>>10898005I can figure that demand was high during 2021's immediate post-pandemic climate when everyone was getting a hobby so they just made a fuckload of these like the retards they are
>>10898009Either Mattel refuses to pony up the cash for them to clearance it (like a buy back except the stores keep the merch and will continue to place future pre-orders) OR the stores are meeting their sales quotas for this item type and just happen to have a fuck ton in the back still. So we the consumer are left with this perception that it isn't moving.
However, based on the layer of DUST mine have at my walmart, it's probably the former.
>>10898050There's a reason the Netflix show for kids didn't last, yeah, and it's this right here. We're at a funny impass where corporations will keep trying to shill their IPs like a pimp but new generations don't give a fuck about stuff like Ghostbusters or He-Man or fucking gijoe. It's something to be studied how Transformers has managed to survive.
>>10898056BBTS will never run out of this wave or they will bleed money doing so. That's probably why they aren't being clearanced but I'm not a retail zombie so I can't confirm it on my own.
