Zubbie glad all the stuff I buy from hasbro is bought from another vender, I buy from him. I pay only 1/4 the price foe all 40th anniversary such as Darth Vader and all the rest. I'll continue to get that price. I'm not sure where he gets the figures and I really don't care as long as I get them in bulk and I get them cheap. $10 / 40th anniversary Darth Vader opposed to $40 is damn good. f*** you Hasbro.. :-) as far as Transformers go I will go with takara. I buy those at wholesale. the same thing or Masters of the Universe Classics I bought them all way beneath price and they are all mint in package.. if Hasbro is going to continue to guide and rip people off, people are going to find ways to get them cheaper not to mention China is going to knock off all the figures. Me personally I'm going to get them from the vendors I know that will get them to me very cheap. I don't care where they get them or how they get them. for all I know this guy could be standing outside the back of a store and just grabbing them. But at least he gives them to me cheap prices and he always gets them. More than likely he works at a store. All I know is I get them at any time I need them. EBay is always a great market for me. I don't collect this junk and I'm really glad that I don't. But I'm very even more so happy make money on this stuff. :-)
Karen Sofia Rivera I was young when they were released so I really want them to be re released for a reasonable price so I have the chance to build up my army
i first noticed the downfall of hasbro at the force awakens, bad figures, bad articulation, bad accecories, and TERRIBLE vehicles. now it's rogue one, with EXTREMELY TERRIBLE vehicles that shoot NERF DARTS! like dat at act, smaller than the 2010 at-at even though the at-act is supposed to be way bigger and it's $300! just for a little electronics. i don't know what can save us now, the black series made pretty good 3 3/4 inch figures but let's hope the last jedi will redeem Hasbro, probably not. I used to love hasbro, now I don't. sorry about the rant😤
Well they are bringing back TVC next year, so there's that. Also, Hasbro's issues began way before TFA, issues began in early 2012. I like the Rogue One TIE Striker I have, I think the NERF dart is a way better projectile than a flimsy plastic rod.
This is the kind of thing that pissed me off so much big toy manufactures increasing the cost to the point where it's unaffordable for people like me and they cripple their toys. please don't get exited its going to take years for it to be finished but i'm currently making my own Sci fi series the Epic Awesome Alien Man (EAAM) sci fi series and i'm primarily focusing on the story and characters and toys are really an after thought. But to me If I ever make toys their going to be 3.5 inches tall, have 8 points of articulation and at most cost $8 I know people don't have much money so I would sell my toys at a fair price. honestly as a creator who might be in the toy business some day Hasbro actions has disappointed me heavily.
Agree..i miss the 2012 Legacy line..that was the best ive seen! Figures do look like shit and i think they wanted to bring that 1977 look again with no articulation on the figures.
i wish i was old enough in 2008-2012 to appreciate fully articulated action figures, kids nowadays are just stuck with a million different types of Grogu.
No one can disagree that 6 inch black series produce some pretty freaking amazing figures.... There is no denying that, but as you mentioned its NOT star wars!!! Star wars basically made 3.75 inch a "thing" for action figure and to me and other fellow collectors and younger kids its the perfect size for collections and as just toys. I see what Hasbro is doing with 5 poa figures, its for very young kids. But when I was a kid I really took consideration of the figures ability to actually do dynamic stuff while I play with it. Here we are years later as collectors and I still want articulated figs!!! Hasbro really needs to understand that kids aren't stupid, they want a freaking toy that can actually do stuff like bend his elbows and knees and hands and feet and so on and don't want a figure who can move its arms up and down 360 and his legs to go back and forth and of course its head on a superb ball joint do like that but the 5poa figures are nicely detailed and okay painted figures with dreadful articulation that is just not going to cut it...... Hasbro is freaking taking the "action" out of figures, its not fair for kids and collectors!!!
for me the best solution would be to get rid of the useless gimmick accesouries that are packed in with the figures, as a kid i almost never used them and from my observations of my friends children they seem to mostly ignore them as well. just use actual stuff like the characters blaster, lightsaber etc. use the money you save to improve the articulation a nodge. there are joints that could be left but some are a must have. as an example for a good compromise i´d name the figureline from the first avengers movie. yeah, they had no waist cut, no ankle articulation and the wrists where fixed as well. still they had most needed joints for the knees, upper legs, elbows and shoulders which allowed the figures to be posed and be put in playsets and vehicles that didn´t require the "sit straight" approach.
I totally agree. The only large missile-firing weapons I enjoyed were rocket launchers with my clones that actually looked good. But I'd rather see the cost go down instead of seeing those.
8:17 is the best way to put it. And toys are for kids to play with. Most kids don’t care about articulation, they just like to have a certain character to play with
Collectors aren't keeping them in business entirely. Toys are made for kids first and foremost, and the successful sales of Star Wars toys shows that, despite what we as collectors may think, current product is selling quite well. They should be more attentive to collector's interest, but perhaps it's not cost effective to meet the significantly high demands of collectors in a toy industry where budgets are being cut.
my dad and i went to Big W and found a 3.75 BS scarif stromtrooper! for $18 was on sale for $12! WOOO only had 1 left tho :( and 5poa figures here are $15!!!! 6 inch BS figures are 35 to 40 $ australia prices are SO BAD! everywhere els in the world has it cheaper and easy please be greatfull jcc! we cant even find any of the good/latest figures we still have the wave 1 rogue one figures at our shops! excellent vid man i agree with u all the way i have a love hate relationship with hasbro xD
As an exclusively 6 inch collector, I have no problem with what Hasbro’s been doing. I just wish they’d start using faceprinting tech on the Black Series figures.
