tnswman said:
that was the whole problem..They DID rely on KOTCS to carry the whole line when they hardly released ANY KOTCS figures and toys..They should have been selling the Indy figures last year..we knew they were ready...However, this shows that they were after all of their money in a 5-6 month time frame.
Well, that was largely out of Hasbro's hands. That's pure Lucas, baby. All of Lucas's licenses are pushed to sell
his favorites, and screw the rest. (Look at the huge swath of Clone wars product, and the fact that prequel episodes are STILL getting the bulk of figures on the shelves). WotC has more than one expressed
regret about the Star Wars gaming license.. and other companies with whom I have worked have voiced similar complaints about Lucas's demands on them.
So it's not a surprise. Half of Lego's line had to be Crystal Skull, after all, though the demands were for
classic pieces. Temple of Doom was oddly and pointedly downplayed as even existing, and so on...
As a friend of mine once told me: "A Lucas license is basically paying an assload of money to get told what exactly you can make and how you can sell it, and, when done can only HOPE you get the money out of it."