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>I was hoping for an expansive line that would cover everything from EGB to the IDW stuff. Or something as crazy as Ectotron, like a team of ghost busting power rangers. But we just got more of the same boring crap. I'm sure if the line is a success well see stuff like that. I'd LOVE EGB and would kill for figures. That show is criminally underrated. It was a natural progression of the Ghostbusters timeline that didn't shit all over the original movie or RGB. Same with the IDW comic. I enjoy it a lot.
Starting the line with EGB or IDW stuff would just be plain stupid. You always start with the main stuff, the big guns, the stuff people actually know and follow. EGB isn't well known to the average person. It was a niche show that has become forgettable since it's premiere. The comic, despite being great, is also not that popular. Lots of movie fans don't even know it exists to this day. What sells is what people know.
Think of it this way if Hasbro lost the Star Wars license and it went to Mattel, do you think Mattel wouldn't make Darth Vader figures since Hasbro has been doing them forever? How about Luke, Leia, or Han? Let's take TMNT. Should a new company abstain from making Leo and Ralphs? Should McF not be doing Batman figures but concentrate on only C and D-tier DC characters? Of course not. You always do the core characters for any line including Ghostbusters.
Also, Hasbro has to sell the line to retailers to get it into stores. They aren't going to do that with EGB figures or figures based on a comic the average person doesn't know exists. Plus Hasbro has to deal with the aftermath of the 2016 toy line debacle. After seeing how so poorly the 2016 line did, no retail chain would have given shelfspace to a line comprised of non-classic GB characters.
This is all pretty simple economics/business know-how.
