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05-25-2012, 06:39 PM | #1 |
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Discontinued by Manufacturer.
From 8" Lion-O to 4" Lion-O wave 1 to Panthro wave 2... Not looking good. |
05-25-2012, 09:16 PM | #2 |
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This looks like proof of line being dead. Warner Bros. waited way too long to bring Thundercats back and bandai made some awesome toys, but screwed it up big time. Its a damn shame. There was soo much potential for the line, classics and modern. Whiskers...I mean Shit!
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05-25-2012, 09:33 PM | #3 |
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I looked them up but didn't see them as discontinued.
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05-25-2012, 09:40 PM | #4 |
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05-25-2012, 09:46 PM | #5 |
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I see now. My bad.
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05-25-2012, 09:48 PM | #6 |
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Good catch Mongor
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05-25-2012, 09:54 PM | #7 |
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05-25-2012, 09:55 PM | #8 |
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I wonder how the show will go on without the toys? I know CN wasn't happy with the way everything was going.
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05-26-2012, 12:55 AM | #9 |
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Well yep, that confirms it basically. Amazon usually gets first notices as they move product heavy and have to report this stuff to consumers. It was nice knowing you 2011 Cats!
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05-26-2012, 01:35 AM | #10 |
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Can someone else make the toys? Imagine if Mattel got the license to do the toyline starting with season three? If the cartoon is doing better, why not let someone else give the toys a try?
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05-26-2012, 01:40 AM | #11 |
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Apparently the rumor is that a new company will be announced next spring. That IS a rumor though.
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05-26-2012, 05:56 AM | #12 |
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Frak, that's depressing.
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05-26-2012, 07:40 AM | #13 |
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That sucks. Hopefully some other company will pick up the license and continue to make great figures. We waited so long for this I just really want it to continue.
I guess this means those places which do not have them on clearance yet soon will? Time to fill out the holes in my line. Not that I would sell, but do you think in the long run this helps or hurts the value of the Bandai figures? |
05-26-2012, 08:04 AM | #14 |
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I really don't see them being worth a whole lot. I could be wrong though, but feel that they are worth much more to me as a fan. Man...this sucks!
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05-26-2012, 11:40 AM | #15 |
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i had to see it for myself bummer!
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05-26-2012, 01:48 PM | #16 |
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Let's go Mezco! They might be our last and best hope.
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05-26-2012, 03:02 PM | #17 |
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Amazon is usually right on when it comes to distributor information. Honestly, the writing was on the wall.
However, this could end up being a blessing in disguise if another company picks up the license and does right by the line. I know a lot of people are not fans of Mattel, but I would like to see something on Matty collector with the classics. |
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05-26-2012, 03:26 PM | #18 |
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I hope it doesn't go to Matty collector. I don't like what I've seen from them and the pricing is ridiculous. I actually want more toys of the new Thundercats than the classics personally. I'd get a classic Panthro if they made him but otherwise I don't feel compelled to but any more classics. Guess I'm pissed I've already bought the 8 inch and 6 inch classics from Bandai only to see them sit by themselves in my display case. Bandai seriously F'd up. After watching today's episode though I thought that the actual fighting and battles is just what this toy line needs. Looks like too little too late though. As long as the show continues I'll be happy, even without toys if need be.
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05-26-2012, 07:06 PM | #19 |
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So I guess its time to look to customizers to round out the cast now
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05-26-2012, 08:41 PM | #20 |
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In the last week I have visited about 7 different Wal Marts in two cities which I frequent. I've been visiting them for months on my hunts. It is pretty obvious that each store received one shipment of "some" wave 2 stuff and that was it. I wonder if Bandai sent all of what wave 2 they did produce or if they pulled the plug during production and there is still some stuff sitting in boxes somewhere. Funny enough as I was at one Wal Mart today a dad said to his son, "look, Thundercats, do you like these?" and the kid replied with "no, those suck, all my friends say so." Obviously this is just one kid, but mayhaps the NS and toy line just hasn't / didn't appeal to today's children. I gotta admit, it sucked to hear him say that. When I was a kid I couldn't nag my dad enough to take me to PlayWorld and get a new Thundercat for my collection. Last edited by AlexofThundera; 05-26-2012 at 08:54 PM.. Reason: Added more |
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05-26-2012, 08:53 PM | #21 |
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05-26-2012, 10:04 PM | #22 |
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It would appear that Thundercats is about the go the way of the Dodo, or better yet, Sym-Bionic Titan.
