More thoughts on 1:12 to 1:10 stuff

 Getting the FTC Media Scrum playset is a slightly cheaper take on the Scalpor set. You get chairs, mics and water bottles, but a blank backdrop and thr same tables and cloth cover for them. Sure you don't get a figure, but it's easier to build your own displays. Blank cloth allows you to print and attach your own decals. Or just plain print stuff and glue or tac to it.

You can use 1:24 3d printed statues, the Itty bitty funko pops. Now we have excuses for scalpers. Those World's Smallest figures... and stuff like mini brands stuff for garage sales, flea markets and stuff.

Once again we need more diverse 1:12 to 1:10 bodies. 

Of course, some of these would have more use on the pink aisle. Mattel... I know you and I don't have the best relationship, but hear me out: 

First ignore the tired Valkyrie statue... then this is my crazy idea:

WWE figure Scaled Barbie "Action Dolls". Bodies like action figures but doll playability and world...

Translation:

They're action figures first, but they get the Barbie Treatment for looks, vehicles and Playsets. They would also could crosspollinate with WWE by having joint crossovers. Whether Barbie as a wrestler or dressed as a Diva... maybe even an Announcer or whatever. Barbie Limo could be repainted into a WWE Mr. McMahon or JBL limo or whatever. Just as Big Jim crosspollinated stuff with MOTU.

Now I would have 3 tiers for these:

Basic: 

Similar to the Basic WWE Figures: sculpted clothing, Basic articulation... think Diva Superstars that I use as MuTeens stuff... or Superhero girls for the Skipper sized teen girls.

I'm referencing both scale and articulation.

Target audience is kids.

Deluxe:

Would be closer to WWE Elite figures:

Also here's a good place to start with the Diversity Experiment:

By Deluxe I mean better Articulation and adding accessories like wheel chairs prostheses? and stuff. Some figures could get soft goods accessories and prebuild the elite nude bodies... both kids and collectors would be the main target.

The third level would be Elite:

Mainly for collectors, here we get in some cases, soft goods outfits, alternate heads for expressions or rooted hair, special collectors figures, like say Ken as He-Man and Barbie as She-Ra (Masterverse bodies with Ken and Barbie Heads.) Allan as Matt Mason, etc. 

We could get Midge with her pregnant belly as a figure here. Retro Dolls turned into figures could be released here. They could officially  release a Barbenheimer figure. Basically Barbie dressed as Oppenheimer with a Nuke base/stand

 that has Barbie saying: "I am Become Death, destroyer of worlds!"

Playsets:

Barbie Dreamhouses:

Something Inspired by the mostly cardboard dreamhouse from The 60s could be sold as a playset for basic figures. Maybe with a bit more plastic. They could be a studio apartment series. You get some basic furniture pieces (plastic) plastic supports with door(plastic) and various inner and outer walls. Buy multiples and place on actual shelves and you got a Barbie Apartment building... (hint: Barbie × Friends crossover)

For the Elite, you get the more elaborate Plastic Dreamhouses. The townhouses would crosspollinate with various Toylines not just Mattel's. These could be the equivalent of a Barbie Grayskull.

For vehicles:

My pics are:

Barbie Austin Healey 3000

Barbie Ferrari

Barbie Corvette

Barbie Camper

Barbie Volkswagen New Beetle

They could.make them in various colors.

Like the pink Austin Healey could also come in silver

The Ferrari is only Red.

The Corvette in pink, blue, and red.

The camper in pink and white and in beige

The VW in pink, white, yellow 

And as much as I hate this: an additional color or alternate Driver for certain retailers:

For example: the Austin Healey in pink has OG Barbie and Ken, the silver version has Barbie's parents:

The Ferrari could come with a Barbie in the standard release. For the Target exclusive, you get a Ken in a Hawaiian shirt no mustache... but it's a wink to Magnum.

And so forth...

Personally I'd have Skipper driving the VW with Barbie.The expressipns of Skipper and Barbie would be the differences outside the car color. 

For the camper I want to have one of the recolors to have a retro vibe with younger versions of Barbie's parents. A Skipper aged Barbie and  kid aged Skipper.

That's it for Mattel.

Other companies:

We need average looking people...  flabby, pudgy, old, young... we can't let FTC carry all the weight here.

Even Babies, Shredder... even babies. Other than Marvel Legends Baby Cable...

Did Legends ever do this? Or was it exclusive to Marvel Universe? Hangover reference?

If not figures, get into the Diorama game. Super action stuff, to name a company, does props for figures. 

Extreme Sets does cool stuff, but it's cardboard... I need more plastic in my diorama.

I wanna say 1/10 vehicle model kits, but that might be expensive... like nearly $300 per vehicle expensive. That's why we need a big toy company like Mattel, Hasbro, or even Playmates to step up. 

Seriously Playmates, now that you're turtleless, maybe try generic dioramas/playsets and vehicles