Super 7 Turtle figures shown at Power Con

[mikey see]

Originally Posted by Dask

And, I don't integrate price into the equation when evaluating a toy. It's not a standard that makes sense to me. For example, is the Mondo She-Ra a top-notch product for the price? How about if it was cheaper or more expensive? It really doesn't matter as it's a quality product either way. What about the fact that it needs a stand for support, does that take away from it being a top-notch product. No, it doesn't. Not really. These are invented flaws.

This is crazy to me. Like, I'm not saying you're wrong to feel that way, I'm saying that does not compute in my brain in the slightest. It is impossible for me to separate the price of a product from my expectations of the quality. Those two things go hand-in-hand as far as I'm concerned. Otherwise wouldn't you be expecting the same things from a $10 Mutant Mayhem figure as a $100 Mezco?

I got Krang for about $23. As has been widely reported, the joints for his walker are absolute garbage and it's almost impossible to get him to stand. My walker even has an extra bonus of falling apart constantly at one of the knee joints. But... I paid $23 and at that price it is much easier for me to just enjoy the sculpt and paint and look past the terrible engineering/execution. Samurai Leo has been called one of the worst figures in the line. I paid $20 for mine though and as a result I enjoy him just fine, flaws and all. $20 is a toy price, not a glass-case-collector-piece-don't-ever-open-the-packaging-******** figure.

And no, I did not backtrack at all. I asked you to give me an example of a top-notch figure. You listed a bunch of figures that I would (and did) call "great", but as I pointed out in my last post every single one of them has flaws that keeps them from being the excellent product we were shown when preorders opened. Maybe Wingnut is the first figure I'd call "top-notch", but I won't know until I can find him for a reasonable price.

But anyway, we're probably just talking semantics and expectations here, it's not important. We clearly expect different things from our dollars. I also know I take this whole line much more personally than I should because this was my dream line and to my mind Super7 fumbled it as only Super7 can: spectacularly and publicly.