Modern family: Addition

Middling to potential

From what I have seen from any of the Dunphy- themed stalls, sales are doing quite well and that is just from the fact that people truly hadn't prepared themselves for a toy bonanza.

The crowd's expectations were about Volume Books today after all and there was no doubt that the unexpected news of Dunphy toys being available should drive the readied payers in for the next couple of weeks.

As such, RoboCop and Predator are already off to a good start. Although their toylines aren't anything special, the singular characters themselves should be enough to appeal to their established fans.

Of course, buying their respective toy forms still comes with the toy perks that Dunphy Toys are quite proud of.

While the ThunderCats toyline takes pride in its high-detail still figurines with a cast of characters aplenty with cohesively grand design and TMNT toyline has its special articulation system that is courtesy of action figures, the alien hunter and cyborg cop have the amalgamation of high-detail and movement.

The armor systems and the dreadlocks of Yautjas need masterful representation after all and its hunter-esque frame allows a wide range of motion poses to be explored.

The Dunphy toy design team even incorporated a little pamphlet inside the packaging that showcases a wide array of hunting or non-hunting poses that the Predator toys can do.

There was no denying that me and my creative team did their best to make the Predator toys as appealing as possible while also collection viable like the rest in the Dunphy roster.

The Yautjas are only annually released during the Halloween season after all and the toy is the best way to remind people of the Predator lore while the comic book stories are on standby.

It is even the Dunphy toy that features its major action feature where if one removes the Yautja's intimidating mask, then the gruesome face would be revealed.

The mechanism of the mask removal and horror reveal is quite simple to idealize but relatively complex when taking into account that the 'action feature' needed to be long-lasting and easily fixable as per my requirement.

As amazed as the Predator onlookers are showcasing now as they oogled on, I could pretty much be at ease and feel gratified with all the work that we had put into it.

Of course, the Predator toy singularity wouldn't stay that way for long as there are still other Predator individuals and other Yautja types to explore.

Physique differences, mask deviations, face malformations, scarring body marks, armor specifications, and Yautja rankings and namings could be expanded further.

Limiting to the Yautjas probably isn't the end of it as other horrid alien species that would go against these hunter races would also be explored in the next Volumes. They would probably be toy-ed up as figurines due to their complex alien-ness but it should be more than enough to garner them as a cult collectible merchandise

If the Dunphy crowd is already mesmerized by the tall, dark, and horrifying Classic Predator toy, then they should look forward to the next Predators that would be showcased on the Predator toyline roster.

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As special and expanding the single Predator toy would be in the future, the same could be said for the sole RoboCop protagonist.

ED209 is still on the wait-list and is a rare item due to its complexity and heft. Of course, there are still other RoboCop mechanical villain toys to be explored but the 3, 10th issues of RoboCop comic books still haven't gotten to them yet.

As such, the first and shoddy iteration RoboCop is the one to bear the toy brunt himself.

It would have the same wide range of limb articulations as its other Dunphy Toys counterpart, however, Alex Murphy would take articulation further due to his cyborg identity.

It is once again an action feature but only borders around the articulation of the torso region. A cyborg with no lower human parts should have 360-degree capabilities and the toy should show just that.

The 360 factor was also already explored within issue #8 in Murphy's training montage and it was quite a comic book spectacle from all the praise it garnered during the Dunphy surveys.

The RoboCop toy would be able to do just that and the 360 turning premise was already garnering praise from the nerds that saw the Murphy toy whose upper body has been 180'd.

Still, the RoboCop fun didn't stop from face facing that way and feet facing the opposite direction as RoboCop himself has many robotic features that can be explored in its toy form.

That is up to the player's imagination and the limb articulation possibilities though as the shoddy iteration's toy was supposed to be shoddy as can be.

However, that is not to say that RoboCop and the toy versions would stop there as my Iron Man Infinite Mark version plan was still in order.

As the mad Omni Consumer Products' scientists continue to explore their mad innovation and get more funds as the RoboCop initiative gains more traction, RoboCop upgrades would continue to be in the order of business.

That order of business wouldn't just stop on Dunphy Comics story form though as Dunphy Toys would follow suit from there.

As Murphy becomes sleeker, cooler, darker, and much more advanced, so would its RoboCop toyline that would mirror every advancement he would make. Perhaps viable action features would be thrown in as toy production capabilities were improving as well.

By the time the Lego-like composition toys are made available, toy enthusiasts who would buy RoboCop could probably build their sleek cyborg from a set of dismantled parts and assemble them following Lego-like build instructions.

That is too far off into the future though but I already have designated the Dunphy Toys vision to get ready for that point in the toy industry's timeline of innovations.

Either way, RoboCop is off to a Mark 1 beginning and off with a great potential to look forward to.

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I have pretty much planned myself up with the Predator and RoboCop steps that my toy initiative would take towards in the years to come.

For these two franchises that are considerably middling and cult-like in the original timeline, the mainstreamed attention it is garnering now is already a success on its own.

If this level of attention would be maintained and developed further, then it's chances of reaching the high-level impact that the others had achieved should be quite probable.

Still, these two distinctions of mechanical and alien are already garnering their relative success, so I'm quite looking forward to the alien plus mechanical mix.

Transformers was a phenomenal success and I hoped that my Transformers version could exceed that by large margin.