Four points of articulation. Molded on everything. The end.

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probably cause they let Sideshow do the REAL ones now.....

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i haven't been keeping up with toys for months. just got back into it. i googled the 12" retaliation figures. OMG! i wouldn't even pay $1 for them.

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Maybe they're just lowering our expectations... then BAM! GI Joe's 50th Anniversary, filled with all the badassery we've been missing.

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I would LOVE if that were true, but I doubt Hasbro will have much of anything planned beyond a couple of press releases, certainly nothing to the level of the 30th or 40th anniversaries.

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Don't know why they wouldn't, that's half a century buddy. That means a lot. Maybe someone should start a petition...

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It could be that the 12" figures weren't selling good enough to continue.......

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Probably this. There is no non high end collector market anymore. PTE 1/6 isn't wide enough distribution to be widely "collected" by kids, and you aren't going to have enough of a store presence if you only exist in Big Lots two months out of the year.

So Hasbro is stuck between a rock and a hard place: They can't make anything to the level that will please the adult collectors that are more familiar with the 1/6 scale because no one that buys Hasbro is going to pay Hot Toys prices, and kids just aren't into 1/6. So either they make something that is "cost effective" and will be available at the price Hasbro 1/6 buyers are used to at retail, and don't sell to adults because the detail and quality is horrible, or make a quality 1/6 figure at, or slightly below, the level of quality of 1/6 currently being put out and never sell them because you won't pay $100 for a Hasbro figure.

At least with the first option they may possibly sell some to kids.

Yeah I just do not see kids now wanting the twelve inch "dolls" at all. Its unfortunate but true. I just hope Hasbro sees it and focuses on the 3.75 scale for the anniversary. A guy can hope.

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over the years we've seen the toy companies try weird ideas in an attempt to see if something sticks. I assume this is one of them. All the main lines have them and none of them are selling well. They will eventually be red tagged and probably a thing of the past. I can't see where there will be anymore made. Who's ever idea it was, they have seen what experiment they wanted to see by now.

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They've been doing 12" figures in that same style for Iron Man 3 and Star Wars, too.

Maybe they're aiming for collectors who just want a nice-looking figure in package? A display/conversation piece?

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Like, "Where did you find that piece of crap?"

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Believe it or not, people who aren't loose toy collectors don't care as much about articulation... it's how McFarlane Toys stayed around so long.

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It was said back when these were first shown at Toy Fair that it was an attempt to get the younger kids interested by having large figures for less. I think it was one of the fan sites said it. For the most part, they were 5.99 until stores decided to try and get a little more.

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Huh. Wonder if that's the same story for the 16-inch non-transforming Optimus Prime and Bumblebee figures.

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