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Date Posted: 20:46:03 11/06/01 Tue
Author: RH
Author Host/IP: cx55626-a.escnd1.sdca.home.com / 24.5.49.222
Subject: Almost all collectors are like that... [long boring rant]
In reply to: Geo 's message, "Can I see?" on 19:24:22 11/06/01 Tue

You know sometimes i feel really sorry for companies, because collectors always seem to complain about stuff, they can't much help. Collecters are upset because "so and so" has not been made yet... well companies can't make all the figures on earth all at once, they have to do a little at a time, and on a budget. Collectors get angry about under production of a figure, collectors get angry about over production of a figure. Collectors get angry when theres too much articulation and a figure gets flimsy, collectors get angry when theres too little articulation and it's too stiff. I think you get the jist of what I'm saying collectors as a whole, just like to complain about stuff, and they constantly contradict themselves.

87% of the time they don't even bother to think of the production standpoint and financial risk involved in doing a figure. "I want a 4-pack of people in the crowd from episode 36 of BTAS" well the reason they don't make that is it would not sell. Then if they did actually make the obsessvie geeks unrealistic dream list, it would peg warm, then the collector who requested that figure would complain about the 4-pack peg warming the aisles. I've always said, if you put any of those "I hate hasbro for no apparent reasonable reason" in charge of Habro they would run the company into the ground within a year.

I aint saying companies can do no wrong either, but the amount of crap they take just amazes me.

Other example back more to the original simpsons example of how collectors are never satisfied. I remember back when "swimming jar jar binks" was announced, which is basically a lame ass resculpt, of a lame character to begin with. Collectors bitch and moaned about this figure, and how crappy it was. Then the figure came out, and collectors found out it was "rare" suddenly collectors couldn't get enough of this figure, and had to have it. Then they got mad at Hasbro and petetioned to have it re-released?!?!?! Same thing happened with holo R2.

With the Simpsons line, people bitch and moan about all the Homer variants, then when they make a Homer variant an exclusive they bitch and moan about not being able to find it?!?!

I'm not sure exactly what it is, but collectors are just walking contradiction. I'm not sure if they realize this or not, but I sometimes feel embarressed to be a collector. It's like proper Nerd protocol, to just never be satisfied with what you like. We all laugh at the comic shop guy on the simpsons, but that character is a sad reality, that many people don't relize they become.

Hell even *I* sometimes fall under the evil spell of collector ignorence. Like some of those MSIA exclusive repaints get me in a huff, cause i have absolutly 0% chance of getting them. Then i think to myself well, IF they did release them on the mass market, I may have skipped them. Theres just something about "rareness" that clouds collectors vision. [altho, I still totally want the Titans RX-78 version 2.0, and i would buy that even if it was a mass release.]

Now I'm not saying totally stop complaining altogether, but think about what your complaining about, and if it's feasible, and present it in a semi cohearent reaction. Don't just start cussing, damning the company to hell

Example: Palisades resident evil line, I like the RE line, but it's not perfect and from the beggining one of the things myself and some others have "complained" about is the character ratio 3 monsters to 1 human. Since the humans sort of drive the game, they seem the most important, so Palisades couldn't drop everything after they already made the first 2 assortments, but they did fix the ratio for the 3rd assortment would have more humans. Companies do listen if you talk to them cohearently, and you have a feasible idea, or reasonable complaint.

So in short companies are damned if they do damned if they don't.



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