>>7988487Do you fail to grasp how many stores there are in the US because you're a child?
Movie toys do sell upwards of millions of units. No ands ifs of buts about this.
There's about 5000 walmarts in the US and if each Walmart only got in 5 cases for a movie line, that's about 200,000 units for a single wave about a month before the movie came out. Bare minimum.
See pic? Each peg is about a case's worth (eight cases worth) and this is probably months after the movie was released, because almost every movie was prominently displayed on the front of the aisle as well AND/or in those box displays in the middle of the aisle as well. And how do i know it's months after the movie was released? Because stores expand that section.
>Wait they don't count because if they did you'd be wrong.Why would i be wrong? My entire PS point from the very beginning is that stores don't really order toylines based movies anymore. They don't look if it's from a movie, they just look if it's from a proven franchise. They no longer take chances like they used to.
As proven by Hasbro's new way of releasing toys, they can't rely on movie sales anymore, thus putting the movie figures into the ML line instead.
>To be fair that's pretty much what movies amount to these days.That's how it's been since at least the 2000s, if not before. This is why we got Men in Black toys, Tron toys, A-Team toys, etc etc etc. None of these are proven franchises though. They're just shit people were familiar with.
Still, where's the Alita action figures? Where's the Fast and the Furious action figures? Where's the MIB: International toys? Hellboy? Adams Family? and who knows what other awful toys would have been made if toy makers were still buying up licenses like they used to. Us? Curse of La Llorona? Angel has Fallen? Zombieland?
As proven with Godzilla, Rampage, and Jumanji, stores don't have much confidence in movie lines anymore, hence becoming a niche product to drive up sales in a single retailer.
