>>6975157Yeah, no.
Your entire post is like you read half of what a company said and tuned everything out.
HEre's one chart showing how toy sales are going.
My internet is slow for some reason, and there are other charts showing earlier years, but there was a pretty large dip in 2008 yet has had a upward trend since then.
>Meanwhile lines like the Black Series are aimed at adult collectors, and Hasbro mistakenly thought adult collectors would want the new characters.NOPE!
Even with this line it's mostly kids buying toys. Saying it's for adults is like saying Marvel Legends aren't for kids either.
These have been the mainline on toy shelves for years and years, and stores like WalMarts and Targets are ordering hundreds of thousands and even millions of them, which in no way the adult collector market has shown can capture that many sales.
>The design work on the prequels was great.It's not just the designs. IT's the entire premise and ideas that people wanted more of.
They wanted more shit explored and people bought it up in droves.
They bungled all that with TFA and TLJ. They also sought cool shit, like the ducktroopers and that red guy and the new royal guards, but where's that demand? Did they fail in the designs? I think they did with the ducktroopers, but the other guys? Where's the hype? We're getting nothing because what is out there isn't selling like they thought it would.
Again, Hasbro, Disney, etc are doing their market research on what is selling, so that they can make more of it. The fact we aren't getting more is just showing their failures. Of course, the ducktroopers did sell well enough that we got more of them, but their shelfwarming now shows how longlasting they aren't as an idea/design.
