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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Then there's the idea of movie tie-ins, like Indiana Jones and Green Lantern. The figures weren't that good and the movies didn't do that well in theaters. Couple that with retailers assuming they would do well and movie products would fly off the shevles. So they maybe they ordered a little too much at the beginning, and it doomed Indy's toy line and will likely do the same for GL.

While I 100 percent agree with most of your post, there's just one tiny quibble here: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull made $317 million dollars in the US and $786 million worldwide. It was the 3rd highest-grossing movie of 2008 (Behind The Dark Knight and Iron Man...the latter by the tiniest of margins).

Green Lantern your point is absolutely true...that movie bombed hard. But Indiana Jones did quite well despite the fanboy gripes. General audiences loved it. Just like they love the Michael Bay Transformers movies while fans complain endlessly about how he "ruined" Transformers.

But anyway, the main problem with the Indy toyline was that they were effectively a nostalgia line (Most of the figure waves were for 20+ year old movies). Kids had no nostalgic connection to Indy, and even the stuff from the new movie wasn't enough to hook them because quite frankly the characters of Indiana Jones look bland compared to other lines out there. (At least until the Temple of Doom wave hit in its' very limited numbers).