Will there be more ghosts available from Ghostbusters? And can we expect stand-alone spectres such as Vigo or the taxi cab driver zombie? Or will the ghosts be limited to pack-ins?
We will eventually get to Ghosts as figures themselves, yes.
**When will we see a Peter Venkman figure (either 6" or 12")? **
As announced at SDCC, the first Peter figure will be out in late Spring 2010.
Well, these were much better answers than the last set, although I thought the question about the Venkman figure was sort of a wasted question… Didn’t we already know it would be late Spring/ early Summer?
Anyways, I have a new question:
With Mattel having the rights to so many characters, will we begin to see a shorter timeframe between releases if the 4 busters sell well?
If Mattel truly intends to get to many of the ghosts, supporting characters, & variations of the guys we could be waiting for years for these, and that would just cover the first two films!
Or maybe that’s all part of the plan…to last for about 3 years (when Ghostbusters 3 comes out)
Only real worthwhile answers this time around was they do have the GB2 license, since they have Janoz’s likeness rights, and they plan on doing full ghost releases down the road.
The venkman question was totally wasted, since they already released a timetable for him, and the packaging and removable proto pack questions were far less imortant IMHO then some of the other questions proposed.
Least they are answering promptly though.
Can polls be setup here? Maybe a question list can be posted in a poll, the website members could vote on them for importance, and then the questions could be proposed in that order?
The heman community has been doing that for a while now, since the first few rounds, they also had redundant questions, or non specific questions asked that yielded no actual answers, just that promotional vague jargon. Evidently the person answering doesn’t have full disclosure rights, or Matty doesn;t want specific info released until they want it released.
I think the lack of decent questions stems from the fact that we can’t get any real answers from them. It doesn’t really seem to matter what you ask. Even beyond the ‘yes/no’ perspective, for example, the Venkman question was dodged with the skill of a seasoned politician. There have been no real answers from the most direct questions to date, so really, there just seems to be no point in asking anything. Now if they stopped playing coy with us and actually gave us something with some substance we could sink our teeth into, then I could get excited. But really, It’s pointless round about nothingness.
These related questions were also answered in this round:
Super Hero Times
Based on the recent sales of the Ghostbusters merchandise, is it safe to say that an in-scale Ecto 1 may be a possibility in 2010?
Not for the 6" line at this time. That might need to wait for a movie year.
Key words: Movie Year!
And from Poe Ghostal’s site:
4.) Mysterious Stranger asks: Regarding Ghostbusters, can you give fans who are collecting this line some reassurances that all 4 Ghostbusters WILL be made available, in standard (i.e., non-slimed) uniforms? With Venkman being the most popular yet the last of the four to come out, after Walter Peck, some collectors are concerned the line might be canceled prior to all of the announced releases coming out.
The line is doing great and all of the major and minor characters announced will be coming out. Look for Venkman in the second half of 2010. See our SDCC fan panel presentation (on Facebook) for all the details
From Kastor’s Korner:
Kastor: Once the Dark Knight 6 inch movie masters are released, will this scale continue for other DUC movie or TV properties?
Matty: Yes. Movie and TV figures will be in scale to the Dark Knight and Ghostbuster Movie Masters.
From It’s All True"
Noisy asks: Can you talk a little bit about Movie Masters figures and their status? I think I speak for all the Movie Masters fans when I say we feel like the odd collectors out with the delays and lack of information?
We had to skip the November figure due to some shipping issues, but we will pick back up in December with Survival Suit Bruce Wayne and continue offering one figure per month on Mattycollector.com. We’ve also been able to increase production to lower the price to 15.00 per figure going forward.
(Maybe we’ll see a movie masters line as well, at a lower pricepoint?)
Matty is just now getting into interlocking bases for some figures. Cost is what they kept talking about at the Comic Con panel. A firehouse would be outrageous and they said an Ecto, though a possibility, would also be quite expensive. Especially because of the detail and desire for lights and sounds we’d all have. For at least the next year we can only expect figures. Matty made it clear they’d love to do as much as possible, but cost and how these things sell is going to be the biggest factors. The shipping packaging can’t even be improved because of cost right now.
Maybe we need a thread that only a mod can change with all the actual answers and known info in one place? That way we won’t be redundant on known info.