I agree with you, it's like the Ubisoft or EA effect. People will complain about them but still buy their products. I don't think Hasbro is perfect by any mean but I believe they are actually trying and wanting to improve. They have done a really good job with their Marvel Legends but the Star Wars stuff has been a little iffy for me.
I agree so much!! Up until September of this year I stopped collecting SA 1) there is no Walmart in NY 2) eBay and amazon prices are skyrocketing and I can't afford those prices as a college student. I actually bought the 5POA snowtrooper figure and I have to be honest it's really nice figure it feels very sturdy and it works well with BS snowtrooper commander and my other saga snowtroopers. I agree 5POA IS GOOD. But it's never gonna be as amazing as SA.
"People are complaining 5 POA don't have enough articulation" um, I'm pretty sure it's called 5 POA, 5 points of articulation. That's like going to buy a cat and expecting it to do backflips and cartwheels while simultaneously eating a 5 foot taco.
5POA when it started, for what it was, was quite... iffy. The paint and sculpting was very poor and QC was trash. But nowadays 5POA is fairly good, if not great. For what they are, they're great products.
I've gotta admit, I have a VERY love-hate relationship with Hasbro, but that's mainly due to their treatment of my beloved Marvel Universe line. Not that there isn't plenty of positives to it, since after the atrocity of 2015 was over, even some of their lesser articulated figures actually made up for it with good paint(and some figures are still getting the full articulation). Heck, we're probably about to get the best Spidey in the line with that upcoming two-pack! Buuuuutttt then you have stuff like the lamely painted lesser articulated figures, the fact that we're only gonna get two waves this year because they "needed to budget out for those movie two-packs" or some crap(special packs never seem to reduce the 6 inch line by a wave...Do I need to cough it out, or can I just say "obvious 6 inch bias?"), and Dwight Stall in general, and you've got that hate part. Oddly, Funko is actually starting to become my favorite company right now. Sure, their figures are on the smaller en
...d of the 3.75 inch scale, and have less articulation at only 9 POA, but they made Batfleck in my scale, have an excellent Batman '66 line coming up, and actually have a direct way to talk with one of the designers via the Funko Fanatic boards, and he's actually a legitimately nice guy, too! Though my collection of their figures has only just begun, since I got the Legion of Collectors exclusive First appearance Superman figure after a great war, betrayal, and the death of a main character(only one of those was made up, btw).
Honestly I want Star Wars figures to switch over to O ring style articulation, from what I’ve heard, messing with the super articulated figures can be a hassle at times
this year, in 2018, Hasbro released new transformers toys but all are retool from the previous toy line. looking at it, its like bootleg toys if you look closely. no new engineering whatsoever. mcgecko, i agree with your statement, it's still trash.
As much as I am a black series fanboy, I really don't want to see vintage collection disappear. Both have their place in the merchandise world. I think one possible issue is that Hasbro is tired of dealing with scalpers and doesn't know how to combat them, and likely because Disney isn't making good products to make merch out of. No matter which way you look at it, some executive is having a big headache.
I think people don't realize toys are a difficult product nowadays kids which are the main market are more interested more in videogames and technology Hasbro needs to reduce costs to keep being a viable business
I good project to do is buy the new R1 stormtrooper with the super helmet sculpt and put it on a VC body I did it I gotta say it came out great!! You might need to drill a little depending on what SA mold you use
I do agree with the reasoning for making the 5poa and the price increase but as an adult collector, I don't like them. I don't play with my figures so a loss of articulation is very disheartening.
Hasbro Star Wars figures went to shit around 2012ish when 3.75 figures that were in the $7 ballpark suddenly jumped up to $12. Plus their distribution is horrible compounded by the fact that they crank out waves of figures to fast for collectors to catch up.
Yea Hasbro needs to get there shit together, b.c I have never seen that scariff trooper, it took until they went on sale to see the first order trooper..Finn is the only damn 3.75 figure around..its bull crap, mass produce them, mainly the troop builders...jeeze I remember when it was hard to find heroes, now its the opposite....love the video man!
Marvel Legends have increased 200% in price since around that time. Just how the toy industry is needing to evolve. Toys, after all, are a luxury item, and luxury items typically cost more to produce, sell, and distribute.
everything from the clone wars line through to the vintage collection was awesome in 3.75". you're absolutely right in that the new 3.75 stuff doesn't compare. they put so much more into those older lines and yes making the black series 3.75" line a walmart exclusive was a line crushing mistake. Hasbro has a books worth of issues but Walmart is a flaming pile of shit in every category of commerce.
I have always had problems with 3rd party Transformers collectors endlessly shitting on Hasbro. It's like, "Cool! Do you like spitting on your mother as well?"
This made me laugh in complete agreement. Transformers collectors constantly complain about Hasbro and how their products aren't on the level of Takara Masterpiece or 3P. Newsflash, those cost MANY times more, and Hasbro's trying to make affordable toys from their constricted budgets.
I think hasbro is doing a great job on the transformers titans return line, i love it, im happy with it, looking forward to more? my problem with star wars is the rogue one line, the figures look great but the vehicles ARE GARBAGE a complete rip off, there underscaled and overpriced, not to mention the crap paintjob and nerf, the force awakens line was amazing, now its gone way downhill, half assing the line again? but i think thats part disney's fault, after all they do own star wars now, so i dont really know for the future, i would love to see some creatures again, whare are the creatures?
