A question for Bowen scale collectors...

Salut a tous!
I have a question but my French is not good enough, so please forgive me writing this in English...  

With the current hiatus of Bowen designs, say company 'A' got a similar licence and wanted to start producing state of the art 1/6th scale full size statues;

1. What would you as a collector want to let them know that if they did would endear you to their product?

2. What would be most important to you? Cost? Statue weight? Paint job quality? Design complexity?

3. Would you prefer action poses or museum poses(or both?)

4. What would be your top 5 character choices?

Merci!

Pour les francophones (for the French speakers) :

riteguytu2 a écrit:Salut a tous!
J'ai une question mais mon français n'est pas assez bon, donc pardonnez moi mais je vais la formuler en anglais…

Avec la pause actuelle de Bowen Designs, imaginons qu'une société "A" ait une licence similaire et veuille commencer à produire des statues full size au 1:6 :

1. Que voudriez vous leur dire, en tant que collectionneur, pour leur permettre de vous faire aimer leur production ?

2. Quel serait le plus important, pour vous ? Prix ? Poids de la statue ? Qualité de la peinture ? Complexité du design ?

3. Préféreriez-vous des poses "action" ou "museum" (ou les deux) ?

4. Quel serait votre choix de personnages (top 5) ?

Merci!

Merci, Das!

First, sorry I'm not able to write all of this in english.

La force de Bowen était d'avoir un très bon rapport qualité/prix, si une société souhaitait aujourd'hui reprendre le flambeau elle devrait selon moi taper dans le même créneau.

Après repartir sur du Marvel je ne sais pas trop, les personnages principaux existent déjà tous sous de nombreuses formes ou alors il faudrait apporter un vrai plus comme le fait par exemple XM avec ses socles magnifiques.

Pour ma part je pense que se lancer sur le créneau DC serait peut-être plus judicieux car il y a un vrai manque à ce niveau pour les collectionneurs comme moi qui cherchent à avoir une collection harmonieuse niveau échelle.

Hummmm ..as say Logan I'm not sure collector would buy new persos version .

Many many characters exist now and well made by Randy Bowen .

If a new compagny would continue , I think the price/scale should be maintained with classics comics visions and a fairly simple basic bases and the Bowen spirit !



A lot a new compagnies with in a bigest scale make a complicate bases , nice sure but one it's expensive to produce and two the final price is realy too expensive for collectors 

250/300$ max could be interesting ..

Museum for me is the better choice


For the my personal  choice !! Mythic Heroes and not a bad guys fists



Heimdall , Balder, Xmen Angel classic Yellow Red version etc....

In DC line just a Big Barda want
Sorry for my English Sam , he's realy not perfect

1. What would you as a collector want to let them know that if they did would endear you to their product?
Be passionate by what you're doing, not the money you'll earn. I'm willing to pay a bit more for a product if the quality is there. So a better quality control with a bit of passion would do it (that's why I love kit, it usually cost more than pre-paint statues but sculptors and producers are passionate and you can feel it in their productions.

2. What would be most important to you? Cost? Statue weight? Paint job quality? Design complexity?
A good design don't necessarily mean a complex design. Paint job is important and a price that match with the product.
When a company do more and more copies of their statues with lowest quality resin, paint job done by blind painters and no quality control at the end, it doesn't justify the price inflation.

3. Would you prefer action poses or museum poses(or both?)
It really depends of the character. It could be both in the same time, isn't it? A Silver Surfer standing on his board would be a museum as well as an action pose, no?
I like both, in fact.

4. What would be your top 5 character choices?
I actually have all the characters I like, I think.
Maybe a set of modern Guardians of the Galaxy (which make 5 characters with Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Gamora and Drax) in their Annihilation costume (dark red & dark blue).
Or maybe a set of the Infinity Watch (Adam Warlock, Gamora, Drax, Moondragon, Pip the Troll).
But please, no more Iron-Man, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Batman, Hulk or too much seen character… Or maybe one Spider-Man Noir (but it was never done before even if he's a Spider-Man).

Do not forget busts. There is not more than Gentle Giant for busts

Merci a tous!
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