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Originally Posted by Nexodusrex

really? Really? THere were like...no Harry Potter toys. your telling me hundreds of thousands of children went to the collectors isle of a TRU and bought up one of the 6 harry potter figures that CLOG that Aisle?

Even Tangled is Farfetched since I'm fairly certain there are only a couple out there.

I'm pretty sure the people who answered this poll werent thinking of toys and were thinking movie.

This poll does suck for the reasons also stated but also for the reason that numbers will be loaded towards the movie that saw more views. If a ton more kids saw harry potter than thor, then obviously a larger percentage will be likely to say they played with Harry Potter toys than Thor (completely ignoring the fact that there were next to no Harry Potter toys on the shelf in the first place).
And why the hell is Tangled even on there? I didn't come out this year. The conclusions they draw from their poll make no sense when you tell a company like Hasbro: "Hey your X-Men movie that had no toyline behind it? Yeah it was three times more popular with kids than your Thor line that had tons of product." Oh that's helpful.

If you're going to take a poll like that you need to have the kids actually differentiate between product that is on the shelves and product from past films or lines (which would be hard to have a seven year old do anyway). It would actually be useful to see whether kids buy the new product or just pick up used stuff from past lines (which is the only explanation for the x-men number).

Bah, it's just easier to say this poll blows and walk away than to try and keep explaining away all of its faults, and I sincerely hope, no one at Hasbro or Mattel takes any note of this tripe or brings it up in a sales meeting as point for or against building up a new line.