>>11014402the only person coping is you, since you want to pretend there's no correlation between how many pegs are reserved for a line and how much stores are going to carry.
Nevermind the fact that you thought their HasLab stuff is something popular, when the fact is their store kickstarters are because stores don't want to sell so few numbers. Yes, that is still too few numbers, because there's thousands of stores per retailer and they need to sell 5-10x that number to make a profit. Again, that's tens of thousands of people, when stores are aiming to sell MID hundreds of thousands to millions of sales.
Go look at McFarlane in how they needed to use their Kickstarter to show that their Spawn line can sell in stores still, but they're sold in the collectors section, which are MID-tens of thousands of sales.
Getting the same amount of space as collector lines that sell in the mid-10ks isn't good for a giant company like Hasbro that expect growth every year.
GI Joe retracted from their relaunch of the GI Joe line, where they killed the 1:18 line after a single year and retracted AGAIN once the Snake Eyes movie failed. Selling 2x less for two years in a row, when they didn't have much space to begin with, is life support. They're taking up the same amount of space as collector lines by 100x smaller companies.
And just so you know, i own a couple thousand GI Joes. The bulk of which i bought during the 25th/30th/Retalation/Rise era, so i remember when the GI Joe line was actually popular (technically 3 eras: 80s, 90s, and 00s). I remember in not-so-great-years, during the lulls inbetween the live action movies, they produced half as many figures in a single year as Classified released in its lifetime. And they were producing NEW figures, not just straight up redecos like many Classified releases.
So even if the line [i:lit]was[/i:lit] selling like a normal line, Hasbro still isn't giving it even a third of the budget.
