Harvinger Studios, Savage Crucible

[adrienveidt]

I understand that's the theory. I'm not convinced it's actually true. Nor am I convinced that if people can generally afford a figure a month that the correct answer is 'we must -release- a figure every month.' You can release three figures. If they all sell out immediately, then you were wrong presuming people wouldn't support that strategy. If you're right, the worst thing that happens is people grab a figure, come back a month or two later to grab another figure, and so on until everything sells out (or sells through to satisfaction).

I think the bigger reason they do this is because it keeps people -talking- more consistently about figures, rather than a big explosion of conversation every 3-5 months when a new drop happens and then the cool period where everyone has said their piece about the new stuff and are just waiting for new releases again.
But, my counter to that is that it doesn't really seem to make a difference. People are talking about SC because it's a really good line of toys and still fairly new. I don't see much evidence that new drops are necessarily driving conversation nearly as much as upcoming reveals. And, as other toy companies demonstrate, you can 'reveal' stuff almost constantly if you're conservative with it.

Just my opinions. I'm not in any kind of position to tell Harvinger how to run their business. I just know that, for my personal needs, what they're doing now REALLY does not work for me and actively makes the line not just more difficult to collect, but almost unaffordable to collect. Which -seems- like a shitty business model unless your business model is 'only America matters.' Which, to be fair, does seem to be the primary model for loads of companies.

One wonders how much the cost of varying-size storage versus a consistent monthly space-size factors into the math, if so at all.

 

[adrienveidt]

And yeah, as a 55yo reader here in 2026 Moorcock is a plod to read for the most part. I too devoured everything I could find while in high school; but the Time's End stuff is what's really stuck with me enough to cause me to re-read the novels.

The Adventures of Jherek Carnelian and Miss Amelia Underwood would/could be a fantastic show if done as a few limited series, imho. Do it from her pov as a romcom and it'd draw in the ladies like flies. Shit, Ghibli-style anime would be fuck-awesome, too.