Fun-4-All may produce Sesame Street Action Figures

[MuppetQuilter]

Quinn's right.

I didn't care for Elmo for a long time. He's annoying and he gets tons of air time. I wanted to see Grover or Snuffy when I turned on Sesame Street, characters I grew up with, and not all these new guys like Elmo, Baby Bear, and Telly (what can I say-- I'm old).

Then I had a child. Elmo has an amazing connection with young kids. It's different from Big Bird or Cookie or any of the others. Elmo has the air time he has for good reason. Personally, I'd still rather watch Grover or Bert and Ernie, but the audience SST is trying to reach and educate responds to Elmo.

If this is a line to celebrate 35 years of SST it has to include Elmo. If Elmo is excluded, it would be a celebration of the first 20 years of SST. Elmo has to be there. The adults don't have to buy him, but the kids will.

 

[Gonzo]

Thanks Annika!



And I consider Telly to be a "new" character too.

Us old people. Just load us into the old folks home already.

 

[Luke]

Maybe an all question thread should be started for pdiresta so that he can just see the questions and leave this thread for any and all reactions to the answers.

Nice suggestion, but maybe that's better left for Fun4All's new website once it's launched if they want to do that kinda thing.

As for Fun4All convention exclusives and collectors clubs - as far as I know their company does not attend the conventions - only trade shows. They are a very different company from Palisades - not aimed at specialist collectors so much. I think things like chases would be in the regular line, and I doubt we'll see loads of exclusives, if any. This is kinda a line aimed at kids with some adult interest rather than the other way around.

 

[WiGgY]

If they don't attend the conventions, I wonder what kind of exclusive he was talking about. Store exclusive maybe?

 

[Luke]

If they don't attend the conventions, I wonder what kind of exclusive he was talking about. Store exclusive maybe?

I would guess so - TRU, Walmart, Target etc etc. I think this line will be much easier on the collectors in that sense. Just my hunch though going on their past history, I guess it could change if they wanted.

 

[muppet maniac]

Wow!those are sooooo cool!

especially Oscar and Cookie Monster-my two all-time favorite Sesame Street Muppets!

 

[pxlforge]

I'm glad we got an answer on Oscar's can. A pop out of the can feature would be cool (especially with a removable one down the line). The Elmo comment is very reassuring to someone who hasn't watched Sesame since the 70's. To me Elmo is just a past tickle me Christmas toy craze and nothing more.

Questions posed but unanswered (unles I missed it) that I think would go even further to reassure us about this line are... what is it that F4A is unhappy with about these prototypes? and possily also related, is their any interest on F4A's part to make the stylized versions a bit more like the puppets, or are you happy with the cartoony look?

 

[WiGgY]

I photoshopped some revisions for the Bert figure and hopefully the person from fun-4-all will take them into consideration.

http://rebootilicious.rbcorner.com/images/bert2.gif

I moved the eyes closer together.

I thickened the top of the head a bit to make it look more like a pineable and less like a bowling pin. This is more accurate.

I removed the mouth all together and put in a muppet mouth.

I straightened the yey brow so that it all arced up. Bert's eye brow can only all arc up, down, or not at all. It can not go in two different directions.

I moved the eyes up a bit.

I know it isn't perect, but with these changes it improves the sculpt so that it is more accurante, but it also kepts that stylized look that they apprently want (though I'd rather they not be that way).

If Bert looked like this (hopefully better) I'd buy the figure. If he stays the way he is, I'd definatly pass.

 

[frogboy4]

I don't think Bert's ever looked that happy. It is better, but I'd rather they get completely out of this cartoony look.

 

[AndyWan Kenobi]

Those are some nice changes on Bert. I wonder what Super-Happy Bert is pointing at, though... Maybe Bernice the pigeon just organized his bottlecaps and paperclips for him? Or maybe Ernie actually cleaned up his own mess for once? The possibilities are endless...



Seriously, though, I like what you've done with it.