Marketing Steps Up - City of Heroes Toys!
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Posted on: 2010-12-22 20:34 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by LISAR
Does no one see Batman under the red guy?
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Did all six of them complain about not being able to remove the backpack?
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Originally Posted by MutantX_7
I saw a bunch of those "City of Hero" packages, and as funny as some of them are, by far the funniest package was the one with six...SIX spider-mans (spider-men?) all identical, I could hardly contain my laughter.
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Gadzooks! Will that stupid clone-war saga never end?!
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Originally Posted by MutantX_7
I saw a bunch of those "City of Hero" packages, and as funny as some of them are, by far the funniest package was the one with six...SIX spider-mans (spider-men?) all identical, I could hardly contain my laughter.
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Originally Posted by Noble Savage
Yup. Hurts my soul. Phooey.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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I can understand that. I mean in my mind, about the only type of action figures that would be worthy of City of (and various other franchises) would be Figma, Revlotech, or something like a Gundam model kit. At least for mechanical designs. (Hey, kids, wouldn't you want a Perfect Grade IDF Warwalker model kit?)|
Originally Posted by Noble Savage
Yup. Hurts my soul. Phooey.
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Originally Posted by Positron
I'd love to have one of these on my desk!
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.
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Cut it out.
The Chinese bootleg blackmarket is well known for mangling with Engrish.
Case A: Shrek steps up his game.
Case B: A typical example of mangling a character's biography.
Case C: Mr Incredible gets serious.
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Cool, I want to stroke all criminal activity too! |
Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
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That bio is just...I think I'm going to have to make Engrishman and use that...
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Originally Posted by Dante
Cool, I want to stroke all criminal activity too!
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Those are even more handsome!
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Here's more CoH toys from the same company.
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Is that 5 Spidermans and a bow?|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Here's more CoH toys from the same company.
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Which version of Spiderman used a bow?
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Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
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Case B: A typical example of mangling a character's biography. |
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Originally Posted by Utopia
That bio is just...I think I'm going to have to make Engrishman and use that...
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I'm going to guess one of the two on the left, the other ones look too small.
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Originally Posted by LISAR
Is that 5 Spidermans and a bow?
Which version of Spiderman used a bow? |
Orc&Pie No.53230 There is an orc, and somehow, he got a pie. And you are hungry.
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Negaduck: I see you found the crumb. I knew you'd never notice the huge flag.
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Maybe the bigger Spider-men can fire the smaller ones at enemies with the bow...
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Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
I'm going to guess one of the two on the left, the other ones look too small.
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Wouldn't stroking criminals just encourage them? Like if they does something bad, patting them on the head or hugging them might make them think it was ok to do it again.
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when you hug them, that's when you activate your spines.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Wouldn't stroking criminals just encourage them? Like if they does something bad, patting them on the head or hugging them might make them think it was ok to do it again.
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Depends on what I'm stroking them with. Might be a porcupine. |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Wouldn't stroking criminals just encourage them? Like if they does something bad, patting them on the head or hugging them might make them think it was ok to do it again.
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Well, if you're a REALLY repulsive guy stroking them, it'll be the perfect gambit!|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Wouldn't stroking criminals just encourage them? Like if they does something bad, patting them on the head or hugging them might make them think it was ok to do it again.
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They'll be so grossed out they'll attempt to take legal action to get rid of you, but instead they'll end up in jail! (Though they'll be happy anyway since they won't have to be stroked by you.)
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.
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While being a child, Marcus Cole and Stefan Richter drank from the Furies Well. Marcus Cole became Statesman and Stefan Richter became Spiderman. Statesman went to City while Spiderman went to Rogue. They are enemy. Many villains like not Statesman, like Chief of Clowns, Emperor Cold, Frost of Fire, and King Clockwork. Statesman fight all of them, he is strong. Spiderman also is not like him, so they fight.
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Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
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Can you rewrite my next bio?
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Originally Posted by that 1 guy
While being a child, Marcus Cole and Stefan Richter drank from the Furies Well. Marcus Cole became Statesman and Stefan Richter became Spiderman. Statesman went to City while Spiderman went to Rogue. They are enemy. Many villains like not Statesman, like Chief of Clowns, Emperor Cold, Frost of Fire, and King Clockwork. Statesman fight all of them, he is strong. Spiderman also is not like him, so they fight.
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Wow, just wow.
On an unfortunately off-topic note, I would gladly pay 30-50$ for an action figure of one of my characters. Maybe a bit less if the scales were completely ignored to cut production costs. Seriously, if NC were to partner with a toy manufacturer(If toy biz, I'd probably not pay more than 20, but if it was MacFarlane or one of the other top end producers, I'd drop 50$ without thinking) and offer "custom" action figures of toons, I'd be so down for that in a heartbeat. Wouldn't be too hard to make interchangeable pieces that can be added to base model bodies. Then again, I don't know, maybe it would. But I can't imagine that it would be. Once they've got the parts produced, then it's just a matter of piecing characters together and painting 'em up.
I really don't know anything about this type of venture though. I just know it'd be fricking awesome, and considering that if you fudge the scales and just use interchangeable pieces that can be added to the base body, making a custom action figure (or 20) for each customer shouldn't be too bad. (Been a while since I've collected action figures, but they were running around 12-15 for a nice MacFarlane figure, double or triple that price to account for the customizing involved, maybe?).
Damn it, now I'm all thinking about it and how awesome it would be to have action figures of a dozen of my toons all chilling around my computer. Ok, maybe NC shouldn't do it, I'd go broke in no time...
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For a while there, the Rock Band site was using that 3D printing technology to offer your specific characters as figures. Statues, really, obviously they weren't movable. But I ended up ordering a whole set of them, and they came out pretty good except for one minor issue with a specific hairstyle. |
Originally Posted by Johnstone
On an unfortunately off-topic note, I would gladly pay 30-50$ for an action figure of one of my characters.
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They were $80 apiece. So no, the technology's not inexpensive, but it COULD be done...
Perhaps tellingly, though, the Rock Band site no longer offers the service, at least at this time. So it's possible there wasn't enough of a demand to make it worthwhile, even at that price.
I do like the idea of being given a selection of parts that you could assemble and then paint yourself. I've actually done a repaint job on a figure that I didn't like the color scheme on.
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