: I would advise against sending anything to the Webmaster. That never works
: out the way you think it would.
: Before anyone gets too excited about the prospect of Marathon figurines, you
: should seriously consider what you'd be asking Bungie to do. I've been on
: the periphery of action-figure creation before; it requires a lot of time
: and money and bickering with sculptors. It's the sort of thing one does
: for a franchise that is still a going concern, for lack of a better term.
: People are still reading Spawn comic books, still watching Lost, still
: buying Napoleon Dynamite DVDs. And they're doing all those things in far
: greater numbers than Marathon ever generated. One can reasonably expect to
: sell a certain number of action figures for those other IPs because
: they're still generating revenue. Marathon, in contrast, was a cult hit at
: best, never a big cash cow - and its creators put it to bed a decade ago.
: Even if Bungie wanted to make Marathon figures (and they might, for all
: anyone knows), they'd have a hell of a time convincing a manufacturer that
: a market for them exists.
: You can always ask, and Bungie's forums are probably the best place to do
: that. But you really want to ask them to make a bitchin' new Marathon game
: for the Xbox 360, because that's the only way the franchise will ever be
: popular enough to merit a line of mass-produced toys.
: -Matt
You say Marathon was never a big cash cow, but I seem to remember it turning Bungie from "shambolic bunch of guysw with big ideas" into "bunch of guys with big ideas and enough money to pay people"...
For my money, though, there are better things than action figures to do with Marathon...
