An in-scale Big Bird seems like it would totally sell, even at a higher price point, I would think. One of the most recognizable pop-culture characters of the last 55 years, in a really well-done figure form? He would be the centerpiece of this line.
Snuffy might be a harder sell at the price he might need to be sold at, but not if NECA brought him out after BB.
I'll agree with this. Outside of Grover... Big Bird and Snuffie are the two I'm not sure I could pass on - even if they were more expensive. An in scale Big Bird figure would be too amazing not to buy.
NECA could potentially release Big Bird one year from now and take advantage of the 40th anniversary of Follow That Bird. Then they could do a blue variant as well and get more out of the mold tooling.
If these "scale with Palisades" shouldn't Burt and Ernie be about the size of say Piggy or Zoot or something. Bigger than Palisades Kermit; smaller than Palisades Fozzy. Piggy really is the one major figure Palisades didn't do so great a job at.
I'd expect Bert to be about Zoot height, Ernie to be Kermit height? Cookie about Fozzie height? It is a little hard to judge...
Ken Lilly commented after the line ended that Piggy really was the figure that needed a redo.
Digression -
My Mom claims I watched the very first episode of Sesame Street when it premiered. Granted I was only about 18 months old so doubt I got much out of it. Fascinating to watch the pace of the early episodes and the content, some of which has not aged well, some is amazing.
(Some may remember ZOOM which skewed older than Sesame Street and started in 1972 - the first episode (at the 10 minute mark) has a video of a kid building a raft out of random wood and branches and a tarp - using tools such as an axe - to then sail down the creek out back with no adults around - would never get on TV today - ZOOM WGBH TV Series 1972-78 : GBH : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive)
NECA could potentially release Big Bird one year from now and take advantage of the 40th anniversary of Follow That Bird. Then they could do a blue variant as well and get more out of the mold tooling.
They can get a lot of mileage out of Bird Bird if they can do the international versions. Not sure how well they would sell, and different licenses may be required, but I’d be down for some of the international characters.
@bills-all-day I'm torn on seeing NECA tackle The Muppets. As you pointed out, there are several characters that really need to be updated. However, there are others that would be hard to top.
Palisades best muppets seem to be the more obscure ones because they did them later in the line. NECA could probably do an amazing Piggy, but I doubt they could do a better Pops.
I also wonder if NECA could do Muppet figures while DST is also doing them. We have seen other licenses do the same license in different scales and NECA us going the Palisades route of doing their own scale. Conversely, I wonder if DST could don1:10 scale Sesame Street figure.
I wonder if it would be worth it for a company to obtain the Muppets license to produce just a few figures. As you point out, it would be tough to make significantly better figures of the more obscure characters produced later in the Palisades line. Plus, I assume a large portion of people who would buy a character like Pops at this scale already owns the Palisades version and won't be interested in buying another. That said, since the figures that could most use an update are the main Muppets, and some of the later figures in the line are so pricey, maybe there would be enough of a market.
On the Muppets lines thread, MSWord said DST is sticking to the 1/10th scale. I wonder if they would reconsider if the NECA line sells super well, like I hope. Not even sure if that is an option.
As far as "regular" Muppets, I'd just love to see a Sesame Street Kermit in the line. I wonder if he's off the table.
Kermit should be owned by Disney. I assume the Sesame Street Muppets are still owned by Sesame Workshop. I wondered about Kermit as well, but remembered he was around before Sesame Street (like Rowlf) and not created for the show, so Sesame Workshop wouldn't own him.
I assume Sesame Workshop owns the Menomena Muppets? That's a 3 pack that would make sense.
I assume Sesame Workshop owns the Menomena Muppets? That's a 3 pack that would make sense.
I'm not sure the licensing for these three characters, but Diamond Select made Mahna Mahna for their Muppets line. Supposedly, thanks to lots requests from folks here, they may make the two Snowths to go with him. I'm not sure if the fact that Diamond is able to make those 3 figures means they are or are not part of the Sesame Street license, and NECA could make figures, too.
Looking into this, some generic Muppets first did the song on Sesame Street in 1969, but then the version of the Muppets we associate with it were introduced when they did the song on the Ed Sullivan Show shortly thereafter, and then those Muppets were part of the Muppet Show premiere episode.
Has anyone seen any updates on when these will go up for pre-order? I thought they are supposed to be shipping before the end of the year. If so, I assume they would be going up for pre-order any day. Maybe I am misremembering the dates.
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