Okay, once and for all…

Hi, I'm Mike. I go by “toygeek” here, but over on the Palisades boards, I use “grail”. I'm pretty hard to miss over there. Yes, Palisades looked into it. A couple of them seemed really excited about the idea, even. But they found that as of right now, NO ONE can make toys based on anything other than RGB, and Sony wants an awful lot for RGB. So it's correct that Palisades won't be doing GB toys, but it's not because they didn't try. NOBODY will be doing GB toys…because if they could, Palisades would probably be working on it right now. As the guy who put Ken Lilly from Palisades in touch with Red back in late Febuary/early March, I can tell you for certain that they aren't.

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To whomever asked about who I work for…well, that's currently a good question. I'm supposed to be a newswriter/toy reviewer for Zentertainment.com, but they haven't posted anything I've turned in in awhile. Currently, I'm working on some stuff behind the scenes on a new site called buzzchamber.com that with any luck will be pretty well known by the end of the year.

Oh, and I'll be working the Palisades booth this weekend in Philly. Everyone come by and say hello.

ToyGeek (Mike)-
It was me that asked who you worked for. I'm an action figure enthusiast, who is trying to break in to the industry. I'm 25, and I have been doing sculpture for over 10 years. I recently finished a project where I “Re-imagined” what the RGB line would look like if it were produced today from the old Kenner molds as a promotion to celebrate the movies 20th aniversary. I will post pics here as soon as I finish the Fire House and the Ecto-1 and Ecto-1A.
:d :s

Myers'Farms aka Mark

To toygeek
i didnt meen to be an ass if i sounded like one :f . i do appoligise. i just didnt ppl to get the wrong idea. oh yea and i have a quick guestion for you also. why is is that sony wants so much for the rgb rights? i kno that it would make a lot of money but does many companies go after it? thanks toygeek. :d

myersfarms - That's really cool, man. I wish I had the slightest bit of artistic ability. If you're looking to “break in” to the industry, I might suggest checking out a couple places like Palisades or Plan B toys. Those are the first two that come to mind that don't have an “in-house” sculpting staff. I know Palisades has guidelines on their site about how to get them samples…they're always looking for good stuff. Especially with a some of the stuff they've got coming up. Hell, one of their upcoming statue lines is DEFINATELY more than meets the eye.

Heh…

Proton - Likewise on the “sorry if I sounded like an ass back there” apology. I just got to the point where I was hearing the same thing over and over. One of those things, you know?

To answer your question…I don't know. I'll be honest, half of the information came from their actual licensing guy, the other half I got through the “yeah, I don't get this stuff either” filter of their product development guy. All I know for certain is that they wanted more than Palisades wanted to spend. I've got a couple theories as to WHY it was more than they wanted to spend, but nothing definate. I do know they WANTED to do the new comic likenesses, but couldn't because of the way the licenses are set up.

I hope that clears that up a bit.

Toygeek,

This may sound like a stupid question, where is Palisades based? Cause I live in PA and Im looking to break into the action figure/statue business, I'll have to check out the site

Palisades toys are located in elkridge maryland.

thanks!

Hey how about tying to see if Reel Toys can get anything going they did some new Hellraiser figures that look pretty cool.And maybe theyd be wlling to put up the cash to get liscencing. :0

Hey how about tying to see if Reel Toys can get anything going they did some new Hellraiser figures that look pretty cool.And maybe theyd be wlling to put up the cash to get liscencing.

I'm sorry, because this is going to sound rude, but…

That's not the point, please go back and re-read what was said before you completely ignore it anyway.

toygeek ive allready read what you said and i know im completly ignoring the fact taht there is no lincence avalable yet i just meant it as if one did come about its another company to try and get to do it sorry shouldve included that