Terence said:
ok so im first to post for the new set of questions i will make it the most important...
TO HASBRO,surely the company(hasbro) knows there is a massive world wide campaign to get a marcus brody figue made,all hasbro has to do is look at a forum to know the massive demand in making this a figure,why as a company would you want to miss out on selling a well loved character who would no doubt sell out on preorder alone?
They're probably thinking (and maybe rightfully so) that going back and paying for the molds of a Marcus figure wouldn't be economically feasibly given the high costs of molds. Of course, there are many ways around that (just sculpting the head and repainting a suit clad body).
In the end I think its merely Hasbro just not seeing the Indy line as worth their time and trying to phase it out to put focus back on their golden egg: the Star Wars lines. It sucks, plain and simple. And in the end, it comes down to the fact that Hasbro blundered with the overkill of Mutts and variant Indys, as well as overdoing the amount of figures per wave. Hasbro shot their load with the first wave, and less than expected sales on a bunch of Indy and Mutt variants probably led them to scale back on future releases (Raiders, Last Crusade, and Temple waves).
I just hate it when a company mismanages a release...I love the products Hasbro puts out, I just hate their approach in doing so: glutting the market with too many Indy's and Mutt's. Its that simple. I understand those are the "easy sells" to kids, but the peg warming of those figures proves Hasbro mishandled it. Obviously a somewhat smaller production run (which would've saved them money, materials, and man-power) would've prevented that, and Indy fans still could've gotten their figures. The demand is there on a limited level (in comparison to the Star Wars lines), there is just way too much supply of a couple of figures that every one collecting the lines already has.
What Hasbro SHOULD do is continue the waves, but on a substantially smaller approach (as has been said by fans here and many other places). The demand for certain figures and variants is still there, its just a matter of getting them out on an economically smart business plan for the company, and there are ways of doing so. Smaller waves, or maybe even taking a mail away approach (though I know that isn't likely at this point).
If the line does die without a Marcus Brody figure, it just wouldn't be right.
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