>>6027438>How come the big toymakers like hasbro don't have their own lines?Because you need several things:
>Good figures of brands coming together that people would want to collect.>Figures that appeal to both children and adult collectors.>A good game where said figures can interact in fun ways towards all demographics.We've seen Bamco try it out with Kamen Rider Summonride and they failed spectacularly, and if it fails to catch on you are stuck with a huge amount of inventory you have to get rid of.
In Summonride's example, you have:
>What is essentially the most barebones version of Skylanders imaginable that locks almost everything but the main path behind paid figures. >Controls like a drunk version of Battride War>The portal can't even read two figures on the portal properly but requires discs to be put on the portal for you to have supports and transformations.Think the Disney Infinity portal when you put it on top of a Wii U for example, then try to do a dual disc stack with a figure, you get constant disconnections. Now, remove the two disks and just have the base figure on the portal on top of a disk randomly on another part of it, it will disconnect constantly.
>The figures themselves are all in the exact same pose, around the size of a quarter to a half-dollar, and are of pretty cheap plastic quality.>The DX figure packs that come with two characters and two disks cost $18 on release.>Gash figures that came separately were like $4 or $5 on release and were basically just portions of the DX pack sold cheaper but have no difference from the DX figures.I honestly want to buy it now since figure packs are like $3 and the PS3 version starter pack is like $20 now just to see how truly barebones it is, Youtube videos and the absolute hate-filled
Amazon.co.jp reviews aren't enough.
