[LordMudd]

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Originally Posted by Madame Warlock

it's absolutely wild how Star Wars and GI Joe bit it too. At least Legends is sort of a Legacy 6" thing but not many people collecting were alive to remember any Joes bigger than 1/18th and Star Wars has always been that scale, AFAIK, which makes sense since it's good for vehicles and playsets.

It just proves that it's absolutely some crappy ideologue preference with not much regard for what people really want. Some people will defend businesses as just responding to the market as if they're hyper logical naturally occurring entities but that's BS.

Hasbro pretty much forced us to switch to 1/18th back when they bought the License as it was the 6" ones that had a drop in quality and frequency of release. Their modern 6 inchers are very good but the price is ridiculous. Wages & welfare(since we're still in a recession don't forget) have stagnated and yet we're paying at least twice as much for a similar quality of product as we did under Toybiz.

Granted Toybiz MLs haven't aged quite as well in retrospect(with some exceptions, and the later ones were generally pretty great) but they did have a style and character(and generally more detail/blackwashing and stuff) a lot of the modern ones lack.

If you watched the Golden Globes, you saw host Ricky Gervais attack the Hollywood elite for their isolationism and general shallowness. This has been extended upon on line by people pointing out that the so called leftist Hollywood elite are in fact nothing of the sort. They actually know NOTHING about politics or world events, they just get up in the morning, look at what is TRENDING, and throw something stupid out in order to get attention. TRENDING is the problem and it has been absorbed into every aspect of our lives, even toy manufacturing. Company executives who actually know nothing about what they make think stupid thoughts like "Oh look, 6" action figures are TRENDING. Make all of our figures 6"."

Personally I think it would be an excellent TREND to put people who actually know something about toys back in charge of these companies.


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