Confessional: I had to pull my own arm back to stop myself from grabbing the Phasma Titanium figurine...the one and only character (ok, droids, too) that makes sense in this form...she looks nice!Now they're focusing on other stuff- like the hideous figures that were such a massive success and have pegwarmed twice now. Ughh.
I miss my Action Fleet!I feel all you guys pain. I miss my Micro Machines!!![]()
It is stunning that we find ourselves in this predicament, when you stop and reflect. How can mainline retail mini spaceship toys from the most enduring and successful high profile sci-fi franchise of all time be so difficult to turn into viable product? They can be made for pennies, are small and should be affordable, have obvious collectability, and are based on subject matter with massive reach and multi-hundred million $ holiday season-timed marketing. Surely this kind of toy should be the easiest to make money from? :wtf:
Agreed - and given the desirability of 'army builder' type ships it really does boggle the mind how Hasbro managed to ***** it up so badly. Mind you I went into my local TRU yesterday and they had literally three full begs of the 6 inch Black Series First Order Snowtrooper on clearance. No-one wants them, so not only Titanium that Hasbro stuffs up with.It is stunning that we find ourselves in this predicament, when you stop and reflect. How can mainline retail mini spaceship toys from the most enduring and successful high profile sci-fi franchise of all time be so difficult to turn into viable product? They can be made for pennies, are small and should be affordable, have obvious collectability, and are based on subject matter with massive reach and multi-hundred million $ holiday season-timed marketing. Surely this kind of toy should be the easiest to make money from? :wtf:
That's odd, if true, it contradicts what Hasbro reps have said at conventions - they in no uncertain terms made it clear both Titaniums and Micro Machines are done after their respective RO releases. Even if they were planned at one time, its likely too late for them at retail, especially if they slated to release the same ships. They might be able to do an online exclusive with HTS (if they were even put into production), but they'd likely end up as clearance fodder.Here’s a post from John Stone on the SW Titanium FB group
“I got some news from someone in the know about the Titanium ships. A couple of series were scheduled to come out before Christmas but something happened to their production (not told what) which stopped everything. This of course gave Hot Wheels the upper hand for a few months & that we may start seeing some ship late January to February which is AFTER the new movie coming out. Since Disney is letting both companies supply the SAME ships so this is pretty bad for Titanium. If they get the ships out they will probably be the same as the one already out by HW
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Interesting as it suggests a production and marketing blunder on Hasbros part rather than a specific decision to go on hiatus
Despite the redundancy in offerings by both Hot Wheels and the Titanium series, the details, size and features were different enough for me to collect both. The slim offerings by Titanium made that feasible.
If this is indeed true, here's hoping they see the light of retail.
Although it would break the uniformity of the packaging, release them on vintage cards like the die cast line of the 80s. They intend to resurrect the vintage collection in the figure line, release the Titanium (and the Kraken) to coincide. Except, reduce the high ratio of repacks to new releases. Repacks are necessary, but the excess of it has been self defeating in all of their lines.