>>10039499With Star Wars, the sequel trilogy's unmarketable characters and vehicles, and focusing on huge, outrageously expensive vehicles ruined it. The Vintage Collection's very name should set off alarms that 3.75" is now a second-class line in Hasbro's eyes, as if to signal that the line has no future other than eBay.
Most of the Transformers movies were trash. Bumblebee is what the first movie should've been. The adult-friendly side of the toy lines are getting segmented into toys that don't transform at all, and ones that have such complex transformations that they might as well not transform at all because those over-engineered transformations just makes them more expensive.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull shat on Indiana Jones' hopes of being an evergreen toyline, and Indy 5 will be at least as bad. They will milk us oldfags for a few items that we actually want and then rush the rest of the line in and out of retail as fast as they can. We'll probably get 6" figures that will stick around a little longer.
GI Joe never found its footing as a movie franchise and the Snake Eyes movie was a catastrophe. Maybe Top Gun's success will change things. Fortunately it did not diminish people's desire for the toys, but the distribution has been so fucked that it's very hard to actually find them in a store.
Dungeons and Dragons is pandering so hard to theater kids that the actual game part is getting lost. Nobody who got scolded by their teachers for playing D&D wants D&D with sensitivity training. WotC is an awful company and Hasbro is reportedly trying to figure out how they can sell them off while keeping the D&D IP.
They have a lot of other lines I could whine about but I don't give a fuck about them so someone who actually cares can do it. Suffice to say, I've been waiting my entire life for them to bring back MASK because I grew up with reruns and the toys had been off shelves since I was a toddler. Either they won't, or they will fuck it up somehow.