For me, Star War Figures were about how how the figures could interact with the vehicles and playsets. (I have been a fan since 1977.) You don't see much of that ever since Hasbro bought out Kenner. It's been a money grab for Hasbro since then. Like I said in a previous post, that last great line for the Series as POTF 1 and 2, after that it has been hit or miss.
Hasbro actually did a fantastic job continuing the vehicles and playsets up until around 2012, and character selection was broad and fantastic. I'd say the weakest modern Star Wars figure line is probably Saga 2002, but still had some decent stuff.
Same thing is happening with Lego cause back then you get a good build in a battle pack and good figs for 10$ but now have you seen the imperial battle pack it looks like a 2 year old made and ok figs and its 16$-22$
Yeah! Lego has always been way over the top prices! They make excuses like that they use the best quality plastic and stuff, but no! lol It costs lego less than a dollar Canadian to make a minifigure and they charge 5 dollars canadian for their little blind bags! Freakin unbelieveable! :P
Actually, Lego has been fairly even with price increases and quality. They did increase the price of battle packs, yes, but the builds and minifigs aren't as bad, in fact, they're more detailed and have about the same amount of parts as classic battle packs. And Gabriel, yes, Lego has ALWAYS been expensive. Nowadays we get a nicely detailed set for $40, but back 20 or so years ago, things were still the same price. It was the rich kid's toy.
Hasbro i think , has one main Issue ; they have to cater to the 3 biggest Toy licenses/fandoms in the world , SW , Marvel , and Transformers. i think the bigger a company gets , the more it generally suffers in its product quality, and the more problems will show i different areas. Wits star wars , it also be a factor theres a new SW film EVERY YEAR now for the forseeable future. only to try an get something out for every relevant character , along with some vehicles , is allready a monumental job to do all over again every year. My point is , their products MIGHT be better if they d drop something in favour of the remaining lines.
I wouldn't call that an issue as much as it is just the way it is. Toylines and companies that make products on a smaller scale (NECA for example) have higher product quality due to their market being only collectors willing to pay 20+ for a single action figure. TF, Marvel, and SW are, as you said, massive. They have to make products for both collectors and kids, as well as distribute them all around the world to many different retail outlets. It gets expensive fast, and on top of keeping the costs down to keep toys affordable for parents, the quality won't be as good.
I'm honestly thinking on getting into the black series and the s.h. figuarts and the side show figures but the problem with all those is well even with hasbro no one is making vehicles for the figures anymore honestly if black series did more attack of the clones stuff and mass produced it not just in one short wave I'd like to see them make a republic gunship or an atte or even a turbo tank or even do more clone wars stuff because when I was growing up me and my brother would mostly only collect clone wars Era stuff, hasbro has been doing the super articulated 3:75 scale figures for years, why stop
I live in the Netherlands, Europe. which unfortunately means bullshit prices. black series here cost 35 euros. even the 3.75 inch 5poa figures often go for a ridiculous 15/16 euros. I googled the USD Euro difference and it should at max be about two. idk if that's more or less but that's besides the point. even if you add 2 to the usd price it's not even close to what we have to pay here.
Jcc2224 still nice to get one after 10 years and I yas a year old at the time and just got into it last year so for people like me this is a good opportunity to get a revan figure
Titans Return is getting a lot of love, yes, but Hasbro divides their brands into groups. Star Wars sales don't impact Transformers, Marvel doesn't impact MLP, etc. They're almost independent companies within Hasbro.
In 8 years (clone wars clone trooper-shoretrooper) prices have went up $5 that's around a 60% increase ! 12 inch figures with 5 POA are $10 so why are the 3.75 inch ones $8? Sorry for ranting I just quit collecting for a few years now because of this
The 12" figures are hollow, underdetailed, and cheap to produce due to their harder plastic. 3.75" is cramming more details into a smaller size, softer plastic, and more weapons.
Just because we think it's stupid, there's plenty of people who still buy every new CoD or 5POA. The Emoji movie is pure cancer though, I heard it might already be getting cancelled due to the massive negative reaction.
I agree about the 5POA, they've gotten better. I actually enjoy some of them cause aside from articulation they are well done, like Thrawn, I'm really enjoying that figure. I wouldn't have a problem with them if SA 3.75" wasn't near extinction.
Yeah, by themselves, I have NO issue with 6" or 5POA, but given how Hasbro is getting rid of 3.75" SA in their place... that upsets me. If it's what must me done though, then whatever.
The 6 inch stormtroopers are fine and I enjoy them. The clone captain 6 inch is my favorite but they don't bend in the arms and legs as we as the stormtroopers. I love the death trooper in both 1/18 scale and 1/12. I love the 1/12 scale shoretrooper and tank driver over the 1/18 scale. The black series has been hit and miss for the most part for me. Ok yes the price is getting ridiculous.
I think you missed my point. They're hard to find in stores, and often times new waves are scalped heavily, and scalpers/collectors cherry-pick that ONE figure out of every wave to mark up in price. And yeah, I have tried Amazon and eBay, and many figures are insane prices on both sites. Sure each site gets them in stock for a fair price from time to time, but they're not readily available whenever you decide you want it.
Ever heard of Corps Special Forces action figures sold at Walmart? Those action figures are very detailed and are sold very cheap. I don't buy Hasbro's excuses
I buy the 6 inch black series but all the good figures are NEVER at ANY store I luckily scored the better Darth Vader and 2 Mimban Stormtroopers at Walmart and the new archive Bossk and IG-88 at Target also finding Wolffe at Barnes n Nobles but if I want to buy any cool characters I either go to a store like Barnes n Nobles, EBay, or a toy collector store about 2 hour away from where I live. I’m pissed at Hasbro
I'm not sure if you're using that as a defense for these new 5POA figures, but many people I know (including myself) felt their GI Joe toys were superior to their Star Wars growing up because they could actually move.
