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Marketing Steps Up - City of Heroes Toys!

Arcanaville

By Arcanaville,
Posted on: 2010-12-22 20:34 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Those packages, the Batman Begins ... revision, and the responses have had me laughing so hard it brought tears to my eyes. I'm glad I'm working from home today so (a) I could see that now and (b) so no one would hear me laughing my butt off.

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I am very disappointed. I thought I was actually going to be able to buy City of Heroes' toys.

total kick to the gut

This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.

 

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WARNING: Choking Hazard.

Choking hazard indeed.
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I wish I had Handsome Appearance Super Power

Even better is up in the upper right corner. Super Assembled!
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If they don't come equipped with the "FREEM" sound effect, I don't want them.
I cannot improve on the commentary already offered above.

Although I will concur that no small number of folks on the forums have expressed a willingness to part with a good chunk of change to get mini-figures or small statuettes of their heroes, and giving them an outlet for such desires could be lucrative.

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... 3D printing ... $80 apiece..
3D printing is a horribly inefficient way to make statuettes. 80$ for a 3D print is actually pretty cheap. It'd be much more cost efficient to hire a sculptor to make pieces that match the look of costume items in game and then make molds. I could see it going the route you suggest though, with being able to buy pieces and put them together and paint them yourself. It would probably appeal to fewer people though.

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3D printing is a horribly inefficient way to make statuettes. 80$ for a 3D print is actually pretty cheap. It'd be much more cost efficient to hire a sculptor to make pieces that match the look of costume items in game and then make molds. I could see it going the route you suggest though, with being able to buy pieces and put them together and paint them yourself. It would probably appeal to fewer people though.
FigurePrints sells custom statuettes of WoW characters for $130; CoX characters are both more complex and simpler. Simpler, in that we don't have all of the different gear that a WoW character can wear or wield, and more complex because the appearance of the characters isn't gear-driven -- instead of using reference data for the gear appearance, all of the costume information needs to be passed to the modeler -- and while games like WoW and Aion have built-in mechanisms to view your character's appearance, stats and gear offline, no such mechanism exists in CoX. The devs would have to decide that it was worth contracting for such a process, set up a mechanism for offline viewing of the character data, and then work out a deal with a company to produce the statuettes. It's technically feasible, but whether the devs decide that it's something that the community wants enough to make putting in the work to enable it viable I have no idea.

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If you don't mind smaller figures, there's many 25mm-28mm (about 1" tall) pewter superhero miniatures (<--- search on that) out there. Several people can be found online, or maybe locally if you check your FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store), that can paint or slightly remodel (i.e., change out weapons) them for you. And that will cost a lot less than the prices some of you are willing to part with. Many figures are about $4 to $6 unpainted; approximate price for custom paint jobs can run from 2x to 4x the cost of the figure (and probably more).

 

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Here's a few from Reaper's Chronoscope line of figures (covers many genres that are not fantasy):

generic male with cape
http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/50027

anime girl with big gun
http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/50024

dual pistol
http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/50032

another dual pistol
http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/50040

female "catgirl" with whip
http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/50041

flying guy in armor (or a robot)
http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/50107

Anyway, you get the idea. Enter "Chronoscope" into their Figure Finder page to see more.

Another line of figures is Superfigs. Reaper has better quality, but not as many superheroes but having seen both (I own a game store that sells both) either will work well. (I got about 30 superhero miniatures of my own, too. ).

 

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I've actually done some action-figure customizing in the past, and wouldn't terribly mind customizing my own figures... Except for the fact that I really don't have the time to do it right now. I could probably make a figure for myself for around 20$ including all supplies. But I'd rather just pay more and get one without having to do anything.

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Middle one's War Witch


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I unfortunately did not discover this thread before Christmas, so no one got any City of Heroes action figures from me this year.

I am, however, in time for New Years.



I don't know about the rest of you, but if and when my dual pistols blaster can race a Harrier Jet by surfing a rocket while being chased by a machine gun-firing helicopter as I side swipe a chicken, the people who think they are playing a better game than we are can officially kiss my ***.



PS: "Shoots flaming balls and reports" is going to be the name of the next Fire Blaster I make in any closed beta.

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But what/who does it report to?

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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
Here's more CoH toys from the same company.
Grr. Argh.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
I don't know about the rest of you, but if and when my dual pistols blaster can race a Harrier Jet by surfing a rocket while being chased by a machine gun-firing helicopter as I side swipe a chicken, the people who think they are playing a better game than we are can officially kiss my ***.

PS: "Shoots flaming balls and reports" is going to be the name of the next Fire Blaster I make in any closed beta.

*giant LOL spit-take* You owe me a new keyboard, Arcanaville.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
I don't know about the rest of you, but if and when my dual pistols blaster can race a Harrier Jet by surfing a rocket while being chased by a machine gun-firing helicopter as I side swipe a chicken, the people who think they are playing a better game than we are can officially kiss my ***.
Well, my dual pistols blaster did outrun the Arachnos flier while surfing the Warburg missile and being chase by giant Toxic Tarantulas...at the Fortress of Solitude. >_> Sadly, no chicken was there to sideswipe, just polar bears. <_<

On a more serious note, I can't wait until we get those new raptors as a travel power. Who needs vehicles when you have frikkin' raptors! Then we can get a three raptor moon chest detail. Sweet.

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Well, I can certainly see the Engrish goin' on, here. Choking hazard? Not so much. I think "gagging" was the word they were trying for...

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