roguetiger wrote:
Major Creator wrote:
Don't know why they wouldn't, that's half a century buddy. That means a lot. Maybe someone should start a petition...
It could be that the 12" figures weren't selling good enough to continue.......
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.