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Originally Posted by Dundee
Sorry I misread that part and assumed you mean prime 1 doing a bargain piece.
This could actually be a possibility if the company doesn't care about it's reputation, quality and wants to pump up a larger size at a bargain. Now I wonder which company comes to mind....think it starts with S  |
Not sure I'm explaining myself very well. When I say bargain I do not mean hastily made or cheap low quality but in comparison to this 1/3. Also when I refer to the materials costing a pittance I am comparing to the overall cost (to P1) and price (to the customer) of the statue. The lion's share of a statue's cost is the production run itself, basically the factory's time. Larger pieces between different 1/3 scale characters don't really cost (the company) much more. The cost to the factory for the materials of each one of these 3K 1/3 statues is less than $200. A 50% increase in size is unlikely to even add an extra $100 of materials.
So a 50% larger statue made to the same quality standards as this 1/3 would not cost P1 anywhere near double whatever this size statue is costing them to produce. Complexity adds more cost than size as shown to be the case with this Predator compared to some of P1's 1:2 scales. Complex details at smaller scales is even more painstaking and takes longer with more errors/waste. As Steve Wang himself has stated this is why ECC's 1:1 busts cost 1.5K while their 1:3 Maquettes are 2.5K.
From the price of this though I'd say there's a bit of gouging on Prime1's or the licensor's part. This 1/3 is not costing P1 anywhere near $1300 more than 1/4 Big Game Cover Art. P1 knows collectors will pay extra for bigger pieces because in collectors' minds bigger = more value. Prime 1 is likely making much better profits on this 1/3. If they were to do one larger they need not charge 6K to still bring a very high profit for themselves especially considering how many other statues they will have sold during their time with the license since licenses usually cost a flat fee over a time period plus a percentage of pieces sold/produced.
And I get it Predators are naturally larger than humans but c'mon they're only ~7 foot with average superhero height being ~6ft. It'd be a big 'ol statue for sure but even at perfect 1:2 scale were talking 6 more inches than a human 1:2 in the largest dimension. Anyone that even thinks this 1/3 isn't gonna be a space hog need not apply but there are definitely collectors that would buy a 1:2 Predator as their only statue and also other collectors that will buy all Predators Prime 1 will produce. I have full faith that JND or especially Queen could blow this P1 Predator out of the water with a larger and superior piece if they believed it to be worth it. Predator is just old compared to new Marvel and DC movies but for the right pieces trust me collectors will come.
