>>41289756>The Prequelverse was popular despite having bad movies.Anon TPM crashed the franchise just as hard as TLJ did. As shit as the sequels are, because they are shit, this is nothing new for Star Wars. Here's an article about it from 1999:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1999-07-19/this-phantom-is-a-menace-to-toymakersThere's this great true story webcomic /toy/ posts from time to time too about two toy scalpers and how TPM fucked them over hard. I can't find it right now though. If you watch the Toys that Make Us documentary too all the people involved with the brand also talk about just how hard TPM killed the brand. It was entirely unmarketable.
