THANOS ON THRONE

[loricstone]

Originally Posted by Gecktechs

100% agree. Sideshow has been hitting bombs lately. Bane, Red Sonja, Captain Marvel, Darth Maul, Rocket, Groot, Black Canary.. Even the first in-hand photos of Ironman from the Avengers Assemble Line and the 1:1 Deadpool bust look fantastic. They look just like the prototypes. Thanos will be no exception. Guys... they've been hyping this statue since day 1 - they made a 5 minute HYPE video trying to promote this and they said it themselves "This will not be a project we cut corners on." - This is a statement piece and they know everyone's expectations, especially considering the price point. They know $1200 was a big leap for most and they're going to reward the people who took the risk. Prepare yourselves for epicness. We're nearly halfway there!

I was rocking with you to everything you said until you got to Black Pornary. All the others I agree...all solid statues from SS.

[Gecktechs]

Originally Posted by loricstone

I was rocking with you to everything you said until you got to Black Pornary. All the others I agree...all solid statues from SS.

Lmao, did I miss something? :O I don't really read threads of statues I'm not interested in. I'm basing most of that list off pictures I've seen here and FB. What was the issue with Black Canary lol

[Indomitus]

Originally Posted by crimsinwing1989

I can't see SS going higher than 800$ for 1/4 pf's, i think that'll be the end of SS 1/4 price increases.

From a marketing perspective to manage customer perceptions, they will just call the over $800 pieces the 'Master Maquette Lines' and avoid calling them 1/4. And what you may all not notice is pieces going roughly over $1K switch from displaying full price to the monthly payment plan price. They will also strategically move this number down to help everyone buy more $800 pieces. Sideshow will help you part ways with your money I can guarantee that.

[Ryanbusts]

Mostly only with new comers, who will quickly learn and stop thinking 1000$ is normal because - bro look, I only gotta pay 100 a month, that ain't s$it
Who knows what SS plans are. Nothing they do will surprise me. I see them struggling with these prices in the near future. I think they will be forced to add more swap outs, a print, and better packaging just to keep the prices where they are at!
One thing that I'm surprised they haven't done yet is making alternate add ons after a statue comes out. Maybe have fun and base it off a fan poll.

[crimsinwing1989]

Originally Posted by MrJones

I am just going with the thought that this will be executed to perfection. It could just be me but Sideshow has seemed to have stepped up the QC (not that many have had complaints, just a vocal minority) but even the newly released Bane is receiving very high praise. In fact, it seems most if not all statues this year have been home runs. With this one commanding the very high price tag, I don't see why this one out of all of them would suddenly have worse QC.

Just a minor concern, though I'm 99% percent there. This statue is perfect at every level imo easily one of my top 3 SS pieces SS has ever done, SS has been nailing nearly everything they've released lately however i'd be lying if i said there isn't a bit of concern in the anticipation.

[Indomitus]

Originally Posted by Ryanbusts

Mostly only with new comers, who will quickly learn and stop thinking 1000$ is normal because - bro look, I only gotta pay 100 a month, that ain't s$it
Who knows what SS plans are. Nothing they do will surprise me. I see them struggling with these prices in the near future. I think they will be forced to add more swap outs, a print, and better packaging just to keep the prices where they are at!
One thing that I'm surprised they haven't done yet is making alternate add ons after a statue comes out. Maybe have fun and base it off a fan poll.

It would be nice to see some compromises to the statue offerings. Maybe even start selling those additions after the fact to help drive sales. I think this would be a better strategy than their Sideshow Live videos trying to showcase some statue that obviously isn't selling well. I did like how Prime 1 offered a bust for their Arkham Batman with 3 heads. Imagine if that really caught on.....some free advice Sideshow!

[Killer Instinct]

Originally Posted by Gecktechs

It does apply lol.. Your trying to downplay Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon as being something childish, yet here we are on this forum talking about SUPER HERO statues.. Your avatar is a picture of Eddie Brock transforming into Venom - (Your favorite Spiderman Villain lmao) My point is that we're all kids on the inside. None of us have left the playground yet.. I don't get why your trying to act like your sh!t don't stink. Be it Yu-Gi-Oh cards, Spiderman Statues, or Venom art prints - We all buy them because the big kid inside of us wants them.

Yugioh and Pokemon is MUCH more childish than Comic books that have seen people murdered like when Joker killed Robin and blew him and his mother up after beating him with a CROWBAR first. So NO as childish as you may think SUPERHEROES are sometimes in comicbooks you see and read things that children aren't supposed to see. How about when Joker had his way with commissioner Gordons daughter in The Killing Joke? Or green lantern found the dead body in the fridge? You see you mistake comicbooks and superheroes and assume it's all childish and there was nothing but fantasy in the tales being told. Maybe you don't read enough DC but hell even Spiderman had his beloved Gwen Stacy killed by Green Goblin. Just cause it's not shown in the Animated Series doesn't mean there was never any murdering in comicbooks. Remember when Doomsday killed Superman at the time the comicbook industry went belly up? Or how about Captain American being shot and killed? Those might ring a bell since they are more recent.

You see you feed into the notion that only children read comicbooks yet when I go to my local comicbook store I see anything but children inside there, sure they might have grew up with comics but even people who didn't are older now and want to learn about what made their favorite character who he is today by reading their past. Sh!t most of my friends never read comicbooks but enjoyed watching the movies and had a desire to learn about these characters while they are well into their 30's so not everybody was lucky like a lot of us to find a passion in comicbooks or their respected characters. Hell I would have never known anything had it not been for my older brother who introduced me into comicbooks.

