>>10668456>hasbro paid hundreds of millions of dollars for a license knowing it would be a failure just like their last linefuck off retard
You might as well pretend the Fortnite line was also a limited deal too, considering they announced and released very little. Jazware's output was huge in comparison and Hasbro's effort was basically on par with McFarlane's, despite McFarlane and Jazwares signing a short term contract.
They're not like NECA who can make all their money back from a single release, because they 're not paying for a piecemeal license.
Giant mass market toy companies like Hasbro view a license like Indiana Jones as an investment and the first year is a down payment that allows them to expand into the next year. Companies like Hasbro are putting a significant amount of money, resources and time and think about the long term.
You're seriously a mentally handicapped person for not understanding the scale of how billion dollar companies with millions of shareholders who expect yearly growth need to operate.
>>10668849>Those were a marked departure from the established form, and also failed to catch on.Seriously, Hasbro is fucking stupid. They repeated the same mistake they did in the 90s when switching to GI Joe Extreme. The GI Joe Battle Corps/Ninja shit in the early 90s was their most popular year since the 80s and they tried to expand their market by imitating the superhero/dynamic poses trend and it failed hard.
Same shit with Sigma 6. By all accounts, the Venom vs Valor line was doing well, but they wanted even more money and tried to cash in on the anime-trend of the 00s, and used the Gonzo cartoon to sell larger scale figures because they made more money per unit ($10 for basic figures, $15 for deluxe) instead of the small time $5 per two pack.
Of course, they wised up in the 10s by outright sabotaging their 1:18 lines to shift the focus of all their toylines to 1:12 scale, because $20 > $10 and the fact 1:12 was a fairly popular scale.