I do wonder if it's a rights issue.
When Diamond Select were making Ghostbusters figures, there were notable absences of familiar ghosts from their Ghostbusters II wave, with Vigo being the exception (probably because Wilhelm von Homburg had died in 2004)... Unlike the MattyCollector line, we didn't get the Subway Ghost, or the Scoleris.
I dimly remember there being an issue with ILM, who owned the design rights to the ghosts (which might've been the reason why Vigo's demonic head was sculpted by Mattel, but ultimately never made it into the public release of the figure).
I don't know why Diamond were able to secure more of the designs for the Minimates line, but maybe there was more flexibility with them because they were stylised humans?
When Diamond Select were making Ghostbusters figures, there were notable absences of familiar ghosts from their Ghostbusters II wave, with Vigo being the exception (probably because Wilhelm von Homburg had died in 2004)... Unlike the MattyCollector line, we didn't get the Subway Ghost, or the Scoleris.
I dimly remember there being an issue with ILM, who owned the design rights to the ghosts (which might've been the reason why Vigo's demonic head was sculpted by Mattel, but ultimately never made it into the public release of the figure).
I don't know why Diamond were able to secure more of the designs for the Minimates line, but maybe there was more flexibility with them because they were stylised humans?
Statistics: Posted by Kingpin — June 18th, 2024, 5:59 pm