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Mattel takes over the Jurassic Park franchise

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2016 09:02:17 No.5864633 View View Reply Original Report

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http://news.toyark.com/2016/07/20/mattel-takes-jurassic-park-jurassic-world-toy-license-211342

Have we discussed this yet? Seems like a good opportunity to get some decent dinosaurs. I want Matel to make the dinosaurs soft like Kenner did.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2016 16:28:50 No.5865073 Report

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>>5864633
>Seems like a good opportunity to get some decent dinosaurs.
>Mattel

also yes this has been discussed previously.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2016 16:41:01 No.5865090 Report

Quoted By: >>5865093 >>5866329

Hasbro really should be ashamed of themselves for letting it come to this. Kenner's JP lines where groundbreaking, some of the highest quality toys in the 90's, with cutting edge sculpts and magnificent paintwork, much of which holds up to this day. Hasbro sat on this license for decades and did very little with it, coasting on Kenner molds nearly 20 years after they first came out.

Kenner was too good for Hasbro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2016 16:44:55 No.5865093 Report

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>>5865090
They even cast Chris Pratt so that Hasbro could copy and paste his face from Marvel GotG figures.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2016 17:00:50 No.5865127 Report

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>>5864633
I'll gladly check out the new line

but if it even remotely resembles the absolute failure that was JW's current spread... I guess the biggest dinosaur line of our time will finally meet it's end.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2016 17:10:12 No.5865146 Report

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>>5864633
The only people that are going to come out ahead on this will be Hot Wheels collecting autists. Everyone else will get nothing but garbage.

Screencap me for posterity, we all know it's true.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Aug 2016 17:12:12 No.5865154 Report

Quoted By: >>5865818 >>5865976 >>5866057 >>5880272

>>5864633
I have very little experience with Mattel, but they really can't be worse than Hasbro, can they?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 01:50:57 No.5865818 Report

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>>5865154
>can't be worse than Hasbro

DC figures have been worse than Marvel's. So yeah Mattel can be worse than Hasbro

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Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 01:58:43 No.5865835 Report

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>>5865818
To be fair:

...yeah, I've got nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 03:26:42 No.5865976 Report

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>>5865154
Mattel is the worst.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 03:40:06 No.5865996 Report

Quoted By: >>5866452

Given Mattel's ability to make cool giant monsters like in the MOTUC line, its entirely possible they can give us great figures.

Of course, hasbro also gave us cloverfield and rancor/a number of other cool Star wars monsters, yet we got crap for JW so don't get your hopes up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 04:40:50 No.5866057 Report

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>>5865154
Nah. It's just Hasbro fans are suffering Stockholm Syndrome. They cry over non-issue shit like the "Collect N Connect" name for the BAFs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 04:47:32 No.5866065 Report

Quoted By: >>5866285

How will Dino Riders factor into this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 05:54:36 No.5866146 Report

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>>5865818
On the other hand, the WWE figures are a lot better than both.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 07:48:50 No.5866285 Report

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>>5866065
Jurassic Park vs. Dino Riders: Dawn of Crossovers

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 08:34:47 No.5866329 Report

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>>5865090
Hasbro's treatment of Jurassic Park really was a let down. Although these days, I blame the poor toy market. Action figures aren't selling as well as they used and costs are way up.

>>5864633
> Seems like a good opportunity to get some decent dinosaurs.

Mattel bought the rights to Back to the Future so they could make a hoverboard and some Hotwheels. They said figures for that wouldn't happen because they didn't want to sculpt a new line of molds without a bunch of reusable parts.

Combine that with the fact most of Mattel's actual figures have been Matty Collector only and low sales have killed Matty Collector, I'd say chances of good toys are slim to none.

