callsign_morlock Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Damn, missed the 20% off sale. At this point have not seen it at any VA or IL stores. I'll keep checking TRU online... But complaining like an adolescent girl with a wicked since of entitlement seems to work on this site if you want to get something. time to let it go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSTZach Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I know this will probably get an 'Ask DST' answer (deservedly so), but Zach, can you say how pleased Capcom is with the product you guys are making and if they're wanting to work with you more at this point? We're working with them on SFxT. We'll see what comes next! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAnvil Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I think RE6 minimates would sell well. They could do a chase set per wave that has characters like Chris and Leon in their earlier costumes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MST3KFan Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I think RE6 minimates would sell well. They could do a chase set per wave that has characters like Chris and Leon in their earlier costumes. Just making Resident Evil Minimates altogether would be awesome. Wave 1: Resident Evil 1 Chris Redfield/Cerberus (zombie dog) Jill Valentine/Web Spinner Barry Burton/Zombie Rebecca Chambers/Zombie (variant) TRU exclusives: Albert Wesker/Tyrant Hunter/Chimera Wave 2: Resident Evil 2 Leon Kennedy/Licker Claire Redfield/Giant Moth Ada Wong/Zombie Annette Birkin/Zombie (variant) TRU exclusives: Sherry Birkin/William Birkin G-2 William Birkin G-3 (can change into G-4)/Ivy Plant Wave 3: Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Jill Valentine/Nemesis Carlos Oliveria/Hunter (Beta) Nicholai Zinoviev/Zombie Mikhail Victor/Zombie (variant) TRU exclusives: Brad Vickers/Zombie Brad Brain Sucker/Drain Deimos And so on.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSTZach Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Ask DST! Someone asked about Mega Man, but I think that's unlikely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAnvil Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Would have been good if they'd done Tron, Hsien-Ko, Shuma Gorath and another marvel character as a convention exclusive or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr baghead Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 But female figures don't sell well at Toys R Us, which is where we sell the most figures. Unfortunate. -Moonstone -Secret Wars Spider-woman -X:OW SilverFox -Betsy Braddock -Iron Man 2 Black Widow -Sue Storm -Lady Sif (movie) -AoA Blink -XFA Mystique -XFA Emma Frost -Betsy Braddock (AGAIN?!) -Avengers Black Widow -ASM Gwen Stacy -Boomer -Mirage -Magma -Janine in GB costume -Lori from Walking Dead -Library Ghost (whom I almost don’t want to count, since it’s really splitting hairs, but then I realized she’s the only TRU GB wave 1 figure with unique tooling) -girl Vindicator who’s name I forgot and don’t feel like finding in the database/wave 14 thread -there’s some BSG and probably other lines I’m forgetting so I’ll just end this. Look, I’m not saying these weren’t/won’t be slow seller, I don’t have the sales data in front of me so I’d be basing off what I’ve seen and from what I’ve seen the figures I don’t snatch up the day the case is put out tend to sit around for 5 weeks then when I need one for a custom are suddenly sold out in a 50 mile radius, so I’m a sh**ty market analyst. I’m just saying maybe Hsein-ko isntead of Ryu wouldn’t have been the end of the world if TWO Betsy Braddocks didn’t kill the line... or maybe it would have, I don’t have a time machine to alter history with either. the point is, my post wasted 5 minutes of your life you’ll never get back. Carry on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvis497 Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 (edited) This generation doesn't have it so bad with the "female figures don't sell" theory. If anyone collected figures in the early 90s, you would know what I mean. Us X-Men fans had Storm, then for a while nothing. We got Rogue and Phoenix years later, and they were hard as hell to find. Now we get Dani Moonstar and Magma in the same pack. We've come a long way baby! Edited September 9, 2012 by bigvis497 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcastick Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I for one would have wanted a Hsien-Ko mate instead of 2 Ryu figures. Heck, if it were possible we could have gotten 1 more box set out of the line. Hsien-Ko, Tron, Tron's Bot and Shuma Gorath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessex Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 (edited) I understand what you're saying (and looking at it now - it's quite an impressive list of female characters), but keep in mind that almost every one of those figures you mentioned was short-packed AND featured a silver 'TRU Exclusive' sticker - which helped to make them Scalper bait. A lot of them also featured non-unique