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05-26-2012, 10:10 PM | #23 |
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Any references to where you heard / saw this?
In the last week I have visited about 7 different Wal Marts in two cities which I frequent. I've been visiting them for months on my hunts. It is pretty obvious that each store received one shipment of "some" wave 2 stuff and that was it. I wonder if Bandai sent all of what wave 2 they did produce or if they pulled the plug during production and there is still some stuff sitting in boxes somewhere. Funny enough as I was at one Wal Mart today a dad said to his son, "look, Thundercats, do you like these?" and the kid replied with "no, those suck, all my friends say so." Obviously this is just one kid, but mayhaps the NS and toy line just hasn't / didn't appeal to today's children. I gotta admit, it sucked to hear him say that. When I was a kid I couldn't nag my dad enough to take me to PlayWorld and get a new Thundercat for my collection. And yeah, I was HUGE into ThunderCats as a kid. Going to the States again to pick up toys was like nostalgia heaven. |
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05-27-2012, 05:43 AM | #24 |
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This line is dead, venders aren't going to want to waste their very valueable shelf space on another manufacturer's products right after having lost out by shelving ThunderCats once already. No retailer, not even Toys R Us as an exclusive wanted to touch the Masters of the Universe Classics entirely because of the 2002 lines failure. (And before it's bought up, the 2 packs with DCU were because of the DCUC figures and a lot of incenting from Mattel.) There is a tremendous amount of competition nowadays for vender shelf space and they're practically a very nervous bunch in that they don't like taking chances. They don't like having product sitting on their shelves not moving; they tend to have long memories about what product lines disapoint them. This line had an uphill battle to begin with; Target wouldn't even stock them in store until the line had been out and was a proven seller. Then a few months after they get them in store the line is over? They'll remember that and avoid any and all ThunderCat figures in the future like the plague, regardless of what happens to the toy license for at least a few years. Consider this, Wal-mart underpurchased Avengers figures and Target underpurchased Transformers Prime figures because they had their doubts about them. Why would any vender buy any product (regardless who made it) from a line that completely failed them last time they took the chance? Even if say Hasbro acquired the license for a penny, made figures that make Marvel Legends look like crap, priced them at $6.00 MSRP, they'd still be unable to put it in a store and sell it because every vender would remember this failure. The brand is poison now at retail. Ah, but what about someone like Matty with their own online store? Question, do you really think there are that many more Ghostbuster fans than ThunderCat fans? Ghostbusters couldn't make it. For a line that doesn't make it to retail, there is a very limited budget. That means lots of parts re-usage. Expect Lion-o, Mumm-ra, Tygra, Panthro, and all the other adult males to share a bodytype. Cheetara and Pumyra to share one. The kits to share one, assuming they get to the kits before they cancel the line. That's even without the usual Matty incompetence when it comes to handling their boy/collector brands. I'm not saying there's zero chance for more figures, there's always a chance at SDCC exclusive figures, but TC is dead at retail and will likely be that way for a long time. |
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05-27-2012, 07:16 AM | #25 |
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Good points Pravus. I think Ghostbusters failed because there are so few interesting characters to make, and they made most of them. T-cats has a ton of great characters to draw from, both vintage and modern. But yes, it's certainly going to be a dicey road ahead. Thank you very much Bandai.
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05-27-2012, 10:27 AM | #26 |
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I really can't see that happening.
