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Originally Posted by ukmu

I love you brother..... but that is a big pantload. This shit lies directly on them. Squarely and wholly on Hasbro. That bunch of monkey brain half wits have done this. No way is a store owned by hillbillies in Arkansas to blame for a global meltdown.

It started and stops at the top of Hasbro. The mismanagement of this scale is on an epidemic level. They have driven the line so far to extinction and tried everything they can to rid the world of 3.75" and yet it has the largest and most loyal fan base. It has the largest marketable "new appeal" to casual collectors (like office workers and students putting a figure on a shelf) to children vying for mum to buy it.

Time and time and time and time again you defend these idiots and their actions. No more..... and now it is Wal-Marts fault?

It has been Marvels fault. Disney's fault. Consumers fault. Parents fault. Shipping cost fault. Price of oil fault. Collector fault. Retails fault. Dock workers strike fault. Economic downturn fault. Anti war movement fault. Woman's liberation fault. Labour costs in China fault. Increased licencing fault. And yet it has NEVER been Hasbros fault......

Not buying that buckshot anymore bro. I think you are a wonderful and intelligent stand up guy and I root for you. But come on dude, surely it can not be everyone's fault? When do they wear the crown? At what point CAN we blame them?

Did you even read anything I wrote?

It's always been on the major retailers. Hasbro can make anything they want to make, but it won't reach shelves or production for them to make money off of it if major retailers don't support it.

Hasbro is a business. Major retailers buy what they make to put on shelves for customers to buy. If major retailers don't order it or want it, it doesn't get made. Unless it's a small production run which then costs are even higher on. Bulk orders are how they make money. Major retailers do the biggest amount of orders.

The toy market has been this way for decades. That still hasn't changed since 2009 to now. Major retailer sales are what drive the line. Not fan demand or opinions.

This has always been why we've had so much spider-man, Ironman, and captain america figures. Major retailer support wants those for name recognition, but right now due to the way the market is, major retailers are moving away from action figure markets as they aren't as profitable as other areas right now. The market trends do bounce around like that.

So yeah, I'm going to defend Hasbro because it isn't their fault, and no amount of name calling by other fans aimed at Hasbro is going to change that fact.

We've always been stuck behind that sales wall of major retailer demands and what they want to support, because that's how Hasbro makes their bread and butter. When sales are high, major retailer demand is high, which gives hasbro more room to move. When sales are down, major retailer demand is low, Hasbro gets more limited with what they can do. A lot of this should change towards infinity war though. As a two year movie cycle of blockbusters, retailer demand and hype should be high, so sales should be higher. It's a matter of how the market turns and moves. For a bit there, Hasbro had an entire toy aisle to themselves for Marvel, but now with demand lower on Marvel, and higher on star wars, Star Wars has the full aisle to itself.

This is why on transformers, we see the biggest pushes right after movies. Sales are high from movie toys selling, so retailer demand is high for wanting those lines, which led to some amazing lines like Hunt for the Decepticons after ROTF.

The same is true for Marvel, Iron man 2 figure sales were extremely high, which made the line last an extra year before it completely peg warmed, so the other lines were higher on demand too as Marvel figures were a hot commodity. As sales dipped, major retailers wanted something else to push sales. Which led to Hasbro experimenting with other toy forays to push sales.

Hasbro is a business and they have to make a net gain on what they make for it to be profitable. Sales at major retailer outlets and what major retailer outlets order is what dictates what we get. It's always been that way.

This is the way the toy market works. Until that changes, yes, we're stuck behind what major retailers support or think will sell, or what they see is selling.