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Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:12 pm

They should make unpainted gray scale chase figures. It would rawk my damn face off. Make it so, powers that be!

News Credits: 241 · Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:13 pm

Skyfire-5 wrote:They should make unpainted gray scale chase figures. It would rawk my damn face off. Make it so, powers that be!

Eh, of what?

News Credits: 15 · Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:51 pm

Gimmie an example, please.

News Credits: 9 · Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:36 am

Does he mean release figures in prototype grey so we paint them ourselves?

News Credits: 15 · Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:45 am

Mykltron wrote: Does he mean release figures in prototype grey so we paint them ourselves?

I guess, I don't know

Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:09 am

I was thinking of future or past classics style figures. Proto figs seem to bring out the details on the sculpt. You could paint them, but it would defeat the purpose. I figure make them chase figures because who, other than aspiring commercial artists, really wants an unpainted fig... Anyway, I was bored when I posted this. Kinda like an indirect attempt at inception.

News Credits: 241 · Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:23 am

The chase piece concept only works for smaller collectibles, really. The very definition makes them rare, their production runs small, and ultimately expensive to do. The costs have to be recouped by fans buying the regular figures en masse, and I don't see that happening with us here. But in Japan it's a common practice, with the WST's, Micromaster Collection and Micron Boosters.

Speaking of Microns, one give-away promotion actually involved white figures, the Destruction Mini-Con Team to be exact, which the buyer could paint and send in as part of a contest. It was done only once though.

News Credits: 129 · Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:33 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:The chase piece concept only works for smaller collectibles, really. The very definition makes them rare, their production runs small, and ultimately expensive to do. The costs have to be recouped by fans buying the regular figures en masse, and I don't see that happening with us here. But in Japan it's a common practice, with the WST's, Micromaster Collection and Micron Boosters.

Speaking of Microns, one give-away promotion actually involved white figures, the Destruction Mini-Con Team to be exact, which the buyer could paint and send in as part of a contest. It was done only once though.

3 times I think.

Destruction
Hellflame
Caliber

News Credits: 241 · Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:02 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:The chase piece concept only works for smaller collectibles, really. The very definition makes them rare, their production runs small, and ultimately expensive to do. The costs have to be recouped by fans buying the regular figures en masse, and I don't see that happening with us here. But in Japan it's a common practice, with the WST's, Micromaster Collection and Micron Boosters.

Speaking of Microns, one give-away promotion actually involved white figures, the Destruction Mini-Con Team to be exact, which the buyer could paint and send in as part of a contest. It was done only once though.

3 times I think.

Destruction
Hellflame
Caliber

Hellflames were retools of the Emergency Team, and Calibers retools of the Air Military Team for completion's sake. I don't know if the white versions of those two were contest pieces as well, but they are extremely rare.