>>10335622>GI Joe is a collector line>in the children toy aisles>full support from Walmart and Target>exclusives to make these stores order more products in the hundreds of thousands to millionsStill literally two different market places for GI Joe and Spawn. Collectors may buy these lines, but the scale in orders between the two lines is lopsided as fuck.
Hasbro would not be producing the GI Joe line if they were selling under 100k. McFarlane does it all the time, hence taking DC Direct under their wing.
Hell, Hasbro doesn't even sell 1:18 GI Joes anymore because they know it would strip sales away from the 1:12 line. To sell a cheaper toyline would hit their revenue numbers and Hasbro fears upsetting investors if their revenue drops.
>given how many Spawn figures I've seen on saleAs pointed out in another thread, low prices, especially from Amazon doesn't mean it's selling poorly. Just last month Amazon was selling the $250 Life and Times of Uncle Scrooge for $125 because people were scrambling to buy the storyline because Disney announced to the creator they were banning the last two issues.
It was half off, because of high demand, not because people weren't buying it. This is generally how sales work, hence stores tradtionally holding sales for movie toys when a movie is released. So we often saw a toyline being released for retail price, two months before the movie comes out, but when the movie was finally being shown, they got discounted, to push for dat high revenue stream.
Whether something is actually shelf warming or not, and being clearanced off, is a bit more complex than what you think. See the Star Wars sequels and how that shit stayed on shelves for YEARS, and got offloaded to discount stores like Ross, MArshalls, and TJ Max.