Okay here's the thing i have started to collect a few 6 inch black series but here's the thing there is no nostalgia to it but there not bad but here's the thing the Walmart exclusive are great well most of them every series has some bad figures but there filled with memories even though there hard to find I was born in 2004 so I have seen some big changes in Star Wars and the toys
The problem is that I don't aprove of walmart! I think they are one of the most corrupt businesses, and i am so sad that hasbro is forcing me to support them! :-(
Mission fleet is superior to 5poa in my opinion now it's an excellent alternative for kids. I buy black series and get my brother and me Mission fleet.
what you mean "yeet" just take a look at the superb quality of these figures 68.media.tumblr.com/895423bb36a863b21796c91ae947d02f/tumblr_o049ahDxT21uxkzdxo1_1280.jpg clearly these are the figures for us
I watched that video when it came out, and I respectfully disagreed. On top of him contradicting himself by calling modern 5POA classic while he had previously stated how vintage Star Wars toys were inferior to more poseable toys in the 80's. I do feel that some figures with super articulation are tough to work with, but many are just fine/as they should be. They're not "bendy" as he described them as.
see, the problem is is that kids don't buy toys anymore. give a kid a fucking ipad and they're set. there's no imagination or anything so of course toys would struggle
That's exactly what they shouldn't do. There should be a healthy balance of everything, and since Hasbro announced bringing TVC back it seems like they're taking the right steps.
I think they should make action figures for kids and collectors and make them like the clone wars and bring back battle packs and good space ships and you know those dvd with action figures bring those back make it big make it a blast for kids and adults
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0:38 The lesson I got out of this video was "don't eat poop." Good to know. But why couldn't you have shared this sooner?
Zubbie where have i been all my life
Zubbie glad all the stuff I buy from hasbro is bought from another vender, I buy from him. I pay only 1/4 the price foe all 40th anniversary such as Darth Vader and all the rest. I'll continue to get that price. I'm not sure where he gets the figures and I really don't care as long as I get them in bulk and I get them cheap. $10 / 40th anniversary Darth Vader opposed to $40 is damn good. f*** you Hasbro.. :-) as far as Transformers go I will go with takara. I buy those at wholesale. the same thing or Masters of the Universe Classics I bought them all way beneath price and they are all mint in package.. if Hasbro is going to continue to guide and rip people off, people are going to find ways to get them cheaper not to mention China is going to knock off all the figures. Me personally I'm going to get them from the vendors I know that will get them to me very cheap. I don't care where they get them or how they get them. for all I know this guy could be standing outside the back of a store and just grabbing them. But at least he gives them to me cheap prices and he always gets them. More than likely he works at a store. All I know is I get them at any time I need them. EBay is always a great market for me. I don't collect this junk and I'm really glad that I don't. But I'm very even more so happy make money on this stuff. :-)
last time i was this early hasbro still made good star wars action figures
x-cept da hole point of dis vid was 2 show dat dey stil do
Jcc2224 i now i was making a last time i was this early joke at the time of making the pun i had not seen the full video
I actually would like to see again the clone wars action figure series... cause they are my favorite and they were fully articulated 😊
Karen Sofia Rivera I was young when they were released so I really want them to be re released for a reasonable price so I have the chance to build up my army
#CloneWarsSaved
It's not "super articulation" that we want, it's regular posability...
i first noticed the downfall of hasbro at the force awakens, bad figures, bad articulation, bad accecories, and TERRIBLE vehicles. now it's rogue one, with EXTREMELY TERRIBLE vehicles that shoot NERF DARTS! like dat at act, smaller than the 2010 at-at even though the at-act is supposed to be way bigger and it's $300! just for a little electronics. i don't know what can save us now, the black series made pretty good 3 3/4 inch figures but let's hope the last jedi will redeem Hasbro, probably not. I used to love hasbro, now I don't. sorry about the rant😤
Well they are bringing back TVC next year, so there's that.
Also, Hasbro's issues began way before TFA, issues began in early 2012. I like the Rogue One TIE Striker I have, I think the NERF dart is a way better projectile than a flimsy plastic rod.
hasbro can be great again if the vintage collection 2018 is great
Figures turned to shit when Disney bought Lucasfilm. I think Disney had something to do with that.
This is the kind of thing that pissed me off so much big toy manufactures increasing the cost to the point where it's unaffordable for people like me and they cripple their toys. please don't get exited its going to take years for it to be finished but i'm currently making my own Sci fi series the Epic Awesome Alien Man (EAAM) sci fi series and i'm primarily focusing on the story and characters and toys are really an after thought. But to me If I ever make toys their going to be 3.5 inches tall, have 8 points of articulation and at most cost $8 I know people don't have much money so I would sell my toys at a fair price. honestly as a creator who might be in the toy business some day Hasbro actions has disappointed me heavily.
The old Clone Wars, Saga and Gold Coin figures were so good! New figures are shit.
Agree..i miss the 2012 Legacy line..that was the best ive seen! Figures do look like shit and i think they wanted to bring that 1977 look again with no articulation on the figures.
#CloneWarsSaved
i wish i was old enough in 2008-2012 to appreciate fully articulated action figures, kids nowadays are just stuck with a million different types of Grogu.