This line is dead, venders aren't going to want to waste their very valueable shelf space on another manufacturer's products right after having lost out by shelving ThunderCats once already. No retailer, not even Toys R Us as an exclusive wanted to touch the Masters of the Universe Classics entirely because of the 2002 lines failure. (And before it's bought up, the 2 packs with DCU were because of the DCUC figures and a lot of incenting from Mattel.) There is a tremendous amount of competition nowadays for vender shelf space and they're practically a very nervous bunch in that they don't like taking chances. They don't like having product sitting on their shelves not moving; they tend to have long memories about what product lines disapoint them. This line had an uphill battle to begin with; Target wouldn't even stock them in store until the line had been out and was a proven seller. Then a few months after they get them in store the line is over? They'll remember that and avoid any and all ThunderCat figures in the future like the plague, regardless of what happens to the toy license for at least a few years. Consider this, Wal-mart underpurchased Avengers figures and Target underpurchased Transformers Prime figures because they had their doubts about them. Why would any vender buy any product (regardless who made it) from a line that completely failed them last time they took the chance? Even if say Hasbro acquired the license for a penny, made figures that make Marvel Legends look like crap, priced them at $6.00 MSRP, they'd still be unable to put it in a store and sell it because every vender would remember this failure. The brand is poison now at retail. Ah, but what about someone like Matty with their own online store? Question, do you really think there are that many more Ghostbuster fans than ThunderCat fans? Ghostbusters couldn't make it. For a line that doesn't make it to retail, there is a very limited budget. That means lots of parts re-usage. Expect Lion-o, Mumm-ra, Tygra, Panthro, and all the other adult males to share a bodytype. Cheetara and Pumyra to share one. The kits to share one, assuming they get to the kits before they cancel the line. That's even without the usual Matty incompetence when it comes to handling their boy/collector brands. I'm not saying there's zero chance for more figures, there's always a chance at SDCC exclusive figures, but TC is dead at retail and will likely be that way for a long time. |
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05-27-2012, 11:44 AM | #27 |
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I agree with Pravus Prime. This is going to be it for a long time outside of anything Mezco does or high end items.
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05-27-2012, 12:52 PM | #28 |
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Well...this sucks. Hopefully Bandai's sucky handling of the line doesn't hurt the chances of another company picking up the license too much. If another company does pick it up, I hope it's not Hasbro or Mattel. I feel both would handle things as bad, if not worse, than how Bandai has handled it.
Sadly Playmates is the only other company I would be ok with taking over the license. |
05-27-2012, 01:19 PM | #29 |
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Well...this sucks. Hopefully Bandai's sucky handling of the line doesn't hurt the chances of another company picking up the license too much. If another company does pick it up, I hope it's not Hasbro or Mattel. I feel both would handle things as bad, if not worse, than how Bandai has handled it.
Sadly Playmates is the only other company I would be ok with taking over the license. |
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05-27-2012, 01:32 PM | #30 |
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Playmates would be a fantastic toy company! I could imagine the new Cats Lair being made like the new Turtle Lair shown below:
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05-27-2012, 01:50 PM | #31 |
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That Turtle Lair is bad ass. It will be a great display piece for plenty of other lines.
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05-27-2012, 03:37 PM | #32 |
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I just hope the show can survive and Playmates would be awesome to pick the line up
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05-27-2012, 04:40 PM | #33 |
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This is very disappointing. I'd been so excited about these toys. Even before Bandai announced the toys, I had always said that if Thundercats toys were re-made, I'd definitely buy them. It had been a long time since I'd got this excited about toys due to the fact that Thundercats was the first TV show that I used to get really excited about as a kid and it had been so long since Thundercats toys had been made.
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Ah, but what about someone like Matty with their own online store? Question, do you really think there are that many more Ghostbuster fans than ThunderCat fans? Ghostbusters couldn't make it. For a line that doesn't make it to retail, there is a very limited budget. That means lots of parts re-usage. Expect Lion-o, Mumm-ra, Tygra, Panthro, and all the other adult males to share a bodytype. Cheetara and Pumyra to share one. The kits to share one, assuming they get to the kits before they cancel the line. That's even without the usual Matty incompetence when it comes to handling their boy/collector brands.
