BBI announces Seal Team 6 figures in 1/6 scale

[AMERICAN_GRENADIER]

found this today
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/BBI-Co ... 2475407430

[AJWW2]

cool, yo

[snake]

Great to see BBI still in the game.

Have a couple of their 1/6 figures { F-18, and U-2 pilot} and they are very good, particularly the U-2 pilot.

Seal Team 6 seems like a good choice.

[kduck]

This is being discussed over at OSW. The figure will be an online exclusive and the price is $160. The general concensus there seems to be that unless the quality of this figure is lightyears ahead of what they were producing previously then the price is outrageously high. Unless there are some pieces included that haven't been done before in 1:6 then it would be more economical to buy one of the numerous other SEAL figures available and a few loose parts and bash your own figure for much less.

For me that's the negative. The positive is that it's nice to see BBI back in 1:6. They were one of my favorite figure makers and I hope this is a sign of more figures to come but hopefully not at those prices.

[tmanthegreat]

I know 1:6 tends to be quite expensive compared to other scale, but $160 for a figure does seem a bit much. I think of all those board members griping about the price of the 1:18 BBI Blackhawk and F-18 - well here's one action figure that costs nearly the same

[Threetoughtrucks]

Prices are high but quality and lifelike head sculpts have been getting better all the time.

$160 is high unless it is something really special or rare (any of the Aliens figs start at around $250 and go up) but the big manufacturers are loading up their figs with a ton of equipment.

My favorite is DID Major Richard Winters from BOB. Priced high when you can find him but you get on great head sculpt of the actor and three full uniforms - Dress uni, from the war end, and his uni and chute from the Market Garden jump and a complete BOBuldge uni. Great stuff.

1/6 is the new 21C 1/18.

TTT

[tpa05]

For $160 it better also wash dishes or mow the lawn...