No one can disagree that 6 inch black series produce some pretty freaking amazing figures.... There is no denying that, but as you mentioned its NOT star wars!!! Star wars basically made 3.75 inch a "thing" for action figure and to me and other fellow collectors and younger kids its the perfect size for collections and as just toys. I see what Hasbro is doing with 5 poa figures, its for very young kids. But when I was a kid I really took consideration of the figures ability to actually do dynamic stuff while I play with it. Here we are years later as collectors and I still want articulated figs!!! Hasbro really needs to understand that kids aren't stupid, they want a freaking toy that can actually do stuff like bend his elbows and knees and hands and feet and so on and don't want a figure who can move its arms up and down 360 and his legs to go back and forth and of course its head on a superb ball joint do like that but the 5poa figures are nicely detailed and okay painted figures with dreadful articulation that is just not going to cut it...... Hasbro is freaking taking the "action" out of figures, its not fair for kids and collectors!!!
No, but the 6 inch stormtrooper is fantastic though, I still don't get why hasbro stopped making them like that.
for me the best solution would be to get rid of the useless gimmick accesouries that are packed in with the figures, as a kid i almost never used them and from my observations of my friends children they seem to mostly ignore them as well. just use actual stuff like the characters blaster, lightsaber etc. use the money you save to improve the articulation a nodge. there are joints that could be left but some are a must have. as an example for a good compromise i´d name the figureline from the first avengers movie. yeah, they had no waist cut, no ankle articulation and the wrists where fixed as well. still they had most needed joints for the knees, upper legs, elbows and shoulders which allowed the figures to be posed and be put in playsets and vehicles that didn´t require the "sit straight" approach.
I totally agree. The only large missile-firing weapons I enjoyed were rocket launchers with my clones that actually looked good. But I'd rather see the cost go down instead of seeing those.
8:17 is the best way to put it. And toys are for kids to play with. Most kids don’t care about articulation, they just like to have a certain character to play with
im a kid/12 years old, and I like getting those super articualated vintage, legacy,30th, and all the other lines
Nawh man, you're letting them off too easy. Hasblow are not respecting the fans that are keeping them in business
Collectors aren't keeping them in business entirely. Toys are made for kids first and foremost, and the successful sales of Star Wars toys shows that, despite what we as collectors may think, current product is selling quite well.
They should be more attentive to collector's interest, but perhaps it's not cost effective to meet the significantly high demands of collectors in a toy industry where budgets are being cut.
my dad and i went to Big W and found a 3.75 BS scarif stromtrooper! for $18 was on sale for $12! WOOO only had 1 left tho :(
and 5poa figures here are $15!!!!
6 inch BS figures are 35 to 40 $
australia prices are SO BAD!
everywhere els in the world has it cheaper and easy please be greatfull jcc!
we cant even find any of the good/latest figures
we still have the wave 1 rogue one figures at our shops!
excellent vid man i agree with u all the way
i have a love hate relationship with hasbro xD
As an exclusively 6 inch collector, I have no problem with what Hasbro’s been doing. I just wish they’d start using faceprinting tech on the Black Series figures.
I agree with you, it's like the Ubisoft or EA effect. People will complain about them but still buy their products. I don't think Hasbro is perfect by any mean but I believe they are actually trying and wanting to improve. They have done a really good job with their Marvel Legends but the Star Wars stuff has been a little iffy for me.
I agree with you, go with the ROTS route. One of my favourite lines tbh.
and at first when they started making 5 poa I thought they were just getting there stuff together cause they got bought by Disney but nope
I agree so much!! Up until September of this year I stopped collecting SA 1) there is no Walmart in NY 2) eBay and amazon prices are skyrocketing and I can't afford those prices as a college student. I actually bought the 5POA snowtrooper figure and I have to be honest it's really nice figure it feels very sturdy and it works well with BS snowtrooper commander and my other saga snowtroopers. I agree 5POA IS GOOD. But it's never gonna be as amazing as SA.
My favorite figure period is the 6 inch black series sandtrooper. They pegged it. Hands down.
Favourite ever?
"People are complaining 5 POA don't have enough articulation" um, I'm pretty sure it's called 5 POA, 5 points of articulation. That's like going to buy a cat and expecting it to do backflips and cartwheels while simultaneously eating a 5 foot taco.
I want that cat.
Flurry I know people like wtf is this there stuipd and idoits
5POA when it started, for what it was, was quite... iffy. The paint and sculpting was very poor and QC was trash. But nowadays 5POA is fairly good, if not great. For what they are, they're great products.
This is the same about the Jurassic world figures. The freaking dinosaur toys have bullet holes on one side of the toy.
Isn't battle damage kinda classic to the Jurassic Park figures though?
Jcc2224 He's referring to all the screw holes on the figures
I found 2 shore troopers at Walmart for 13 each.
I've gotta admit, I have a VERY love-hate relationship with Hasbro, but that's mainly due to their treatment of my beloved Marvel Universe line.
Not that there isn't plenty of positives to it, since after the atrocity of 2015 was over, even some of their lesser articulated figures actually made up for it with good paint(and some figures are still getting the full articulation). Heck, we're probably about to get the best Spidey in the line with that upcoming two-pack!
Buuuuutttt then you have stuff like the lamely painted lesser articulated figures, the fact that we're only gonna get two waves this year because they "needed to budget out for those movie two-packs" or some crap(special packs never seem to reduce the 6 inch line by a wave...Do I need to cough it out, or can I just say "obvious 6 inch bias?"), and Dwight Stall in general, and you've got that hate part.
