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Re: "We did move a few 2013 figures around (for the first time) to ensure the Q1 figures are very strong to show fans how much life the line still has! When we aquired the Filmation rights it meant a reworked of all future line ups, so we used this opportunity to ensure the Q1 figures each year were very strong to help sell in the subs."
This only serves to scare me! If anything, Mattel should make the years releases look weak, then WOW us mid-way through the year, that would encourage loyalty and satisfaction, rather than disappointment and resentment.
Filmation could have been a completely separate sub-line, it would have been fun and beautiful.
Regarding Granamyr's "Titus-like" articulation:
It is possible to make a decent toy with minimal articulation, but I highly doubt Mattel is up to the task
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That would be amazing but i have no hopes for something that large from Mattel
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It's on eBay. It's... not cheap.
Emiliano and Val both showed interest and were pretty much given a total cold shoulder as they were not "Mattel employees" nor comic artists that worked on a certain galactic emerald colored crusader...
As for any further information you'd really have to address it with them as it's not my place to speculate.
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I think Sweet might change his view.
Anyway...
I will not spend $90 or $100 on a rotocast Granamyr.
I mean come on, people.
Think about this. Baby dolls are usually rotocast. They are large. They cost $14.
Add a helmet, a tail, some shadow paint apps, maybe an accessory. It's still not even reasonable to charge $70.
I don't get it. I just don't understand the huge price on a rotocast doll like Granamyr.
And again, they will lose customers buying two Granamyr figures.
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Besides, I thought the point of Rotocast was to save money on larger toys....what's it cost Mattel to make him? I mean come on....
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I know this is plastic, but....It's just plastic, and hollow plastic with limited articulation at that, and who knows what accessories if any he will come with. $80 - $100, way too high I think for what you will get....I myself would rather see another 3 or 4 regular figures in his place. Or at the very least another Vehicle. Wind Raider "Only did OK" how do they think this giant Dragon is going to do at it's price point? You could get a Vehicle and almost 2 figures for his proposed price point, at least they know how well a Vehicle will sell.
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Not to be argumentative, but it helps to retain some perspective. If someone put a rotocast baby doll and a rotocast Granamyr in front of you and asked you which one was worth more to you, which one would you pick?
Additionally, a company can put the $$$ into a steel mold for a baby doll and expect to use it over and over again for many, many years, because there are thousands upon thousands of little girls in this generation and the next who will want one. There isn't nearly that kind of re-use potential in the tooling for Granamyr.
Which is why I think ultimately it was a poor decision. And watch, it will be used as a "you guys aren't getting other big items you really do want because you didn't buy enough Granamyr's".
There are a lot of factors to that, including the fact that even people who get one will likely only get...one. It's not something you are going to buy several of due to it's concept, size, and price.
I don't know if I will get one or not. Will depend on it's final price and what it looks like. If it's goofy and hollow, probably not. But in any case, no way I'd buy more than 1.
It doesn't matter because Granamyr will be released at the worst possible time, when no one can afford him due to all the figures that will come out in the same month due to all of these stupid delays. He'll end up coming out when there like the anniversary figure, 2 normal figures, and the quarterly oversized, along with when a lion will come out, and a DCU figure and oversized figure.
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
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With Granamyr costing $80-$100 and Castle Grayskull being over $400, when did this line jump to Hot Toys type prices?
Huh? When did any female have swivel articulation in the thigh???? We've had females with swivel articulation at the calf like the male figures but not at the thigh. I'd HATE to see any figure in this line with swivel articulation at the thigh…it'd look horrible and it's not necessary!
200X fan? Classic fan? What does that mean? I'm a MotU fan!!!
Don't worry if Granny sells poor they will paint him green and sell him again at SDCC with a MODERATE price increase. You guys can only blame yourselves if it doesn't sell then.
Almost a hundred bucks for a big rotocast figure with few articulations means another Matty fail, IMO. Then Mattel will deprive the fan community from any other huge item (Gigantisaur, Battle Bones etc.) because "Granamyr sold poorly"...
At this point, I think we'll only keep going with the usual, normal-sized figures, the multipacks, some beasts, maybe some "small guys", small accessories (weapons packs and such), and that's it !
I don't get it they use rotocast to cut down on the cost yet people are griping about the cost on that if he was made like a regular figure the price would be even higher and guess what the same people plus more would be griping.
hmmm, they made the giants 1/3 SMALLER than their vintage counterparts even though all other figures are BIGGER than in the 80ies... why does Granamyr have to be sooooo big? Do they plan to make a Gigantisaur out of his buck?!
Why would it be so hard to give Granamyr the same articulation in the arms as gygor/shadowbeast. and then add ankle articulation to the legs on top of thogh and knees?
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I think the idea is that Granamyr should be larger than the giants. He's supposed to be the premiere big figure of the line. I was hoping Granamyr would be like Gygor, where his main body is rotocast but his arms and legs are solid plastic with more articulation. We'll see.
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