The "They left us too young" thread: IE cancelled toys shown at shows or in mags

[Anton Phibes]

Here's some more scrapped toys/collectibles to add to this thread.

PCS American Werewolf and The Thing:




Tweeterhead EC Horror Hosts:

[Akira-Devilman]

PCS cancelled the American Werewolf and The Thing figures?? I was waiting for them still until now!!!

I am loving this thread!! Soo many canceled toys i never knew or i forget about!! Tough many of the toy companies that produce them don't exists now (like SOTA) but still, is pretty interesting how in the 90s McFarlane and later on NECA flood the world with amazing horror movie figures and now day similar figures get cancelled over and over again.

Is it that the world no longer wants monsters? I don't want to live in a world with no monsters.

[Mike Scott]

PCS American Werewolf and The Thing:

Ah, man, those are nice! 

[Monsters For Sale]

I really like those AWIL figures.

They shouldn't have cancelled those.  They should have branched out and made many more.

[Anton Phibes]

Well, from what I hear they scrapped them. Seeings as how a release date is never discussed..... and the folks at SSF stating they were canned....I believe them. Tweeterhead EC are definitely scrapped.

[Lazarus]

That's a shame.  I would have loved a ghost Jack with multiple heads for his various levels of decomposition.

Was the werewolf that size?  I thought he seemed bigger.

[Anton Phibes]

That's a shame.  I would have loved a ghost Jack with multiple heads for his various levels of decomposition.

Was the werewolf that size?  I thought he seemed bigger.

The story I got via forum chatter was they were gonna do both 1/6 scale and 7 inch of both properties. Then, supposedly the  1/6 market collapsed (I guess Redman, Hot Toys, Star Ace etc didn't get the memo)... so they nixed doing anything.

[marsattacks666]

Cool figures...no more.

[Count Zachula]

This thread makes me very depressed.

[Anton Phibes]

Well, it's better to remember that at least (at some point) these things were at least being considered. the Mezco Mrs. Bates kills me the most, followed by the lunchbox and then the Ring figure. That 1/6 Amok time It, terror from beyond space would've been cool too.

[Mord]

It seems that the very best stuff gets cancelled, while that "Horrified" game gets produced. There is no justice.

[marsattacks666]

Or multiple versions of Michael Myers, Jason, TMNT.....etc.

[Doh!]

I mentioned this in another thread (just discovered this one), but my latest disappointment is the canceled Freddy Krueger marionette. They only wanted $30 bucks for an 18-inch replica so I'm baffled that there weren't enough pre-orders.

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/nightmare-on-elm-street-dream-warriors-freddy-puppet-prop-replica/nc39890

And Anton, like you, I also had TWO Mrs. Bates dolls on order. One was to be a friend's Christmas present so that one really hurt!

[VulcansFury]

The reason the SOTA/Now Playing and other stuff of that time period were cancelled due to the death/restructuring of boutiques likes Suncoast Video, which predates the 2008 recession. Palisades almost went under at that time but Toys R Us picked up thetail end of their Muppets line. TRU wasnt willing to take on 80s horror monsters, and the Jakks Universal monsters did not sell well, and the Van Helsing movie stuff bombed. Things were different back then when you completely relied on brick and mortar stores to make things happen. PCS The Thing and AWIL suffered the time of the wage hike in Taiwan and increase of plastic, labor and shipping for such a small company who didnt have an "in" with someplace like Target.

[Monsters For Sale]

Here's some more scrapped toys/collectibles to add to this thread.

PCS American Werewolf and The Thing:
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The American Werewolf dream sequence figures would have been great.  (And a nice-looking Alex Price, too.)