>>11642892No, it wasn't because of distribution.
It's why i mentioned Bethesda, where a similiar thing happened with McFarlane. They had plans to release Fallout stuff way back in 2020 or 2019 and because of MS buying Bethesda, almost all of their plans were scrapped until probably just recently.
Same shit happened with Planet of the Apes license with Mezco. They had plans to release a bunch of One:12 apes and when Disney bought Fox, they suddenly canceled everything.
So a change in ownership definitely fucks over the license holders, likely because everything needs to be renegotiated again and the new owner likely wants to charge even more money (despite the license already being paid for) to make some money back from billions dollar buyout.
Jazwares releasing what they did was probably because that's the only figures they actually managed to release before the license was suddenly revoked. I think the reason the figures were so wonky is because they couldn't modify anything further without going over the time limit they had.
IT seems like they were rushed and they jsut wanted to get some money back on already creating tools + whatever prototypes they already made.
Jazwares released their Call of Duty figures in WAlmart and Amazon. Biggest toy stores in North America, plus other stores. The screenshots i posted shows two sets of 1:18 figures + vehicle. And 2 more 1:12 scale figures. So their distribution seemed fine.
But that's 4 different companies and maybe Netflix might handle shit different with WB, so it might not affect Mattel.... and Mattel is a big enough company that they could pay whatever extra fees are thrown at them by Netflix.
