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Tom, how does the guitar hold up from HTM. Does it stay together pretty well?

Nice figures. Already ordered AJ & Ryback. Thinking about HTM too.

Set looks very good. Mattel, particularly from Elite set 19 I feel have really stepped up the quality of figures. I think now seeing the guitar is breakable (which is genius btw) I'll buy all but AJ & that's because I hate her character but her attire is amazingly done (don't think Mattel need to try & market that she comes with a necklace tho)

Wow honky-tonk man is awesome!

Nice! Can't wait to get my AJ, Ryback is looking pretty good.

Oh wow, where to start.

Yes Jakks still makes toys, not that it matters in this case. I was only stating that Jakks did a better job, IMO, with making a Honky Tonk Man figure. Say what you will about Jakks the fact is they gave us a figure with a jump suit and a guitar AND an IC title belt. So if the bar has been set your goals as a company should be to out do the previous company, or at the very least match it. Mattel was smart though, they are too cheap to give us an IC title + Guitar + Jumpsuit so they just gave us two of the three but they made the guitar breakable. It's neat that they made the guitar breakable but im not falling for it, you still only did 2 accessories instead of 3.

And yes I can compare costs. It Costs mattel money to make figures and accessories, I understand. And sure, material costs, production costs, shipping costs, all of those costs may have gone up since then....... not likely though. But you fail to understand it will also now cost me/us as well. So if it COSTS me I have every right to compare costs.

I really dont want to make this a Jakks vs Mattel thing. But look at the facts. Mattel is a bigger company than Jakks. Therefore they get a bigger discount on everything. Beleive me, im a trucker I look at invoices of goods I transport, bigger companys ALWAYS get lower prices/better deals then smaller companys because they buy in larger quantitys. So I feel pretty confident in thinking that Mattel makes figures today for less money than Jakks did a few years ago.

Just pick up a Jakks figure and then a Mattel Figure. Chances are that Jakks figure is much larger than the Mattel. So with that bigger size comes a bigger material cost. And since it's a bigger heavier figure you end up paying extra shipping to send those bigger figures.


It's all just a matter of Mattel wanting to make more money. Dont kid yourself by saying Mattel is about Quantity over Quality, Mattel is really about making that money. So if they make more money by giving you 2 accesories instead of three you better beleive you'll only get two accesories. Or even worse.... a necklace.

Not only is he comparing costs from a few years ago, but Mattel doesn't only paint the front of a figure. They get the details of the back of a figure as well...so that also needs to be added into the production cost of a series.
Plus the HTM with all those accessories was in the regular CS line so that was more of a basic styled figure. The CSDA didn't have a jumpsuit but has the POA of an Elite...so that should be the figure it was compared to. And CSDA were $15 and change by the time HTM was releases.

Let's play comparison shall we:
Here is a Jakks Mark Henry:

Here is a Mattel Mark Henry: