It seems like they've just dropped out of the game or something. Back at Toyfair, they announced a whole slew of new Gamestars licenses from Ghost Recon to Asura's Wrath and even BBTS had preorders for them all. Then, a couple months ago I noticed that the preorders had all disappeared from BBTS. Now I've noticed that pretty much all of the Targets are clearancing pretty much all of Unimax's stuff. On top of that, I recall BBTS saying that the Ghost Recon stuff was supposed to be coming out around now, but we've seen absolutely nothing regarding the line. I'd have expected them to have shown pics by now like they did with Red Faction and Assassin's Creed. But no, there's been no word at all. I'm kind of worried, but did Unimax go under? That's kind of crappy if so, seeing as they'd just announced all of those licenses.

Good question, i was fortunate enough to get the Red Faction set at Target around Christmas, then Target never restocked them and added more Assasin's Creed & Crysis 2 figures to the pegs, The RF figures never showed up at TRU, AC figs made a short run there to, C2 figs lasted the longest at TRU, i'm very curious as to why & what happened, maybe they got pushed back to a later release date ???

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According to Corey from SmallJoes, Gamestars is dead.

http://www.warbird-photos.com/gpxd/view ... =1&t=28239

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Another one bites the dust.
Maybe some company will see the possibilities in 1/18 video game figures.
Then again, they'd have to go with a full line with some vehicles instead of a few random figures.
Go with a big title like Resident Evil or Metal Gear instead of lines where every characters look about the same. Yeah, I'm looking at you Crysis.

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That's unfortunate, especially since I would have loved some Ghost Recon figures. I bought all of the Assassin's Creed figures, all of the Red Faction figures I could find (never did find Matt), and I bought the Nanosuit 2.0 Alcatraz figure from Crysis. I'm not sure any of those licenses were destined to be big sellers, but I also don't know how much Unimax did to make the existence of these lines known to the fans of the games. If I didn't read this site, I would have had no idea they existed.

I'm wondering if it's worth it in the end.
We're toy collectors who also like video games, so for us it's natural to want the characters we like in toy form. Just look at all the awesome custom figures that are shown on the site each day.

What about video game fans and kids who are really into games? Would they really care about getting toys of their favorite game characters. Would they want to reenact their adventures through toys or wouldn't they rather simply pop the game on or wait for a new sequel?

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Anyone still seeing FEARLESS FORCES or BRAVO TEAM figures in their respective Target stores?
If so, please drop me a PM...

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I'm really thinking stuff like these would be best as subscription based. But then how many people are there that collect this stuff? I got select ones and then have picked up others now they they are clearanced. The lines they have made so far though haven't been games I was really into. Even Assassins Creed, I like the game ok but I'm not enough of a fan that I wanted all of the figures. Just the main character mostly.

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10-15 years ago I could see action figures based on video games having been a big hit with the mid 20 and up crowd of gamers who might have wanted to have a few select characters on their desk at work. But I don't think figures like that will ever be a big hit with kids who want their imagination spoon fed to them in the latest sequel to a popular video game.
If companies are looking for licensed characters to make action figures of they would probably be better off going with anime/manga characters as those medias are less interactive and popular with a broad market. Although keeping the cost vs quality balance just right so they are desired but not too expensive to be purchased in great quantities is important as well.

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In my area the only Unimax line that lasted was Crysis 2, that's becouse my local TRU stock that line twice, My local TRU had the AC figs, but they didn't last long, i had to got out of town for the Red Faction figures & the rest of the AC figures i needed, which was difficult to find amognst 4 Target stores.

I like the Unimax Gamestar figures, sad to hear they called it quits.

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What exactly is the source on the report that Unimax killed the line? I mean, I'm sure that's the case what with the complete lack of information since Toyfair and the lack of new product, but I'd just like to have a source. It just seems so strange that they'd announce all of these new licenses, spend all of that money to get those licenses, and then just kill the line entirely a couple months later. It'd be nice if we could get some confirmation out of them at the very least.

I agree that there probably isn't a big market for these figures, though I again am not really sure how the potential target audience (fans of the game) had any way of knowing that there were figures available.

If nothing else, we at least now have a Leonardo da Vinci figure in 1:18 scale!

These should've been exclusives online or in comic shops.

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That and maybe sold in Electronics stores like Gamestop, Best Buy, ect...

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This has gotten me wondering how NECA does so well with their figures. They have one or two major pop-culture relevant properties, and a few niche ones. Something Unimax could've done. Come out with the Assassin's creed stuff, keep it coming and pepper in Crysis and other properties. Oh well.

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