Untapped franchises for massive action figure lines?

[Vampiro138]

Mar 9, 2020 3:22:39 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Looney Tunes certainly has a deep enough cast of characters, but I'm not sure how well it'd work as a full line of articulated figures. Scale would be an issue, and numerous LTs don't really lend themselves to the POA format very well.

Mar 7, 2020 9:58:34 GMT -5 Vampiro138 said:

much as I dig NECA and their Godzilla line, there's a large section of Godzilla lore they just are not making. I would dig stuff like the fairy twins, jet jaguar, would also love a Raymond Burr fig in the line too!

A "Humans of Godzillaverse" line would be interesting. Serizawa (with Oxygen Destroyer accessory) from the original would be a good pick. Namikawa in her Planet X gear from Astro-Monster? Or the Planet X leader himself. Maybe even include the crew of the ship from the Hanna-Barbara cartoon.

Trendmasters had an erratic line of Godzilla figures back when. Had about twenty different scales and some of the scales were deep enough to include Biolante and MOGERA. Of course, there's the classic Bandai line which has done (almost) every Toho monster (I think there's maybe still a few missing, and these are expensive as hell anyway). There's a current line in stores now too, from Playmates(?) I think, and they're going deep with stuff like King Seesar, but they also look like cheaper versions of the Bandai figures. Would love to see NECA do more of the Tohoverse than just different variations of Godzilla himself.

Im a merchandiser and part of my job is stocking NECA at different stores, and everytime I get asked for comments I keep saying more Godzilla lore figs, just different Godzillas isnt cutting it when the fans would buy so much more if offered! I keep suggesting like NECA has "Accessory Packs" that come with various things, they could do one for Godzilla and include humans and the fairy twins in that, could make them maybe 5.5 inch figs so they are sort of to scale with the monster figs. Jet Jaguar could be the only normal size fig in there since he can grow to Godzilla height.

I have a small collection of the playmates figs and dig them quite a bit too. I guess when it was Bandai there was a Jet Jaguar fig but it was super hard to find.