Oddly, Funko is actually starting to become my favorite company right now. Sure, their figures are on the smaller en
...d of the 3.75 inch scale, and have less articulation at only 9 POA, but they made Batfleck in my scale, have an excellent Batman '66 line coming up, and actually have a direct way to talk with one of the designers via the Funko Fanatic boards, and he's actually a legitimately nice guy, too!
Though my collection of their figures has only just begun, since I got the Legion of Collectors exclusive First appearance Superman figure after a great war, betrayal, and the death of a main character(only one of those was made up, btw).
I’m not game to order that Leia in case they actually send that one.
Honestly I want Star Wars figures to switch over to O ring style articulation, from what I’ve heard, messing with the super articulated figures can be a hassle at times
"Im not _mad_ with hasbro, just very disappointed"
Sounds like what a dad would say when their kids fuck up.
lol
Till this day i have never seen a star wars black 12" stormtrooper in any store ever since they were released....only on Ebay.
I stop buying hasbro items 4 years ago cause it's trash
It certainly isn't the same as it was 2012 and prior.
this year, in 2018, Hasbro released new transformers toys but all are retool from the previous toy line. looking at it, its like bootleg toys if you look closely. no new engineering whatsoever. mcgecko, i agree with your statement, it's still trash.
mcgecko too true
How do you feel about the Marvel "Legends" 3.75 inch line? (We all know they're really Marvel Universe.)
They're alright. I'm happy Hasbro doesn't make them top priority over Legends.
As much as I am a black series fanboy, I really don't want to see vintage collection disappear. Both have their place in the merchandise world. I think one possible issue is that Hasbro is tired of dealing with scalpers and doesn't know how to combat them, and likely because Disney isn't making good products to make merch out of. No matter which way you look at it, some executive is having a big headache.
If they fad out the 3.75 articulated I will be like my crunch video without all the happinesss and just the rage...Crunch
You nail exactly why I hate 6” ! No vehicles or play sets
The old revenge of the sith line was incredible compared to the force awakens and rogue one
I think people don't realize toys are a difficult product nowadays
kids which are the main market are more interested more in videogames and technology
Hasbro needs to reduce costs to keep being a viable business
Noah Martinez Very good point.
How come the packaging was the best ever betweeen 1978-1985 and then downhill from there?
False, video games have been around for 20-30 years
I good project to do is buy the new R1 stormtrooper with the super helmet sculpt and put it on a VC body I did it I gotta say it came out great!! You might need to drill a little depending on what SA mold you use
I do agree with the reasoning for making the 5poa and the price increase but as an adult collector, I don't like them. I don't play with my figures so a loss of articulation is very disheartening.
If they went back to the 3:75 scale super articulated figures I'd probably start buying them again
Hasbro pls staph,or giv us a 6inch cap rex and ur forgiven ;)
Can't belive they haven't made one yet
It was rumored years ago.
But WHERE'S THE CLONE LT.?!?!
I agree with you my favorite black series figures are the new darth vader gold leader and kanan
I am a really big fan of the revenge of the sith saga collection mainly because of the articulation and detail for a reasonable price.
Hasbro Star Wars figures went to shit around 2012ish when 3.75 figures that were in the $7 ballpark suddenly jumped up to $12. Plus their distribution is horrible compounded by the fact that they crank out waves of figures to fast for collectors to catch up.
The small articulated figure are literally all over the toy section in my Walmart.
It sucks that i don't have Walmart in my country
Did you do a review of the scarif trooper? I would like to see one
I did a comparison of the 3.75" and 6"!
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I remember when I could walk into Walmart and get a 3.75 clone for 7 bucks.
I wish I had brought more of those figures they were in my local asda for £1:80 just before Christmas
Yea Hasbro needs to get there shit together, b.c I have never seen that scariff trooper, it took until they went on sale to see the first order trooper..Finn is the only damn 3.75 figure around..its bull crap, mass produce them, mainly the troop builders...jeeze I remember when it was hard to find heroes, now its the opposite....love the video man!
Back in my day of the clone wars line you could get a super articulated figure for $6.99, oh how times have changed.
Marvel Legends have increased 200% in price since around that time. Just how the toy industry is needing to evolve. Toys, after all, are a luxury item, and luxury items typically cost more to produce, sell, and distribute.
Very true
So how is that every jet trooper vid going?
I'm still missing quite a few, don't expect that one for a while.
Darn, well good luck hunting :)
Most Hasbro figures are pretty god especially they older ones
everything from the clone wars line through to the vintage collection was awesome in 3.75". you're absolutely right in that the new 3.75 stuff doesn't compare. they put so much more into those older lines and yes making the black series 3.75" line a walmart exclusive was a line crushing mistake. Hasbro has a books worth of issues but Walmart is a flaming pile of shit in every category of commerce.
I have always had problems with 3rd party Transformers collectors endlessly shitting on Hasbro. It's like, "Cool! Do you like spitting on your mother as well?"
This made me laugh in complete agreement. Transformers collectors constantly complain about Hasbro and how their products aren't on the level of Takara Masterpiece or 3P. Newsflash, those cost MANY times more, and Hasbro's trying to make affordable toys from their constricted budgets.
I think hasbro is doing a great job on the transformers titans return line, i love it, im happy with it, looking forward to more? my problem with star wars is the rogue one line, the figures look great but the vehicles ARE GARBAGE a complete rip off, there underscaled and overpriced, not to mention the crap paintjob and nerf, the force awakens line was amazing, now its gone way downhill, half assing the line again? but i think thats part disney's fault, after all they do own star wars now, so i dont really know for the future, i would love to see some creatures again, whare are the creatures?
