Todd McFarlane informed IGN during an interview at New York Comic Con that McFarlane Toys plans to revive two if its past toy lines, Movie Maniacs and Clive Barker's Tortured Souls.
While hyping up the licenses and plans in store next year for McFarlane Toys, the comic book icon and toy industry fixture revealed that his company plans to go back to basics while also selling directly to the consumer, a result of many of the retailers they used to do business with having gone under in the ensuing years.
"We live in a brave new world now where you can go literally from production to the consumer, right? You can cut out all the middle men and we're seeing that with Kickstarters and people doing direct, you know, dot com," McFarlane said. "So what we're gonna do is, when we started McFarlane Toys twenty-plus years ago, we were built on the detailed stuff, doing all these cool monsters and all this sort of wicked stuff. Unfortunately, the stores we were selling to at that point, like Tower Records and Suncoast and Babbage's and KB Toys, and all these other ones, they've all fallen to the wayside."
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While hyping up the licenses and plans in store next year for McFarlane Toys, the comic book icon and toy industry fixture revealed that his company plans to go back to basics while also selling directly to the consumer, a result of many of the retailers they used to do business with having gone under in the ensuing years.
"We live in a brave new world now where you can go literally from production to the consumer, right? You can cut out all the middle men and we're seeing that with Kickstarters and people doing direct, you know, dot com," McFarlane said. "So what we're gonna do is, when we started McFarlane Toys twenty-plus years ago, we were built on the detailed stuff, doing all these cool monsters and all this sort of wicked stuff. Unfortunately, the stores we were selling to at that point, like Tower Records and Suncoast and Babbage's and KB Toys, and all these other ones, they've all fallen to the wayside."
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