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Do you know what will make the toy line last a few more years?
Indy V.
Indy V.
It made $800 million worldwide because a lot of people including myself was looking forward to a new Indiana Jones film so we went and paid admission to it. Unfortunately we got KOTCS instead.
HovitosKing said:I didn't say the movie didn't make any money. I said the film likely killed sales of the action figures. For instance, I saw that movie 3 times to try to convince myself it was good. I also stopped buying the action figures after my first viewing, because I lost interest in spending money on KOTCS figures due to the quality of the film itself. Ergo, I contributed to the financial success of the film while simultaneously putting a halt to my action figure purchases. I'm sure I wasn't the only one. At the same time, those figures sold really well leading up to KOTCS. No doubt the pre-film sales boosted Hasbro's earnings, as reported in the article you cited (which I didn't care to read).
It's all in the eye of the beholder, dude. I can spin as well as you.
JimmyPSHayes said:I've been away from the Raven for WAY too long and look what I come back to!! All this doom and gloom!!! Yes, there are some Indy figures on the pegs, but I don't see stuff falling off.
-I'm both a collector and a retailer, and the Indy stuff has been selling decent for me. This summer I know I sold more Indiana Jones figures than I did Batman figures. That might be because the Batman toys were the typical Mattel "Every Bat-Variant under the sun", but who knows.
-I'm also going to be doing my best to get my nephew into Indiana Jones toys and some other kids as well. I do agree that in the near future we'll see a "Indiana Jones Legacy" line switch.
phantom train said:I hope everyone is wrong about the Indy line dying out soon, because I for one was really looking forward to the LC figures (which I still can't find), and even more to the TOD figures, and also the next wave of Raiders figures in 2009.
The Golden Idol said:In the next Hasbro Q&A, let's ask if the Flying Wing that's in the works will be correctly scaled for the figures. I really hope it won't be underscaled!
ChromiumBlue37 said:The only place that I see the Indiana Jones figures clogging the pegs is at Wal-Mart. Anyone else think that they over-ordered cases. A sale with end cap promotion is really in order.
TRU and Target do not seem to be having this problem in the Chicago area.
The Golden Idol said:In the next Hasbro Q&A, let's ask if the Flying Wing that's in the works will be correctly scaled for the figures. I really hope it won't be underscaled!
According to glorbes' accurate model, the Wing's wingspan should be 38" and the length from stem to stern is about 16". Can Hasbro do this? I mean they did make the new Big Millenium Falcon...
ChromiumBlue37 said:Yes, Hasbro CAN do it. Especially if it a similar scale to the Dagobah X-Wing Fighter in the Starm Wars line. If they are worried about it selling, they should go for the lowest production amount allowable and then offer it to IndianaJonesShop.com or make it a TRU exclusive.
The Golden Idol said:Do you know if the dimensions of the Dagobah X-Wing Fighter are close to the dimensions of a correctly-scaled Flying Wing?
If Hasbro can make it correctly scaled, then they better do it!