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11-17-2017, 11:58 PM | #1 |
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I'm usually not the type of person to jump to the "sexism" narrative some feminists like to do online, however the only figures I ever see on the shelves are the female rangers. Even with new shipments it's only female rangers. Doesn't it seem as though Bandai America is artificially inflating the market with female rangers so they can have a pathetic excuse not to make them anymore?
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11-18-2017, 07:28 PM | #2 |
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Like why do I even bother posting threads anymore? Either this site is dead or people don't even bother to click on anything anymore.
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11-18-2017, 08:35 PM | #3 |
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Right now this is a case of "What are we supposed to say?"
The more popular figures sell faster. The female figures are sitting because they're just not as popular. They're not artificially inflating the market with female figures, it's just that they suck at distributing characters in cases. The other issue is splitting teams up between waves. They're banking on collectors picking up, say, only NS Blue while her teammates won't be appearing for another 6 months (Random example. I don't remember the actual distribution)
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11-28-2017, 01:38 PM | #4 |
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NS Blue came out with the other rangers in Wave 1.
The real problem happened in the later waves. MMPR Pink and In Space Yellow. Basically what happened was these were staying on the shelves. Retailers weren't ordering more cases because they had Space Yellow and MMPR Pink(which I think cleared inventory more than Space Yellow) stuck around. So they aren't getting in the other colors. It was wrong of Bandai to have this kind of system. They aren't selling as many units before they forced this system. The last wave was a fiasco. For an extremely long time the waves weren't making it's way across the country. Probably thanks to those previous figures still on shelves. I have never seen the remaining In Space figures outside Gamestop. Bandai thought there was huge demand with the MMPR figures and didn't understand that it's because they just weren't in the stores. So they put out too much stock over their own mistake. Bandai screwed themselves over and blamed the fanbase for not buying. They made a sexist toy. They put too much of it out in stores. Stores won't buy more cases because on paper they have plenty of figures. They look at say Yellow IS Ranger and it's equal to the Red IS Ranger. Now it seems that Bandai is holding back on the female rangers. This could have been okay but now it looks like the Zeo/Dino Thunder wave has seriously production issues. Well issues that Bandai intentionally caused. They didn't use gold paint and they removed articulation. |
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