[Poison Shadow]

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Originally Posted by Pravus Prime

How many DC lines and shows have they sunk at this point?

CN stated that the poor sales of Young Justice figures was why Young Justice got cancelled, but is it so surprising when instead of offering figures that fit right in with the on the pegs next to them DCUC, they offer anemic 3 inch stick figures as the regular line? Then to cater to the crowd who also has DCUC, offers figures with a crap ton of weird accessories to drive the price up and after years can't even complete the core team? (But they fit a Batman in there!)

Had Green Lantern any toy support, CN would've renewed it. Such is the 21st Century CN's attitude that toy lines keep shows alive.

So yeah, I feel no joy in knowing that a company that doesn't do a very good job (at anything boys related it would seem) keeps sitting on the DC license.

Exactly. The part they played in the death of Young Justice is why I began to loathe Mattel. Everything else they've done has only cemented it.

Both YJ and Green Lantern were screwed and we didn't even know it at first. Hell, Green Lantern specifically. Mattel did such a shitty job with their peg warming movie toys (which could have been really good if they put any effort into them at all) that retailers showed absolutely no interest in a toyline for the show, dooming it from the start.

The decisions they made with YJ toys still astound me. "No, let's not do a 3.75" series that'll fit in with other lines and encourage people to buy them... let's make a ton of 4" figures which all have the exact same odd pose!"

I wouldn't have glanced at them twice when I was a kid, either. Toy Biz's 5" Marvel toys were just about the bottom of the barrel for me back then, and that was before kids had so much technology to screw around with instead of spending money on toys.