Tag: Fantastic Exclusive

New Armor for Gothitropolis Time Keepers

Now when Scarabus’ little minions go to war, you’ll have to hit ’em extra hard to make a dent! In production along with Scarabus RIGHT NOW!
When and how will you be able to get your hands on ’em? Not sure yet…   Got suggestions?
Then h…

This should be a nice incentive for those of you planning to pick up a Four Horsemen Fantastic Exclusive Gothitropolis Scarabus (that’s a mouthful) – I think they should offer a Scarabus / Time Keeper set with the armor pieces as a bonus.

Now when Scarabus’ little minions go to war, you’ll have to hit ’em extra hard to make a dent! In production along with Scarabus RIGHT NOW!

When and how will you be able to get your hands on ’em? Not sure yet…   Got suggestions?

Then hit the GOTHITROPOLIS section of the FANtastic Exclusive message boards and let ’em rip!

-FH-

Four Horsemen Discuss Articulation for Scarabus

Way back when the voting was going on fro Scarabus, you guys – the FANtastic FANatics chose how much and what kind of articulation Scarabus should have. Well, at that time, Scarabus’ evil prevailed and the pricing structure for the figure with all of t…

There are some really cool insights from the Four Horsemen how cost can impact product feature decisions for action figures. There’s some very interesting reading here.

Way back when the voting was going on for Scarabus, you guys – the FANtastic FANatics chose how much and what kind of articulation Scarabus should have. Well, at that time, Scarabus’ evil prevailed and the pricing structure for the figure with all of the articulation and other features added in turned out to be much more expensive to produce than we’d planned, so Scarabus was pulled back temporarily so we could figure out a more cost effective way to produce him.

Scarabus went through a few costing phases with multiple factories before we finally came upon a factory that could not only offer us a decent competitive price for everything we wanted to include, but they would also provide us with the production quality that we expected.

A couple of alterations still would have to be made to keep the production costs at a point where we could pass the figure on to you at a decent price, but they’re alterations that we can all live with.

First, although we feared that a lot of the articulation would have to be removed from Scarabus, the only thing that really had to be removed was the “ab crunch”. With the detailed sculpting on top of that area requiring separate parts made out of a different material, the extra costs were just unnecessary.

Second was the cape. Although we would like to have had a cloth cape on this figure instead of the soft plastic cape that we’re going with, the unit cost would have doubled for each figure. WAY to much expense to eat or pass on to our fans!

So, here is a diagram of the articulation you can expect with the gruesome guardian of Gothitropolis. Take a look, and then hit the Gothitropolis section of the FANtastic Exclusive message boards to let us know what you think!

-FH-

Four Horsemen Announce Scarabus from Gothitropolis in Production

The winning character of the 2008 FANtastic Exclusive vote, and the main character from the Four Horsemen’s property – Gothitroplois has finally gone into production! SCARABUS APPROCAHES!
We received the first tooled samples last week, as you can see f…

I’m very excited that the Four Horsemen have been able to jump start production on Gothitropolis. Scarabus looks great, but I’d like to find out what’s going on with the Gothitropolis variants, as there were a couple of pretty cool ones that were in the works.

The winning character of the 2008 FANtastic Exclusive vote, and the main character from the Four Horsemen’s property – Gothitropolis has finally gone into production! SCARABUS APPROACHES!

We received the first tooled samples last week, as you can see from the photos below, they look spectacular!

As production moves along, we should have a better idea of when the figures will be finished and ready to ship, but we expect to have things ready to go around the beginning of 2011.

Check out the images below, and be sure to drop by the new Gothitropolis section of the FANtastic Exclusive message boards to discuss the evil that is Scarabus!!

A shot of Scarabus with his evil little minions, the TIME KEEPERS! The Time Keepers are available RIGHT NOW through our very own online retail outlet, Store Horsemen!

And this final shot shows Scarabus hanging out with some already produced characters from the Four Horsemen’s property, 7th Kingdom. From Scarabus’ right are Xetheus, Queen Alluxandra, Scarabus (with Time Keeper) and the mighty Ramathorr! Ramathorr & Queen Alluxandra are still available through our online retail outlet, Store Horsemen!

San Diego Comic-Con Most Wanted – SamuRon

Wow, is it that time already? The biggest pop culture event of the year is upon us, and I’m just not ready for it.

Thankfully, the rest of the guys have already covered the bulk of my Most Wanted list, so check out their pre-game shows: Buzzy, Sandman, and Talyn. Here’s some of the upcoming toy lines from my favorite toy companies that somehow didn’t already get mentioned:

DC Universe Mez-Itz (Mezco)

As far as I’m concerned, there’s been a hole in the urban vinyl category shaped like a big “DC” – ever since Hasbro took vinyl and brought it to mass market as Mighty Muggs for its Marvel, Star Wars, GI Joe, and Transformers licenses, I’ve been waiting for DC to follow suit. I thought last year we might get a line from Mattel – they had some protos on display for Masters of the Universe and others that never made it to toy shelves. And DC Direct’s Blammoids made it to comic book stores but just aren’t my cup of tea.

With DC going with Mez-Itz, I think we’ve finally got a chance for DC urban vinyl for mass market. Mez-Itz has a very pleasing form factor that’s scale compatible with Mighty Muggs. And they’ve got those ball-jointed necks, that make them a superior offering. I can’t wait to pick up the Batman / Joker exclusive, and see what else Mezco has planned.

>> Read more about Mezco’s Mez-Itz

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