Toy Reviewers/Influencers

Damien said:
For a weird figure that I'm not going to get (your aforementioned Beast Kingdom, for instance), I might watch three different video reviews to get all the different thoughts and poses and such.
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Yep. I watched more videos than I usually do for a Keepgoing studios figure because none of my usuals ( @TheSameIdiot and I have the same list) covered it yet and few of the ones who did cover it went over all the points I care about in enough detail. (usually ROM and scale).

For a ML or something, only if I'm on the fence, and usually just one from one of the channels I know will give me the deets.
 
The only thing I want to see before getting my own figures is a close-up of the face - did the company nail it, or f it up? The dude who does most of the advance reviews at MarvelousNews is not great - almost never does he show the back of a new figure but here's six shots of height comparisons! - but I click through until a close-up and then either exhale or curse. :)

I almost never watch the videos unless it's to see something specific about an older figure (and I can't find just a photo review).
 
JakeEkiss said:
Yep. I watched more videos than I usually do for a Keepgoing studios figure because none of my usuals ( @TheSameIdiot and I have the same list) covered it yet and few of the ones who did cover it went over all the points I care about in enough detail. (usually ROM and scale).

For a ML or something, only if I'm on the fence, and usually just one from one of the channels I know will give me the deets.
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It's like the more obscure the figure, the more its someone with a Sprint Katana for a camera and they live in a derelict basement.
 
altcunningham said:
It's like the more obscure the figure, the more its someone with a Sprint Katana for a camera and they live in a derelict basement.
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I remember an early Storm Coll. Tyris Flare review. If it's still up and anyone tries to search for it, you'll instantly know this must be the one MrBo is talking about.

Is it Johnny Nostalgia? He's grown on me recently. I've been watching some of his reviews even if I don't plan on purchasing the figure. I'll regularly watch emgo's Transformers reviews. His comparison to the G1 version never gets old, "...and now a comparison to G1 __ because he's precious, oh so precious."
 
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I like Johnny Nostalgia, but I'd say he reviews stuff I care enough to even watch maybe 50% of the time. I enjoy a lot of his DBZ figure reviews mostly because I love DBZ but I tapped out on collecting SHF figures.
 
Johnny is also great because he's an upbeat, positive reviewer, but is not afraid to BE negative if it's warranted. He just opens a toy and says 'let's see what we find' and is open to not liking it. A lot of other reviewers definitely cultivate their reviews to be things they either already know they're going to like, or that they're comfortable pretending to like.

Or, on the other hand, reviewers that seemingly thrive on buying stuff they hate.
 
This thread made me realize I've pretty much completely stopped watching reviews. The 2 caveots to that is I pretty much watch all of Robo's vids, but I tend to have the figures before he reviews them, so he's just background noise. The other is when DAmazing or Robo gets vehicles. Those grab my interest, though I rarely purchase them due to space.
 
This is the thing I think a lot of us have lost in the hobby: the chase. And I don't mean chase variants. I mean the surprise and excitement that many of us used to experience in the 90s to early naughts.

When was the last time you went on a toy run?

When is the last time you went into a brick and mortar and found that item you'd been searching for?

When was the last time you had no idea a property or license was getting figures, and you walk into the store to sit it sitting on shelves?

When was the last time you were surprised by a toy commercial?

These days, we know months to a year (or longer) in advance. Nothing is a surprise anymore. We can preorder everything, and then we wait. And we wait. And then there's a delay and then we wait.

We hear from the companies mostly every step of the way, constant updates, and then we see influencers/reviewers getting advanced samples to either gush over and give us FOMO, which I think diminishes excitement, or they shit on it (Anthony's Customs, looking at your bitch ass)...thus decreasing your desire to own the thing you otherwise are excited for.

Let's face it, this hobby isn't what it once was. And it's never going back to that. And that sucks.
 
I never got the excitement over the hunt. I don't want to hunt. I want to order it and have it show up to my house, guaranteed. Otherwise I'm just spending unnecessary time in a Wal-Mart, which, gross. I don't watch reviewers other than Robo, so they never sway my opinion of a figure one way or another. At this point, I have enough of each of the lines I collect to know what I'm getting myself into with 9/10 purchases. I like to watch customizer channels like Ken I Make It and Hextian though.
 
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