>>9641621>See how current GI Joe fans are eating up the 1:12 scale lineThat's more a supply chain issue. Most stores don't even carry more than 1 row of Classified and Hasbro keeps making statements on their streams that they are suffering from shortages, they didn't do this with the TF, Marvel, and Star Wars streams, just Joe and I wouldn't be surprised if it's a speculation market of scalpers inflating the brand as we are staring to see some hard dips in wave one of Classfied figures showing that this is just 1998 again and a lot of the buyers aren't even fans.
>Sigma 6 was also a huge upset with the 8" figures and 2.5 setsThe fact it died as fast as it did shows the point anon was sharing, Transformers has taken some wild changes even the one's aiming at adult buyers, the fact the Red Series is still a thing and selling is proof of this.
>Or how the fact that the GI Joe General was still one of the most popular threads on /toy/I think you are suffering confirmation bias on a few levels, for starters Star Wars, Marvel and Transformers were way more active here in the late 00s/early 10s having image limits reached commonly in those threads, that doesn't mean Joe wasn't a healthy community here but that in no way puts it at the "most popular" but finally let's say it is, most /toy/ threads both then and now struggle to get over a 150 IPs posting, you are looking at one image board that isn't even getting 0.1% of the buying market and saying it reflects the market at large.
Also Joe fans haven't been starved they have been more or less satiated. The 25th line and beyond gave them a near complete collection of all the Joe brand in 4inch something that very few other time lines can say they have done and it's likely why one of the factors the Walmart Retro line died, how many people really needed another Destro of that scale and style?
Transformers fans? They will buy the same MP-10 mold for the last 11 years and then still buy the newest G1 Prime offered