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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 TVC OWK Obi-Wan & Battle Damage Vader 2-Pack
« on: September 19, 2023, 01:37 PM »To me, this feels a LOT more like Hasbro knows the TVC crowd will still be there to buy figures 12-18 months after a show but there is a much greater need to "strike while the iron is hot" in the Black Series stuff.
I think Hasbro has said this in a way about 6" collectors. I believe they characterize 6" purchasers as more impulse driven, I like that and want one for my desk, which is why I think you see so many Christmas decos, video game figures, and other random items that might be more curiosities. Obviously there are still the hardcore fans that buy a bunch of these too.
I do wish Hasbro got their **** together on TVC. Collectors will buy these whenever they get made, but if they want a successful retail product at Target and Wal-Mart, it sure would help if they came out with a full wave of figures pretty close to the release of a new title. Adam Pawlus had some recent commentary on this on his site that was pretty good. I get Disney wanting to hold back wildly surprising characters like Grogu from Hasbro's radar, but when you've got main characters in teasers six months ahead of time there has got to be a way to close that gap between premier and toy release. Sprinkling a figure here and there over the following two years is not going to make for a successful line at retail.