Somehow through a poker game you end up winning full control over this company and it's assets.How do you save them?
>>11757827Produce what everyone else is producing, but at more affordable prices to undercut everyone.
>>11757827Stop cancelling every all the good figures they show off at tot fairs but end up not producing because playmates toys are cheap bastards
>>11757827They need to have another big IP to get back in stores at the same level as when they had TMNT. What else is left? Just about all the big ones are gobbled up by other companies already.
>>11758261>Stop cancelling every all the good figures they show off at tot fairs but end up not producing because playmates toys are cheap bastardsThis is a retarded view of how the industry works. The expensive part is making the prototypes and designing the toys. The cheap part is manufacturing and distribution comparatively. Sitting on those molds is a waste of resources and largely only done because of a lack of sales because of how stores buy less product, especially towards the end of a line.
>>11757827Save them? HA! Full resources on a Ben 10 classic continuity line and the rest of Power Players
>>11757827I don't, I restructure tons of corporate debt from my other enterprises into it then bankrupt and shutter it.
>>11758292I'd go for the licenses nobody else is prioritizing while making the most of Godzilla and Kong. They already sort of tried that with Voltron and MMPR. So just muscle in and take all of super7's business away while producing a superior but more affordable product. Put that hasbro deal to better use too. Even now people would go nuts for a mass market Micronauts reissue line akin to boss fight's MASK revival.
>>11758305Can you imagine how much better those old jazwares CN, HB, and Nick lines would have been if handled by playmates?
>>11758353no
>>11757827do they make decent toys, because what I see looks like shit (MMPR, all Turtle garbage looks like Turtle garbage whether it's NECA or Playmates or McFarty McFarts).
>>11757827bring back Exo Squad, Skeleton Warriors, and shoot for the AEW license after Jazwares drops it next year
>>11758445they're okay for the price, the sculpts are good, the articulation is baffling sometimes, jakks kicks their ass for the same price, they could optimize paint apps and make impressive figures, but they don't, not as bad as bandai only painting the front of the fig because that's all you can see before you buy it
>>11758303You are completely wrong. Design and making a 3D printed prototype is the cheapest part. Production which includes the tooling (making the steel molds for injection molding) is the most expensive part. That's why many figures from many companies often don't make it past the prototype stage. Because beyond that point is where all the super expensive production costs come in.
>>11758352I think this is a good strategy for them, but then they need to design things with collectors in mind if they go after those more collector focused properties. They are constantly designing everything like kids toys with shitty articulation. That is fine for MMPR and Godzilla where there are other collector options from other companies, but if they want to go after properties that collectors have no other options for, they need to do better
>>11758445You sound like a complete retard
>>11759252Yeah, you're a fucking cunt. You should work on that.
Actually innovate on toys.Playmates is stuck in the '90s.
What upcoming things does Playmates have? Besides drip feeding a few Power Rangers things here and there plus another couple Godzilla figs is it just that stupid Dungeon Crawler line?
>>11757827I don't care about action figures so I would pivot to mahjong sets. And mahjong variants. Maybe we can do some mahjong tiles in figure form as a treat for our friends on /toy/.
>>11758744Then why has Playmates been doing this shit since the early 90s with stuff like Darkwing Duck and Toxic Crusaders and even today with stuff like the rollerskating mantis guy from Tales of TMNT and even Power Rangers with Squatt?
>>11760028Can you read? Those are protos that never went to the steel tooling phase because that's the most expensive part. For whatever reason they decide to do other figures or waves if retailers don't order enough or decide they want something different
