>>8388121You're forgetting a few major things here.
First off: "Toys" like Marvel Legends is WAY too expensive to pay for a child to break. This new age of collecting has completely ruined the aisles for most parents. The prices of most major lines (DC/Marvel comes to mind) have begun this $20 nonsense (including tax, don't be a technical ass about this just trying to make a point.)
Other companies have picked up on this as well. While all this going on, actual real children are less likely to get an expensive toy from their parents. Especially in times like this.
Online retailers also have made it harder by having exclusive shit. So then that makes the demand even higher for those specific toys. And most likey, the actual fans (or kids) is never going to see that.
Collecting has become a business. Star Wars kicked that off but it's only been (I'm ballpark estimating here) atleast the past 10 years when the nonsense started to really ramp up.
Suddenly people can't find certain figures, suddenly it's harder to make a decent toy without ripping off the consumer in some way.
Meanwhile these "adult collectibles" are clogging the aisles. Look at your picture, these are mostly characters from movies which kids would pick up on...problem is, they're too expensive for a parent to throw into a cart.
The others are clearly based on their comic designs...yet, kids don't know these people. They know movie stuff. They're casuals. They're expecting casuals to want unimportant characters, or characters they know they'll never see again because "oh he died in that". Kids don't want dead characters. Kids don't care about completing sets for the most part.
Toys are not that important to keep a fresh supply. Only niche minority of nerds (this board) is obsessed about a store having stocked up things. Kids don't care, parents don't care. Everything can be done online if they want it bad enough or kids just move on and do something else.
