Planning for a new article, and I'm curious: I'm aware of figure revivals/continuations/updates for Bucky O'Hare and Toxic Crusaders, and I know Mattel Creations has dabbled with Street Sharks. Any other not-quite A-list properties that have been getting this sort of treatment?
(I have the TMNT...
I passed on getting the Optimus version at GameStop with my Edge card the other day in the hopes Walmart Canada will get more Scourges and notify me, as per the thing I opted into on their website.
I hope I don't regret this course of action.
This reminds me, I really need to look into some prices/sales on post-IDW1 after I get paid.
I really wish they had a period they were still allowed to sell the books they already made, but just can't make any new ones.
I'd say a combination of that and the property in question.
A transforming Ecto-1 or DeLorean? That sells itself.
A transforming Canon camera? Weeeeeeeeeeeell... maybe, but it seems like a totally different type of demographic.
One could also argue that in the former cases, Ghostbusters and...
Right, that's what I'm saying.
Does price count as part of marketing? I happily paid it, but I've seen stuff saying it was priced too high as well.
But yeah, some of those ads... like the ones seemingly designed to make kids not want McDonald's? WTF?
I think that's the thing a lot of companies seem to get wrong with things when they try to do something different -- they try to give something different before people have what they want, which is the familiar.
Even in pictures, I love how they made this version of Shredder look SO good.
Like, I got the original because he was Shredder, but he was quickly relegated to "arcade game clone" once I got Wacky Action version and put the cape on him instead.
But this version? This is a version I kinda...
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