>>11584598>Most of the (new) "franchises" that get created these days, can't seem to rope kids in to buy them.that's because most new franchises are either tumblr-bait, manchild-bait, or in the vast majority of cases created by independent artists with no budget for creating their own merchandise. Like look at all the new franchises of the past ten years that are quite popular with kids nowadays
>Friday Night Funkin>Undertale/Deltarune>Five Nights at Freddy's>Among Us>Fortnite>fucking skibidi toiletAll of these were unexpected hits, but all of them (except fortnite) were made by indie studios, and fucking skibidi toilet was originally a sfm shitpost.
>Even if it's stuff that should theoretically be sellable (like FNAF, Minecraft, etc) don't seem to really sell, because kids really don't seem to care about the toys for those, despite how lucrative the actual IPsthe problem with them is that most of their "toys" are just funkos or shitty chink merch you see sold at Target or on shitty kiosks run by third-worlders, most of them bootlegs with no playability whatsoever.
>>11584622>Toy prices go up while wages have been stagnant for a while.wages haven't been stagnant, the dollar itself is just becoming worthless, thank congress and the Fed for that, but all your other points are solid
