>>11577700>And that brings us to Wave 5 of ReAction+, which includes the first ever original sculpt Pythona and Big Lob figures in the 3.75" scale. One Cobra-La character, one Joe, both prominently featured in the 1987 movie — and they never got action figures. Why do you think that was?That would be a conversation for the people that worked there. I can try to hazard a guess. If you think about what they were doing back then, it's a year plus to get things to market. They were developing toys, I think, still fairly independent of whatever was going on in the content. And I think by the time the content came out — if you talk to old people and they talk about how movie licensing used to be, it's like, even if a movie is popular and I license it, the toy doesn't come out for another year.
>The Star Wars Early Bird conundrum.Yeah. So it may be a thing of, like, they were like, "We would have loved to have done stuff, but a year from now, is anyone going to care?" If you talk about '87, they're building stuff for '88 at that point. They're probably line planning for '89. By '89 they're getting into some goofy stuff already. They were probably like, "That was cool. We're moving on."
>So when you're approaching Pythona and Big Lob — two characters that people have wanted in this scale, in this style, for almost 40 years — you don't have previous versions to compare or live up to. You're starting at the ground floor. Okay, both of them have convention exclusive figures that are incredibly rare and go for $400, which I don't count —— And they don't look like how you want them to look.
