Planned Vincent Price figure from Executive Replicas~ any updates?

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Anton Phibes:
Has anyone heard anything about this figure, and it's status/potential release date? Last I heard it was schedule to be in the US for sale third quarter 2010. It's 2011, and to the best of my knowledge it wasn't released last year. So~ I am kind of curious.

I know there are a lot of issues with smaller toy companies trying to fight the economic crisis. It would be a shame if this were to be put on indefinite hold like the Masque of Red Death figure was. Or cancelled like my beloved "It~the terror from beyond space" figure. Not seeing it available as anything but a pre-order concerns me. So~ any news?

Gillfan:
I wonder if they moved him to 2011 since this is his 100th birthday.

Anton Phibes:
If he's been moved to 2011, I doubt it has much to do with his birthday and more to do with fear over attempting to release an item this "nichey" in the current economic climate. NECA scrapped their TMNT line, DST scrapped their classic Star Trek~the original series wave 5 and salt vampire. Stuff seems to get shown at Toy Fairs and SDCC, etc. But then never materializes on the actual toy shelf to purchase. :'(

Gillfan:
NECA had to scrap TMNT because of their license. They only had "specialty store" rights, in other words, TRU, WalMart, Target...in essence any large national retailer, couldn't carry them. Specialty stores were not interested and they had to abandon the line. As long as Playmates holds the primary rights they weren't going to let anyone else sell TMNT figures in the same places they were.

joy and tom studios:
As far as I know Executive Replicas still plans to release this figure. The economy has taken a toll on smaller companies, no doubt about that. ER has some plans in the works to try and catch up production with all the prototypes they have shown. I'm sure any new information will be posted on there website, facebook and twitter.

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