Who will release Muppet figures in 2007?

[Meepsterboy]

... I prefer smaller, smoother figures. Just my preference.

If we were EVER to get smaller Muppet figures, only way I'd buy them were if either:
A. They were Art Asylum Minimates
B. Disney was considering completely ending the Muppets if they didn't sell.
or
C. They had all the detail of the Palisades. And, Palisades figures were FAR from McStatues. Go get a '68 Comeback Tour Elvis, compare it to any Palisades figure except Rainbow Connection Kermit and Robin, and THEN tell me Palisades Muppets were McStatues.

 

[MWoO]

Those cheap wastes of plastic that still cost a dollar? Yeah...

No seriously tho, if you go to the Disney store they have a lot of really cool figures based on all sorts of classic and current properties. I see no reason why they can't give the Muppets that sort of treatment.

If you saw the 2003 Jack in the Box fast food Muppet figures or the 1978 Fisher Price Muppet figure line, that is exactly in my opinion the sort of Muppet figures we need.

This whole 7" post Mcfarlane style has run its course. Do we really need every figure to be like a statue? I gave away all my Palisades Muppet figures, and I had virtually every one. Just took up way too much room. Way too much. I prefer smaller, smoother figures. Just my preference.

So you would rather cheap looking pieces of junk instead of highly detailed and fairly well articulated figures?

The Palsiades stuff was far from statue like. Yes some of the series 1 and 2 stuff wasn't super poseable, but series 3 had all kinds of articulation added and it stayed from there. Even series 2 had a nicely poseable Floyd. And really the only figures that didn't havem uch articulation were the ones whose style just didn't allow it. Figures like Kermit where too thin and Fozzie a little too thick. And still you could get good poses out of them.

 

[DTWolf]

Hard to make up my mind

First, I despise unarticulated "action" figures (not that that applies to Palisades Muppets; I'm just griping).
Second, I prefer smaller figures to the size most figures are now. Give me 10cm/4in figures any day over these big hulking Marvel Legends/Spawn/DC Direct-type things.
Third . . . there's the Muppets.

I have several of those Fisher-Price figures from the late seventies; the sculpts weren't always so good, but the scale was around what I'd like. It's the size I was HOPING for when I first heard about Palisades making Muppets. Alas, they made them in the bigger size, and so I bought them bigger.

And now that I've put so much money and display space into the larger line, I'm not too eager to switch.

But a new line, if such were to happen, would be redoing all the characters I already have in the larger size. It would be a long, LONG time before any new line would get around to making any Muppet characters Palisades failed to give us. (Series one would NOT be made up of Sal, Thog, Bean, and Lewis Kazagger.)

So would I BUY a new Muppets line? If it were in scale with the Palisades figures, I'd only be getting a classic Miss Piggy and maybe an articulated Robin (it could happen)--they'd never get to the characters I don't already have, I'm sure.

If they're a smaller size, the size I prefer, would that be enough to make me replicate my collections of larger-scale Muppets? I don't know. . . .

 

[DTWolf]

In the interest of not seeming self-contradictory . . .

Maybe nobody cares, but having just posted in another thread about the Labyrinth figures from NECA, I felt a need to come back here and add to what I said above. I'm going to buy a Jareth figure--it's in the bigger scale. It will, I imagine, be pretty limited in articulation. I don't like either of those things, but when the figure comes out I'll get one. I'd rather have smaller, better-articulated figures than NECA is likely to give me, but I doubt I'll ever get them; plus these Labyrinth figures (Hoggle and goblins and any more that might be made) will be somewhat close in scale to the Palisades Muppets.

Muppets and Henson figures seem to be the weak spot where I'll pretty much take what I can get. (Well--Palisades "Mega Muppets" were TOO big, and so were the Barbie-sized Dark Crystal dolls; I didn't buy those, so I suppose I've got SOME limits.)

 

[Fozzie Bear]

inaction figures = PVC figurines. Never saw the difference other than names.

 

[Yoda Man]

"So would I BUY a new Muppets line? If it were in scale with the Palisades figures, I'd only be getting a classic Miss Piggy and maybe an articulated Robin (it could happen)--they'd never get to the characters I don't already have, I'm sure."

Personally, I don't care too much about what we didn't get. Sure, Sal is cool, but who really cares about a background monkey. Look at almost any toy line and you'll see that the main characters are the big sellers. Buffy sells better than any BTVS character, Luke and Leia always sell well, etc, etc. So if another toy line takes over Muppets, I don't really care if we don't get figures that would take years to get. I want more Piggys and Kermits, and any toy company that takes on the Muppets will probably make those. More Kermits were made than any other figure by Palisades, and all of them fetch the pretty penny on ebay. Have any Kermits sold poorly? Doubt it. I want another toy line to take over, and make Benjamina Gunn, Crachett, Squire Trelawney and so many more

 

[DTWolf]

So if another toy line takes over Muppets, I don't really care if we don't get figures that would take years to get. I want more Piggys and Kermits, and any toy company that takes on the Muppets will probably make those. More Kermits were made than any other figure by Palisades, and all of them fetch the pretty penny on ebay. Have any Kermits sold poorly? Doubt it. I want another toy line to take over, and make Benjamina Gunn, Crachett, Squire Trelawney and so many more

Oh, yeah, I forgot about those movie characters Palisades left out.

It's true the ones you named would be much more likely than Sal, Bean, etc., since they're variations of the central characters and not obscure Muppets. And since, in my mind, they're legitimate variants (they come from an actual Muppet production and aren't just made up for the toy line like "Vacation Fozzie"), I would buy them.

But a new line probably wouldn't make any Christmas Carol or Treasure Island figures early on and might not get to them either.

And in fact one Kermit did sell poorly; series 1 Piggy and Kermit both languished on the pegs for years, because Palisades made way too many of them.

 

[MWoO]

Now that the movies were brought up, I would like to see a company pick up a license for on of the movies, maybe MCC or MTI (though MTI had a couple figures, it could use a lot more). Then maybe after that they could add other shows and such like wha was done with Palsiades who originally had a Muppet Show line until they got a license for all them ovies and MT.

 

[JJandJanice]

You know to be honset, I don't think I would like to see a new line of Muppet figures. I still like the Palisades line way too much.

Course after I'm done collecting the whole set, I might change my mind.

 

[goodrastus]

I also agree that I probably wouldn't get others after the excellence of the Palisades set. I haven't collected any other figurines but I have a bookshelf filled with my Muppet display. If we'd had another 6 or so characters then I would have felt the set was complete for me.