At least we'll get Hotwheels, though, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Aug 2016 11:37:54 No.5866452 Report

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>>5865996
The Four Horsemen make those MOTUC figures look good. If you want to see what Mattel actually does on its lonesome, look at their Multiverse Suicide Squad Harley figures and dread the possibilities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Aug 2016 22:55:45 No.5872088 Report

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>>5866329

BTTF is a license that has to tell based on the brand alone. No one is buying BTTF stuff on a whim, you buy it cause it is BTTF. Jurassic Park is different, people will buy dinosaur toys because they're dinosaurs, it doesn't matter if its JP or another brand. Dinosaur toys sell, its why so many companies make them. Mattel will now be making brand name dinosaur toys. i hope they do a good balance of dopey kids stuff and maybe a couple of collectors things.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Aug 2016 05:31:32 No.5876219 Report

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>>5864633
tfw the jungle explorer repaint was never released.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Aug 2016 12:52:18 No.5876575 Report

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>>5864633
I really don't care if Mattel is objectively worse than Hasbro in general, there's really no way this could be bad for me, personally. I mean, absolutely none of the toys released by Hasbro looked good. They were utter shit. If Mattel can't improve upon that, then whatever, I'll just continue to not buy any JP toys.

Glad PAPO is around to give us decent dino's.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Aug 2016 13:05:23 No.5876587 Report

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>>5864633
> Seems like a good opportunity to get some decent dinosaurs.
enjoy your dollar store plastic dinos that come in the "Escape Jurassic Park" hotwheel race sets

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Aug 2016 19:15:51 No.5877073 Report

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>>5865073
Mattel has made NOTHING decent since AcceleRacers

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Anonymous Sun 28 Aug 2016 10:50:30 No.5879994 Report

Quoted By: >>5880029 >>5882765 >>5882772 >>5888349

Well there goes the chance of classic Lego JP stuff

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Anonymous Sun 28 Aug 2016 11:55:47 No.5880029 Report

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>>5879994
I think that's less to do with Mattel and more lies in LEGO's court. Mattel does DC action figures, and we still get LEGO DC sets.

Does LEGO even have the license to do anything besides Jurassic World sets?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Aug 2016 16:14:23 No.5880272 Report

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>>5865154

Pretty sure they only exists in this day and age thanks to WB's senility (they handle DC's product division) and fanboys too undetermined to actually cancel their subs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Aug 2016 16:22:51 No.5880295 Report

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>>5866146
As someone with hundreds of all three, no fucking way. ML is definitely the better line out of the three of Legends, WWE Elites, and DCUC/Multiverse

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2016 19:44:58 No.5882765 Report

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>>5879994
Lego Dimensions could do something or we could get something in the style of the Ghostbusters lego.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Aug 2016 19:51:35 No.5882772 Report

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>>5879994
Seeing how they've been systematically denying every JP set that gets in the lego ideas round up vote, I haven't had much hope to begin with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2016 17:53:28 No.5888268 Report

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>>5882772
Well they wont be denying this:
http://jurassicoutpost.com/new-lego-jurassic-world-dvd-film-indominus-escape-releasing-october/

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2016 18:54:53 No.5888349 Report

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>>5879994
Lego should still have the building toy license. There was a period (pre-Jurassic World) where Lego turned down all design submissions related to Jurassic Park because another company (Hasbro) had the building toy rights.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Sep 2016 18:56:15 No.5888352 Report

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Can't be worse than Hasbro.

r-right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2016 14:19:31 No.5891286 Report

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>>5872088
Not to mention Back to the Future is a dead franchise that only nostalgists in their late 30s care about while Jurassic Park had a new movie that grossed over a billion dollars last year.

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2016 14:28:38 No.5891297 Report

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They need to make something that looks like this, or I'll shoot up a mall. Ok okay, I really won't, but it would be appreciated. These cock teasing preliminary paint jobs are so heartbreaking

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Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2016 14:36:38 No.5891303 Report

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>>5891297

Same as this shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Sep 2016 14:40:21 No.5891307 Report

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The new Mattel halo figures are actually pretty good so anything's possible.i mean their DC line is utter shit but I can be cautiously optimistic.

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