Two-Face Maquette

[Onewiththeforce]

Originally Posted by FJC

Just trying to look out for fellow collectors. That's the fun part of being in a community like this. We can share beneficial info with each other.

great reminder.

[supermn619]

Hey Igo: Would you ever do an EX with this color like the Bruce Timm version? Plus the lips eyebrow and extra hair?


Looks great either way!

[generalszabo]

Originally Posted by supermn619

Hey Igo: Would you ever do an EX with this color like the Bruce Timm version? Plus the lips eyebrow and extra hair?


Looks great either way!

Now that would be an insta buy

[Hobbyist]

Originally Posted by The SHOGUN

Why is the 1/6 version so expensive? the Joker on the chair was $600 and it probably has an easy 2.5-3X more the material and detail this pieces has. Poison Ivy variant was $400 and far more complex. Black Adam is more complex and he was $350.

Originally Posted by PeachFuzz

That's a lot of money for a 1/6 scale statue.

Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

Makes me feel the 1/6 version is vastly overpriced. $125 difference for such a difference in scale is shocking in a bad way.

That's what I want to know as well. The price has gone up at SSC to $505 from $495. Ridiculous!

If TH doesn't want collectors to go for the 1:6 scale, then don't make one. Why bother to do it and then give it such an unreasonable price?

Originally Posted by No1WonderFan

The Premium Format with the boots and the gloves? If so, man I wish that would've been done in 1/6 scale. That's pretty much exactly what I wanted from Tweeterhead.

[Hobbyist]

Originally Posted by Igo

We price these pieces based on costs we get back from the factory. THE END. Maybe a little tiny bit of add or subtract based on outside factors (like licensing) but it's 99.9% what the factory quotes us, multiplied by what our margins need to be to pay everything off, etc.

From the sound it, I assume there is absolutely no room for negotiation with the factory in any way, a take-it-or-leave-it type of deal between TH and the factory. Really?

I totally agree with The SHOGUN on raising the price on the 1:4 scale and lowering the price on the 1:6 scale in order to give the price point of both a sense of proportion if nothing else is feasible.

$505 for 1:6 and $630 for 1:4 makes no sense.

I am saying this as a fan of TH because I do want to support the company, but this pricing strategy prohibits me from doing so.

[saberhagen]

Originally Posted by The SHOGUN

this forum is the ideal place to discuss topics like Tweeterhead price gouging their loyal 1:6 collectors, while offering a 1:4 statue of th same piece for a better value. All while TH failing to acknowledge there iss little to no R&D costs on one of the two pieces as they are based on the same exact sculpture which HAD to reduce the cost somewhere somehow...but it didn't as the 1:6 prices continue to rise like flood waters. but we as "uninformed collectors" must realize the fact the prices were set based on 99.99% of the factory quote + other miscellaneous expenses...like shipping containers that are basically at 2019 levels but we should listen too vIgo, he's being 100% ...sorry 99.99% honest with us.

You don?t really discuss though, you just whine and spin conspiracies. But with cutting insights like ?price too high,? no wonder companies are taking you on as their business manager.

Everyone thinks the price is too high, the rest of us are just normal about it.

[generalszabo]

Originally Posted by Hobbyist

From the sound it, I assume there is absolutely no room for negotiation with the factory in any way, a take-it-or-leave-it type of deal between TH and the factory. Really?

I totally agree with The SHOGUN on raising the price on the 1:4 scale and lowering the price on the 1:6 scale in order to give the price point of both a sense of proportion if nothing else is feasible.

$505 for 1:6 and $630 for 1:4 makes no sense.

I am saying this as a fan of TH because I do want to support the company, but this pricing strategy prohibits me from doing so.

Don't buy it then, they aren't going to lower the price just because you want them to

[supermn619]

It's not TH that's raising the prices, You notice there is no such thing as the dollar menu Eggs are the new bitcoin!! LOL! All kidding aside its just where the times are now


So Igo: Lets make that EX Bruce Timm color! LOL!

[Hobbyist]

Don't mean to go off-topic but I don't understand this.

This 1:6 scale Spiderman figure with a large diorama base from Hot Toys costs $345.

It is full of intricated textures, details and far more complicated in production compared to a statue which is basically resin out of a mould with paint application.

The same Spiderman in the exact same pose with the exact same base in 1:6 scale statue form from TH will most likely cost more than $500. How the heck is that possible? What is going on here?

I know some would argue that paint job is expensive but still. Putting together a Hot Toys figure seems far more labour intensive and time consuming than producing a statue, and yet a statue will cost way more.

Is it the fault of the factory? It doesn't make any sense.

[IcedDog]

Originally Posted by Hobbyist

The same Spiderman in the exact same pose with the exact same base in 1:6 scale statue form from TH will most likely cost more than $500. How the heck is that possible? What is going on here?

I'm sure the economies of scale are working in favor of Hot Toys figures vs statues with relatively low edition sizes. Paint and materials used are probably other factors.