For me, Star War Figures were about how how the figures could interact with the vehicles and playsets. (I have been a fan since 1977.) You don't see much of that ever since Hasbro bought out Kenner. It's been a money grab for Hasbro since then. Like I said in a previous post, that last great line for the Series as POTF 1 and 2, after that it has been hit or miss.
Hasbro actually did a fantastic job continuing the vehicles and playsets up until around 2012, and character selection was broad and fantastic. I'd say the weakest modern Star Wars figure line is probably Saga 2002, but still had some decent stuff.
There's a 112th clone trooper on Amazon going for 67$
And it looks worthy of a kind person like you cause I'm all spent lol
Same thing is happening with Lego cause back then you get a good build in a battle pack and good figs for 10$ but now have you seen the imperial battle pack it looks like a 2 year old made and ok figs and its 16$-22$
mcgecko true the walker or battle station things are trash
Yeah! Lego has always been way over the top prices! They make excuses like that they use the best quality plastic and stuff, but no! lol It costs lego less than a dollar Canadian to make a minifigure and they charge 5 dollars canadian for their little blind bags!
Freakin unbelieveable! :P
Actually, Lego has been fairly even with price increases and quality. They did increase the price of battle packs, yes, but the builds and minifigs aren't as bad, in fact, they're more detailed and have about the same amount of parts as classic battle packs.
And Gabriel, yes, Lego has ALWAYS been expensive. Nowadays we get a nicely detailed set for $40, but back 20 or so years ago, things were still the same price. It was the rich kid's toy.
Exactly! they haven't increased relatively, but that's because they don't need to. it's always been way too much.
Hasbro i think , has one main Issue ; they have to cater to the 3 biggest Toy licenses/fandoms in the world , SW , Marvel , and Transformers. i think the bigger a company gets , the more it generally suffers in its product quality, and the more problems will show i different areas. Wits star wars , it also be a factor theres a new SW film EVERY YEAR now for the forseeable future. only to try an get something out for every relevant character , along with some vehicles , is allready a monumental job to do all over again every year. My point is , their products MIGHT be better if they d drop something in favour of the remaining lines.
I wouldn't call that an issue as much as it is just the way it is. Toylines and companies that make products on a smaller scale (NECA for example) have higher product quality due to their market being only collectors willing to pay 20+ for a single action figure. TF, Marvel, and SW are, as you said, massive. They have to make products for both collectors and kids, as well as distribute them all around the world to many different retail outlets. It gets expensive fast, and on top of keeping the costs down to keep toys affordable for parents, the quality won't be as good.
The Star Wars black series 3.74 inch figures are now $5
Yeah, I've picked up a few at that price. Too bad many like Cassian and the Shoretrooper are still impossible to see in-stores in the first place.
I will buy them but that doesn't mean I have to like them
I'm honestly thinking on getting into the black series and the s.h. figuarts and the side show figures but the problem with all those is well even with hasbro no one is making vehicles for the figures anymore honestly if black series did more attack of the clones stuff and mass produced it not just in one short wave I'd like to see them make a republic gunship or an atte or even a turbo tank or even do more clone wars stuff because when I was growing up me and my brother would mostly only collect clone wars Era stuff, hasbro has been doing the super articulated 3:75 scale figures for years, why stop
In my opiniin I think theyh should raise the price to $9.50 and give them ball hinged elbows and knees and it would be fine.
I live in the Netherlands, Europe. which unfortunately means bullshit prices. black series here cost 35 euros. even the 3.75 inch 5poa figures often go for a ridiculous 15/16 euros. I googled the USD Euro difference and it should at max be about two. idk if that's more or less but that's besides the point. even if you add 2 to the usd price it's not even close to what we have to pay here.
Well let's just add muscles and call it. Power of the force 3
Well guess what the new vintage collection wave has DARTH FREAKING REVAN BOI
It's just a repack of the Revan released in 2007 though.
Jcc2224 still nice to get one after 10 years and I yas a year old at the time and just got into it last year so for people like me this is a good opportunity to get a revan figure
right now i think hasbro's blowing EVERTHING into titans return (the main transformer toyline right now)
Titans Return is getting a lot of love, yes, but Hasbro divides their brands into groups. Star Wars sales don't impact Transformers, Marvel doesn't impact MLP, etc. They're almost independent companies within Hasbro.
I bought the 3.75 shoretrooper by accident am I now a millionaire?
Nah, his price has gone down quite a bit. Still hard to find!
review a mcfarlane shrek figure
That’s why I collect LEGO even LEGO is shit sometimes
In 8 years (clone wars clone trooper-shoretrooper) prices have went up $5 that's around a 60% increase ! 12 inch figures with 5 POA are $10 so why are the 3.75 inch ones $8? Sorry for ranting I just quit collecting for a few years now because of this
The 12" figures are hollow, underdetailed, and cheap to produce due to their harder plastic. 3.75" is cramming more details into a smaller size, softer plastic, and more weapons.
Well they are bringing back the vintage collection so no conspiracy theory here
its a common thing now for companies to do stupid things nowadays, looks at what activision did with cod for example, or the emoji movie.
Just because we think it's stupid, there's plenty of people who still buy every new CoD or 5POA. The Emoji movie is pure cancer though, I heard it might already be getting cancelled due to the massive negative reaction.
