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Originally Posted by marvelboi77
Sideshow is dead.
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People say at some point during the year, but its just out of frustration that were long term collecting and not seeing characters get made.
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Originally Posted by Atlantisatdawn
Isn't there anybody on this forum that has any inside information or knows someone who knows someone??? Sideshow now seems to be running never ending sales and no new announcements, hope the company isn't in trouble
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Sales have likely slowed overall in the industry, and they are distributing for tons of others so they will be running lots of sales to keep things moving which makes sense to me.
Guessing why that maybe part of holding off announcements so they don't get small ES's on up coming pieces. But may mean they wont take as big of risks?
Other thing is Chinese new year celebrations should be about done in china and they will be getting back to the factories and providing updates.
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Originally Posted by xellos49698
2023 is going to be very challenging financially for a lot a people. I see collectors getting out of the hobby, not getting in.
Hopefully we will get some reveals for Sideshow's Birthday.
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Depends on how bad things get, ya i can see the secondary market get overloaded.
Sadly SS bday has never been a reveal event, unless they change it up this year.
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Originally Posted by generalszabo
I'm increasingly coming to the realization that the future of this hobby might be in customs
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I sure hope not, 90% of customs suck, and lots of them require master painters to make them look decent. You also get a lot of inconsistency in art direction/scale.
10% that are good those groups are difficult to get into unless your willing to throw alot of money to buy your way in or get lucky to get an invite.
Not many folks will be willing to pay $1,500-$2,000 on one statue. The larger the character the more expensive they are to make, paint, and ship.
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Originally Posted by SONICobra
sometimes its the only way, theres too many niche characters that only warrant a total es of 25-100 no way any major studio is going to invest in something like that. however i refuse to accept ill have to go that route for two face, he is top tier batman villain i "should" have no problem getting a licensed statue of him. its insane to me he hasnt been done yet
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I agree that some characters you'll likely have to go custom as SS/XM won't touch them. So paying to get a few characters made is cool.
Two face has to be coming up this year or the next at least. I don't want a custom one either, i want a SS made one.
I'm sure they would sell at least 1k, which should warrant them making them.
Only other possibility is that P1 will now be able to do 1/4th scale versions of batman rogues, still will be expensive but leaves the possibility that someone else picks up the missing rogues.
