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Originally Posted by deecee4

Also interesting that Loyal Subjects and Funko have been able to put out classic TC product.

Loyal Subjects and Funko are used to lower numbers for certain properties and have ways to offset that cost. You have to keep in mind that their business model is built on direct fan consumers and novelty items. So their business model is structured a little bit differently to correspond and support that.

Whereas Mattel not hitting threshold for their "Classics" attempt, means even lower numbers for other iterations that use a similar model as that. Same issue MOTUC has been having. These past few years it's been kind of on the bubble as well and dwindling. But for now, the sales numbers are above threshold. For a time there it dipped below too and almost ended entirely.

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Originally Posted by donmeca2020

they should have keep it similar to the 2011 series that was only 1 season or similar styling to the original 80s series.

this is just one of those series that had such a fan following that you either do it right the first time or just don't do it at all.

Like how Teen Titans GO! is such a complete failure. I mean it's not like Titans are getting a live action netflix series now because they became even more wildly popular by appealing through comedy mixed with nostaglia.

If they did as you suggest, we'd never get anything thundercats and it'd stay a dead franchise. So while the toon may not be what you want, you can at least appreciate that the interest it generates in the property could lead to things you will like as opposed to not having anything made for it at all.

If this does well with kids, and it likely will. We could actually see a live action movie grow from the resurgence it causes.
That "fan" following isn't quite as strong as you think either. Bandai's classics line floundered and collapsed in on it self. The 2011 series toyline did well at first, but then caved in on itself too after initially really strong sales. (Though part of that was also lack of new product to keep pace to what was shown in the show. I'm still miffed about not getting Pumyra, the "Golden armor" of Omens and Perfect Mumm-Ra armor as figures. But a lot of that was figure sales too on why those didn't get made. And the playsets weren't moving at all either until clearanced out.)

The Mattel classics line collapsed in on itself too. The Thundercats fanbase isn't strong enough to support itself as a whole yet. But a toon like this could actually change that and make it "cool" again.