Hasbro possibly doing Tron?

I broke it all down multiple pages ago, I don't wanna dig it up. Current retail is over-priced; but each piece does break down to current retail for niche collector prices here post-COVID.
 
adrienveidt said:
I broke it all down multiple pages ago, I don't wanna dig it up. Current retail is over-priced; but each piece does break down to current retail for niche collector prices here post-COVID.
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Well, I don't need the fancy, schmancy base/ backdrop. I don't see that adding to the value all that much, so to me this whole thing is overpriced. I might have snagged these figures at retail, despite not collecting 3.75, but as it is it's a completely overpriced set that doesn't make me want to buy it. I think I'm hardly alone in that assessment, and I'm coming at that as someone who loves Tron.
 
Saying this is current retail is an oversimplification of it-- because its current retail (aka overpriced), for a fairly niche property, in a scale that's only really super popular with one brand, and it requires you to buy the ENTIRE toyline and a bulky display all at once.

If they allowed you to pick and choose what individually carded figures of the set you wanted to buy, rather than required you to get absolutely everything and then some random bullshit all at once, I could see this doing a bit better. Most Kickstarters do that. It's reasonable, it's consumer friendly. Haslab simply isn't that.

How many people actually buy full sets of figures anyways? Outside dedicated collector communities, I can't imagine it being that large of a demographic.
 
Those of you who do want this: some of you don't want all of it? Like, you only want one of the characters? Or just the bikes?

I'm such a "want every character represented on the shelf" person that that confuses me.
 
Schizm said:
Those of you who do want this: some of you don't want all of it? Like, you only want one of the characters? Or just the bikes?

I'm such a "want every character represented" that that confuses me.
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I think the concept of Tron is very neat, and I think it has a cool place in the history of cinema. If this set were split up and I could just grab a single bike with rider to somehow attach driving up a wall behind a movie figures display - I would totally do that. But that's me willing to spend like 40-50 bucks, max.
 
I would buy Tron himself, one of the bikes, and Jet Bradley from the game if they EVER made him. But at 1/12, not 1/18. Tron is simply not one of those IPs I'm willing to spend more than $100 for, especially if what they're making is basically just standard retail toys in a scale where my only purchases are "This all time favorite character was only ever made in this scale!!"
 
Schizm said:
Those of you who do want this: some of you don't want all of it? Like, you only want one of the characters? Or just the bikes?

I'm such a "want every character represented on the shelf" person that that confuses me.
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I'd probably buy the characters themselves...maybe on the bikes, but I wouldn't have to have them. I'd want them 1/12 though, as I don't collect 1/18. The characters are way more important to me than the sets or vehicles. The grid base/backdrop doesn't interest me at all.
 
It's not going be a complicated reason for why I'm not digging it. Ready for this?

I don't dig Tron. That's it. And I might be tempted to take a swing on cool figures for the sake of having cool figures--if they were a decent price. If the value was there. Value is subjective, right? These aren't of any value to me, the price is nowhere near right.

So, that is the reason I'm not digging them. Simple, right?
 
I'd be tempted by some figure/bike combo packs. Maybe a single figure or two on top of that. I'd probably get everything offered it was in the $100 range. Tron is small time for me so it's easy to say "nothing" rather than a few impulse purchases.
 
TheGillMan said:
Well, I don't need the fancy, schmancy base/ backdrop. I don't see that adding to the value all that much, so to me this whole thing is overpriced. I might have snagged these figures at retail, despite not collecting 3.75, but as it is it's a completely overpriced set that doesn't make me want to buy it. I think I'm hardly alone in that assessment, and I'm coming at that as someone who loves Tron.
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Hell, from the above pic showing the figures *finally* looking like the movie characters the Grid might be the most vital piece of all.

And not liking this or that piece isn't my point. All I'm saying is, despite Damien's disagreement, this is exactly in line with what 2025 prices are for niche collector 18th-scale toys. All the other stuff y'all are raising as issues are irrelevant to my point.
 
adrienveidt said:
That really fucking does look cool as shit. I have no idea why none of y'all are diggin' this project. Christ, those under-glowed figures actually look like the painted B&W movie look when *no* other figure ever has.
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That's why. You don't know why we aren't digging this, so we are telling you. Very clearly not irrelevant.

Why do we even need to justify why WE don't want it? You do, clearly. We aren't asking you why you do. And we certainly aren't going to support it to provide you the opportunity to have it. Not sure what point your arguing is trying to achieve.
 
adrienveidt said:
All I'm saying is, despite Damien's disagreement, this is exactly in line with what 2025 prices are for niche collector 18th-scale toys.
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I'm not sure how I feel about "despite the disagreement" as if MY breakdown of modern pricing is somehow just completely dismissable as irrelevant and untrue, but your assessment is absolute gospel. Why are -you- right with your numbers, and I'm wrong with my numbers? Asking genuinely.
 
adrienveidt said:
Hell, from the above pic showing the figures *finally* looking like the movie characters the Grid might be the most vital piece of all.
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To you...not to me.
adrienveidt said:
And not liking this or that piece isn't my point. All I'm saying is, despite Damien's disagreement, this is exactly in line with what 2025 prices are for niche collector 18th-scale toys. All the other stuff y'all are raising as issues are irrelevant to my point.
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Sorry, but I think Damien's assessment is far more accurate, and why this doesn't seem like a value to me at all.
 
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