>>11298251I don't know much about modern Diamond, but if there's any oldfags there still, they're too much of fanboys and wanting to be influencial to just leave the industry like that.
They're a private company, so they don't even have outside pressure to leave. Maybe a spoiled child or three will want to cash out once enough old farts die, but are they at that point yet?
>>11297663>The scale is too large--now that costs are huge factor in manufacturing, the larger steel molds required for 7 inch just doesn't make sense, especially when 6 is the preferred scale of collectors.First off, the inch difference is so neglibible that it costs almost nothing. This is why tiny companies started doing it in the first place, because for maybe .026¢ more you get a figure that's noticeably larger on the shelf.
Second, the marketing for 1/10 scale is that bigger figures can be more detailed. True in theory, but no one actually put more detail into their figures just because they were bigger.
Molds only really start costing more when you can no longer fit the same amount of pieces per mold. Remember how McFarlane was so proud he was in gettnig that Doomsday figure to fit inside packaging of a normal figure's wave? So ~8" is the max a figure can be before it actually starts costing more to produce than a 6" figure. And McFarlane Toys is barely big enough to be even considerd a medium sized company.
So if they have the budget to do it for children toys, it shows how negligible the costs are to do 1/10
No doubt, if 1/10 ever becomes expensive, it'll be because of the fuel costs to ship that extra mass. Nothing to do with the production.
