XM Studios Comic News

[Asgard]

Mir gefällt er genau so bunt wie er ist. Nur der Typ stört mich. Aber eh zu teuer daher egal.

Die Haltung vom Drachen hätte Sidshow dem Säbelzahntiger geben sollen. Den hätte ich sofort gekauft.

[Hellboy]

(05.02.2018 20:04)GrumpyBear schrieb:  Weniger bunt würde dann aber nicht dem Comic entsprechen.

Das ist mir bewusst war auch nur ein Wunschdenken von mir.

@Asgard
Der von Damtoys?

[Asgard]

(05.02.2018 20:14)Hellboy schrieb:  Der von Damtoys

Musste jetzt erst mal nachsehen
Ja, ich meine den von Damtoys. Dachte Sideshow ist der Hersteller aber die sind nur Distributor.

[GrumpyBear]

XM Studios Europe News

Zitat:"Dear Collectors and Friends,

today we like to inform you that we will be receiving four XM Studios statues in March for you. In the 10th calendar week between the
5th - 10th of March our shop under http://www.xm-studios.shop receives XM Carnage, XM Winter Soldier, XM Shibumi and XM Spider Gwen.
For XM Spider Gwen all Pre-Order are gone. You can safe your Pre-Order for Carnage, Winter Soldier or Shibumi today. Thank you.

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Carnage was once a serial killer known as Cletus Kasady, and became Carnage after merging with the offspring of the alien symbiote
called Venom during a prison breakout. Carnage will be retailing at €1150 with an edition size of ES800.

XM Carnage : Pre-Order - English
XM Carnage : Pre-Order - German

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Winter Soldier, while he had no memory of his past, Barnes still had considerable physical skill. He was indoctrinated to hate the West
and was provided with mental implants during sensory deprivation, molding him into the perfect assassin. The Winter Soldier will be
retailing at €890 with an edition size of ES500.

XM Winter Soldier : Pre-Order - English
XM Winter Soldier : Pre-Order - German

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Shibumi is the leader of Japan's largest organized crime sect "Evil Ghost" and believed to be the reincarnation of Evil Ghost himself.
Shibumi was not born evil and domineering. Under the mask he is a man full of love and hatred. The Shibumi will be retailing at €950
with an edition size of ES388.

XM Shibumi : Pre-Order - English
XM Shibumi : Pre-Order - German

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XM Studios Shop : FAQ (English)
XM Studios Shop : FAQ (German)

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You’ll receive an email with all further information after you secured one of the Pre-Order.

Have a nice weekend!

Best Regards
GHeroes."

(Quelle : XM Studios Europe Facebook )

[shopas]

Ein neuer Thor (bzw. Vikinger im Thor Look ). Wurde da schon ein Thread aufgemacht? Hab da nix gefunden.

[DAINDOE]

Geil, aber warte... Heldenshop. :/

[GuteLaune]

Thema eröffnet: http://www.polystoned.de/Thread-Thor-Caleb-Nefzen

(27.02.2018 21:26)shopas schrieb:  Ein neuer Thor (bzw. Vikinger im Thor Look ). Wurde da schon ein Thread aufgemacht? Hab da nix gefunden.

[GrumpyBear]

XM Studios News

"Recasts, Samples or Artist Proofs? Official statement on Statue Numbers that go beyond the ES limit, e.g. 1007/999 on the homepage of XM Studios.

Read about it on our website."

(Quelle :XM Studios Europe Facebook )

[Momo]

Zitat:Raddtitan Collectors’ Chat on 1 March 2018

Below are a compilation of questions that were asked in the facebook comments. For ease of reference, the questions are categorized into secions.

Product PO and Release Dates:

Would like to know what happened to the Storm statue... was planned for December but still no word about her.
Bryan: Scheduled to open for PO within the next 1-2 months. Was delayed because we wanted to make it more accurate by having her cape connect to her hands just like in the comics. Polyresin is tricky for such switch outs as they have natural shrinkages but we’ve managed to find a neat solution which you will see soon!
Samurai bane po update
Bryan: Scheduled to open for PO within the next 2-3 months.
When white Magneto can be expected to go up for order!
Bryan: Scheduled to open for PO within the next 2-3 months.
When can we expect Spidey to be up for PO as it has been long time revealed way before Doc Oc? and did they correct the Doc Oc 'tentacles' on Spidey 1/4 to match with the XM Doc Oc 1/4?
Bryan: Scheduled to open for PO in Q4. We’ve taken more time to address several feedback from collectors. The major highlights are that Spidey’s body anatomy has been reworked, the Base has been streamlined and reduced slightly for more cost efficient shipping. We are also adding an extra head sculpt (classic small eyes spidey inspired by artist Ross Andru’s style). Pricing is not expected to change.
Omega red, shogun batman release dates.
Bryan: Omega Red is still at 3D sculpt stage, we are hoping to show him at the September STGCC so release dates should be in 2019 Q2. Batman Shogun likely Q3 2019.

