>>5971809>Mattel will never make Collector's Barbies that are Hot toys quality.... They expect their collectors to buy a toy. Slightly higher quality than a regular toy, but still a toy. ... I think a lot of the heads of these companies believe that if people where buying older figures for hundreds of dollars; things like 5POA Star wars figures, they don't see why collector's wouldn't still want the same thingI see that you've never actually talked with or been to a panel with toy designers, marketers, and other reps from children's toy companies.
They're very aware that there are collectors out there and try to include everything they themselves want to see in their toys, but within their budget.
This is one of the reasons why Hasbro was able to give us very high quality figures that collectors have been asking for. Same with Toy Biz, and other geeky as fuck companies.
That said, they've scaled down from making a ton of bodies, a lot of paint apps, a lot of articulation, because sales didn't meet expectations. They know that collectors want better stuff, but collectors only make up a tiny portion of their sales and they can't cater to them when their toys aren't selling enough to budget that.
They don't expect collectors to follow their lines when they lower their budgets, and certainly never for the 5PoAshit toys.
Collector companies do try to make their toys as much for collectors as possible, but they can't please everyone. I know /toy/ has problems with believing everyone should only have the same opinion as themselves, but collector companies like DCC get tons and tons of different views and opinions on how their toys should be made, so they try to strike a balance with their figures. So they've been experimenting (keyword here) by offering accurate toys with articulation that doesn't get in the way of the sculpt and another line that offers even more articulation. They've also announced and shown off another line with even more articulation than that