>>7329962That's the bizzare part, almost everyone who buys toys are an adult and only adults collect. In an age of endless pop culture merchandise bullshit, you'd think these retard fucks would get it finally.
Japan fully understand how ageless toys really are and it's one of their biggest markets. The toy industry in the west was doing pretty well but if you ask me, backtracking to making toys focused at children only rather than people of all ages chopped off a massive chunk of potential consumers.
A good example is the recent 3/4 inch Star Wars toys made for the sequel trilogy. Regardless of what you think of those movies (they've made modern figures of OT characters too), the toys are absolutely fucking terrible, reduced to only 5 points of articulation with sparse vehicles and pointless kid appeal gimmicks. They are a massive downgrade compared to previous Star Wars toys released by Hasbro and didn't appeal to kids or collectors as they were not only inaccurate to the likeness of the movies, but lacked detail, articulation andproper sets.
Maybe they figured Black Series was enough to satisfy collectors? But why even bother tripping over your own feet by producing millions of 3 inch action figures bloated with gimmicks that ended up shelfwarming.
Here's a 3inch figure Hasbro released back in 2010 for roughly $9.99 and it came with everything shown. Personally, the detail is more impressive at this scale than with the 6 inch black series figures who just feel blown up without the integrity of detail maintained.