Usually when the product is ugly,garbage,weak,inferior,riddled with short cuts/faults. This is when products gets low sales.Sparky Prime wrote: And once again, in my original argument I was saying the aesthetics of the toys had nothing to do with poor sales as you had suggested, referring the the sales of all 3 movie lines, in-particular ROTF.
Your "assuming" based off nothing that the DOTM toy line aesthetics had ZERO reasons to do with low sales. How exactly do you know this as fact,Do you have a Crystal ball or black 8 ball that feeds you random answers when you shake it?
Whenever large corporations like Hasbro have low sales for a toy line or quarter sales. They have a bunch of large staff meetings,which they fully discuss what the reasons might have been for bad sales. nobody really knows,most throw out random speculation based off studies or consumer buying methods. WITH ALL THIS,IT'S A SAFE BET THE VARIOUS STAFF MEMBERS/PR GAVE THE FOLLOWING REASONS FOR BAD/LOW SALES FOR THE DOTM TOY LINE:
1- The downward spiral economy in 2011 was at a all time high. 10% of americans are un-employed,companies are not giving raises. Those with jobs are saving/hording their money in fears of getting fired next. toys are luxury items they are not necessity items.
2- Perhaps parents/kids didn't like the aesthetics/designs of the toys.
3- maybe parents/kids bought a few toys but they complained about quality control issues thus didn't buy anymore DOTM toys.
4- DOTM toys looked too similar to 2007 movie & ROTF toys.
5- parents/kids don't like buying the same group of characters toys over & over again.
6- Newer price hikes made buyers buy less.
7- on-line fans gave various reasons why they didn't like the DOTM toys. here is a short list of things various fans repeated over & over.
8- lets look at the case assortment waves,maybe we had too many repaints,too many of one character multiplied in the case assortment wave.
9-... The list goes one.