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Hiya Toys 3.75 DC Line
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06-19-2019, 12:46 AM
SmokeBellew
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You guys are looking at this like it's some personal affront, and using fanboy "logic" about examples not being comparable, and going off on screeds about conspiracies to push you into another scale. The simple truth is, IF 3.75 sold well, toy companies would be producing it in droves. The cost-cutting/loss of articulation/lack of accessories you guys cite wasn't done to make you lose interest or force you into another scale, it was done as an effort to keep the scale viable because IT WASN'T SELLING IN ENOUGH NUMBERS TO BE PROFITABLE. I mean, shit gang, this is business 101.
As I said, if 1:18 sold in profitable numbers outside of Star Wars, Hasbro would be all in. It wasn't/hasn't been, so Hasbro isn't. Despite their efforts to keep the scale around, Hasbro finally had to concede. Mattel bailed on it for Multiverse too, if you recall. The scale bit Hasbro in the ass with G.I. Joe and Marvel & Mattel for DC...so maybe it's just comic book properties people don't want in 1:18. Oh wait, no one bought Pirates of the Caribbean 1:18 shit either...or Thunderbirds...or Thundercats...or fuck, do I really have to go on. Sorry, gents, it's my scale too, but outside of us, no one gives a shit. lol
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