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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

You may be right. However, there definitely seems to be a market on eBay (which sustains high prices based on demand) with popular items selling routinely. The interest that drives the very kick-starters you brought up is apparently out there, highlighting that there are adults willing to spend considerable money to buy toys (some willing to secure entire lines in one purchase). Not to mention the toy-centric websites like this one (and numerous others) that support a multitude (collectively, who knows what the numbers are or could be) of adult supporters. What you perceive as a lack of substantive proof that the market exists may simply represent an inability to package/deliver the product to the "community" at the right vectors/venues. It's also possible that the retail model of mass production might not be the best method of production. A little more "outside of the box" thinking might be in order....

Possibly, but if you look at what you've just said, the market isn't untapped. It's out there spending its' money, just not always in traditional retail modes.

The easiest way I can put it is this: Most collectors only have so much money to spend on toys, and most of them spend that money year after year, whether on mainstream retail, kickstarters, ordering stuff online, auction sites/secondary market, subscription services, or otherwise.... (Usually a combination of all of the above).

Introduce enough new cool stuff...and there simply isn't the money out there to sustain it. For example, I dropped a lot of cash on kickstarters this year...a grand total of two of them. If next year there are three or four cool action figure kickstarters, I'm either going to have to get considerably less of each, or decide which ones I'm going to support and which ones I won't. In the grand scheme of things, that's just moving money around, not actually bringing more/new money into the market. If you're hitting an "untapped" market you'd have to be bringing more/new money into the hobby as a whole.

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Originally Posted by ultraman zoffy

So... as far as I can tell, ALL major retailers have axed the Breaking Bad lines (figures and bobbleheads, etc) from their websites. If they try pulling this sh*t with other lines (are GoT figures in TRU also?), life for collectors could get a lot uglier quickly.

Pretty sure GoT is still in TRU. As are Friday the 13th/Nightmare on Elm Street/Aliens/Walking Dead, etc... But it's not like we Americans dont' have a long history of basically endorsing violence and violent media. (I do not blame violent media for anything, just noting that it's highly accepted in American society).