McFarlane Toys 5-inch The Walking Dead Wave 1 Figures

[toynewman]

Shown below are the new McFarlane Toys 5-inch The Walking Dead Wave 1 Figures based on the hit AMC series RETURN featuring Rick, Michonne, Daryl and Merle! Wave 1 pre-orders launch TOMORROW August 14th!

[Cxb452]

How many times have companies tried to make action figures out of this property?  Hasn't McFarlane done this once before?  Happy for those who are excited but I don't see this as lasting.  

[RobertD]

23 minutes ago, Cxb452 said:

How many times have companies tried to make action figures out of this property?  Hasn't McFarlane done this once before?  Happy for those who are excited but I don't see this as lasting.  

Diamond, Threezero, Hiya, and most prolifically McFarlane... yeah. I don't think they ever set the world on fire, but somebody must be/have been buying these since they've never really gone away.  I suppose I might have an interest if they ever did a decent, middle-of-the-road line in 6-inch scale, but they always seem to be 7, or 5, or 3.75, or 12 or something else. 

[RickytheRockstar]

4 hours ago, Cxb452 said:

How many times have companies tried to make action figures out of this property?  Hasn't McFarlane done this once before?  Happy for those who are excited but I don't see this as lasting.  

pretty sure these are just re-releases of the previous figures. which were great, they made alot of the characters, were easy to find, had nice sculpts, and decent likeness, then they changed the scale and had limited articulation and the line died

[toynewman]

Shown below is the new McFarlane Toys 5-inch The Walking Dead Wave 1 Figures featuring Rick, Michonne, Daryl and Merle! are available for pre-order from our sponsors BigBadToyStore.com and Entertainment Earth with a suggested retail price of $19.99 each.

Amazon Links: Rick, Michonne, Daryl and Merle

[Lord_Scareglow]

McFarland is so weird, why are these 5'' figures? this guy is all over the place, 5'' or 7'' but never the most beloved scale 1:12 for any of his things.

I feel like these have all been done before, and look like this, also just feels so outdated...do people who collect walking dead figures need more? are there new people trying to get into it? I mean I guess so, that show has like 10 spin offs and a new one each week, how do people keep up? I guess they do though.

[Satam]

21 hours ago, RickytheRockstar said:

pretty sure these are just re-releases of the previous figures. which were great, they made alot of the characters, were easy to find, had nice sculpts, and decent likeness, then they changed the scale and had limited articulation and the line died

Yep. Michonne and Merle looks to be rereleases of the series 3 figures. Daryl looks the be the series 6 figure, and Rick looks to be the series 8 figure.
For those confounded by these being 5", it's because these were 5" ten years ago, and they're the same figures. As for why 5" in the first place...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Lord_Scareglow]

40 minutes ago, Satam said:

Yep. Michonne and Merle looks to be rereleases of the series 3 figures. Daryl looks the be the series 6 figure, and Rick looks to be the series 8 figure.
For those confounded by these being 5", it's because these were 5" ten years ago, and they're the same figures. As for why 5" in the first place...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oooh makes sense, so these are just straight up re-releases, Oh Todd, funny they seem to be being billed as New, kinda misleading then.

 

[zombiesnstuff]

I'll get the zombies when he drops em for sure 

[Satam]

3 hours ago, Lord_Scareglow said:

Oooh makes sense, so these are just straight up re-releases, Oh Todd, funny they seem to be being billed as New, kinda misleading then.

 

Well, the packaging is new and Michonne looks to be missing her poncho, so...kinda new.

[Outsiders]

Why does Todd make these 5 inches?  I mean get into some more details and make them maybe 7 or 9 inches...