Quote from: N Scale Sudrian on October 13, 2024, 09:54:46 PMI think that in the case of Duke, even if he would lack cross-pollination appeal with the OO9 kitbashing crowd, he does at least double as Bertram to help justify the cost of his tooling... It may also be that in whatever far-flung future year a Duke announcement finally happens (likely further off now that Duncan's been kicked down the road), the Kato/PECO George Englands could be discontinued and harder to acquire compared to an upcoming Thomas equivalent.

I had the same thought but the only difference between say Victor is that Duke is bigger. Not too much bigger but big enough that only one repaint may still not be worth the production cost depending on how much diecast they want to use. It's entirely up to the Kato/PECO tooling being harder to acquire which may happen by the time these are announced, but that's impossible to predict. Those are also popular sellers. Better to assume they'll be at play for the foreseeable future than speculate on a what if. If they are discontinued though then we can speculate from there.

Hello Everyone, kept trying to post this to the forum but the picture wouldn't load for some reason. Anyway, Here are some concepts for some possible future HO human figure packs!

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Here's the picture in case it loads somehow on y'alls end.
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I really like those figure pack ideas; however I do have one single thought, and it's something that's been nagging at me for a while.

The prospects of Wilbert specifically getting a figure. I think it'd be a really cute announcement, but I know Mattel themselves had to get special permission from the Awdry family to make him in CGI. So, I'm not sure the logistics of any company really, whether it be Tomy or Bachmann or any other licensor making merch of him, how would they negotiate for that? Would it be too tricky to be worth pursuing? I don't really have an answer, I also have no idea if the same applies to Teddy Boston either. I don't really have a sure-fire answer for this, but I wouldn't be shocked if they were simply off limits.

Those figure packs are great. I would also just like a figure pack containing Jeremiah Jobling.

Quote from: DustyMarie53! on October 16, 2024, 10:54:25 AMI really like those figure pack ideas; however I do have one single thought, and it's something that's been nagging at me for a while.

The prospects of Wilbert specifically getting a figure. I think it'd be a really cute announcement, but I know Mattel themselves had to get special permission from the Awdry family to make him in CGI. So, I'm not sure the logistics of any company really, whether it be Tomy or Bachmann or any other licensor making merch of him, how would they negotiate for that? Would it be too tricky to be worth pursuing? I don't really have an answer, I also have no idea if the same applies to Teddy Boston either. I don't really have a sure-fire answer for this, but I wouldn't be shocked if they were simply off limits.

One figure that I know they're not making is the queen .
Look an Awdry  figure is something that would be super novel . but I honestly would not be surprised if licenser were not allowed to make merch of him . This might be bigger than the CGI mandate in a lot of ways .

Anyway I really think next year we don't need another variant of James . 

as many figure packs as possible please.