Please ask him about Caleb’s Thor. - When will it come up for PO? -
Bryan: Scheduling for Q4 this year
When will we see the Red Ranger release?
Bryan: Scheduled to open for PO within in Q4 this year.
Ask them to expedite the release date of the Sentinel Diorama!
Bryan: Scheduled to ship Q4 this year by batches of the characters. We’ve been spending a lot of time on engineering this piece so that it allows for switch outs for other X-Men such as Wolverine, Cyclops. Also we’ve made it possible for the set to be displayed apart with separate bases to cater for collectors who may not have space to display the entire set up. The more ambitious and complicated we dream, the longer it takes!
Expected shipping date for Optimus etc..
Bryan: Scheduling for Q2 - Q3 this year!
Could you plz ask him about moon knight And when we should expect him I feel as though the piece keeps getting moved back over and over again I pre-ordered the thing about a year and a half ago and I’ve been looking forward to it so much
Bryan: Scheduling for Q3 this year.

Licensing:

Any chance of xm ever getting a world license for marvel?
Bryan: Of course there’s a chance, because never say never! We have to dream big!
Will it be possible for XM to have a worldwide license for the X-Men Line?
Bryan: Same as above!
Any chance xm will getting a 1/4 license for dc sooner?
Bryan: We’re currently focusing on the Stylized line as there are many other producers working on Classic ¼ and they’re all very good pieces. We feel we might be overcrowding the ¼ market so we are focusing on the 1/6 DC line (teasers coming up!)
When can we expect to start seeing the D.C. 1/6 line?
Bryan: Definitely some of them will make appearances at STGCC
Can't wait for this! Would love to know if XM will be tackling more DC stuff going forward? Any classic comic stuff in the pipeline?
Bryan: Yes, we are very excited to do lots of 1/6 DC and we hope to produce both Classic as well as the newer rebirth designs.
Did they plan to get other license and if yes which one ?
Bryan: Can’t Jinx it - also confidentiality clauses doesn’t allow us to reveal until black and white is signed so can’t say more on this.

Wishlists and product enquiries:

I hope he's ready to explain how they've made Iron Fist but not Power Man. Bryan: We are considering him, but won’t be in 2018 or 2019 as we have a huge line up already. Perhaps 2020 or beyond...
Will XM get in the life-size bust scene? Bryan: We have a lot on our plate right now so it’s unlikely unless we get more resources and grow bigger as a company.
Will XM do mythology lines?
Bryan: I would say Caleb’s Celtic/Viking Thor would count? As for our own IP (Fairytale stuff) we would be focusing on creating the foundation of the IP and letting folks understand and know more about the IP rather than jump straight to making statues.
Also are there plans to sculpt Japanese interpretations of the X-Men like the Samurai Batman line?
Bryan: We only have classic license at the moment and unlikely will do that to be honest.
What’s in the future for the Star Wars line? Will “non-Canon”/EU/Legends characters (like Malgus or Talon) ever been considered?
Bryan: There’s a huge number of cool characters we don’t see in the classic movies! We are definitely keen and hoping we can but there’s still some kinks that needs to be sort out regarding what’s canon and what’s not so it looks like this would take awhile to settle. We are planning to launch a new SW SKU this year too.
Do you plan to do some "little" dio , i mean not like the sentinel vs xmen or darkseid war? Even a dio line with 2 or 3 characters max.
Bryan: We had plans but other producers are doing great stuff there so I think we’d try to come up with new stuff so there are more choices of collectibles for you guys.
See if they have plans to release a carnage bust to go along with venom.
Bryan: Yes we would like for this to happen but we are also giving some of the sculptors some off time to re-energize so no timelines yet.
2 words: Stilt Man!!!
Bryan: Ok, he seems interesting but he’s like really tall - at ¼, he might be my height! If we can get around 400-500 folks interest, we would consider it.

