[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Averaging every season's viewers gives it about a 2.7 million viewer average over its 10 year run and the average has wavered at best but shows signs of dropping, while admirable this is not exactly monumental. When Firefly was cancelled it averaged 4.7 million viewers, unrelated but Arrested Development (a semi-cult followed show, hey it had enough followers to bring it back from cancellation) has what is considered a large cult following (practically non-cult anymore) with 6.2 million average viewers, so Supernatural's following is present but even by cult following standards it's on the lighter side of things especially for something that airs on basic cable. So while a show like Game of Thrones (which now nets in around 18 million viewers average) was an obvious choice for merchandising, even Firefly (with its modest 4.7 million viewers) was a gamble, but Supernatural would be a big potential risk and even one series of toys could be seen as too unstable. I'm not saying that I'm opposed to the idea or that it would be a certain financial risk but looking at it from a market point of view, the base just isn't there. Maybe if they made it one wave only and pushed it heavily onto a store like Hot Topic it would have a chance but as is even one wave of six figures would be a miracle (also who knows what scale Funko would put it in, they've made GoT in 6" scale but then their MtG figures are in a 7" scale) but then again this is Funko and they made a wave of figures for that movie the Book of Life and that thing has little to no base which is why my local Hastings still has all of those things, so maybe Supernatural isn't as far out there as I think.

If you really want to get into comparing ratings and what not, I think it's not a really fair comparison. Firefly premiered on FOX, while Supernatural has been provided by two different networks, the WB and CW, and one can argue that it has hurt Supernatural's ratings overall, as not every market carried either the WB or the CW (I can tell you that when I was living in Hawaii for example, none of our cable service providers carried either station.) while FOX is literally carried by every provider as a basic channel. While I'm sure it's changed a bit with the expansion of satellite television and what not, it's still not a fair comparison, because for a long time, the exposure that both shows got was entirely different.

Let's not forget that for a number of years, Supernatural was up in the same day and time slot as another show that was devouring everything in it's path in terms of ratings, American Idol, as well as competing against the NFL on Thursday nights. =(

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

This might represent a departure from what others were thinking, but I consider Funko's ReAction line to be ideal for any potential Supernatural figs. This way a car or two is actually feasible and the number of characters would be limited preventing any potential line-up from going too far down the rabbit hole in terms of unnecessary figs...

The ReAction line would be a good way to go about it as well, as it would be easy to squeeze 5 or 6 figures into a wave without risking too much in terms of cost. I'd still like to see a six or seven inch wave (provided they are not complete statues.) I'm sure that a limited wave consisting of Sam, Dean, Crowly, Castiel, and Charlie would do fairly well...and if 5 characters are too much, Sam and Dean would probably do well enough without taking too much of a gamble.