[ShabbyBlue]

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Originally Posted by theguru1974

I swear McFarlane doesn't follow through on a lot of things. They released 2 Star Trek figures, Kirk and Picard, and then cancelled it. They released 4 Game of Thrones figures, then cancelled. Same for Harry Potter. These are HUGE licenses. No idea what's wrong with them.

Yup, he's worse than DST when it comes to getting good film/TV show licenses then dropping them after just 1-2 waves when the sales aren't good enough for him. I was really annoyed with how quickly he abandoned Trek and Harry Potter. He seems to be picking licenses that are either way past their popularity too and aren't marketed/distributed well enough to attract lots of collectors (such as Game of Thrones). I bet a lot of casual buyers never even knew about the GOT, Potter, or Trek lines since they barely showed up in stores and were mostly sold online. It's no wonder McFarlane abandoned them so quickly.

I expect he'll do the same with Princess Bride. The first wave of 4 figures was just revealed, but there's a few more key characters he needs to do in a 2nd wave, and I expect he won't bother. It also annoys me that Wesley just has a Dread Pirate Roberts masked headsculpt and no unmasked head to go with it. Typical of McFarlane, he'll probably offer a 2nd nearly identical version of the figure as an exclusive with an unmasked head. Sigh...