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Is Hasbro Taking the Mattel Route For Marvel?
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01-26-2013, 01:44 PM
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Iceman
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i really dont see it as an issue with colour,more so an issue with people just not paying the asking price for these figures when they first seen general release.i think the reason you dont see galactus is because hasbro produced less of him than the sentinel line and besides people were genuinly
happy to pay the asking price for galactus because its a far superior figure to the sentinels.
Well, they use a lot of the same parts and are the same basic mold so I don't think that's it. There wasn't any media out letting kids know what Sentinels were but the same could probably be said of Galactus. The only things that either had been in recently before the toys came out were some video games I think. Collectors buy these expensive large figures while it's hit and miss with kids. Hasbro just did a bad job giving new fans a reason to buy either of these but they also didn't attract the collector market with retail Sentinel.
I don't remember a single collector complaining that they want a Galactus but didn't like the colors of the retail version. The SDCC Sentinel sold very well and then when we saw the silver/purple for the retail version all I heard was how much they wanted the classic colors and would pay for the other version etc. Comic color Sentinels have flown off the shelves of discount stores while the silver ones are still left sitting there. They may have produced more of the Sentinels but they didn't even sell well enough to get the classic color ones to retail shelves.
I do think you a point about people not wanting to pay retail for large items but I think that is just our mentality. We know that most of these items will go on sale for cheap on Amazon or maybe eventually hit a discount shop. The problem with this is that Hasbro needs these things to sell if they are going to continue to make more. Every time they make a Sentinel or MTT and it doesn't sell well, it means we are less likely to get a Fin Fang Foom or Jaba's Sail Barge. I would rather all the product sells and avoids discount shops because the small discount for one item can mean they are less willing to take chances in the future.
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