I REALLY want to display mine with the Skrull head. I just love the Skrulls and would love to add him to the Skrull display!
Yeah I’d love to at least take some photos with the Skrull Giant-Man.Â
This Giant-Man looks like such fun. So poseable and detailed. Really hoping this funds!
I REALLY want to display mine with the Skrull head. I just love the Skrulls and would love to add him to the Skrull display!
Same. It's just as nice as option as the Sentinel Master Mold head which I have used several times. Many of us have nice Skrull armies going now from recent releases, and this guy would be the center of those if we get that head.
But it's fairly clear we're not getting that head. Shame, but not at all a deal-killer. I give it roughly the same odds of getting that head as Nikki Haley being the next President of the United States--there's a small chance, but it's an extreme longshot. 😎Â
The work that goes into the design and having at least one physical prototype to show at conventions isn’t free, so they’re out something. It’s not as intense as if they just mass produced Giant Man and had to hope they’d all sell, but no company wants to invest a dollar they don’t think they can make back, and this is costing them more than a dollar I assure you.Â
They explicitly said that for the Engine of Vengeance they contracted with another company to come up with the design because nobody in Hasbro had enough knowledge of cars to do it as well as they wanted to do it. I'm not a car guy either so I get that, and I would have no idea what value that added, either. But I assumed it was in there and that car aficionados would get it, but obviously not since I almost never heard anyone compliment the project on whatever value that external company added in terms of accurate design.
So what would they have paid that company? I'm guessing no less than $5K, but my bet would be more in the $10K to $20K range. If we assume $100 an hour--which is a conservative guess because many contract rates are higher than that--then that's $4000 per week. I'm guessing anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks went into the design of that car, so that's $8K to $16K.
As far as I know Giant-Man was designed and prototyped completely in-house, so if we assume an average rate of $50 per hours, 2 to 4 weeks of design, then that's $4K to $8K of time, plus another $2K to $5K of materials for the prototype. Someone with experience in industrial design please tell me what I'm overlooking, and knowing I'm overlooking SOMETHING I'm throwing in $5K to my napkin math and guessing they spent about $15K on Giant-Man so far. But I'd bet more on $20K to $30K to get to this point on the Haslab.
I thought I remembered them saying it was designed in house at Hasbro but not by the Marvel Legends team. Still, the point remains that the prototyping and promotion is a not insignificant cost.
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Whatever you think it cost them to get it to this point, it likely cost a hell of a lot more. Meetings take time. They were meeting internally to discuss strategy, then with Marvel, marketing, design, etc., etc. These are all salaried people who could be working on something else.
Plus the prototype, marketing materials, advertising, and so on and so forth.
Dan Yun is on the Dan Who You Tube channel with a pretty good open ended interview.
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Even if it doesn't reach both tiers, I am looking forward to seeing this made, if nothing else to quell the relentless cesspool of negativity I've observed over in FaceBook and Instagram groups this past week. There's a contingent of 'fans' that desperately need this to be considered a major failure.Â
Snyder Bros gonna Snyder Bro.
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Awesome pic! Egghead and Ringmaster? on the right - who are the two on the left?
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