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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 10, 2024 19:27:57 GMT -5
I just saw this on FB. An Atlas toy line ?
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 10, 2024 20:08:47 GMT -5
I just saw this on FB. An Atlas toy line ? I knew they were making some sort of announcement at 8, but I haven't seen the video, I did see a few reactions to the announcement on the Mego Museum forums just before I clicked here and saw your post. I'm not sure who the Target demographic is supposed to be, and I am not sure any brick and mortar retailer would carry these, bit it's a thing I guess. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 10, 2024 20:23:47 GMT -5
I just saw this on FB. An Atlas toy line ? I knew they were making some sort of announcement at 8, but I haven't seen the video, I did see a few reactions to the announcement on the Mego Museum forums just before I clicked here and saw your post. I'm not sure who the Target demographic is supposed to be, and I am not sure any brick and mortar retailer would carry these, bit it's a thing I guess. -M The target demographic is late middle-aged dudes. The same ones who buy pretty much all the Megos. I’d definitely bite for The Scorpion and The Grim Ghost. They also did an update on the Marvel license. Sounds like they’ll be an even bigger pain in the ass to buy than usual. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 10, 2024 21:06:58 GMT -5
I knew they were making some sort of announcement at 8, but I haven't seen the video, I did see a few reactions to the announcement on the Mego Museum forums just before I clicked here and saw your post. I'm not sure who the Target demographic is supposed to be, and I am not sure any brick and mortar retailer would carry these, bit it's a thing I guess. -M The target demographic is late middle-aged dudes. The same ones who buy pretty much all the Megos. I’d definitely bite for The Scorpion and The Grim Ghost. They also did an update on the Marvel license. Sounds like they’ll be an even bigger pain in the ass to buy than usual. If the late middle-aged dudes in the Mego forums are any indication, they have been pissing and moaning about what figures are being produced, especially all the new licenses when they haven't gotten reissues of all the classic Mego yet and obscure Trek characters like Nurse Chapel, Trelaine and Harry Mudd haven't been added, or the Teen Titans sized figures and Supergals haven't been produced and aren't buying anything that isn't classic Mego reissues or extensions of those lines they want and haven't been happy with Mego's choices for about 2 years now. I don't think those dudes are going to embrace an Atlas line. Some of the customizers among those dudes might buy them for parts, but I don't see the line striking a chord with the middle age Mego dudes. -M |
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Post by Jeddak on Oct 10, 2024 21:38:55 GMT -5
Talk about your niche product. I mean, I'm in for a Phoenix (NOT the Protector) and a Chaykin Scorpion. Maybe a Devilina. But there's no way this is a mainstream thing.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 10, 2024 21:42:19 GMT -5
Talk about your niche product. I mean, I'm in for a Phoenix (NOT the Protector) and a Chaykin Scorpion. Maybe a Devilina. But there's no way this is a mainstream thing. Devilina is one of the first wave figures. They showed the box art in the video, but not the figure. The character has apparently been optioned for a movie. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 10, 2024 22:36:03 GMT -5
Apparently the deal was initiated by WalMart who struck the deal with the Atlas rights holders and then went to Walmart to get the figures ready in 6 weeks to have product for Walmart to have at their first ever booth at NYCC. WalMart wants to make a big splash as a destination spot for collectibles, and apparently Atlas was their choice to spearhead the project.
Color me baffled about that.
-M
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Post by Jeddak on Oct 10, 2024 22:39:33 GMT -5
Talk about your niche product. I mean, I'm in for a Phoenix (NOT the Protector) and a Chaykin Scorpion. Maybe a Devilina. But there's no way this is a mainstream thing. Devilina is one of the first wave figures. They showed the box art in the video, but not the figure. The character has apparently been optioned for a movie. A Devilina movie? Boy, there's something to look forward to. Seriously, I still have a fondness for the whole Atlas line, but I never would have bet on the figures, let alone a movie. We live in weird times. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 11, 2024 9:57:49 GMT -5
Heading to Colorado Springs in a few hours to see the elder grandson in a marching band competition tomorrow and then probably a hike through the Garden of the Gods Sunday.
You all have fun and behave yourselves as I probably won’t be around much.
And remember, friends don’t let friends read Superman comics.
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 11, 2024 11:02:45 GMT -5
Has the word “experience” been devalued recently?
I pay my council tax online every month. On one occasion, after paying it, I had a survey request pop up asking me to rate my ‘experience’ of paying council tax.
It’s a tax. That’s it. There’s nothing more to say.
I have had similar requests to rate my ‘experience’ of shopping in Asda, or having a repair done.
To me, an experience would be visiting the Grand Canyon, climbing Mount Everest, riding an advanced motorcycle, parachuting, visiting NASA HQ, etc. Those would be experiences, not simple mundane things like paying council tax.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 11, 2024 12:46:56 GMT -5
Has the word “experience” been devalued recently? I pay my council tax online every month. On one occasion, after paying it, I had a survey request pop up asking me to rate my ‘experience’ of paying council tax. It’s a tax. That’s it. There’s nothing more to say. I have had similar requests to rate my ‘experience’ of shopping in Asda, or having a repair done. To me, an experience would be visiting the Grand Canyon, climbing Mount Everest, riding an advanced motorcycle, parachuting, visiting NASA HQ, etc. Those would be experiences, not simple mundane things like paying council tax. Believe me, I live in this world. Business is all about metrics, thanks to too many accountants rising to positions that have nothing to do with financial statements. It had bled into all realms of service, including public services, as they draw management principles from business books and consultants, most of whom talk out of another orifice. Large swaths of service cannot really be measured, so they create false metrics to try to quantify how they are doing, to justify raises and expenditures. Chief among those metrics are customer satisfaction surveys. The problem is that more people who have a gripe will respond to those surveys than those that are satisfied and it skews the results negatively, in general. What's more, the wording of the survey can skew results even more. Most never reflect actual satisfaction with the service and have little bearing on profitability or success in achieving the agency's goals. It's just something to measure, even if the result tells you nothing. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 11, 2024 12:54:27 GMT -5
So, the Internet Archive is down, after a massive hacking and data breach. I had a few movies bookmarked for the Halloween thread, so they are out. Some headlines are calling it "catastrophic;" but whether that is hype to sell clicks or an accurate statement, I don't know. They have been down since sometime yesterday and it is a shame. Aside from trademark and copyright violations on there, you had a lot of library and other materials available to read or view, not to mention the Wayback Machine cataloging some internet content of importance. Given how much content is put behind paywalls these days, their loss, however temporary or permanent, is sad.
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Oct 11, 2024 13:01:05 GMT -5
Aw man, that sucks. Guess I should've read more of the books I had saved on there. I did just happen to download a few hard to find movies off there last week, so not a total loss for me if it doesn't come back
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 11, 2024 13:02:40 GMT -5
Aw man, that sucks. Guess I should've read more of the books I had saved on there. I did just happen to download a few hard to find movies off there last week, so not a total loss for me if it doesn't come back I had bookmarked some old wrestling magazines on there, mainly the Starlog Group mags (which often seem hard to find on eBay). |
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Post by impulse on Oct 11, 2024 13:37:40 GMT -5
I hope the Internet Archives gets their situation sorted. While not all of their content is perfectly adhering to copyright laws everywhere, corporations further demonstrate every day why they should not be sole arbiters of which culturally important creative works are worthy of preservation or of providing access to them. Copyright has been twisted and deformed into a caricature of its original intentions, and while the ethics and philosophies of all of that could easily be its own thread, I don't like billion dollar megacorporations metering access to basically every part of popular culture created in the last one hundred years and into perpetuity.
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