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Originally Posted by ReplicantSavior
The only reason I didn't put Elvira is because there are so many good statues of her out. Tweeterhead just released the Elvira statue to own. Plus the Electric Tiki versions are pretty much bishoujo. The one with her seated is really nice. I don't think Koto could top those. But more Elvira is always a good thing I guess.
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I'm not a fan of the way either of the electric tiki statues look and I think koto could top them.
I think koto will continue using iconic horror characters the way they did with Jason and Freddy. And there just aren't many iconic horror characters that are female. Most of them, like Carrie for instance, would feel weird to me. A cute girl in a bloody prom dress seems easy enough but the context for her character doesn't lend itself to the bishoujo line at all IMO. I think we'll see a Leatherface, Pinhead and even Bride of Frankenstein before we see lesser known female characters.
That being said, koto has already made bishoujo for Ghostbusters, and the fact that they didn't use an existing character means they knew there wasn't an iconic female character to use. So we got a made up character in the iconic jump suit with the iconic proton pack. Same with men in Black. They made up a character but the look is not at all iconic. That Agent G statue, I don't think sold very well. I seen it in clearance in more than a few places. I'd imagine it had something to do with koto going for 2 of the most iconic characters before going back to movie characters.
If they made Beatrix Kiddo and/or any of the deadly viper assassination squad, I'd buy those no matter what. I'd also like a Predator bishoujo as well as Lady Death, Purgatory and the fore mentioned Vampirella.