>>6426433>three figures and some cardboardCardboard is pretty damn expensive.
The packaging itself is a significant cost, more than what the figure costs (either materials and/or assembly). A diorama itself? Even more.
Go look at the prices of those diorama cardboard sets that one company is making to get an idea of how much some standalone collection of solidified plant mash with squirted ink costs.
>single carded figures for 10-11 should be feasibleCurrent MU figures cost $12 and they're lacking in articulation. Almost all other 1:18 lines are $20, if not more.
You're trying to pretend it's still 2012, but that is not the case. 2017 is pretty expensive and you're no longer a child. 2009 wasn't just yesterday.
>Why not?Because there is almost no retail support. For some nostalgiabait? I doubt even BBTS would touch it with a ten foot pole.
So what outlets are left? Conventions, where Hasbro themselves is footing the bill to sell them directly to fans.
>If it moves, make more and put them on the hasbrotoyshop siteThis costs a lot of money. The only way to get an accurate number to sell to, they'd have to do a pre-order like Kickstarter and do it from there.
However, is it in Hasbro's interest to take the time and resources to make 5,000 sets again? Nope.
Hasbro uses the convention exclusives to drum up hype. So they're doing fanboys a solid by releasing previously unreleasable products, but it's to garner media attention at the same time.
So doing a kickstarter isn't really in a lot of companies things to do list, because Hasbro is a business that has more important things to do that catering hand and foot to a very tiny base that is willing to pony up a lot of cash for very niche products.
So they'll put their workers to work on products that sell millions of units vs less than 5,000.
