Todd McFarlane Announces That Movie Maniacs Are Returning

2 hours ago, kILLMonger said:

Yeah those Heroes of the Storm were really great looking figs. I wanted the sniper chick, Jim Raynor, and the angel thing...sadly I delayed and we all know what happened to TRU. I'd like to think that if they were at Target they might sell but TRU was charging 25 for each....I feel for these toy companies because they are going to price themselves out especially ones like NECA. The hobby is getting to cost too much. I used to be able to get doubles of figs but 50 bucks for a carded and a opener....yeah...even 25 now makes me think twice about what I get and what I don't

Nova and Tyrael at one point were like $16 at Think Geek and you still can find them at BBTS but sold as doubles with the other figures from each wave. Raynor is still available for 27 bucks. Which is not expensive at all. These figures are supposed to be sold for $30, At least the bigger ones, because they are worth it.

12 hours ago, FASVB said:

I did notcollect back then, so my opinion might be off. But Some licences get dumped, mostly because of low sales.

On of the last examples is Heroes of The Storm. The figures were amazing and the best blizzard figures ever made. I missed Thrall and Sylvanas and I hope to get those still. But they didn't even finish and released Diablo that had all the sculpt done and a prototype shown because of low sales. The price was amazing considering the sculpt and paint of the figures, but in the end Randy said that they were taking losses so they only released the last threefigures that were slated to be released and had preorders.

Yeah those Heroes of the Storm were really great looking figs. I wanted the sniper chick, Jim Raynor, and the angel thing...sadly I delayed and we all know what happened to TRU. I'd like to think that if they were at Target they might sell but TRU was charging 25 for each....I feel for these toy companies because they are going to price themselves out especially ones like NECA. The hobby is getting to cost too much. I used to be able to get doubles of figs but 50 bucks for a carded and a opener....yeah...even 25 now makes me think twice about what I get and what I don't

On 10/9/2018 at 2:25 PM, kILLMonger said:

Movie Maniacs came at the tail end of my relationship with McFarlane. He was cranking out statues when I wanted poseable figs. And NECA was coming on to the scene out McFarlaning McFarlane. I'll take a wait and see approach. I will say NECA has gotten kinda lazy without the competition and let a few licenses go due to neglect (GoW, Pacific Rim, Borderlands)...so McFarlane coming back in may finally motivate NECA and rekindle the "license war" to see who can crank out the best figs. BUT McFarlane had to step up the articulation game. NECAhas shown great sculpts can be poseable. And we gotta move beyond this horror only tripe. There are lots of great fantasy/sci-fi films that deserve to be made plastic....we gotta mine those as well.

I did notcollect back then, so my opinion might be off. But Some licences get dumped, mostly because of low sales.

On of the last examples is Heroes of The Storm. The figures were amazing and the best blizzard figures ever made. I missed Thrall and Sylvanas and I hope to get those still. But they didn't even finish and released Diablo that had all the sculpt done and a prototype shown because of low sales. The price was amazing considering the sculpt and paint of the figures, but in the end Randy said that they were taking losses so they only released the last threefigures that were slated to be released and had preorders.

The competition is gonna be really hard. NECA is killing it, but there is always room for improvement

Now I WILL go on record to say that instead of Movie Maniacs...how about going back into the Spawn vault and/or giving us some Invincible/Haunt/Tech Jacket figs?

Movie Maniacs came at the tail end of my relationship with McFarlane. He was cranking out statues when I wanted poseable figs. And NECA was coming on to the scene out McFarlaning McFarlane. I'll take a wait and see approach. I will say NECA has gotten kinda lazy without the competition and let a few licenses go due to neglect (GoW, Pacific Rim, Borderlands)...so McFarlane coming back in may finally motivate NECA and rekindle the "license war" to see who can crank out the best figs. BUT McFarlane had to step up the articulation game. NECAhas shown great sculpts can be poseable. And we gotta move beyond this horror only tripe. There are lots of great fantasy/sci-fi films that deserve to be made plastic....we gotta mine those as well.

^ It would be really nice if he put an emphasis on articulation, to match his dedication to nailing down the sort of base, most familiar looks of certain characters.

Seems like an odd time to get his hand back in the ring. I mean with todays highly detailed, highly articulated and easily available figures, EVERYBODY seems to be doing what Toddy Mactried to doback then with his fragile, rarely articulated pieces of... plastic.Only they're doing it better than he ever did it.

Reminds me of the Twilight Zone where the old boxer wants to get back into the sport despite it being taken over by super powered robot fighters.

I still have those Matrix figures! Great line! I'm still not interested though as I only buy high end stuff now or pops.

Ill probably go against popular opinion on this one, but I prefer the McFarlane Alien Queen to NECAs version. I like the tweaks they made in the design. Granted,the NECA version is far more accurate and poseable, but I still likeMcFarlane version more.