Anyone else glad that Palisades cut down on the...

[Fozzie Bear]

I liked the prior ideas Ken made for Vet's hospital and having each of the Vets themselves come with a wall and some accessories ala Newsman. I also would like Bear On Patrol Link with a desk that has the phone and typewriter molded into it and 2 walls, one wall has an opening/closing jail cell door, and stickers of wanted posters to go on the walls.

The final playset when the line ends (oh, GOD! I won't have anything else to look forward to) should be the Muppet Theater, sold alone as its own series so they can afford to have it be elaborate and we can afford it.

 

[WiGgY]

budget does not allow for a playset to replace a series of figures. That isn't how it works. Playsets are technically a different product. They are numbered differently and packaged differently. Besides, telling a store that you want to sell them a playset that costs at least 100 dollars (if it was done the way we all want) as opposed to a set of figures with a much lover SRP per item wouldn't work.

Minis, figures, megas, and playsets are different and budegeted for differently as far as I know.

 

[beaker]

I said it in 2001, and I shall say it again...the Muppet playsets were a disaster in the making. I still believe Palisades would have made so much more money had they had an individually carded Beaker...I mean let's face it, that Muppet Labs playset based on the Muppet Vision 3D labs was ugly, and not worth getting besides...well Beaker. It's one thing to ask a very non Muppet hungry collector market and folks to buy $9-$12 figures, its another to for people to buy $25-$30 "playsets".

What I think they should have done, was made the Muppet figures not as big as they did...personally I feel they should have been as big or slightly bigger than the mini Muppets...and like the Kenner/Hasbro line, pumped out countless Muppets spanning the ages for $5-$6 a pop. It's obvious th elikenesses are much better in smaller form, and to have made 4 or 5" figures instead of 6-7" figures would have been more cost effective and sold better. If the Simpsons line had been as bulky and such, I don't think they would have sold as well...as much as Macfarlane upped the detail and size scale, the Simpsons show ya don't need all that.

Because of the price and size, I had to stop colelcting the Mupepts regular line at series 5.

But that is just my personal opinion...the mini line of Muppets and Invader Zim are the two lines I am most jubilant about.

 

[WiGgY]

Well, I am likeing some of the minis more than the figures, but we would never have gotten a good Pepe or Rizzo. These would be no way to have them in scale as minis and have articulation. I think that is why the figures were made so big, because there are many smaller characters. If the figures started out mini sized, though, we'd have a stage set by now because it wouldn't need to be larger.

Oh, and FYI, according to KEn the lab sets sold well, but there were way too many of them. SO, it looked like they didn't sell a lot, when they did.

 

[Stryder Wolfe]

the lab set is just about my favourite playset. I like ti better than the PIS or ktichen, and it's probably tied with the mayhem stage. There's more playability with it than with the others, at least IMO....

oh wig, I agree with your take on phil's accessories, but had to note that he did have a bunch of glass beakers like that in tales from the vet. he looks through them when he's doing the intro on most episodes...This I only remember because I've just been watching MFS on canadian tv in the last few weeks, though. I personalyl would have liked the brain sucker from MFS or even a pack-in rat instead. And the egg-nog is bleh.....

 

[WiGgY]

A rat would have been AWSOME! A rat with Scooter would have been cool too.

I wish I was in Canada, or at least got your stations.

 

[CyberSteak]

Wait a second...what channels are the muppets on in Canada??? What have I been missing???

 

[homerthegreat]

It's on CTS (36) every day.