>>10958985>They know say Superman toys sell really well in the South and Joker sells really well in the west and Batman sells well outside the coastal areas, and ship product accordingly, same as with crap like fruit and produce carried in their grocers or types of toothpaste and detergent outside basic brands.You're dumb.
That's not how it works at all.
Stores can not be that selective, because computers handle reordering, and most of the time, backstock is what prevents them from getting new stock. Sometimes theft can be so prevalent that ghost stock can prevent the computer from reordering shit.
When companies look at McFarlane's wares every year (at trade shows like Toy Fair), they can give input on what characters should be in every wave. They'll also tell McFarlane that they should include 4 Spidermans and 4 Bumblebees in every case, because they're so popular with the kids.
99% of the time, Target/Walmart buyers are self important no-fun businessmen who know nothing about the toylines they're ordering and a lot of the times, its young assistants who made "astounding discoveries"... because they play modern video games, read modern comics, and watch modern cartoons.
This is also why local WAlmarts/Targets/etc have computers doing the reordering for them, because those self important businessmen know better than local yokels and think a computer should be in charge of everything.. eventually. These fucks are waiting for when robots are so good that they can have jobs and have purchasing power to buy consumer goods based on advertisement analytics.
In short, retailers can, have, and do fuck over toylines because of what they tell toy companies to do. Movies bombing in theaters also fuck over toylines since the mid-10s, because they've been taking over the main toyline's place in pegs... because retailers don't want to support seperate year round toylines and movie toylines. Yes, retailers are the number one reason why toylines get fucked up.
