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Hasbro to sell licensed action figures with personalized heads

MisterHero

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Oct 25, 2017
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The Hasbro Selfie Series will let you scan your face through their app and they will add your likeness to a licensed action figure, with an official box and accessories.

Yes, for $60 you too can be a Power Ranger, Ghostbuster, GI Joe, a Star Wars or Marvel character. Maybe I'll take a Red Ranger.


View: https://youtu.be/b0eHpUR6F5I

I suppose you could print/paint your own head, if you had a 3d printer. Neat gift idea though.
 
Civilstrife

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This is great, though I wish there was a way to surprise someone with it as a gift.

Kind of hard to do that if you need to scan their face with a specialized app that is branded with the Hasbro logo.
 
the chris

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Would be cool to get a custom figure head on a generic GI Joe or Cobra trooper instead of Snake Eyes or Scarlett. Could possibly so Stormtroopers for Star Wars.
 
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MisterHero

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Civilstrife said:
This is great, though I wish there was a way to surprise someone with it as a gift.

Kind of hard to do that if you need to scan their face with a specialized app that is branded with the Hasbro logo.
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There's gotta be a market for general-purpose scanners where people scan their faces or bodies just to have on hand for whatever reason. Like a photobooth except it makes a 3d model of you. lol
 
adj_noun

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When I was a kid G.I. Joe tried a version of this where "your" figure was just a guy in a mask but I think you could customize the info on the card?*

*they should still let you do that actually

This is on another level entirely.
 
Musubi

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This is kind of cool for people who want it but the last person I would want a figure of is of my ugly face.
 
Red Light Camera

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That's pretty cool, but something I don't really have any interest in.

It's bad enough I gotta see this in a mirror, that's more than plenty of me.
 
Daysean

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let me put my black ass on a Gokaiger/GoOnger (Super Megaforce/RPM) figure and you got yourself an easy fucking 60$
 
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Gaia Lanzer

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As a big fan of Ghostbusters and action figures since I was a kid, this is right up my alley. As a kid, playing Ghostbusters with my friends on the playground during recess at my elementary school, I would've been floored at such a concept to "figure-ize" yourself so you place yourself amongst your fictional heroes in Toyland. Now, all these years later, at least I look like a schlub that would fit in amongst the other Ghostbusters.

deimosmasque said:
This has been a thing for a while, just an actual Corp getting involved.


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I can see Phelous getting another stab at a new Ghostbuster fig of himself.
 
deimosmasque

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Gaia Lanzer said:
As a big fan of Ghostbusters and action figures since I was a kid, this is right up my alley. As a kid, playing Ghostbusters with my friends on the playground during recess at my elementary school, I would've been floored at such a concept to "figure-ize" yourself so you place yourself amongst your fictional heroes in Toyland. Now, all these years later, at least I look like a schlub that would fit in amongst the other Ghostbusters.

I can see Phelous getting another stab at a new Ghostbuster fig of himself.
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He probably will.
 
Trike

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Seems neat. Not something I'm all that interested in except for laughs so I hope it's easy to game the face scanner.

shira said:
Don't you have stores/libraries/businesses in your area that 3D print?
It's still a pretty new technology, but I'm sure there is someone selling 3D printing at a better rate than $60 for a custom figure, $60 for a custom head is silly.
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It's also the convenience of everything. Scan your face and (I assume) shop for figures in the same app and have them sent with official packaging.
 
Razgriz-Specter

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shira said:
Don't you have stores/libraries/businesses in your area that 3D print?
It's still a pretty new technology, but I'm sure there is someone selling 3D printing at a better rate than $60 for a custom figure, $60 for a custom head is silly.
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The figure these go for are nearly $30 on there own.
Mass produced resin heads are like 5-10 dollars a piece
Then 20ish for Hasbro's hd painting process....

Its expensive for a figure yes but the price lines up.
(I mean if you are ok with Hasbro's basic price hikes anyway)
 
exploding_boy

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There was already a kiosk at select targets that did this a few years back. They had Star Wars and Marvel characters you can put your head on. I thought it would be cool to get a storm trooper with my kids head on it. I was within the timeframe to get it before Christmas….I didn't get it until February.
 
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