XM jumped the shark with these new 1/7 & 1/6 statues? - Page 3

toe · 09-09-2018, 09:39 PM

Iron Studios are also doing 1/7 and they are great size, detailed, and priced really well. So, good move by XM but damn still expensive. Wish they have a distributor here in USA. With the 1/7th, will it be a worldwide license then? I mean, i think Iron Studios has 1/7th but not sure about their licensing boundaries.

loricstone · 09-09-2018, 09:49 PM

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I did read it and I never said they weren’t doing fine. I said I think they are making less $ than they were.

Didn't know you read it...my apologies.

loricstone · 09-09-2018, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by toe

Iron Studios are also doing 1/7 and they are great size, detailed, and priced really well. So, good move by XM but damn still expensive. Wish they have a distributor here in USA. With the 1/7th, will it be a worldwide license then? I mean, i think Iron Studios has 1/7th but not sure about their licensing boundaries.

1/7th line is not worldwide. SS has foothold on pretty much most scales for DC and Marvel and many other licenses.

Master Pizza · 09-09-2018, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by toe

Iron Studios are also doing 1/7 and they are great size, detailed, and priced really well. So, good move by XM but damn still expensive. Wish they have a distributor here in USA. With the 1/7th, will it be a worldwide license then? I mean, i think Iron Studios has 1/7th but not sure about their licensing boundaries.

I have never seen Iron Studios do 1/7. Do you mean 1/6?

aa909 · 09-09-2018, 10:11 PM

Wow a ton of replies in such a short period. Surprised by the level of enthusiasm.

Sounds like most folks who have responded are quite excited about the new XM 1/6 and 1/7 lines. Would you say you are getting priced out of the 1/4 statues or have you always been focused on collecting smaller scale pieces?

Augen · 09-09-2018, 10:39 PM

I would have preferred 1:4 or 1:3 scale for DC line as guessing I'll only buy 2-3 (including Wonder Woman) pieces from it.

That said, the 1:6 look amazing so happy to get it.

haljordan99 · 09-09-2018, 10:39 PM

I’m excited about the 1/6 line. There are a lot of characters I’d like from the DC universe and Sideshow is wasting that license in my opinion. Plus 1/4 is too expensive now anyway.

KELPIE · 09-09-2018, 10:40 PM

Nope, it's a great move.

I'd be really happy if they made Transformer statues at a comparable size to these 1/7 statues.

Though I guess it's something that shouldn't be confused, aren't the alternate Marvel scales being done by another company and XM is only helping them out?

eternalblue02 · 09-10-2018, 01:04 AM

After seeing what Tweeterhead’s doing with their Adam West line and Super Powers collection other company’s would be fools not dive into those size markets.

As others have said 1/4 isn’t what it used to be. Hell I'm a newer collector and even I see that.

Me personally, I can afford the statues. I just don’t have enough room so I have to be selective. Smaller scale will allow me to own more.

built2shred · 09-10-2018, 01:23 AM

Given SS has a lock on most world wide 1/4 scale licenses, it doesn't give XM many options as far as world wide licenses go... I think They're smart to grab the DC 1:6 license before SS could... As for the 1:7, I believe XM is in partnership with another company

Saying XM jumped the shark is implying they've run out of ideas or are becoming mediocrity in their designs, I don't think that's true, out of all the companies I think XM is the most imaginative and inventive, sure not all their sculpts are going to wow everyone but at least they're trying new stuff, Sideshow and Prime 1 are pretty much stuck in a rut of just doing Museum poses... Sure there are some exceptions here or there but I really don't see them pushing the envelope all that often...