Glad they are thinning out Egon's glasses, though they didn't bother me that much. The magnet packs seem like a cool gimmick but I'm always afraid that something like that won't work - that they'd slide off/around too easily when posing. But with the level of care they seem to be putting into these guys, I'm assuming it will be a strong connection.
Ghash needs to have an open stomach part.
I suppose if Hasbro is going to ever do RGB, which is a big if, we might be able to get some ghosts on the cheap. They won't be as good as Mondo's, but they'd be good enough for my needs.
Would Hasbro do very many ghosts though? That's been a problem with basically every GB line: they do the guys and more or less quit. At least with the 2-packs, Mondo is finding a way to "force" the ghosts out. Despite the name recognition, it hasn't been much of a merchandising brand in decades. I was surprised Hasbro even went for the master license to begin with.
And I think the magnet is a great idea, that I wouldn't have thought of. Keeps the pack sitting at a decent position instead of sliding around and sagging based on how you pose the figure or the give of the straps.
Honestly cmoney, who knows if Hasbro would even touch RGB at all. Hasbro needs such a wider audience and bigger numbers, it seems, than a company like NECA, and of course Mondo, too. But at the same time why hold on to the license and financially push a company like Mondo to up their products into a non-compete price range unless they are at least humoring the idea of putting out product? Unless there is a third party or another aspect to the license quandary that say, Power Rangers doesn't have.
Personally, I think Hasbro RGB figures would sell better than live action GB figures, but that might not be saying much.
But were they to take the dive, I could see them doing a ghost or two. I think Boogieman or Samhain would sell more than the Library Ghost. I'm glad Mondo has committed to - 5? - ghosts, but that is $500 to collect them all. I'd nab a lot more to pair with my Mondo busters, if they were the cost of say a Power Ranger Lightning Collection monster. For now I'm settling with 1 ghost, 4 busters. We'll see what the future holds.
For all of you who are passing on Boogieman because he freaks you out, just know that I will be changing my avatar to him so that he will haunt you on every Fwoosh visit.
Hopefully the avatar changing software works, ive had bad luck with it.
If Hasbro were to take up RGB, I'd at least be interested in seeing what they did beyond whatever Mondo offers, but I feel like the styles would clash too much for my tastes. I certainly wouldn't replace any of what Mondo's doing with a Hasbro offering, given what I've seen so far of both company's GB output.
And now I'm wishing Hasbro would sub-license the movie looks out to someone too. I've still never gotten satisfactory movie versions of these characters, to my liking, despite all the attempts. I'd pay pretty well for just one great set...
@nightwolf Same! I'm afraid to try as it always put in an old pic on my computer, and while I used to be able to revert back to the Red Baron, that pic is no longer on my computer.
@nightwolf Same! I'm afraid to try as it always put in an old pic on my computer, and while I used to be able to revert back to the Red Baron, that pic is no longer on my computer.
Yup, i wanted to put Crash bandicoot on my avatar but doesnt let me and leaves the Qbert avatar instead but yet my profile has the Crash avatar, weird.
@cmoney Same, I feel like Neca or Sh Figuarts could do the movie busters justice. It's kinda baffling to me why they haven't done any, I mean both had the license at one point. Or a third party.
Does anyone know when the Hasbro license expires? Sure seems like something they wouldn't want to hang onto given their lack of enthusiasm towards it. Maybe the HasLab Ecto-1 was something like a last hurrah for them. Needless to say, if Mondo does hit on something with RGB then Hasbro would probably try it too, but they should have decent market research already via the reissues they did a few years ago. If those didn't do the kind of numbers Hasbro wants, then they're less likely to dedicate any new tooling to the franchise (even though we know they'd just take the movie body and slap new heads on them).
@misfit Doesn't Hasbro literally own the Ghostbusters franchise? I thought they did.
Jumped in and bought the Egon/Boogieman 2-pack before they wrapped up the presale. Hesitated only because of price, but ultimately he will be a great centerpiece ghost for my 4 busters to fight, with the little guys and maybe a few misc TMNT figures thrown in there.
I did notice though that regular Egon never made it to EE or BBTS. I'm guessing he'll wind up there eventually, and maybe Mondo asked the other retailers to hold out a bit so customers would be more inclined to buy from them? Peter was available at other retailers right away.
Makes sense they would want to get as many orders as possible through their own website before offering it to others. I think that's what they do with most of the sixth scale stuff. With Peter, they were nervous about the reception the line was going to get so maybe they just wanted to make it as available as possible to get a better feel for how this line was going to be received.
Around the 4:30 mark in this video, they show a pic of the new glasses for Egon. They look much better:
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