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Originally Posted by tlasjr

I'm not being negative, and I fully agre that a slow down is normal. I also seethediscussion here as a little skewed as I see the movie lines as related and part of MU. Like clone wars figures are part of SW.

But numbers wise if you look at the number of released/announced releases and new characters in the mix 2013 looks bare.
figures newbs
2009 70 44
2010 83 44
2011 63 31
2012 58 23
2013 8 7

so far this years they've release 23 figures, 5 new characters. None were single packs and aside from convention exclusives there were nonew figures introduced.

So far we have 8 figures announced for next year. im sure we'll get more and I am satisfied that theline is healthy and will remain alive. I think they just are behind schedule and slowed their development cycle to match. Maybethe second half of 2013 will be awesome.

That's really interesting too when you put it into perspective with the new buck designs and progressively better articulation. Those statistics really reflect the production costs. It's also interesting to note that for almost every year it's near half new characters, cept so far for 2013 it's almost all new.