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Not Really for Collectors
Old 01-16-2008, 09:12 AM #69
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Default Not Really for Collectors

I know Hasbro has said that the 25th Anniv. stuff is aimed at collectors, but it just isn't the truth. The reproduction packaging is aimed at collectors, but that's about it. Hasbro can't make money selling figures to a few thousand adult collectors. Its just not economically viable. Hasbro probably has to sell something like 50,000 figures of a given mold to make any profit. There just isn't 50,000 adult collectors out there, and Hasbro isn't going to produce figures knowing they will take a monetary loss. Its a business.

They may tell us, that we're the target audience, but it just ain't true.
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