I do think that hasbro is making good figures, I like their figures a lot. I just can’t ever find them
I agree about the 5POA, they've gotten better. I actually enjoy some of them cause aside from articulation they are well done, like Thrawn, I'm really enjoying that figure. I wouldn't have a problem with them if SA 3.75" wasn't near extinction.
Darth Deuces yes totally
Yeah, by themselves, I have NO issue with 6" or 5POA, but given how Hasbro is getting rid of 3.75" SA in their place... that upsets me. If it's what must me done though, then whatever.
The 6 inch stormtroopers are fine and I enjoy them. The clone captain 6 inch is my favorite but they don't bend in the arms and legs as we as the stormtroopers. I love the death trooper in both 1/18 scale and 1/12. I love the 1/12 scale shoretrooper and tank driver over the 1/18 scale. The black series has been hit and miss for the most part for me. Ok yes the price is getting ridiculous.
I like playing with and posing my troopers! Having a big army of 3.75" is so cool! But you can't do that with 6"!! :-(
That's another aspect of 3.75", army building. You can't really do that in 6" unless you find good deals on them.
exactly! and even if you have tons of money to buy like five of the order 66 battlepack, you still need space.
plus 3.74" allows you to use vehicles!
Lol I army built v.c. Wolfe and made a 10 man wolf pack, and then I army built storm troopers of all kinds and some other clones as well 501 and 212
Yeah but the Shore trooper have more detailing on it though
I worship this video.
Do you need a child to sacrifice?
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Marvel Legends under Toy Biz vs Marvel Legends under Hasbro, is diamonds vs pure shit.
Hasbro ML is far from pure shit. They both have different things going for them as well as different things holding them back.
“The black series is soooo hard to find.” Me standing next to a little more than one hundred black series figures “tried amazon and or ebay?”
I think you missed my point. They're hard to find in stores, and often times new waves are scalped heavily, and scalpers/collectors cherry-pick that ONE figure out of every wave to mark up in price. And yeah, I have tried Amazon and eBay, and many figures are insane prices on both sites. Sure each site gets them in stock for a fair price from time to time, but they're not readily available whenever you decide you want it.
Jcc2224 yeah I guess ur right thanks for responding... it’s makes more sense now and I agree. I really like the black series though 😂
Ever heard of Corps Special Forces action figures sold at Walmart? Those action figures are very detailed and are sold very cheap. I don't buy Hasbro's excuses
I buy the 6 inch black series but all the good figures are NEVER at ANY store I luckily scored the better Darth Vader and 2 Mimban Stormtroopers at Walmart and the new archive Bossk and IG-88 at Target also finding Wolffe at Barnes n Nobles but if I want to buy any cool characters I either go to a store like Barnes n Nobles, EBay, or a toy collector store about 2 hour away from where I live. I’m pissed at Hasbro
What about a dollar per point of articulation
80s Star Wars Toys were not articulated like GI JOE.
I'm not sure if you're using that as a defense for these new 5POA figures, but many people I know (including myself) felt their GI Joe toys were superior to their Star Wars growing up because they could actually move.
Okay here's the thing i have started to collect a few 6 inch black series but here's the thing there is no nostalgia to it but there not bad but here's the thing the Walmart exclusive are great well most of them every series has some bad figures but there filled with memories even though there hard to find I was born in 2004 so I have seen some big changes in Star Wars and the toys
I really hate 5 poa figures, whats the point of them you can't pose it or anything
That saw guarrera if fucking beautiful
*Stares blankly at you for a few seconds*
BOR GULLET
this was great new 2 the channel MtfbwU always.👍
Product availability is terrible. 40th Anniversary anyone?
The problem is that I don't aprove of walmart! I think they are one of the most corrupt businesses, and i am so sad that hasbro is forcing me to support them! :-(
On top of the Waltons being very poor business runners, they also struggle to stock products, particularly their own exclusives.
d o n t c o n s u m e i t .
those star wars figures range from £10 to £15 the 6inch figures upto £30 plus way to much
Collector of the toy biz marvel legends
I'm not eating poop right now!!
Mission fleet is superior to 5poa in my opinion now it's an excellent alternative for kids. I buy black series and get my brother and me Mission fleet.
i have a idea
we can all move to Chinese knockoff figures
Yeet
what you mean "yeet"
just take a look at the superb quality of these figures 68.media.tumblr.com/895423bb36a863b21796c91ae947d02f/tumblr_o049ahDxT21uxkzdxo1_1280.jpg clearly these are the figures for us
but dude its bendable so its super poseable lol ahahaha
if you think these figures have bad quality tried buying some of the new Transformers
Remenber this Star Wars place from the 80S times horkie
Jc224 I want you to watch retro blast video special rouge one it explain why he like 5poa and explain how super postal
I watched that video when it came out, and I respectfully disagreed. On top of him contradicting himself by calling modern 5POA classic while he had previously stated how vintage Star Wars toys were inferior to more poseable toys in the 80's. I do feel that some figures with super articulation are tough to work with, but many are just fine/as they should be. They're not "bendy" as he described them as.
Jcc2224 true but it is like that for my opinion
see, the problem is is that kids don't buy toys anymore. give a kid a fucking ipad and they're set. there's no imagination or anything so of course toys would struggle
I think hasbro should stop 3 .75 inch and move to 6 inch
That's exactly what they shouldn't do. There should be a healthy balance of everything, and since Hasbro announced bringing TVC back it seems like they're taking the right steps.
I think they should make action figures for kids and collectors and make them like the clone wars and bring back battle packs and good space ships and you know those dvd with action figures bring those back make it big make it a blast for kids and adults