Jan 4, 2018

My disagreement with the most recent .org MOTUC Poll set

During the Advent Calendar event, the .org had a SEEMINGLY EXHAUSTIVE poll for characters to be made in THE COLLECTOR'S CHOICE line (aka normal MOTUC). You could vote for all the characters and all the versions and that includes "Filmation versions" of already made MOTUC Figures.
Please tell me you noticed the one thing that raised a HUGE RED FLAG for me...
This is the part where you scream Filmation variants in MOTUC at the screen as if this was an episode of D-d-d-d-dora!
Yup! That's right! Correcto! Filmation variants of existing characters are not meant for Collector's Choice! They belong in the Club Grayskull sub-line! Muy bien!

I'll stop the Dora bit for now. As I was saying, putting Filmation variants (which belong in their own poll) in this poll is a load of crap!  We're down at the lower tiers where the obscure is supposed to get a chance to shine, but we're cockblocking them with Filmation variants. It's like a comedy club has an Amateur Night contest and they suddenly let Dave Chappelle and Gabriel Iglesias compete... Who will win? The amateurs or the "surprise professional comedians"?

The Filmation sub-line is NOT MOTUC... It might be in the SAME SCALE and reuse some generic body parts, but that's about it where the similarities end.  The details of the fur and hair reveal the difference between the lines. Putting Beastman next to Filmation Beastman shows the obvious differences between the lines. It worries me that people aren't seeing the difference between them... Especially people who are supposed to have a background in Art.

Putting the Filmation variants in the poll skewed the results towards Filmation variants, which is a bit unfair, since the  Filmation variants have their own sub-line.
Not to mention that 37 variants of Teela will have more votes than 2 variants of Kayo. It almost feels like the poll was made to bury some wants in order to push Filmation variants.

I know that the .org is Val's site and he can do as he pleases. What worries me is that Val's voice has a bit of weight to him, with the whole dot org and Power-Con thing giving him more power than the average fan... Even if that Fan's blog killed Matty...
Since Val has that power, he should've used it responsibly. A much more responsible set of polls would've been like this:
Round 1: Top Unique characters: This is mostly the free for all for unique characters. No specific version. If you're voting for say, Kayo Tatarus, you're voting for him to get made. Not voting for Toy, cartoon, mini comic, rare Yugoslavian weird coloring bootleg version, just Kayo. If you're voting for Garn, you're just voting for the character. You're not choosing between "Pocahontas" or "Xerxes" Garn. You're voting for ANY GARN to make it.

Round 2: Most wanted Filmation variants: This one is the Club Grayskull poll. Here you vote for your Filmation inspired style figures from the limited pool of characters that can be Filmationized.

Round 3: Variant free-for-all: Here is where you vote for things like Discs of Doom Skeletor, Green Modulok, NU52 Goddess, 200X He-Man, Vintage POP Catra, etc.

Round 4: Choose the outfit for the round 1 winners(or some creative name): here you pick WHICH VERSION of the Round 1 winners should be made in Collector's Choice with MOTUC level of Detail. If Artilla Weaponstronic won round one here you pick between vintage toy or Cartoon. For Garn you pick Filmation or Minicomics, for Miro Filmation or 200X... And so forth.

Then for the final results you pick the top X spots from each poll. While, yes, it's a bit more cumbersome, it delivers a more unbiased set of results, which should be the standard in this sort of polls.

Once again, I know, Val's site, his rules... He can do the polls however he sees fit. I'm simply worried that "the biggest MOTU website" is being biased in polls, when they should be unbiased.

If the poll bias was unintentional, then the results should be discarded and a new set of polls be made to correct the egregious mistake. If done on purpose, then they're being intellectually dishonest and the results should be discarded.

Personally, I'm worried that Super7 takes this poll to heart and screws over the fanbase because they were delivered some faulty information.
I want to believe that this was simply a mistake than there's some shady manipulation going on. I hope that the next set of polls are more unbiased than this last batch.

I didn't want to talk about this, because I KNOW someone will pervert my comments and turn them into an attack. I was asked via a few private messages to talk about this and here I am... To avoid any issues I'll try Condensing my rant into simple terms:
The polls seem to have a pro-Filmation bias. Biased polls are bad. Using results from biased polls is bad. If biased polls were accident, then they should be redone while eliminating bias. If biased polls were on purpose, then polls should be discarded for being bad.

When this sort of poll is intended to be used as a tool to help Super7 choose which Figures should be made, then the poll should be as transparent and unbiased as possible for the sake of fairness. Any sort of bias perverts the purity of the poll. Biases were what crammed Nepthu, Plundor, Dare, and Standor into the line...

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