 3.75" line with light up features and details.
Anonymous No.11607119 [Report] >>11607158 >>11607180 >>11607320 >>11607443 >>11607515
>>11605579
>Pulse
They stole that name from me. I was selected for a huge Star Wars Black Series survey when the line was new. I gave them a ton of free ideas (including more play features, blast effects and dioramas..and raising the prices) and I told them to hire me because “I have my finger on the pulse of the community”. Of course they didnt hire me they just took and used every idea I gave them.
Anonymous No.11607158 [Report]
>>11607119
How did you think they were going to hire you from a survey?
Anonymous No.11607180 [Report]
>>11607119
The purpose of a survey is to gather free information companies can use when their own employees are uncreative dip-shits not giving the bosses any data they can use.
Anonymous No.11607263 [Report]
>>11603246 (OP)
This doesn't come off as a haslab. A haslab Tron set would have a huge MCP and area, huge and small Sark, Tron. They definitely read the file wrong on this
Anonymous No.11607320 [Report]
>>11607119
Hire you to do what? Play wordle?
Anonymous No.11607347 [Report]
>>11606245
Two in a row because they managed to send an email without bothering to link any of the buttons to the actual site. Utter morons.
Anonymous No.11607443 [Report]
>>11607119
Lmao
Anonymous No.11607502 [Report] >>11607503 >>11607827 >>11609453
I don't recall these red suits in the movie, were they cut?
Anonymous No.11607503 [Report] >>11607827 >>11609453
>>11607502
Anonymous No.11607515 [Report]
>>11607119
>and raising the prices)
Look at all the retards not realizing you're trolling.
Anonymous No.11607529 [Report] >>11607539 >>11609375
People don't seem to realize this Haslab is a range without anything to compare it to so they naturally price it higher. Existing ranges they are behind on the price increases they want to make because they have to gradually turn up the heat rather than suddenly jumping the price by like 7 bucks a figure. MLs and Black Series are in their first phase of price increases now (+$3). This Haslab is where they want to end up as far as value per dollar.
Anonymous No.11607539 [Report] >>11607566
>>11607529
well its not working out for them is it
Anonymous No.11607566 [Report] >>11607764
>>11607539
Nope. Hopefully they realize this insane pricing will not be tolerated, but I'm pretty sure they'll just write it off as Tron being a worthless IP. The sad part is the Marvel Legends fans probably would pay $33 a figure
Anonymous No.11607764 [Report]
>>11607566
Hasbro used to care about price, and used to make stuff in all price ranges so even the poorest kids could afford a little something. Now its "DON'T LIKE OUR PRICES? STOP BEING POOR!"
Anonymous No.11607793 [Report] >>11607795 >>11609454
>>11604190
>You can't have super articulated light up figures
You literally can Anon. Leds are fucking tiny these days.
Anonymous No.11607795 [Report]
>>11607793
I'd settle for flourecent day-glow paint or plastic. I'd also settle for glow-in-the-dark paint and plastic. Both are possible, but toy-makers openly reject using it.
Anonymous No.11607819 [Report]
>>11604327
say that shit to my face, not online and see what happens, 6ingger.
Anonymous No.11607827 [Report]
>>11607502
>>11607503
Generic background characters like so many others.
Anonymous No.11609375 [Report] >>11609416
>>11607529
>so they naturally price it higher.
Seems to be working out pretty GREAT for them so far, huh?
Anonymous No.11609416 [Report]
>>11609375
They desired money but didn't understand how voluntary transactions worked. They thought they put up the haslab and you had to fund it by their divine right of kings
Anonymous No.11609453 [Report]
>>11607502
>>11607503
They were on screen for about 5 mins during the break in/hacking scene. Same scene where that red head actor from Shameless got his helmet taken off, had literally one line and then was never seen again. This movie was probably chopped to hell in the editing room
Anonymous No.11609454 [Report]
>>11607793
>You can have the stripes down all the articulated limbs of the figure with working LEDs
Can you though? What figure has that at this scale? Wires and what not would have to pass through every single joint in the shoulders and elbows plus hips and knees. How is THAT possible?
Anonymous No.11610495 [Report]
I've seen brand manager Steve Evans asked on fb & instagram why they didn't size the display to fit in a Detolf (Steve has a TON of Detolfs housing his personal collection in every video he makes at home), and Steve NEVER responds, but will thank everyone who comments that they backed the HasLab. Guess we can't question the corporate overlords?
Anonymous No.11610519 [Report] >>11610878
>>11603246 (OP)
>$260
>for 5 basic bitch robot chicken ass action figs, two bikes, and an LED display
>$260
>oh, and it isn't even a limited run, it's literally just a shitty kickstarter clone, meaning you might not even fucking get it
>$260
what the fuck happened to hasbro? I've been mainly paying attention to my main game LEGO but I've never even considered the other non-brick based bands and what they're doing. Hasbro IIRC used to be the dominant power of toy brands back not even like 10-15 years ago, with shit like Bayformers, Prime, MLP, even fucking lincoln logs. Now I go to the store and they're functionally nonexistent except for Marvel legends, and apparently people don't like those.
Anonymous No.11610522 [Report] >>11610776
4 days later and it's still stuck at 1000 backers. That can't be right.
Anonymous No.11610776 [Report] >>11610900
>>11610522
>people aren't backing retardedly overpriced thing from niche franchise
>That can't be right.
Anonymous No.11610785 [Report] >>11610789
The woman was approaching actually being attractive and can't have that on screen.

