>>8764096I dunno, I could easily see that being true. We don't have access to their sales numbers of course, but from what I saw around the forums, I think a lot of collectors were getting burned out and running out of money/space for more huge figures. ThreeA was taking a lot of big chances around that time too, with absolutely massive figures like the TK Hunter, and a lot of new sublines like Evenfall, World's Best Robots, etc.
There are also some other indicators of poor sales. Like for instance, their absolutely moronic insistence on only selling the 1/6 and 1/12 Harolds packed together. I think that drove a lot of people away, or led them to wait for a "next run" of singles (that never happened in the end). I suspect they didn't sell very many, because unlike other bots, very few Harolds have ever shown up on the aftermarket. I also suspect that poor sales might have been a reason why we never saw those molds used again.
Or to take another example, the 1/6 Dirty Dozen. Yeah, I know people said they wanted them, but they trickled out at such a snail's pace, and were so expensive and so similar to each other, I think most people got bored after the first 2 or 3 and dropped out. This kind of thing can work in 1/12, but at 1/6? Few people are going to have the specific combination of completionism, desire, money, and space to make it work.
So, yeah. I think it was a lot of poor decision making that tanked the bot lines.