ThunderCats is much more fresh in people's minds with the new series. One advantage to making ThunderCats is that there aren't alot of characters or variants. If Mattel did get the ThunderCats license and made a 12 month subscription "Club Thundera", we could get all of the major characters in two years. 12 main figures, SDCC exclusives and a sub figure. After that, keep on making characters until the line dies. Get the majors out of the way and continue until the Tank runs out of fumes. Year One: Lion-O Mumm-Ra Panthro Ssslythe Cheetara Jackalman Tygra Monkian Wilykit Jackalman Wilykat Jaga SDCC exclusive: Bandaged Mumm-Ra and Ma-Mutt Sub exclusive: Snarf and Snarfer Year Two: Hammerhand Tug Mug Bengali Ram Bam Alluro Cruncher Pumyra Chilla Top Spinner Red Eye Lynx-O Ratar-O SDCC exclusive: Luna and Amok Sub exclusive: Ro-Ber-Bill and Ro-Ber-Belle Year Three: Hachiman Turmigar the Tuska Willa Safari Joe Grune Nadya Reptilian Soldier ??????? ??????? ??????? ??????? ??????? SDCC exclusive: Snowman of Hook Mountain and Snowmeow Sub exclusive: Mandora and bike The scariest part would be the tooling issue and shared parts. Last edited by MegaGearX; 05-28-2012 at 07:52 AM.. |
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I don't think shared parts would be too bad on OS figures. They all pretty much had the same body type. The NS would be problematic with that though as their designs and silhouettes were purposefully differentiated from each other.
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This is both sad and not surprising. I mean, the figs are ok, they're not great. And again, it was so hard to find the damn things, it's like 2003 He-Man all over again. But since this isn't a series dependent on toys, maybe there will be hope of the series continuing.
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Take this as a grain of salt, the same source that rumored me the line cancellation and potential new company pickup it up in the spring said mattel is off the list for potentials, and brace yourselves..hasbro is stirring interest. However, don't expect for hasbro to admit anything. He said there were 3 other companies interested but couldn't disclose names. He also said mezco is gonna continue with the "statues" but don't expect alot of product until after the show resumes. Rule of thumb, when you start to see a compnay re releasing stuff and not putting out new figures in the line...good chance it's going under,lol/
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Take this as a grain of salt, the same source that rumored me the line cancellation and potential new company pickup it up in the spring said mattel is off the list for potentials, and brace yourselves..hasbro is stirring interest. However, don't expect for hasbro to admit anything. He said there were 3 other companies interested couldn't disclose names. He also said mezco is gonna continue with the "statues" but don't expect alot of product until after the show resumes. Rule of thumb, when you start to see a compnay re releasing stuff and not putting out new figures in the line...good chance it's going under,lol/
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Take this as a grain of salt, the same source that rumored me the line cancellation and potential new company pickup it up in the spring said mattel is off the list for potentials, and brace yourselves..hasbro is stirring interest. However, don't expect for hasbro to admit anything. He said there were 3 other companies interested but couldn't disclose names. He also said mezco is gonna continue with the "statues" but don't expect alot of product until after the show resumes. Rule of thumb, when you start to see a compnay re releasing stuff and not putting out new figures in the line...good chance it's going under,lol/
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As of lately, I really dig Hasbro. I feel that they would best be suited to manage the property successfully
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If Hasbro gets it I hope the show switches from CN to the Hub. I think it would be much better handled there.
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too bad to hear this news.
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Take this as a grain of salt, the same source that rumored me the line cancellation and potential new company pickup it up in the spring said mattel is off the list for potentials, and brace yourselves..hasbro is stirring interest. However, don't expect for hasbro to admit anything. He said there were 3 other companies interested but couldn't disclose names. He also said mezco is gonna continue with the "statues" but don't expect alot of product until after the show resumes. Rule of thumb, when you start to see a compnay re releasing stuff and not putting out new figures in the line...good chance it's going under,lol/
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