I understand Super7 being a smaller company, but I've said this multiple times, they're spreading themselves too thin. I won't be seeing TMNT Wave 8 items until mid-december or early 2024 since I got Genghis and Space Cadet Raph through BBTS. Ordering a Pile of Loot shipment during the holidays is madness.
I won't see Snarf until late January 2024 (ordered through Super7).
I MIGHT get Zak the Neutrino and Wingnut for my Birthday in March. Because in Mid-February wave 9 will ship to customers (mine come straight from S7)
My BBTS Preordered Triceraton will reach BBTS sometime between late May or early June and then I have to ship the pile of loot.
Wave 10 Casey (preordered through BBTS) WILL ARRIVE early June (depending on my pile of loot status, I might wait for Casey before sending Triceraton home.) Karai and April will cone straight from Super7, so I'd expect them in late June or Early July.
I'm mainly looking at this through the lens of a TMNT fan, but I know that some lones aren't doing so well like Disney and Power Rangers.
I know that some comicbook stores that used to make preorders from Super7 are no longer doing so. Very little resale value... (suck it scalpers!) But most importantly, the excessive delays lead to customers canceling their preorders and the shop ends up with unmovable stock. We're seeing dwindling numbers and as the prices keep increasing, they will keep on dwindling.
TMNT Wave 7 will be over 2 years old when the figures arrive at people's doorsteps. With the Playmates butthurt incident, any TMNT reveals might be delayed until early 2024 when Waves 8 and 9 begin to appear on people's doorsteps. March 2023 was when wave 10 was announced. It's September and we may not hear a peep of the new stuff until at least December. This means the hype stays low as heck for nearly a year...
They need to find a way to keep the hype up WITH ALL THE LINES... the lazy "accessory pack if you buy them all" isn't cutting it. I've got some ideas to drum up some hype on the lines, but they might clash with the Super7 "we do what we want" mantra. I'll be using TMNT as an example. Let's say that they try a Fan Poll for Wave 14 and the 4 winners from the following 3 categories get made first:
Turtle variant (1)
New Character (2)
Villain variant (1)
For example:
Turtle variant:
Don the Undercover Turtle, Rappin' Mike, Grand Slam Raph, and Track and Field Leo.
Villain Variant:
Manhattan Project Bebop, Toon Rocksteady, Mirage Shredder, Tournament Fighters Rat King.
New characters:
Tatsu (Hyperstone Heist), Chromedome, Tokka, Dirtbag, Fugitoid, Venus de Milo, Merdude, Nobody.
Let's say the Winners are Don the UC Turtle, Mirage Shredder, Tatsu, and Chromedome. That means that those 4 would be wave 14. Then with the winners chosen, another fan poll on the accessories:
They cannot straight up do ALL of Playmates accessories on the characters with a Playmates figure, fans get to choose and the most popular accessories get made:
Don the Undercover Turtle:
-He gets this by default UC Raph suitcase
-He gets this by default UC Raph Revolver
-He gets this by default Random pizza slice
Fans vote for 3 accessories and 1 head:
-New bag with strap
-New gun with silencer
-New telescoping bo staff/escrima sticks
-New binoculars
-New masked head based on the toon mask
-New masked head based on Peter Laird
-New masked head based on Kevin Eastman
-New 80s brick cellphone
-New stungun
Tatsu:
-He gets this by default new hands with bo-shuriken sculpted on.
-He gets this by default Katana
Fans vote for 4 accessories 1 new head:
-new 2012 Oni Masked head
-reuse samurai Leo kunai
-reuse Karai kusarigama
-new naginata
-new sansetsukon
-new jitte
-new exploding smoke bomb
-new tonfa
-new traditional ninja maskes head with foot headband
Mirage Shredder:
-he gets by default all OG Shredder accessories from the rack.
Fans vote for 3 accessories 1 new head
-New Thermite grenade
-New smaller Ooze cannister (SotO)
-New Javelin (90s movie)
-New Shuriken inspired by wacky action Shredder's spinning blades.
-New Oroku Saki head
-New Shredder head without mouthpiece.
-New twin katanas that plug together at the pommels to create a double blade (think Darth Maul)
-new hands mimicking the vintage toy 3 finger pose.
Chrome Dome:
-he gets the flail by default and two laser swords.
Fans vote for 3 Accessories and 1 new head:
-New Thunder Trident with interchangeable tips. (Depowered Tip looks like the vintage silicon sai)
-new "rocket punch" effect hands loosely based on Tournament Fighters
-new Laser whip inspired by 2012.
-new blaster based on the toon.
-new Battle damaged head and shoulder wings.
-new flail based on the original card art.
-new micromissile effect that plugs to his wings (loosely inspired by Shredder's Revenge)
-new soft goods cape inspired by Shredder's Revenge
- new alternate head with plug in energy effects for the eyes.
But I'm like Jon Snow... I know nothing.
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