Guess Wave 6

"heero_yuy2, post: 134690, member: 27781" said:

Since S7 removed the whole LJN Wave 6...

...are they going to change the list with new figures and maybe do a separate release for the variants? Or are they keeping it and will bring back the preorder of them again on a later date?

I think they just launched the pre-order to early without full approval from Warner Bros etc.

I assume they got bombarded with negative comments as they should have. These figures are not wave 6 but wave 1 of the LJN stuff. Hopefully they release a correct wave 6 and start these off on their own. I had the LJN figures as a kid and to me it's been there done that.

Figures look great, but a hard pass for me.
I WONT BE BUYING THESE FIGURES S7.
Please Keep making the standard ultimates line and I will keep giving you money.
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I saw pics of the new wave on Twitter, and to me, they don't even come close to the LJN originals. At least Super7 got Mumm-Ra's skin tone right, unlike in wave 2.

What a weird left turn.
I feel like it would've somehow been less jarring if they just claimed they were waiting to reveal series six, and call this wave 1 of the ljn line.
Now, I'm not saying they're mutually exclusive, but for five waves of cartoon collectors, it seems like most think it's a "waste" of a wave. Yet for people who might want an ljn style collection, there's zero assurance the concept will be revisited, so i think it's a tough sell to get them to start another thundercats shelf for duplicates of characters.
They just keep making strange decisions. When it's not a mess that's mostly out of their hands - when they've got the ability to do whatever they want, they're in full control, they sometimes make decisions that i'm hard pressed to understand the virtue in.
But i don't run a toy company that's raking in the dough either.

Who makes these decisions at Super7? It’s mind boggling that they would release an entire wave of LJN inspired figures.

Also, I’ve bought everything up until now, and I won’t be buying this wave 6.

It's a very weird call and I totally understand the initial backlash. I think it's safe to say that most fans are pumped for all-new characters, animation inspired. That said, personally, I think the LJN wave looks cool and I am interested. I think this should be a sub-line or a parallel line though. That would have softened the blow and upset people a lot less, I think. That LJN Lion-O actually really has my interest. I wish they would use this opportunity to fix the proportions a bit. The LJN inspired Lion-O with corrected proportions would definitely be in the running for "favorite figure" for me. Anyway, I guess we will see what happens and it would be interesting if Super7 directly addresses the fan concerns with this wave at all.

What's odd to me is, they seemed to stop on the Reaction LJN variants, now they're doing Ultimate LJN variants and only the Lion-O and Mumm-Ra overlap. So I'm sitting here wondering if they don't intend to make full lines of the LJN variants, or are they holding back for con exclusives, or what?
Brian already hinted at two items not in a wave and only one of which is going to be generally available. So far, I've been able to sit on the sidelines and watch all the anxiety (aside from my fretting over the tank) but now I officially have skin in the game.

Since Wave 2 & 4 were already released and distributed by stores a month ago, what's holding Wave 6 and why did they back out the preorders that were already revealed?

Maybe they listened to y’all and are stopping the line. I mean, next to Silver Hawks, this might be their lowest revenue line [emoji848] I know that turtles line is doing numbers, as well as the GI Joe stuff.

Anyone close to Brian able to ask for an update on ThunderCats? It’s been a few weeks now, and we still haven’t heard anything.

"tone, post: 134722, member: 27040" said:

Maybe they listened to y’all and are stopping the line. I mean, next to Silver Hawks, this might be their lowest revenue line [emoji848] I know that turtles line is doing numbers, as well as the GI Joe stuff.

If you think that Super7 stopped making Thundercat's Ultimates then you're wrong.

We're definitely seeing quite the delay here though.

What is the hold up?

2 months. This whole “jumped the gun” is a lie. They teased LJN mumm-ra a week before. It was planned. Possibly the backlash had them rethink it.

Maybe whoever owns LJN's IP now has waited for years for someone to colour Thundercats in the old LJN colours so that they can make a claim that they own these colour schemes... :) Yeah, probably not.

Although there was some backlash in general, I saw some people were very happy to see the LJN versions. For example, the Geek.Dad.Life Youtube guy was excited for the toy colours over the cartoon versions. I thought they looked good for what they were, they just weren't something I was looking to collect.

I think since it's very little retooling they can probably make these fairly cheap. The investment is already in the existing molds, so I would think even if the fans were overall less than happy it would still be something worth doing for them?

I guess we'll see what happens next, eventually.

Jakks Pacific is the old LJN if I remember correctly. Honestly I think they'd do some good ThunderCats figures.

Definitely weird to see this wave still not announced. At this rate we'll have the opposite of what we've had in the past - instead of waiting on wave after wave to be delivered, we might have all waves in hand and no preorders other than the special out of wave items.

Jakks pacific and LJN were both founded by the same guy but JP doesn't own the LJN name or hold the rights to any of the previous IP.

Jakks made some awesome wrestling figures. Especially theire Ruthless Agression/WWE Classics/Deluxe/TNA figures. Granted the heights on some of them could have been better, but they were fun sturdy toys and the articulation on them is still better than some recent figures.