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DarthNeil
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I think it's quite the opposite. Hasbro likely sends them a product catalog and they flip through deciding what the store will carry and what it won't. If a certain line doesn't sell, they'll be likely to cancel future orders relating to the product. We saw this with Indy and I also saw this with the Mini My Little Pony line my daughter was collecting (also Hasbro). Neil touched on a point with the Indy figures which can be elaborated on. TOD would've sold fairly well (at least better than all the KOTCS junk) but retailers couldn't push the KOTCS crap, so they didn't order more which in turn, led Hasbro to cancel their major production of the TOD line. Using Hasbro's own history, I don't see how you can't be at least a little concerned.
Thanks, that was exactly my point. The KOTCS (and to a lesser extent the ROTLA) wave saturated the pegs and left a bad taste in the sellers' mouth-- which is why TOD was barely visible... and why at the end you could get the peg warmers for an insane 50 cent price. I saw just this past Thursday that the Star Trek figs are now on sale (both the 3 3/4 ones and the 6 inch ones) for $5 a piece and they're still hanging there on the pegs.
Action figures are really a thing of the past-- less and less kids by them. I'm afraid that when fish tank Cobra Commander and Iron-Man Joe show up it'll be just a month before they're in the clearance bins for less than 75% what the original asking price was. Hasbro is going to take a major hit-- The studio releasing this is going to take a major hit-- Possibly every actor connected to this is going to have that stank on them for awhile (if not for the rest of their careers-- for a Dennis Quaid that doesn't mean that much but for someone like Chris Eccleston or Joseph Gordon-Levitt then this might be something that'll take a few movies to distance themselves from-- time to fire agents definitely).
One can only hope that this means less studio interference and a supposed understanding that to make a movie based upon a property ideally you need someone at the helm (producers AND director) who have a fondness for the original storyline. At least Bay had Spielberg to balance out his ignorance as Steven said he used to play with the Transformers toys with his kids when they were younger...