gagnonrich opened this issue on Apr 18, 2006 · 21 posts
gagnonrich posted Wed, 26 April 2006 at 10:38 AM
Thanks for checking those additional details! Here's what the two listings look like when combined:
3600 Victoria 3
1140 Aiko
1020 Victoria
720 Michael 3
690 Stephanie 3
480 Michael
291 David
284 Laura
220 Jessi
180 Miki
141 James
136 Maddie
135 The Girl
122 Judy
121 Hiro
95 Apollo Maximus
94 Animedoll
90 Koshini 1 & 2
87 Freak
80 Luke
72 Terai Yuki
68 Posette
60 Matt
52 Kiki
48 Rosy Cheeks Lina
34 Ichiro
32 Laroo
26 Sara
24 Koji
19 Alexa
13 HER
11 staci
I'm surprised that Sara has so few products because that figure has a lot of independent support and even at least one website wholly devoted to the character.
I looked at Don under the P5 only heading and there's only 7 products there, but that seems low if Judy has 122.
At least I was on the money about Koji having 20-40 products and that the other three Teen/PreSchool figures added up to less than for Laura (284 products for Laura vs. 276 for the other three combined).
It's a little scary that the two Victoria figures, combined, account for almost half of all Poser figure products sold (4,620 out of 10,185) (a good percentage of the total number will be double counting items that support multiple figures). To throw in another number, there are 1720 products under Sets & Props to compare figure support versus prop support (keeping in mind that props won't have many double counts because they're mostly stand-alone products with minimal, if any, expansion support).
Another measure of support would be counting freebies because freebies represent which products people are using a lot. It was the volume of freebies for Aiko3 that got me curious about where the figure was standing in commercial sales. Commercial products only represent what merchants want to sell and often are slanted to perceptions of which figures are selling.
The first time I did one of these counts, I was shocked at how little support the figures, that come free with Poser, have received. Part of the problem is that the Poser figures are relatively old even though the meshes have been updated a bit. If memory serves me right, Jessi and James are still based on the old P4 female and male meshes. E-Frontier can shake up the Poser marketplace if they release new advanced figures with the next update of Poser. Their announcement of new second generation figures so far sound less like advances then unifying the line to take the same textures and morphs.
My visual indexes of Poser
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