It's been a long bumpy ride since
Hasbro kicked off their
Marvel Legends HasLab Engine of Vengeance campaign back on July 23, but today which is
Halloween, we will see it finally come to an end. Ending on Halloween is somewhat fitting since this one has played out much like a horror movie.
Unless the dead rise up from their graves and decide to back this thing it doesn't seem likely it will be funded. With just over 14 hours left before it ends, the campaign is down to
4,842 backers out of the minimum
9k needed to be funded.
Hasbro has revealed all 3 stretch goals (
Goblin Queen 10k Backers, Hellstorm 11k Backers and
Mephisto at 12k Backers) which did little to boost the backer count. Things started to go downhill for the campaign back on
September 23rd when it missed the
Early Bird figure deadline for the
Human Robbie Reyes figure. At that point the campaign had reached it's high of
6,118 backers. Once people saw the
Early Bird figure would not be included, the campaign started bleeding backers as if
Michael Myers had slashed it open with his machete. Even throwing in a
human form Robbie headsculpt days later did little to stop the hemorrhaging.
This campaign will likely go down in
Haslab infamy with many wondering if we will ever see the figures from it released another way down the road, but
Hasbro has already said they are taking what they learned from this one and will be back next year with
another Marvel Legends Haslab. So stay-tuned for the sequel.
Satam -
2022-11-01 @ 3:43 pm
@HulkwummyRemember when is said to dial it waaay back? This wasn't that. Now no one can post here, and you're going to take a time out.
tarot -
2022-11-01 @ 2:14 pm
On 11/1/2022 at 6:17 AM, Hulkwummy said:Until we get a real honest to god Marvel Legends Mephisto, classic (pink face or otherwise), all who refused to back this Haslab project will never be forgiven.
if people didn't want to buy it for whatever reason, then that is their choice. There is nothing unforgivable about it. Their money, their choice. It's not just about you. This was a poorly price haslab and people spoke with their money which is their right. You need to grow up and realize that it not just about you.
Audie -
2022-11-01 @ 2:03 pm
Honestly, I dont need anyones forgiveness because I dont owe any other collector the realization of their toy dreams. Not to mention, that I dont have the power to stand in your way. The Hellcharger offering came across to me as insulting and greedy and its my own values I answer to when I dont participate or when I speak up about how I feel. If any person was able to influence another not to by this product, I see that only as a reflection that the offering was substandard according to what the market could support. That just economics, baby. My life will be identical whether anyone forgives me for that or not. You need to rage and blame? You do you, my fellow fan.
On 11/1/2022 at 2:17 AM, Hulkwummy said:Until we get a real honest to god Marvel Legends Mephisto, classic (pink face or otherwise), all who refused to back this Haslab project will never be forgiven.
Its Hasbro who should feel your ire; locking a figure thats been requested forever behind an absurd paywall.
On 11/1/2022 at 3:17 AM, Hulkwummy said:Until we get a real honest to god Marvel Legends Mephisto, classic (pink face or otherwise), all who refused to back this Haslab project will never be forgiven.
Oh calm down. Yeah it sucks but blaming everyone won't make anything better
Sadly it's not surprising that this failed, there was so many things against it. The Price, the lack of universal appeal, the poor choice of tier figures, the early bird figure, etc. Still I'll wait for Lizard faced Mephisto and Marvel Woman
Faust -
2022-11-01 @ 7:36 am
On 11/1/2022 at 6:17 AM, Hulkwummy said:Until we get a real honest to god Marvel Legends Mephisto, classic (pink face or otherwise), all who refused to back this Haslab project will never be forgiven.
Excuse us for having common sense. 350 for a car that I can get the equivalent of for 50 or less? Yeah, no. Mephisto will come
On 10/31/2022 at 8:16 PM, Hogun said:If Hasbro was smart, they would release Mephisto and a skimpier Madeline Pryor as single card figure to recuperate some of that money
True. Despite what was said, I don't buy for a second that they can't release GQ or really, any figure they dang well choose. Especially since they barely deliver to brick and mortar in the first place, especially since they have Pulse, and especially now with windowless boxing? There's ust no excuse. Frankly, those exact figures not getting released is no loss, because we want the figures released in their classic forms. Refusing to make them now is just cutting off their nose to spite their face.
It is beyond all reason that you, I and anybody else, were completely free to buy the comics and statues these characters appeared in when we were kids, but now in the 21st century, are being told that they're too...whatever....to be sold in plastic action figure form, now that we're adults. I cannot even believe this is a discussion.
This is a good day. I hope the real lesson learned here for hasbo is that they need to seriously listen to their customer base.
Satam -
2022-11-01 @ 4:32 am
On 11/1/2022 at 12:16 AM, Hogun said:If Hasbro was smart, they would release Mephisto and a skimpier Madeline Pryor as single card figure to recuperate some of that money
Dwight said they can't release Goblin queen in anything more risque than the outfit she had for the Haslab. He didn't rule out one of her other outfits (more conservative), or another look for Mephisto for the future, but from what he told folks in interviews recently, it sounds like these exact figures are never coming out without the Haslab going forward.
Hogun -
2022-11-01 @ 4:16 am
If Hasbro was smart, they would release Mephisto and a skimpier Madeline Pryor as single card figure to recuperate some of that money
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