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Yeah, my wife thanks you very much for denigrating the first toy line that has got her to collect in years (I won't repeat her exact words when she saw the post...)
-M
"Opinion is the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding." -Plato
Thank you for speaking for all men collectively, and for linking sales figures.
More importantly, Forces of Destiny was specifically designed and marketed for girls. There may be some crossover appeal, and if Luke and Chewie do well, who knows what characters will be added. Is the line officially dead?
Regardless, there are comparably-scaled figures in the "boy's aisle" in a wider range of characters.
One approach, rather than denigrating female fans and customers, might be to contact the manufacturer and request more 1/6
male characters from the original trilogy. Would you buy them or are you just griping?
I don't need to show you sales links. I can observe myself. The female Dolls are not selling and are they rotting on the shelf.
Starwars is not just female or female leads, which seems to be the agenda push of Hollywood as of late..
I started this thread because I thought the toys were cool and wanted to pass along the info to other collectors and their kids. There are a lot of toy lines I'm not interested in but have I the courtesy not to go into those threads and be negative about them and there is a thread already to discuss the state of SW merchandise. On a personal note, I find it a bit depressing/frustrating to see female characters so often labeled as Mary Sues.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
Was in Toys R Us yesterday (Freehold, NJ), saw a few girls in the Star Wars section excitedly ogling the Forces of Destiny figures (mostly Rey and I think there was a Leia there), much like you'd expect if they were in the Barbie section. saw a couple more checking out the female WWE wrestling figures the next aisle over, too.
Would that my own niece were into Star Wars, but, alas, no. She's into Nerf guns, not lightsabers.
"It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life."
If anyone hasn't yet, check out the cartoons on youtube. They're short, delightful little tales. Nothing groundbreaking, just.. fun.
I agree. Those are fun.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
My kids play with my 12 inch Hasbro guys from the 90’s quite a bit.
Those seem to get a lot of ridicule but I've always liked them. Very nice quality and sturdy toys.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
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