>>10971342>Even with MMPR their simply isn't a collector market big enough to sustain a PR toyline like that.I think the market is there if the offerings are good enough and the prices don't get out of hand, but you can't fuck up as badly as Hasbro did and expect people to buy your half-assed/ill-conceived efforts. From wave 1 their Lightning Collection figures had poor QC and inaccuracies which stemmed from poor research. Neither of these things improved as the line went on. Dino Thunder Black from the second to last wave has the incorrect number of diamonds on his arms and legs. This was after they finally got the number right on Dino Thunder Yellow.
Which brings us to another issue, inconsistency. Power Rangers are teams. Most of the teams released in the Lightning Collection are inconsistent with one another. Even an entire team released in a single box set, the Psycho Rangers, were inconsistent. Power Ranger fans are even more autistic than your usual nerds, you have to get this shit right if you want to sell toys to them.
Then there's the monsters. Monsters of the day are an extremely niche thing, and scaling them to 8 inches in a 6 inch line is stupid beyond belief. Let's say only two out of five LC consumers are interested in buying MOTD. It's probably less than that, but for arguments sake we'll say 2/5. You're already behind the 8 ball, you cannot afford to fuck this up because your margins on this endeavor are gonna be razor thin, and yet you go and intentionally make them screen inaccurate. Guess what happens? To no one with a brain's surprise, one of the two people who were interested in a niche line of monsters drops out, and the figures shelfwarm to oblivion. You have the chance to accept the criticism your consumers are giving you and scale them properly going forward, but do you? Of course not, that would would be admitting you were stupid/wrong, so just double down..
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