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Post by CJK Toy Bay on Mar 28, 2004 0:28:13 GMT -5
If you notice, it looks like the sky-grinder comes with a head with pigtails. For me, that would be the happy medium...an "a-sexual" body type, and if they want to include a female head, that would be the best way to do it...for me anyway. Actually the head that looks like it has pigtails is actually a jester type clown head, I'm guessing the "gag" piece for Sky Grinder. You have a good point though...there really doesn't need to be a specifically female figure, like Reaper said they could just do a female head and torso in a value pack, or even a deluxe pack and you could choose your gender. This seems like the best route anyway since traditionally the female figs are always the least produced and least wanted by the core group of buyers, kids. Throw a couple female pieces in with an already good figure and not only do you get a female fig out there but you also spread it around to a larger audince then usual because they're buying for the base figure ;D
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Post by Thread Jack on Mar 28, 2004 0:40:55 GMT -5
bring on the diversity...
SS does have some good ideas there... along with some others that i've read in here...
and i think it would be great if someone from Hasbro found this lil spot of ours... cause like CJK and Grayfox said, as long as this place remains active, then it's only a matter of time before they do... right?
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Post by Grayfox on Mar 28, 2004 1:35:12 GMT -5
Personnally, I don't care much about female characters either. Maybe one or 2 female Furies would be ok, perhaps an Unnatural witch or something, but I casn't see females in the other species..femalbe beasts wouldn't be different enough, female biomechas..meh..i dunno about that and neosapiens females, those are possible, but I'd like to see a bigger army of male neos first.
Or like someone else said, just throw in a female head somewhere and that should be good.
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Post by Squishee Slinger on Mar 28, 2004 16:01:32 GMT -5
[glow=green,2,300]I would also want a female upper torso to go along with the pack in heads. Let's face it most of the figures are build with a man's physique. The arms and legs and crotch pieces are really interchangable between the sexes, but the men's chests would look silly with a female head on them. I would want a female shape to female figures and not a transvestite looking freak.
~SS~[/glow]
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Post by Grayfox on Mar 28, 2004 18:11:51 GMT -5
A new mold used for a head (female) I understand they could just pack it in with another figure (probably a neo sapien).
But a new mold for a chest, I highly doubt they'd just pack that in with another figure like they did with Omega Guard and Grim Skull. So IMO if they go through the trouble of making a new [female] head and chest, they might as well put them together with some limbs and accessories and sell it as a full figure.
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Post by Squishee Slinger on Mar 28, 2004 18:23:25 GMT -5
[glow=green,2,300]That's a good idea. They should do a few of those over the course of the line. ~SS~[/glow]
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Post by Prowl-Ar on Mar 30, 2004 4:12:11 GMT -5
I'd like to see limited single shots for some of hasbro's other licences to attrack a larger audiance. This could be in the form of two pack of enemies. Transformers have already been mentioned but I'd want them to be non transforming and the same size as the rest of the figures.
I'd love to see a two pack with Prime vs Megatron just to add Megatron's scope/cannon to the accessory pile. As a two pack they could be used as an independant product or as an addition to the biomecha faction. Other ideas would be a G.I. Joe pack with Snake Eyes vs Storm Shadow falling into the Neo Sapiens and Darth Vader vs Luke Sky Walker as Unnatural and Neo Sapien respectively.
Now to stay on topic in the main line: Unnatural A skeletal versions of Meta Beasts
Neo Sapiens A Medic
Meta-Beast Horse and Otter
Biomecha A classic B movie robot like the Stickfas robot
Hyperfuries Diamond
Sectoid Wasp
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Post by Squishee Slinger on Mar 30, 2004 8:22:04 GMT -5
[glow=green,2,300]The day they start pulling these other properties into the Xevoz line is the day I become uninterested in the whole concept. I think a Stikfas-type version of the some Star Wars, G.I.Joe, and Transformers is a nice Idea but I don't want them incorperated with this original storyline. Let them sell those items under their respective umbrellas. To me having a toyline with a unique storyline and fresh characters that inspire creativity outside of an already existing TV show's framework is an essential element to play and fantasy that's been missing for years. Action figures have been way too over licensed by television and movies the last 25 years and this line is a welcomed change for the imagination. Xevoz isn't broke and is slowly amassing it's own devoted fans so lets don't go to "fixing it" these other property's characters.
