New original line toys... good idea or no?

*BigApple3AM* · 09-06-2007, 01:57 AM

I was just thinking, Playmates is making 7" movie figures, 5" animated figure, and now 2" galactic hero rip offs.

What's stopping them (besides Mr. Laird) from just going back to 4" and making toys similar to how they used to? It'd be really awesome if they did characters from back in the day that never made it into plastic from in the same exact style of the old toy line. Like armaggon, the mutanimals, Karai, a better leatherhead, etc... I can't see the old toy construction costing all that much. So it'd be affordable just like it was back in the day.

I want them to progress with the toys like some other companies have, but aside from the turtles most of the figures actually have the same or worse articulation and detail compared to the original figures.

It's just my opinion but if they were to do mutanimals I don't think it makes much sense to do them in the movie style. I actually think they should continue either the 7" movie line or the 5" animated line, but with their universe characters not old ones.

Now we'll have the 2" line and a collector line from Neca. A 4" line might be a bit too much but it makes the most sense of all of them since it's where they started and there's already tons of characters they'd fit in with.

Plus they could reissue certain figures to fill out a throwback line like this. The original turtles would be key, plus maybe ray fillet if they did the other mutanimals. Scratch, Hotspot, and Shogun Triceraton/Shoate would be great too. Some characters could get redone completely though (shredder, leatherhead, in scale chrome dome, etc...).

Just to make it more clear I'm not saying they should do new movie characters or 2k3 characters in a 4" line. I think they should stay with their respective 7" and 5" lines. For example the GI Joe line had comic 3 packs with new never before done characters as well as reissue characters. Plus some toys r us exclusives, all using the original RAH construction. This was with updated new figures in stores at the same time. Now they have the ultimate throwback line with the 25 anniversary toys, with 8" sigma six toys out at the same time.

I think it'd be nice for the older collectors, but it'd work well with kids too. I mean most of us were kids when we bought the toys and there was nothing better. And it's not like these toys are too outdated, when compared to the new toys the only difference is scale. Actually I think the older toys were made better than the majority of the new ones.

Let me know how you feel about this, I'm interested to see if there's any fan demand for something like this. Maybe now with Mr. Murphy taking over licensing, we can get his attention to something like this. Even if it never happens it's something nice to think about!

09-06-2007, 01:57 AM	#1
BigApple3AM Mad Scientist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Supermarket Aisle Posts: 1,635	New original line toys... good idea or no? I was just thinking, Playmates is making 7" movie figures, 5" animated figure, and now 2" galactic hero rip offs. What's stopping them (besides Mr. Laird) from just going back to 4" and making toys similar to how they used to? It'd be really awesome if they did characters from back in the day that never made it into plastic from in the same exact style of the old toy line. Like armaggon, the mutanimals, Karai, a better leatherhead, etc... I can't see the old toy construction costing all that much. So it'd be affordable just like it was back in the day. I want them to progress with the toys like some other companies have, but aside from the turtles most of the figures actually have the same or worse articulation and detail compared to the original figures. It's just my opinion but if they were to do mutanimals I don't think it makes much sense to do them in the movie style. I actually think they should continue either the 7" movie line or the 5" animated line, but with their universe characters not old ones. Now we'll have the 2" line and a collector line from Neca. A 4" line might be a bit too much but it makes the most sense of all of them since it's where they started and there's already tons of characters they'd fit in with. Plus they could reissue certain figures to fill out a throwback line like this. The original turtles would be key, plus maybe ray fillet if they did the other mutanimals. Scratch, Hotspot, and Shogun Triceraton/Shoate would be great too. Some characters could get redone completely though (shredder, leatherhead, in scale chrome dome, etc...). Just to make it more clear I'm not saying they should do new movie characters or 2k3 characters in a 4" line. I think they should stay with their respective 7" and 5" lines. For example the GI Joe line had comic 3 packs with new never before done characters as well as reissue characters. Plus some toys r us exclusives, all using the original RAH construction. This was with updated new figures in stores at the same time. Now they have the ultimate throwback line with the 25 anniversary toys, with 8" sigma six toys out at the same time. I think it'd be nice for the older collectors, but it'd work well with kids too. I mean most of us were kids when we bought the toys and there was nothing better. And it's not like these toys are too outdated, when compared to the new toys the only difference is scale. Actually I think the older toys were made better than the majority of the new ones. Let me know how you feel about this, I'm interested to see if there's any fan demand for something like this. Maybe now with Mr. Murphy taking over licensing, we can get his attention to something like this. Even if it never happens it's something nice to think about!