Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16) *SPOILERS*

[ZaCHw117]

Every store in my area looks like this,



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I also walk around Toys R Us on LSD.

 

[Khev]

There's not even enough OT. It's all mostly TFA/RO and it ain't selling.


Every store in my area looks like this,



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Finn's from 2015, unsold Rey's and Kylos. Too many Jynn and Cassians to count. None of them sell. Reminds me of the Saga collection from around the time Attack of the Clones came out where certain characters were rotting the pegs. I don't get why people were getting mad and petitioning Hasbro about lack of Rey. Between Toys R Us and Walmart she's clogging pegs.


All the prequel figures from those waves (as well as the EU and animated stuff for some reason) sell fast and sell out, as does the Original Trilogy. Then you look at the Hot Toys too and they're having trouble selling all those TFA figures, even the First Order Troopers!


I don't know why Hot Toys doesn't make a Darth Maul or an evil Anakin or a Jango Fett. They'd probably sell better and re-energize the line. The Darth Maul that's from that retail line above is commading quite a profit on the secondary market for a toy that was $15 bucks.

That pic doesn't prove anything without knowing sales figures. Hasbro could just be supplying enough to meet demand (which would only be smart on their part.) The current Kylo Ren PF for instance has a much higher ES than the new Darth Maul PF, despite having a significantly higher price tag. So something out there is telling companies that TFA is more profitable than the PT (including Maul, by far its biggest icon.)

 

[crows]

I remember in october all the Finn costumes for kids and adults were on clearance days before halloween and none sold here lol

Halloween day they went down to 90% off and no sales.
I dont think they sold one finn at least around here.

Kylo costumes were gone though. I dont even think stores here even sold rey costumes. Kinda weird

 

[DiFabio]

That's pretty perilous making a **** ton of all the new stuff and risking it sitting around retail and online stores like it seems to be doing. A lot of those things are from RO's launch too. Walmart and Target in particular had to expand their aisles to accommodate all the new TFA/RO product and, to my eye and visits, most of it are the same figures.

You're right though, they probably make less of the Prequel (and Original trilogy for that matter) characters which is why they're the first ones people grab up and don't come back. I dunno.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Of all my friends with kids and my wife's friends with kids, only one -- my nephew, 13 -- has a serious interest in Star Wars... and he's starting to get embarrassed about it.

I don't think Star Wars is 'cool' in the way it was when many of us were young. Maybe its GenXers dragging their kids to it that has something to do with it?

 

[DiFabio]

Maybe its GenXers dragging their kids to it that has something to do with it?

 

[ZaCHw117]

I don't think Star Wars is 'cool' in the way it was when many of us were young. Maybe its GenXers dragging their kids to it that has something to do with it?

This rings true, I think the age group from SW fandom is now around the 18-50 year old mark.

It's hard to fathom, but kids these days would rather play on an ipad than with action figures.

make your kids go outside, yo! parents are lazy, they'd rather have them inside on the ipad than have to worry about them getting in trouble outside.

safe spaces.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Sad but true. Kids just don't get in trouble like we used to.

 

[ZaCHw117]

Sad but true. Kids just don't get in trouble like we used to.

yup, I remember dirt clog battles on my HUFFY, pretending like it's a speeder bike, zipping through neighbors lawns and pissing them off.

I don't even think a kid in my neighborhood owns a bike.

this world really is going to be like Wall-E, my guess sometime in the next 4 years.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Those Wall-E people cracked me up. When the ship tilts and they all just slide away like slugs, looking around helplessly.

Ah.... the sexy future.

 

[ZaCHw117]

Ah.... the sexy future.

Clown Prince and Gaspar are counting down the days.

Home of the FUPA, where at least I know I'm free!

 

[Khev]

That's pretty perilous making a **** ton of all the new stuff and risking it sitting around retail and online stores like it seems to be doing. A lot of those things are from RO's launch too. Walmart and Target in particular had to expand their aisles to accommodate all the new TFA/RO product and, to my eye and visits, most of it are the same figures.

You're right though, they probably make less of the Prequel (and Original trilogy for that matter) characters which is why they're the first ones people grab up and don't come back. I dunno.

If autograph lines at Celebration are any indication then Ahsoka has an absolutely massive following (or at least she did a few years ago.) At the 2010 Celebration her line was literally as long as OT cast members', in fact it was second only to Mark Hamill's. It was Mark, then Ashley, then Carrie, then Anthony Daniels and Ray Park.

Based on that you'd think it'd be crazy of Disney to deny her a live action film (from a business perspective at least.) I wonder how it would have gone over if she was in the Yavin briefing room in RO and piloting one of the starfighters in the battle above Scarif. Seems like that might have made a lot of kiddos happy. Maybe they're saving her for her own film.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Ahsoka -- the first transgender superhero.

 

[theuzi9mm]

I do think that sooner or later they will have to do a stand alone movie with a character(s) from Clone Wars or Rebels as fan service for 'new' fans. Us 'OG' SW fans got RO and the forthcoming Solo (pun intended) movie. While I admit I had little interest in Clone Wars or Rebels animated series, Disney would be remiss if they neglected that audience demographic. Those 'new' fans won't care that much to see a stand alone Boba Fett movie.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Clown Prince and Gaspar are counting down the days.

Home of the FUPA, where at least I know I'm free!

 

[jye4ever]

I want to place the Prime 1 Studio DKR Batman on a Target shelf with a $50.00 price tag on it and everytime a kid and his parents come look at it I grab it and say:

"Yes, the last one!"

 

[ZaCHw117]

I want to place the Prime 1 Studio DKR Batman on a Target shelf with a $50.00 price tag on it and everytime a kid and his parents come look at it I grab it and say:

"Yes, the last one!"

You're drunk and posting in the wrong thread again, Jye.

 

[Lejuan]

Of all my friends with kids and my wife's friends with kids, only one -- my nephew, 13 -- has a serious interest in Star Wars... and he's starting to get embarrassed about it.

I don't think Star Wars is 'cool' in the way it was when many of us were young. Maybe its GenXers dragging their kids to it that has something to do with it?

Star Wars was the only game in town when we were young, and the spectacle of it was incredible at the time. Plus tweens didn't exist, and what used to be one demographic has been split into several. I don't think kids have changed all that much, but their world is saturated with storytelling choice in a way ours wasn't.

 

[crows]

It would be funny to see her babysitting that jabba baby in real life

 

[karamazov80]

Star Wars was the only game in town when we were young, and the spectacle of it was incredible at the time. Plus tweens didn't exist, and what used to be one demographic has been split into several. I don't think kids have changed all that much, but their world is saturated with storytelling choice in a way ours wasn't.

It's just not special like it once was.