~SS~ [/glow]
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Post by Gearz4Gutz on Mar 30, 2004 10:53:18 GMT -5
From your lips to Hasbro's ear. I hope I never see any cross licensed products in this truly original line. The fact that nothing about it is licensed helps keep the price point low and the interest (for me) high.
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Post by YourNumber1Fanaway on Mar 30, 2004 13:12:39 GMT -5
along the subject... i've been trying to come up with a paint scheme for one of my ninja. was thinking of snake-eyes or storm shadow... but well i suck at painting and after some thought realized that they wouldn't merge with my own lil universe very well. he'll be getting a different color. the proverbial but -- you can always make what you want to have yourself. someone wants gi-joes... go get some alphas and the ninja pack. ya want some transformers? go get some bio mecha and some scuplty. the cool thing about xevoz is that its fresh and new and pretty plane jane. sure you have an alpha male... but there isn't really anything that makes two alpha male different from each other, thus it lets creativity fly. You are the story of Xevoz... not that guy who invented it. no boundries for each charector... where as when you see ol'prime-xevoz you know, oh prime is a mecha and can turn his hand into a axe and is a big cry baby pansy when compaired to megatron BUT you can look at an alpha and say ... i don't know anything about him. he's going to be _____________ and fill in that blank. rant off speachy lecture over lol Your_Number1_Fan ps- i love the idea of a medic! but not some pansy medic i'd like to see someone who isn't affraid to get messy. maybe come with some in-field surgry tools.... and keep him with a small uzi for personal firepower. "WHAT do you mean i cut off the healthy leg?!"
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Post by CJK Toy Bay on Mar 30, 2004 13:15:30 GMT -5
I miss the old days of totally original concepts and ideas..we really haven't seen anything like that since the 80's McFarlane did a lot of it early on but they didn't really have any story line behind them, just cool looking figures. Stan Winston just did a lot of nice stuff but the price on them was way to high for something that didn't have any history. Other then that I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, everything on the shelves these days is either comic, cartoon or movie...where everyone else seems to be rehashing 80's lines I think Hasbro is the only one who paid attention to 80's marketing. It was succesful back then and I think it can be successful again if Hasbro plays all the cards right.
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Post by Omega8 on Mar 30, 2004 13:33:32 GMT -5
[glow=Purple,2,300]I am really torn .....
I agree with both sides of the argument...
Where as I don't want the sanctity of the Xevoz world to be compromised, but licensed characters would really be great.
If Hasbro was to do Star Wars or Joe Xevoz then I would want them done wholly separate, marketed as a product of the parent line, not Xevoz.
Because even if you don’t WANT Vader or Snake Eyes to cross over into Xevoz continuity you HAVE TO admit that they would both KICK ASS …..
So I say, let Xevoz grow and prosper ON IT’S OWN MERIT then later on add in other licenses.
Can I get an Amen? [/glow]
;D
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Post by CJK Toy Bay on Mar 30, 2004 13:50:35 GMT -5
I guess what I'm not understanding is why would you want, for instance a Darth Vader figure? With Xevoz you can mix and match the pieces as much as you want and you'll always have a new character. Even if you mix and match Darth's parts he still looks like Darth...
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Post by Squishee Slinger on Mar 30, 2004 14:32:55 GMT -5
[glow=green,2,300]Like I said, I am not against Hasbro from making Stikfas or even Xevoz compatible type figures for Star Wars, Transformers, G.I.Joe, Pokemon, or whatever other lisences they have. I just never want them to be under the Xevoz name or be considered true extentions of this line. Call them something different and have them marketed with their true parent groups and not with the Xevoz toys. That way if they flop they don't blame it on the Xevoz brand and cancel the line. If they are good sellers, new toys in those dedicated offshoot groups would take up even more case slots in the line for original stuff we love. If they were their own set apart toyline they would be free to expand it as much as they like without scaling back original Xevos releases. Let them prosper or fail as "insert your big brand name here" Stikfas and not as Xevos. They can still be totally compatible with these figures they just don't need to be pushed as crossover toys and derail the look and feel of this line in the process.
~SS~[/glow]
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Post by Darth Xevoz on Mar 30, 2004 15:40:50 GMT -5
Where did you guys see this other head for Sky-grinder? Id like to check it out!
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