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Re: Star Wars Minifig Packs - Thoughts
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:33:01 GMT
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CMASI@CMASInomorespam.CHEM.TULANE.EDU
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Adam,
I am not certain with which part of my statement you are disagreeing. I said two
things.
1. Minifigs are not action figures and since they are catagorized as construction
toys LEGO can sell them however they wish, in sets or as a set of minifigs.
2. I wondered about the actual impact that LEGO sales has on the Hasbro market. I
said there must be some competition, but essentially Star Wars collectors will
always be Star Wars collectors. Thus, Star Wars action figures will always have a
market.
adam tucker wrote:
> I would have to totally disagree with Christopher on this one! Hasbro's Action
> Figures are completely different then Lego's mini figures. The lego are
That is what I said minfigs are not action figures they are minfigs/construction
toys.
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> somewhat comical, whereas, the Kenner line is meant to be more articulate,
> deatiled, and accurate dipictions of the actual characters in the Movies. I
> can not logically see how one could even attempt to compare the two, and If
> Hasbro has any competition to be worrying about His name is McFarlene, not
> 3/4" character "likenesses" of a few Star Wars characters. I can also assure
> you that Lego has no intentions of producing the number of different figures
> as Hasbro has done. Lego's mini figs are meant to compliment the "building
> toy" not become an entity all themselves. Sure, people are going to start a
> "collection" of them -why not they are pretty cool, but to say that they would
> "replace" the Hasbro/Kenner line is so far removed from any possibility that I
> would venture to say that you are not a very informed or insightful ADULT
> collector. I have followed (specifically Star Wars) action figures for over 25
I never said that LEGO minifigures would replace action figures. I do not think I
implied it either.
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> years. The only reason why collectors are not happy right now stems from the
> fact that they (Hasbro) have over produced, poor distribution, resculps,
> accompanied by bad marketing. I would be more than willing to bet that if
> figures cost $10 a peice, you would by them if they were new charcters which
> really offered some neat charcteristics.
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> The last comment I have for you is GALOOB, why do you think that if someone
> could by the Micro Machine versions of all of the ships why would anyone spend
> 4 times as much for the larger scaled version for the 3 3/4" Kenner line? I
> guess Hasbro/Kenner is so stupid because guess what? They bought out the
> entire Galoob company, so I guess you would feel that they are now competing
> with themselves -right? Why would they do that if they thought Mini or Micro
> produced items would only deter collectors from buying the Normal scaled stuff.
Maybe you are sttributing someone elses comments to my post?
Chris
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