Action Figure Hype

[Saint553]

So fellas...what happened with this site?

I still think we could do something with it. I have a few ideas if anyone wants to discuss...

Rough?

 

[newavengers12]

What are you up to man... I am here.

 

[Spider-Jay420]

I'm in too. What's the plan?

 

[Roughneck]

What We failed.


I am good at rallying the troops, and I can contribute **** to the nines, but when It comes down to it I just can't follow through on things and get them done.

I am all for another go at this......(actually I was pondering something the other day)

I am all for another go at this but I can't be in charge of the whole thing. also there's a lot of **** I didn't know......

Lemme see if we even still have the site.....yeah it's still there.....forum too......I don't know where the password and **** are....

We need someone who knows the internet and can get us a free....(freeer?) site and can manage it better and stuff.

The idea I was pondering on the other day was actually a weekly (monthly?) podcast where a few of us just sit and chat about what's new and what's been anounced and stuff....reviews...basically what we do here only in live voice chat and stuff.....and then others can listen in

I actually think that would be a great idea.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

sites are expensive... they run about $100 a year, and half of us don't contribute to new news anyway.. i doubt were going to get much new news to put up on the site either... (this is all coming from a usually optimistic person) I can't think of anything we can offer thats new, compared to places like action-figure.com or marvellegends.net

 

[Roughneck]

......podcast?

 

[spideyboy_1111]

do people actually watch those? theres like billions of toy reviews out there on youtube and such.

All it takes is one 360 view of a fig and you can tell if you want it or not... yet people make 10min videos critiquing them... and it bores me to tears.

 

[Spider-Jay420]

I can never watch those either, to be honest.

But if you had the right person with the right voice and attitude, and made it funny and cool......

 

[Ncrawler333]

I'd definitely be willing to try this again.

 

[Saint553]

Well, there are hundreds of sites out there dedicated to action figures.

Hundreds of forums to go ***** in.

Thousands of people who think their opinions are worth a damn (and they're not).

So we should aim to do something different. I was thinking we come off looking like one of those hundreds of sites, hundreds of forums, just dedicated to action figure news a crap, but put more of a satirical spin on it. We have "scalper's corner", we give great reviews on crappy figures, we write articles about how much we hate that walmarts won't let us into the backroom to look for new figures...pretty much everything that bugs us about the action figure collecting realm, we write about. We can have regular articles, too, regular reviews, but I want to "give" back to the collecting community. I want to slap those traders in the face who get one new figure and want 4-5 other hard to find figures to trade for it. I want to crap in the hat of those "holier than thou" folks that think their opinions are served on pieces of fried gold (which is me poking fun at me).

I say, we make a site dedicated to whatever the hell we want and piss some people off doing it.

 

[Saint553]

I say, we evolve as collectors!

 

[lars573]

do people actually watch those? theres like billions of toy reviews out there on youtube and such.

All it takes is one 360 view of a fig and you can tell if you want it or not... yet people make 10min videos critiquing them... and it bores me to tears.

Depends on what your reviewing. For a single ML/Starwars figure 4-5 minutes is more than enough. But for say a transformer, or star wars vehicles, you'll need more time. But even then you can go over board. There is one guy on youtube who reviews transformers who takes 20 minutes on one figure. 4 minutes to actually review the toy and the rest is him droning on about the toys appearances in the various fictions.

 

[Roughneck]

I think Saint has the idea......but in a podcast form....I'm not talking sit there and patiently listen to someone review a fig....I'm saying someone likes a fig and someone doesn't they ****ing argue about it.

Arguments are good....we can prepare notes and have an intelligent argument.....Say Lars and I defend the Marvel 3 3/4 scale against....well...everyone else.

We ***** about Distribution to Canada.

We ***** about the stuff that Saint mentions.

We ***** about A character like guardian being put in an American Exclusive wave

We ***** about scalpers.

We ***** about whatever we want.....we praise whatever we want......no rules, and no ass kissing like all the other propoganda sites....this would result in us getting less exclusive news and stuff as companies might not like us, but the true fans would love the **** out of our honestly.


Let action figure ***** live!

