Sideshow Con 2021 (the year of the rehash)

[saberhagen]

Originally Posted by Josh-a-tron

Hopefully not.



I'll take banners if they're of new characters.

I don't mind revists because I know they sell well for newer collectors but hopefully they got the revisits out of their system with this show.


I say that knowing full well I'm buying at least one of the revisits from this con and I'm swaying towards two.

I might be getting three which is more than I wanted to be interested in.

Wonder if they'll have more horror at Spooktacular. The two Hammer PFs and The Crow PF were a nice surprise. Probably another Iron Studios 1/10 Universal monster by then too.

[cjacobs83]

The following statues would have pleased the mainstream and the die hard fans. Why is it so hard?

Marvel
Loki
Vision
Nightcrawler
Black panther
Beast
Iceman

DC
Riddler
Twoface
Penguin
Nightwing

[darren1228]

Originally Posted by Bill Lehecka

Look, I get the need for rehashes. I honestly do. The characters are popular. They’ll sell. But when for your major licenses you ONLY have rehashes? That’s f$@king embarrassing. Full stop. You’re not a company for the fans anymore. Be honest. You want new customers to hit that bottom line. I get it, COVID. But this is where the company was headed before COVID. They become less like that maverick collectible company and more like a behemoth unwilling to take a risk anymore for fear of a bad balance sheet. Either lean in to being true Mavericks like you were even 10 years ago or go full soulless corporate. Don’t try to sell me the veneer of being a company for the fans.

That’s why I’m annoyed.

Preach

[Iko Iko]

Originally Posted by Bill Lehecka

Look, I get the need for rehashes. I honestly do. The characters are popular. They’ll sell. But when for your major licenses you ONLY have rehashes? That’s f$@king embarrassing. Full stop. You’re not a company for the fans anymore. Be honest. You want new customers to hit that bottom line. I get it, COVID. But this is where the company was headed before COVID. They become less like that maverick collectible company and more like a behemoth unwilling to take a risk anymore for fear of a bad balance sheet. Either lean in to being true Mavericks like you were even 10 years ago or go full soulless corporate. Don’t try to sell me the veneer of being a company for the fans.

That’s why I’m annoyed.

You know, looking at this, this is why I may order the Weta Zack Snyder Superman right now. That company is at least taking a risk with the license (who else would even venture to produce a 1/4 scale Desaad?).

[youstolemysn]

I asked in the live chat what we have to do to get Two Face, Riddler, etc. and SS responded with the suggest a product link. I have no idea if they actually look at those, but I suggested several new characters between DC and Marvel.

Maybe if they get an influx of suggestion emails they'll actually listen?

[Iko Iko]

Originally Posted by cjacobs83

The following statues would have pleased the mainstream and the die hard fans. Why is it so hard?

Marvel
Loki
Vision
Nightcrawler
Black panther
Beast
Iceman

DC
Riddler
Twoface
Penguin
Nightwing

Agree. And all of those characters are very reasonable selections and not some batch of obscure characters that only a few fans would want.

[darren1228]

Originally Posted by cjacobs83

The following statues would have pleased the mainstream and the die hard fans. Why is it so hard?

Marvel
Loki
Vision
Nightcrawler
Black panther
Beast
Iceman

DC
Riddler
Twoface
Penguin
Nightwing

Because from that list the only one that can potentially get casual collectors to impulse buy at the moment is Loki. And they'd have to get it to look like Tom Hiddleston.

[NorthernLadMSP]

I don't see anyone asking for a Tom Hiddleston Loki. I see people asking for a comic Loki quite often.

[BurningRage]

They still haven’t shown anything from the Clint Eastwood collection they announced.

[Frayhor]

So if we take the 3 main brands SW, Marvel, DC :
We got 9 (10 with Catwoman, which were not on the booth) rehashs and 1 "new" Batman from the begins movie, if it counts as new. In other words, it is entirely a full recycle of 11 PF...

Bravo Sideshow, that's a new record !