Again you grew up in an era with Grand Theft Auto being the norm and with violence and murder being watered down. Yet the further you go back the more shocking these events were when nobody was used to seeing it 24/7 on TV or in Movies. When MYSTERY and SUSPENSE was a much more crucial element than BLOOD GUTS and GORE of today.

But no sense of going back and forth with all this, different times, different era and different tastes. Again don't take it personal, I like video games you like playing cards we both like comicbook characters.

Child at heart I will always be because these things resonate with my past and bring a feeling of nostalgia I embrace much like many of you. The only difference is I like Poker as a card game and don't understand the fascination with the other card games. Different era that's all

Originally Posted by Infinite pyre

I'm with gek. Suck an Eddie Brock wiener killer instinct.

Kick rocks you probably never heard of Spiderman until you saw the Animated Series too.

Damn RIGHT I like Venom, McFarlane's drawings were epic and many of us who saw them way back then fell in love with how beautiful they looked. So that is why I like Venom so much, basically because of Todd McFarlane. That and I really like the symbiote.

[Gecktechs]

Originally Posted by Killer Instinct

Yugioh and Pokemon is MUCH more childish than Comic books that have seen people murdered like when Joker killed Robin and blew him and his mother up after beating him with a CROWBAR first. So NO as childish as you may think SUPERHEROES are sometimes in comicbooks you see and read things that children aren't supposed to see. How about when Joker had his way with commissioner Gordons daughter in The Killing Joke? Or green lantern found the dead body in the fridge? You see you mistake comicbooks and superheroes and assume it's all childish and there was nothing but fantasy in the tales being told. Maybe you don't read enough DC but hell even Spiderman had his beloved Gwen Stacy killed by Green Goblin. Just cause it's not shown in the Animated Series doesn't mean there was never any murdering in comicbooks. Remember when Doomsday killed Superman at the time the comicbook industry went belly up? Or how about Captain American being shot and killed? Those might ring a bell since they are more recent.

You see you feed into the notion that only children read comicbooks yet when I go to my local comicbook store I see anything but children inside there, sure they might have grew up with comics but even people who didn't are older now and want to learn about what made their favorite character who he is today by reading their past. Sh!t most of my friends never read comicbooks but enjoyed watching the movies and had a desire to learn about these characters while they are well into their 30's so not everybody was lucky like a lot of us to find a passion in comicbooks or their respected characters. Hell I would have never known anything had it not been for my older brother who introduced me into comicbooks.

Again you grew up in an era with Grand Theft Auto being the norm and with violence and murder being watered down. Yet the further you go back the more shocking these events were when nobody was used to seeing it 24/7 on TV or in Movies. When MYSTERY and SUSPENSE was a much more crucial element than BLOOD GUTS and GORE of today.

But no sense of going back and forth with all this, different times, different era and different tastes. Again don't take it personal, I like video games you like playing cards we both like comicbook characters.

Child at heart I will always be because these things resonate with my past and bring a feeling of nostalgia I embrace much like many of you. The only difference is I like Poker as a card game and don't understand the fascination with the other card games. Different era that's all

Lmfao, you sound like an idiot. "Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon are MUCH more childish than superheros" RIGHT. & the fact that your here trying to reason with me "WHY", tells me all I need to know about you.

Just because you can't comprehend why someone likes something - doesn't mean you make fun of them for doing it or call it childish. Lmao, Your a damn child yourself with your XM/Eddie Brock/Venom head. On this forum, we're ALL kids in our own right.

Anyway, I'm done taking over this thread to go back and forth with an ignorant being like yourself. Carry on ladies and gents. Apologies for the off topic discussion.

[Ryanbusts]

Killer Instinct. I get your point. Again though, people can take it way out of text. The YuGio and Pokémon are more childish than the comics we know and read about. To be called an idiot- don't bother bro- this kid just came in the world knowing everything. Just like at work, let the rookies figure it out the hard way.

Not only is Yugi and Pokey more childish, but so are the cartoons based off the comic characters he grew up on. Sorry Geektech bro man, but like, you know like, if you actually knew about some of the source material that you apparently have no problem blowing your cash on. Maybe you wouldn't call someone else an idiot.

He didn't say it was stupid. He didn't really downplay your YugioH passion. He made a true statement. From Batman to Punisher to the Uncanny XForce and more- there is a plethora of violence and other mature topics. I don't know much about Pokeymon other than little kids run around catching them. As far as what you grew up on and know now. It's a watered down Disney version for all the PC, SJW, millenials and children of today. That's why Marvel has shows on Disney. Cash grab just like the statue business.

I like the 90s cartoons, I like the books, but I know the difference in maturity between the two. Though the cartoons like the turtles were also hot. I am not buying these statues based on my nostalgia off a cartoon. It's from the characters being in great stories with Killer Artworl OOZING with love for the medium.
that's right OOzing. Ask any other reader on this forum. Nothing tops a comic when it's firing on all cylinders. This ain't ignorance, this isn't idiotic. This is a hobby based off a passion for many of us. So that "I don't care who they are, it looks cool"/"your an idiot bro man dog G" attitude is actually more idiotic than any other opinion I have read on this forum.
Including my own. Cuz daddy like to have a few beers after work and screw around online. Lol.

[Gecktechs]

I can't believe this is a real conversation. It actually blows my mind that another guy here is trying to reason that comic book characters like Batman (a man who fights crime in a bat suit) and Spiderman (a kid who gets super powers from getting bit by a radioactive spider) aren't childish.. Wake up. You can tell me a million times that Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon are childish. Your right, they are. But so are comics. Get over yourselves. Stop acting like your sh!t don't stink and collect/play what you like. Doesn't matter if I grew up watching the cartoon and you grew up reading the comic. - We have love for the same characters lol. How that love came to be doesn't really matter nor should you care or feel the need to challenge it with your veteran logic.