Well, its all down to opinion. For whatever reason, I think releasing Pippin in Gondorian Armour was stupid;
You're correct it's your right/opinion to say that or feel this way.
now I know it was RTs idea so thanks for the info - that makes RT stupid "in my opinion" - a Fellowship Pippin would, I think, have sold much better.
Well, I wouldn't call RT stupid. The guy has a few oscars for his work on LOTR and some of his decision making must have been pretty good. So I think calling the man stupid a bit over the top.
Also a Fellowship Pippin probably wouldn't have sold any better than the one that was made. The Hobbit statues where some of the weakest selling items in the line and why the first three have what is to be believed small ES. So Pippin wouldn't have been any different most likely.
As regards releasing a female PF; SS is a business - in my opinion (again, I could be wrong), a female PF won't sell as well as any on the other ones I listed, therefore, in business terms, releasing a female PF before releasing those others is stupid.
Well, you sure like making we know this is all you opinion. It wouldn't be the
Like I said, its all a matter of opinion, but in any type of business, trying to sell something that won't sell as well as something else is stupid - isn't it?? (That is of course assuming I am correct in my assertion that a female PF won't sell as well as, say an Aragorn, Ringwraith or Gandalf the Grey etc. The fact that none of the female SSW statues sold well does not bode well for a female PF)
It won't sell as well as those characters but I don't know if I'd classify it as stupid. Now, not playing Albert Pujols in the bottom of the 9th in the All-Star game was stupid.