I'll buy another sub (or multiples) if...

[Keldor/Skeletor73]

...they stop killing characters off. The list is far too long for me to care and the latest victim is none other than our friendly neighbourhood birdman: stratos!
I I get a formal promise NO OTHER CHARACTER is EVER going to be killed off i'll buy a second sub. Cant do more than that, atm.
What would make YOU buy a second (or third, or fourth...) sub?
I'd like to hear that!

Cheers!

[Dragonblaster]

They might kill off the whole line, just saying

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Having more money would make me buy another sub.

[NorthCoast]

Solution: ignore the bios!

They are just another cannon (one of MANY), they don't really mean that much.

[guy-dude]

Wait... so... fictional characters in a fantasy story being killed off in a line that has said numerous times that canon is whatever you make it (we currently have apparently two going at this exact moment) is preventing you from buying more subs?

You do know this doesn't suddenly prohibit you from playing with them, right?

"Oh... I forgot... you're [dead]"
*extends arm out to the side and drops [stratos]*
"I don't wanna play with you anymore..."

[Keldor/Skeletor73]

Wait... so... fictional characters in a fantasy story being killed off in a line that has said numerous times that canon is whatever you make it (we currently have apparently two going at this exact moment) is preventing you from buying more subs?

I already have a sub, i am considering getting another to support the line (quite a sacrifice for an international cmr) and i was thinking: why not try to negotiate something in return?
It still annoys me beyond words and is something that really makes you realise how the western society as a whole got sicker and, overall, much worse than it was 30 years ago. But this is a personal point of view, so lets talk about it no more, agreed?

You do know this doesn't suddenly prohibit you from playing with them, right?

"Oh... I forgot... you're [dead]"
*extends arm out to the side and drops [stratos]*
"I don't wanna play with you anymore..."

I am afraid, to some degree, it does exactly that. It does, for example, make it rather pointless mixing Stratos (nothing personal here pal, it's just that you're the latest victim of this bloodlust craze) with any NA characters or, should we get any more of those, son of he man characters.
Displaying our friendly, sensitive birdmen who always stubbornly refused using a weapon with any of those would be...historically inaccurate?
The best thing in motu has always been that characters NEVER ever died (even Tataran posing as a "dead" human was just a fake) and everyone could be brought back, no matter how old or far away in the past/future. Nope, all this pointless bloodshed is not motu at all imho, please stop it right now! Everyone knows you dont die, just get banished!
Thanks.

[redsquadron]

Er, ignore them then. My 'continuity' is Filmation so everyone lives happily ever after or, at worst, does a few years in the Prison Mine. When a new character comes along, they fit in with that continuity nicely no matter what the bios say.

[Rodster6]

I'll buy TWO more subs if they do kill off more characters.

[Keldor/Skeletor73]

I'll buy TWO more subs if they do kill off more characters.

You make me sad, brother.

[NorthCoast]

The classics story is stretched out over a very long period of time. These characters have never been considered "immortals", so they would all die at some point. Even He-Man.

[Keldor/Skeletor73]

While he man might be considered a mortal, i doubt the likes of Skeletor, King Hsss, Zodac, the Sorceress, Granamyr and many more besides can be considered mortals. Also, this still is not a good reason to kill even "mortal" characters...well, again that's just IMHO. Anyway, you're evading the original question: what would be the thing that would make you double your sub?

[Skystalker]

I read the purpose of this thread being the conditions any of us would have for buying a sub.

I'd buy a second sub for sure (already considering it but hesitant) if:

• I knew we would get something like the Battlecat Coupon at some point during the year
• They would guarantee to ship extra items with my sub

[redsquadron]

The classics story is stretched out over a very long period of time. These characters have never been considered "immortals", so they would all die at some point. Even He-Man.

Yes, but that notion never even remotely occurred to me as a child. As the Classics line is very good at taking me back to that special time, I don't really factor it in now, either.

As for what would make me buy another sub? "Buy one get one half price"...

[NorthCoast]

Anyway, you're evading the original question: what would be the thing that would make you double your sub?

I already have 2.

[Uki]

If I suddenly become very wealthy, I'll buy SO many subs. I can only swing one now.

As for the deaths in the (excellent) Bio-Canon: it doesn't bother me. I'm loving the story.

[Keldor/Skeletor73]

I already have 2.

Fair enough!

[He-Dude]

With all the time travelling going on... nothing is set in stone anyway.

[Barezz]

Technically they killed Webstor in the MYP cartoon, does that mean he cannot get displayed?

Or does this only apply to good guys?

But to the supposed purpose of this thread (personally seems more like a chance to soapbox about killing characters off to me) I will get another sub as soon as I can figure out how to swing it financially

[SCB]

This is exactly why I am not subbing. They killed Stratos in a bio. If the next bio brings him back, I will buy ten subs easily.

[NorthCoast]

I read the purpose of this thread being the conditions any of us would have for buying a sub.

I'd buy a second sub for sure (already considering it but hesitant) if:

• I knew we would get something like the Battlecat Coupon at some point during the year
• They would guarantee to ship extra items with my sub

Good idea on the coupon!

HEY TG, add a coupon or some more incentives! How about 10% off 1 item in 2013 or something like that?

[Keldor/Skeletor73]

If I suddenly become very wealthy, I'll buy SO many subs. I can only swing one now.

As for the deaths in the (excellent) Bio-Canon: it doesn't bother me. I'm loving the story.

I appreciate the bios too, it's just the (imho totally unnecessary) death toll that's bothering me no end, I am afraid this could soon turn into a "fist of the northern star" thing of dark and gloomy background. Not my cup of tea, really.

[He-Dude]

Just have the Mighty Spector go back and save whoever dies... LOL

[NorthCoast]

I appreciate the bios too, it's just the (imho totally unnecessary) death toll that's bothering me no end, I am afraid this could soon turn into a "fist of the northern star" thing of dark and gloomy background. Not my cup of tea, really.

Not a mini-comic fan? Those were pretty dark and gloomy, and that's why I loved them as a kid.

[Barezz]

I don't think I would like He-man to become as dark and graphic as say Conan, but I am all for making it a little less "kids show of the 80's".

Regardless I have always just done what I wanted with characters. If you all remember, Saurod was killed in the movie, yet got a figure. Didn't stop me from having him as part of Skeletor's crew

[Keldor/Skeletor73]

Technically they killed Webstor in the MYP cartoon, does that mean he cannot get displayed?

Or does this only apply to good guys?

Hey, the myp what? Oh, the 200x show. Again, not very interesting to me. And, of course, it does apply to everyone, not just the good guys...i am an evil warriors and snakemen (not myp racist snakemen, the original minicomic ones) fan.
Btw: yeah, i actually got a second sub....i'll still buy another odd copy of the characters i really want (fangman, jitsu and maybe ram man) just because i get them A LOT faster and, sometimes, cheaper from secondary market than matty. Still i fell to the dark side and double subscribed!!!

[musclor]

I personally like the deaths in the bios, but my motu canon has always been influenced by the early dc comics and mini comics, so my eternia is a brutal place....

But as for the original post, I would buy a third sub if... There were more obscure characters - mini comics, 200x, pop.... I appear to be in the minority now, but the vintage redo's do nothing for me compared to totally new figures.