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Should they do it??

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Offline Rasputin

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Re: A rarity factor in the Surprise Figures??
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2011, 23:46:30 »
its bad enough not knowing already

I would not want it to be more of a headache to get the ones I want especially since I want many of certain ones.

Also scalpers would have a hay day with this even if the rarity factor lasted for a week.
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Re: A rarity factor in the Surprise Figures??
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2011, 22:14:47 »
Yeah, we would have to add all the human scalpers to our hitlists....which already is too long. Especially since we don't have any bullets for our PM guns.
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Re: A rarity factor in the Surprise Figures??
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2011, 14:59:32 »
I also vote 'no'. I have lot of pizza bakers and uncle sams now, but I only collect medieval and fantasy figures. I had to buy a Zorro, henker and scythe- ghost on eBay (>3 euros each indeed!). Is it an idea to pack them in different theme- colors? For instance: 4 western, 4 knights, 4 modern life etc. You can collect just your favourite theme(s). And that blue-is-for-boys-and pink-for-girls... is that really something that fits in the nowadays time?
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Re: A rarity factor in the Surprise Figures??
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2011, 15:06:25 »
Quote from: Lynx on December 20, 2011, 14:59:32
I also vote 'no'. I have lot of pizza bakers and uncle sams now, but I only collect medieval and fantasy figures. I had to buy a Zorro, henker and scythe- ghost on eBay (>3 euros each indeed!). Is it an idea to pack them in different theme- colors? For instance: 4 western, 4 knights, 4 modern life etc. You can collect just your favourite theme(s). And that blue-is-for-boys-and pink-for-girls... is that really something that fits in the nowadays time?

You're very right about the "by theme". Especially with this first series alone, most "mixes" you can do are just stupid... since they're all very different....

And getting a bunch of the ones you simply don't collect (some WISE people don't collect all themes!) may just demoralize you enough to stop buying them.

And again, yes. The idea of some being for girls and some being for boys is... lousy.  Like the max age on the boxes. It's limiting their market. I keep telling you - they don't like money!

Love your idea of color code by themes...
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Re: A rarity factor in the Surprise Figures??
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2011, 17:32:04 »
I would be a lot happier if they did a theme color and scrapped the blue and pink division
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Re: A rarity factor in the Surprise Figures??
« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2011, 18:05:43 »
Quote from: tahra on December 20, 2011, 15:06:25
Especially with this first series alone, most "mixes" you can do are just stupid... since they're all very different....


i agree, i haven't taken mine apart as i love them the way they are :cloud9:
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Re: A rarity factor in the Surprise Figures??
« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2011, 23:32:11 »
Well, considering in the next series they are using, not blue and pink, but yellow and green, I don't have a problem with it. The ones in one color are female KLICKYS and in the other are male KLICKYS. Good to have them seperated out, because there are a lot of children who already have strong preconcieved notions about boy toys/girl toys, and a lot of boys would throw a fit if their F?gure turned out to be a princess. As long as they don't actually use the dreaded pink for girls, it doesn't particularly perpetuate the idea that boys can't play with girl toys and vice versa.
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