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If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby Bo-rilla Grodd » Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:45 pm

Oh the Beast boy/changeling variant. That woulda been so easy to do.
And Terra and jericho not being made is a sad fact. :(
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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby AcidDragon » Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:30 pm

Yeah, Terra and Geo-Force both seemed like easy re-use figures so it's quite strange they were never made. Jericho I could see because he's lots of new parts and kind of fell into obscurity after his dad iced him in a mercy killing but I sure would have loved to have gotten a figure of him regardless.
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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby Havok1891 » Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:20 pm

But hey, we really needed Golden Pharaoh . . . so it's understandable that they didn't happen. Yeah right.
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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby Bo-rilla Grodd » Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:11 am

AcidDragon wrote:Yeah, Terra and Geo-Force both seemed like easy re-use figures so it's quite strange they were never made. Jericho I could see because he's lots of new parts and kind of fell into obscurity after his dad iced him in a mercy killing but I sure would have loved to have gotten a figure of him regardless.


You really think Jericho needed alot of new parts? I always thought they could of used the mister miracle set up, just with a new head and a different cape.
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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby AcidDragon » Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:20 am

Bo-rilla Grodd wrote:
AcidDragon wrote:Yeah, Terra and Geo-Force both seemed like easy re-use figures so it's quite strange they were never made. Jericho I could see because he's lots of new parts and kind of fell into obscurity after his dad iced him in a mercy killing but I sure would have loved to have gotten a figure of him regardless.


You really think Jericho needed alot of new parts? I always thought they could of used the mister miracle set up, just with a new head and a different cape.


Definitely, man. For sure he'd need new skirting, new forearms, probably new ankles, new vest, new cape, new head.

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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby Bo-rilla Grodd » Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:25 am

I would just think they would have stuff like that already, with all the figures they put together over the years. I mean, Im not a toy maker though, Im a toy buyer, so who knows. Sometimes, I feel the whole new mold is kinda a cop out. but, I agree with your points. He is a little more complicated than the average figure.

You also forgot to mention the new scale on that mullet too. The "Sid Viscious" as I like to call it.
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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby AcidDragon » Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:28 am

Haha. Not quite Sid, more like Kerry Von Erich/Texas Tornado. :batwink:
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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby Avalon » Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:31 am

I always wondered if it was cheaper to tool gauntlets and bracers and things like that and then slip them over top of the arms or tooling the entire arm. I guess if I could have gotten Mattel to listen to me, one of the things would be to see if we could find ways to cut costs and see if by tooling a mold that was just "bits and pieces", we could save on tooling costs. Scott said that a single tooled mold was the same cost as a luxury car.

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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby Bo-rilla Grodd » Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:39 am

to Avalon: So my Ghu figure is like a mercedes????

To Dragon: I guess its more like Kerry, but with the cherub-like curls and color of Sid.
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Re: If you could have gotten Mattel to listen to you . . .

Postby AcidDragon » Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:42 am

Bo-rilla Grodd wrote:To Dragon: I guess its more like Kerry, but with the cherub-like curls and color of Sid.


If it was a bit like M.U.S.C.L.E/Kinnikuman, they could fuse together to create "Texas Psycho" who uses the Iron Claw into a Powerbomb finisher bombdiggity!!! :smlol:

Avalon, totally. I wonder what the tooling practices are and what the theory behind it is actually like.
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