Asking for upcoming product updates and teasers:

Transformers:

Make them reveal Bumblebee -
Bryan: Can’t right now but should be very soon we can within the next couple of months (fingers crossed).
Are they gonna add the hologram arm to the OP box ?
Bryan: Nope - our plan is to add the bonus parts in other box - kinda like Marvel legends build a figure concept.
What and when will we see more Transformers?
Bryan: I reckon in Q2-3 this year, we would be able to show more.(Megatron etc)
An update on the Transformers line would be awesome ie. New reveal date etc.
Bryan: We are working on Grimlock and Soundwave!


Marvel:

Get him to show more of Hulk Transformation! Highest expectations to a piece ever, on my behalf.
Bryan: Still making tweaks and there’s an approval process we can only show what’s been approved. We are also considering having 2 options and let folks choose if they want Hulk only or with Bruce Banner.
What happened to the gladiator/king hulk concept?
Bryan: We’ve actually sent the traditionally sculpted piece by Troy (Really cool guy) for 3D digital scanning… it’s costing us alot of money to do this process but we feel that we can add more enhancements to the piece to make it even better so we are giving it our best.
Where is quicksilver?
Bryan: When we made him, it was 3 years back and things have changed, including our skills and craft so we feel that piece isn’t as good as what he could have been in today’s standards so we are taking him off for now.
Would like to know when we will see the revised Jane Foster.
Bryan: Kiv due to quite a fair bit of reworking required.
Iron spider WIP reveals please. And groot and rocket.
Bryan: No Iron Spidey yet as we are reworking the concept. As for GOG, we will show Starlord tease! We are making this team in the comics blue costume!
Also, what other characters are being considered for the new Nordic Mythology line? Add on to this: will the statues be slightly less expensive due to not having to pay marvel licensing fees?
Bryan: We haven’t got the cost yet as we need physical printed protos to assess the costs. While we aren’t paying licensing fees - we do still need to pay the artist royalty fees - it’s his creation after all and we wanna make sure the artists are compensated fairly. Fees shouldn’t be higher than the big licenses so we are confident there will be savings for collectors.

DC:

When we will see their 1/6 DC line up!? Bryan: In the teasers!
I know there is a poll currently going around about the batman on horse and that many want a realistic horse instead of a mechanical one. Maybe ask if they will listen to that feedback. Or at least consider it.
Bryan: Yup, we are looking into that!
Would love to know the status of Rising Sun Harley Quinn -
Bryan: We weren’t happy with Harley so we’ve gone back to the drawing board to start over.

Power Rangers and One Punch Man:

What's going on with the Power Rangers line?
Bryan: Red Ranger will definitely be out this year and hopefully Pink (teaser!)

Saitama:

They were making a statue of Saitama in 1/4 what happened?
Bryan: Will be out this year for sure!

Others:

Why did they not reproduce the teeth of Weapon X as it was done on the proto ? was it rushed to stick with the calendar ?
Bryan: We never compromise on quality just to rush stuff out (cough cough sentinel set) proof is in many overdue stuff because we keep going back to revisit. It was a creative choice, for us, being submerged in sterile liquid shouldn’t leave one with dirty or yellow teeth so we don’t see any issues with having clean teeth for Weapon X.
Why are you doing re-casts!
Bryan: We’ve issued an official response on our website and facebook (https://www.xm-studios.com/news/recasts-...999.aspx), it’s quite self explanatory but the short answer is no, we’re not. We’ve got about 56 products on our website now, if we take an average of 700 pcs per product, that’s roughly 40,000 pcs of statues - how many samples are floating on the market, 5? 6? Not really an incentive for us to do that and risk getting our licenses revoked and pissing off fans really. And if we really did recast, we wouldn’t number them so obviously out of the ES range. We not the smartest people on the planet but…
Any chance of a US location for sales? Kind of hit and miss it seems currently- Bryan: We are still really small and a lean team. Just 15 of us in SG - the US market is big and we are under resourced so our best bet is to work with partners or have a big guy take us under their wings. Any big guys out there?
Ask him which shampoo he use, sexy hair.
Bryan: Alex knows, he wakes up beside me when he’s in Singapore. I’ll let him tell you guys.
Ask them if they’ve ever drank baileys from a shoe.
Bryan: Is this like a fifty shades of grey thingee? Or the funky Old Gregg dude with a mangina thingee? Either way, if it’s sexual in nature, I’m interested.

Bryan: I’d like to add a more personal touch to this chat and say something to a RT member I recognize. Mr Gary Speed, when you visited Singapore, we had lots of fun together, we ate great food and we had our moments. I knew from the way you looked at me, you wanted more than friendship. But I am married so I wanna say, we can only be friends. But visit us in Singapore again soon!!!

[auri6]

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