or re-usable parts. It's a total shame we didn't get to see Tron Bonne or Hsein-Ko. Until MODOK came out, the only way i thought we'd see her is if she were released as a MAX vehicle. Seeing MODOK gave me a bit of hope that maybe they could get her released in a normal two-pack, but now that it's been explained - i totally understand why she never made it. At least Modok's crazy get-up might be used again in the Marvel line. And even then, they had to package him with a hugely popular character to see him released. Edited September 10, 2012 by Nessex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcastick Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I dunno, I think MODOK could have been packed with any other character and he still would have sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elhonez Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I really would like to see the designs for Tron Bonne... I have no idea how that would have been accomplished. I do hope that working with Capcom opens up the possibility for more Street Fighter in the future... so many characters to choose from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twisted Two-Face Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 For Tron, i imagine she would have been a torso that plugs into a big robot robot as replacement for a "crotch" piece, with legs being the robot-body legs. Or something along those lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BannersID Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I dunno, I think MODOK could have been packed with any other character and he still would have sold. This is surely truth. MODOK could have come packed with that crappy parker/spidey composite figure from years ago or even Riot Spidey and I would have snatched the 2 pack up with out thinking twice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobsterman Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 (edited) that crappy parker/spidey composite figure from years ago Wow! Out of curiosity, do you just not like the admittedly campy silver-age feel of this figure? Because I think it still holds up as one of the most clever and well-produced Minimates to date. Comparing it to Riot Spidey, a mess of bad paintwork and sloppy execution representative of probably the line's lowest point, seems excessive. Edited September 10, 2012 by Lobsterman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Yeah, I dig Composite Spidey. He's no Composite Superman, but it would be unfair to compare any character to that one in all its infinite awesomeness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TENIME_art Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Just making Resident Evil Minimates altogether would be awesome. Wave 1: Resident Evil 1 Chris Redfield/Cerberus (zombie dog) Jill Valentine/Web Spinner Barry Burton/Zombie Rebecca Chambers/Zombie (variant) TRU exclusives: Albert Wesker/Tyrant Hunter/Chimera Wave 2: Resident Evil 2 Leon Kennedy/Licker Claire Redfield/Giant Moth Ada Wong/Zombie Annette Birkin/Zombie (variant) TRU exclusives: Sherry Birkin/William Birkin G-2 William Birkin G-3 (can change into G-4)/Ivy Plant Wave 3: Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Jill Valentine/Nemesis Carlos Oliveria/Hunter (Beta) Nicholai Zinoviev/Zombie Mikhail Victor/Zombie (variant) TRU exclusives: Brad Vickers/Zombie Brad Brain Sucker/Drain Deimos And so on.... I totally did that earlier in the thread, lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawcanada Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 I for one would have wanted a Hsien-Ko mate instead of 2 Ryu figures. Much as I like the SF1 Ryu look, I do agree. Considering the original SF/Darkstalkers line got cancelled I had hoped we'd squeeze as many out of the latter as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAnvil Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 I'd have rather they hadn't bothered with the modern Ryu. The SF1 Ryu is way cooler and they're doing a modern Ryu in the SFxT line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM2 Dinobot Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Found the Amaterasu/Thor pack tonight. $2.70. Very happy. XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Say what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurch77 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Found the Amaterasu/Thor pack tonight. $2.70. Very happy. XD Was that with the $5 TRU bonus bucks yesterday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM2 Dinobot Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Yeah. XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sky_dive Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 The best way to have sold MODOK, would have been in a Marvel wave, with and AIM soldier, and then have had single pack AIM guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM2 Dinobot Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Be happy we got him at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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