09-10-2004, 07:29 AM
like what was said. The target audience for them is children and halloween stuff. They make it cheap, sell it for more because of the name and license, and make a killing.
New Line will never have a mask like what Justin offers or what Aaron at Dreamlandprod offers, because they\'re damn good high quality products that take time, attention to detail, and most importantly,..LOVE for these movies and characters. No major company can duplicate that. Justin is an excellent sculptor/painter/mask maker from what I\'ve seen. There\'s no way some little sweatshop cranking out masks, probably made by underage labor in another country, can compete in quality. It\'ll never happen. New Line gets the stuff made cheap, they sell a bunch of it at halloween, and they make alot of money. That\'s what they care about.
Yes, a foam Hockey Mask is nasty. To us, to collectors. But to a little kid that might be the coolest damn Hockey Mask he\'s ever seen!!
I know when I was a kid and I bought my first plastic freddy glove, I was psyched!! I didn\'t take it off for hours. I loved it. Now I can\'t stand them. I can\'t blame New Line for the fact that I grew up and my tastes became better and more refined when it comes to horror products.
Much as I hate to say it, New Line is within thier rights to do what they\'re doing. What\'s annoying are the little guys who are getting pulled through the cracks cuz they had the word \'Jason\' or something in thier eBay listing. Especially the guy who had his auction pulled on a faceless hood. That\'s not right.
Give it time, all this will blow over. It really seems like it\'s the hockey masks that they\'re going after. Think about it. You\'re a huge super rich movie studio getting ready to release some cheesy hockey masks for the halloween season. Then you realize there\'s these guys online offering EXCELLENT hockey masks with great paint jobs!!!! You\'d shit! What if all our customers buy those GOOD hockey masks?? What are we gonna do with 2 million foam hockey masks?? Aw no, fuck that, we\'re New Line, we\'re not getting stuck with 2 million foam hockey masks, shut those other guys down!!
it\'s life, it\'s business, it\'ll all blow over probably after halloween.
I really don\'t think I\'ll ever have a problem getting my hands on a quality Hockey Mask, and I doubt any of you will either. This is all just an inconvience at best.
Though I gotta admit, I wish LFG had relocated like ESC1 did. I was proud when Mega stuck up the big middle finger and made a new site.
New Line will never have a mask like what Justin offers or what Aaron at Dreamlandprod offers, because they\'re damn good high quality products that take time, attention to detail, and most importantly,..LOVE for these movies and characters. No major company can duplicate that. Justin is an excellent sculptor/painter/mask maker from what I\'ve seen. There\'s no way some little sweatshop cranking out masks, probably made by underage labor in another country, can compete in quality. It\'ll never happen. New Line gets the stuff made cheap, they sell a bunch of it at halloween, and they make alot of money. That\'s what they care about.
Yes, a foam Hockey Mask is nasty. To us, to collectors. But to a little kid that might be the coolest damn Hockey Mask he\'s ever seen!!
I know when I was a kid and I bought my first plastic freddy glove, I was psyched!! I didn\'t take it off for hours. I loved it. Now I can\'t stand them. I can\'t blame New Line for the fact that I grew up and my tastes became better and more refined when it comes to horror products.
Much as I hate to say it, New Line is within thier rights to do what they\'re doing. What\'s annoying are the little guys who are getting pulled through the cracks cuz they had the word \'Jason\' or something in thier eBay listing. Especially the guy who had his auction pulled on a faceless hood. That\'s not right.
Give it time, all this will blow over. It really seems like it\'s the hockey masks that they\'re going after. Think about it. You\'re a huge super rich movie studio getting ready to release some cheesy hockey masks for the halloween season. Then you realize there\'s these guys online offering EXCELLENT hockey masks with great paint jobs!!!! You\'d shit! What if all our customers buy those GOOD hockey masks?? What are we gonna do with 2 million foam hockey masks?? Aw no, fuck that, we\'re New Line, we\'re not getting stuck with 2 million foam hockey masks, shut those other guys down!!
it\'s life, it\'s business, it\'ll all blow over probably after halloween.
I really don\'t think I\'ll ever have a problem getting my hands on a quality Hockey Mask, and I doubt any of you will either. This is all just an inconvience at best.
Though I gotta admit, I wish LFG had relocated like ESC1 did. I was proud when Mega stuck up the big middle finger and made a new site.