 

[Saint553]

I'm not wanting it to be a place to go to complain, *****, and moan about all the negative thing about collecting. We are collecting for a reason: there is some morbid bit of joy that we get out of it. My idea is to create a satire website in the spirit of The Daily Show and the Colbert report, but only to a degree. Remember, just because we have an opinion doesn't mean it's a GOOD or valid opinion, or one that people want to read.

Things I think we'd need:

1. Solid writing: This means above forum-standard grammar. No "lol". Complete sentences. Structure. Ya know, intelligible stuff.

2. 4-5 consistent weekly writers.

3. Creative, well-thought out articles.

4. Pictures that are of more than just massive cluttered collections. (Spidey-Boy, this is not a poke at you at all. Some sites just feature collection after cluttered collection of stuff we've seen dozens of times)

5. Try to talk about things that are not the current flame-fest in the forums. I.e., we avoid "hasbro sucks", "Mattel can't distribute", etc. We're not industry insiders: we don't know why companies do what they do and why retailers do what they do. I think we have to be above assuming our singular, personal experiences represent the world as a whole. For instance, I just found some of DCUC6 at Target last night. I figure, well, it's coming out and normal. Low and behold, I go on fwoosh and find out there has only been one other sighting of DCUC6 at a target in like 80 pages of a thread. However, another thread for the Walmart DCUC exclusive line would indicate lots of people have found it compared to me not finding it at all.

6. Editorial review. Whether it's one person, or many, posted articles should be reviewed prior to posting. Sorry, but some people have the ability to write some incoherent crap and there needs to be some oversight set up.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

hey now... if you didn't put my name in, i wouldnt of thought anything :-P i dont consider my collection cluttered!!! lol :-P

 

[Saint553]

hey now... if you didn't put my name in, i wouldnt of thought anything :-P i dont consider my collection cluttered!!! lol :-P

I don't either. Just didn't want you to think there was a finger pointing at you. I'd actually think you'd have a neat little corner of your own with your poses and collection, and your photoshopping skills. Especially if you were to mimic covers and scenes from comics and movies.

 

[SsM]

I'm still in. I'm pretty sure I still have old company P&L reports on my old PC. If not they are public knowledge so I can easily get to them

 

[Roughneck]

I like the idea of not being sell outs.....talk about the **** that we aren't paid to talk about, talk about figs and lines that aren't on every other site.

 

[SsM]

I think Saint has the idea......but in a podcast form....I'm not talking sit there and patiently listen to someone review a fig....I'm saying someone likes a fig and someone doesn't they ****ing argue about it.

Arguments are good....we can prepare notes and have an intelligent argument.....Say Lars and I defend the Marvel 3 3/4 scale against....well...everyone else.

We ***** about Distribution to Canada.

We ***** about the stuff that Saint mentions.

We ***** about A character like guardian being put in an American Exclusive wave

We ***** about scalpers.

We ***** about whatever we want.....we praise whatever we want......no rules, and no ass kissing like all the other propoganda sites....this would result in us getting less exclusive news and stuff as companies might not like us, but the true fans would love the **** out of our honestly.


Let action figure ***** live!

I'm with you on the defense.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Rough and Lars defense is mostly just due to them being in canada. Which indeed makes sense, but at the same time does not justify wanting figs of that size.

 

[Roughneck]

My defence is simply me embracing change.

I know that hasbro is going to force these upon us wether we want them or not......and I am not yet ready to give up collecting.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

My defence is simply me embracing change.

I know that hasbro is going to force these upon us wether we want them or not......and I am not yet ready to give up collecting.

see i just call that being whipped and a push over. You shouldn't collect just to collect, you should collect because what your collecting is high quality and very enjoyable to you.

 

[Roughneck]

dude....these are both....well not as enjoyable as ML would be...but they are enjoyable.

And high quality.


And all I can get in Canada

 

[spideyboy_1111]

from what i've seen.. very few are what i'd call high quality.. hell that hulk looks like a glorified hero clix piece.

 

[Saint553]

Are you telling someone how and what to enjoy in their own personal collecting hobby?