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05-27-2008, 12:49 PM | #1 |
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and the little g.i. joe section is always bare. does the same company not produce both. i was in target this morning and looked around. the only thing not full was the single packs. it is driving me batty.
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05-27-2008, 12:54 PM | #2 |
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Yeah, but there's this new Indy movie so they're pushing Indy toys. We'll see the same thing happen to GI Joe next year when they start pushing Joe toys for the GI Joe movie
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05-27-2008, 01:00 PM | #3 |
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Gotta a question guys about movie toys.
Does certain stores like Target and Walmart only push certain movies? Like for instance, Target is pushing Hulk and Indy and Walmart seems to have nothing but Batman stuff? I thought those toys would be available at all retail stores.
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05-27-2008, 01:09 PM | #4 |
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Plus Indy is a Lucas product. Lucas micromanages his stuff like crazy. He is (or at least was) notorious for telling other companies "you do it my way or not at all".
Indy (& Star Wars) have always enjoyed a larger target audience/age demographic. I agree ARAH should too at this point (thanks to the passage of 26 years), & if Hasbro was properly aggressive, it could easily command shelf space at least equal to the IJ line. But they're playing it safe. I noticed that the SW shelf space in my Wal-Mart has shrunk recently. Note also that about half of the SW/IJ shelf space is dedicated to non 3-3/4 scale items (whips, light sabers, SW transformers, 12" dolls, etc.). What really annoys me most is that The CORPS (vomit) gets so much more shelf space than GI Joe . . . . |
05-27-2008, 01:20 PM | #5 |
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Gotta a question guys about movie toys.
Does certain stores like Target and Walmart only push certain movies? Like for instance, Target is pushing Hulk and Indy and Walmart seems to have nothing but Batman stuff? I thought those toys would be available at all retail stores. Don't search too deeply for the logic behind it all - it all comes down to people in offices looking at past sales numbers for products they decide were similar, factoring in feedback they gathered from focus groups they set up, then shifting product quantities to where they think the most sales will generate. It's all just guesswork. My experience is that most movie toy lines have crappy sales, but that could just be due to the customers that shop at my particular store. Last edited by Prince of Fire & Thunder; 05-27-2008 at 01:24 PM.. |
05-27-2008, 01:28 PM | #6 |
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how much of the bill did the studio foot for making these figures? I'm not sure if any but I would think that it would be considered advertising. I could be wrong.
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05-27-2008, 01:30 PM | #7 |
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Plus Indy is a Lucas product. Lucas micromanages his stuff like crazy. He is (or at least was) notorious for telling other companies "you do it my way or not at all".
Indy (& Star Wars) have always enjoyed a larger target audience/age demographic. I agree ARAH should too at this point (thanks to the passage of 26 years), & if Hasbro was properly aggressive, it could easily command shelf space at least equal to the IJ line. But they're playing it safe. I noticed that the SW shelf space in my Wal-Mart has shrunk recently. Note also that about half of the SW/IJ shelf space is dedicated to non 3-3/4 scale items (whips, light sabers, SW transformers, 12" dolls, etc.). What really annoys me most is that The CORPS (vomit) gets so much more shelf space than GI Joe . . . . |
05-27-2008, 01:39 PM | #8 |
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The thing I really like about GI Joe is that with no cartoon/film or advertisments to promote it, it is still in shops and doing incredibly well. That has gotta be a testament to Hasbro and the quality of the line itself.
Indy has a movie out, and obviously the toy aisles are flooded with it, but are those indy toys gonna be there in a year? Doubt it. Will GI Joe be there? You tell me
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05-27-2008, 02:50 PM | #9 |
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Depends on their lawyers, really; it's entirely possible that they sold a license, rather than bought advertising.
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05-27-2008, 04:39 PM | #10 |
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I think it's crazy b/c our WM will get several cases in a week's time of SW stuff, which do eventually sell, but we've had the same old Joe figures for a month and a half. All the Indy stuff is there and just doesn't seem to move. I like Indy, but I just don't want to spend a bunch of money on toys unless it's something I really want.
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