Seriously how do you go from Legacy having the hottest PG rated women in the history of cinema to the absolute potato cast of Ares.
Anonymous No.11610789 [Report]
>>11610785
Beauty is considered an attack on less-attractive women and young girls, and gives them self-esteem issues. Sone even argue that too much beauty around kills girls who feel ugly by compelling them into suicide. Making the world of movies, TV, and gaming ugly "saves lives" as the woke like to argue.

That's the argument. Whether ir not you agree with it is moot because that's what Hollywood and gaming go with now. Personally a lot of the ugliness in everything comes from MEN who are mad at attractive women who refused to acknowledge their existence so they want the world to be as ugly as possible as revenge.
Anonymous No.11610878 [Report]
>>11610519
CEO died and some retard from (((microsoft))) took over
Anonymous No.11610900 [Report]
>>11610776
>mfw the 1/12 figure aren't based on Uprising designs of characters
It would be far more striking and unique. Instead it's just Hasbro's lazy plastic skin tones and uncanny face prints.
Anonymous No.11611546 [Report] >>11611549
It's completely stalling out. This shit won't even hit 2k
Anonymous No.11611549 [Report]
>>11611546
It's so close to doing it too. It was a waste of time. It'll probably another half-year before we see the next HASLAB.
Anonymous No.11612099 [Report]
Here are your Tron Ares figures /toy/
Anonymous No.11612119 [Report]
ALMOST 1100 BACKERS!!!!
NGMI
Anonymous No.11612507 [Report] >>11612645
Haslabs don't work unless there's already an existing line
Anonymous No.11612584 [Report] >>11612646
>it's losing backers again
lmao
Anonymous No.11612645 [Report]
>>11612507
They're trying to sell it for twice what it is worth. It suffers from the issue that most haslabs have where there are just a bunch of gimmick features to bloat the price. They could have released the figures at $20 each (and that would have already been a pretty high price, but that's just their going rate for all 3.75" now) and sold the bikes for like $20 or $30 each. And that's being generous, since those bikes look cheap as hell.

Does anyone really care about the light up base, or whatever? Seems like they're attributing at minimum 40% of the perceived price to that. This shit should not have been a Haslab.
Anonymous No.11612646 [Report]
>>11612584
I saw that too. Every time it creeps up on 1,100, a couple of backers bail.
Anonymous No.11612661 [Report] >>11612715
>>11605111
If Hasbro needs all 10,000 to fund at 260 dollars each, that's 2.6 million. Let's say Hasbro lowers the threshold numbers to 2,500. If it still needs 2.6 mil to fund, that means Hasbro charges 1,040 per backer. For five figures, two bikes, and a base that lights up.

There is no way they're going to get that many backers at that rate for the little amount they're offering.
Anonymous No.11612702 [Report] >>11612724
>>11603783
How much for the Tariff surcharge or whatever we call it. If this was released a year or two ago, would it have shaved off fifty bucks or so?
I think for $200 bucks it might have sold me. I should be cutting back right now, so that price hike is too much for me.
Anonymous No.11612709 [Report]
>>11603812
I got Tron on sale somewhere. Maybe Gamestop.
>>11603883
I gotta agree with him. 7 inch not fitting with other 6 inch figures bugs me. McFarlane is noteworthy for this. Can't fit them with any older DC figures.
Also it is a sperg thing, not an incel thing. Though many spergs might be incels.
Anonymous No.11612713 [Report]
Did anyone see the movie Tron?
Anonymous No.11612715 [Report] >>11614566 >>11614651
>>11612661
They don't need 2.6 mill to make a fucking steel mold to produce a 3.5 Inch action figure. 90% at LEAST will be profit and royalties. I highly doubt materials and assembly costs them 5 usd a set, especially with how dogshit hasbro's haslab qc has been.
Anonymous No.11612724 [Report] >>11612728
>>11612702
If the full 20% on Vietnamese products is applied the set was about $167 if my math is right. That said large companies are able to offset tariff costs by bulk shipments so hasbro is full of shit.
Anonymous No.11612728 [Report]
>>11612724
The tariffs aren't per shipment, they are per item, though.
Anonymous No.11614546 [Report]
It took two weeks to get from 1,090 to 1,100. It's doomed.
Anonymous No.11614566 [Report]
>>11612715
>90% at LEAST will be profit and royalties.
You should learn the difference between speculating and simply reaching as far up your own ass as you can to pull out nothing but pure stupid bullshit. You're not even worth chatting with, you're just a histrionic retard screeching for attention.
Anonymous No.11614651 [Report]
>>11612715
>I have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about, how toy production is actually done, and what those costs are but here is a completely baseless statement that is DEFINITELY true.
Anonymous No.11615115 [Report] >>11615136
20 days left.

We can do it... !
Anonymous No.11615136 [Report] >>11615416 >>11615691
>>11615115
The next HASLAB is being held up for this shit.

It's a shame and it's contrary to previous flops. Reva's lightsaber and the rancor flopped ebcause no one wanted them. This is something people do actually want, but can't rationalize the price.
Anonymous No.11615213 [Report]
>>11603486
it wasn't terrible, hell that'd have been better. it was as exactly a 5/10 movie as ive ever seen.
Anonymous No.11615416 [Report]
>>11615136
Rancor got far closer than this and would've funded if they extended the haslab a day
Anonymous No.11615508 [Report] >>11615687
>>11603771
>that dash at the end
This was written by AI lol
Anonymous No.11615687 [Report]
>>11615508
>Only AIs use dashes now

Is this a new meme? I use them all the time.
Anonymous No.11615691 [Report] >>11615980
>>11615136
>The next HASLAB is being held up for this shit.
>MOMMY I NEEEDS ANOTHER HASLAB NAOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There will be more, be patient child.
Anonymous No.11615980 [Report]
>>11615691
It was a waste of time and you know it