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Originally Posted by jwyss234

Decisions about movie toys don't happen in a bubble. Companies look at the performance and the general attitude of fans towards to previous movies when making decisions about toy lines for upcoming movies. The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine are generally disliked by a lot of fans. And while I enjoyed First Class and most of The Wolverine, the overall reception for both of those movies was "meh". By the time Days of Future Past came along, most people weren't expecting a movie that would wow people. And X-Men: Apocalypse continued the trend of X-Men movies that didn't live up to expectations. Why would a company want to produce toys for a new movie when fans have disliked most of the previous movies? Why would a company want to produce toys for a new movie when fans have disliked the toy lines for the previous movies? DST did Minimates for most of these X-Men movies. And I guarantee that someone from Hasbro, at some point, walked into a Toys R Us and saw pegs full of X-Men movie Minimates that weren't selling and thought "Man we dodged a bullet by not producing figures for that movie."

Nonsense. Minimates don't sell because there's always only one or two packs of them that anyone would buy and TRU gets stuck with the over-ordered remains of the cases.

Hasbro on the other hand would have a Wolverine toy line in production by tomorrow if Marvel gave them the green light. The Wolverine toy line from Origins did very well for them because toys like that can sell based on the character alone despite the reception of the current movie, a lot like Spider-Man toys always sold despite Spider-Man 3 and the Amazing Spider-Man movies being so disliked.