[goldblade6]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

Why are you fighting this so hard? We're even conceding that ToysRus 2 precious aisles worth of "collector" toys exist. They included 2 year old unsold Captain Actions, NECA figures, minimates, and some DCUC, among the various other unsold unclearanced Bioshock toys and other back log junk. If that's the definition of collector oriented then I must be buying babies play things with my Chogokins and SHF's.

Do you know how many ToyRus there are in my state? 4. Versus how many numerous Walmarts, Targets, Meijiers, and other big box retailers? ToysRus is NOT INDICATIVE OF THE MARKET AS A WHOLE. They carry a selection of "higher end" collectibles, not all of which are exclusives, not all of which are collector oriented. Again exclusive does NOT equal meant for collectors. You're trying to make up factors that the market supposedly relies on when it doesn't. One chain of stores does not support your theory.

Who cares how many Toys R Us stores you have in your state? My original point was that the gold legacy morpher was not planned for Toys R Us and rejected by them per Kickback's postulation. Rather, it would not surprise me if Toys R Us would have jumped at the opportunity to have such a coveted item as an exclusive - as it did for the regular legacy morpher - because it would sell well to collectors - just like the regular version they are already carrying - and which keeps going out of stock.

But, you know? You guys are right!

Toys R Us doesn't acknowledge the fan or collector demographic. Neither does any other retailer for that matter. That's why even mainstream toy lines carried by retailers like Target, Walmart, etc. often contain chase figures. You know, for the kids. Stores don't care about creating more foot traffic by acknowledging that collectors will come to their store more often if they can't find what they're looking for the first time. For the same reason, retailers hate collector-oriented lines like Marvel Legends, DC Universe, Star Wars 6" Black Series, etc. and never have exclusive waves or figures, because collectors just don't care about those. Only kids do. You know, with all the money kids make from their lucrative careers as kids.

And, of course, the Legacy Morpher is aimed primarily at kids, as well. Toys R Us is only selling it because they think this $60 item from a 20-year-old show will appeal mostly to kids and moms. They didn't give fans or collectors a second thought when they decided to carry it, because there's clearly no valuable market in an existing fan base, they wouldn't sell, and Toys R Us wouldn't make any money. And because the legacy morpher is currently shelf warming and not selling out online either, there's no way Toys R Us would be interested in selling the same, unsuccessful item in gold - not when the silver version has been doing so poorly.

And there's no way Bandai could convince Toys R Us to sell a gold version of such a wildly unsuccessful item that Toys R Us is losing so much money on - not even in a smaller quantity! So, it's perfectly reasonable that Bandai's only other option was to release just 1,000 for SDCC. They had no other choice!

Yup. Toys R Us doesn't care about collectors or selling to them or anything - neither does any other store for that matter. All exclusives and higher end items are meant primarily for kids and moms to tirelessly hunt down in all their free time and spend premium prices on with their endless budgets. The vast majority of retailers would prefer not to make any more money from collectors than they already get from regular, kid-oriented items. That's why Mattel doesn't make 6"-scale figures with more detail and articulation in addition to 4"-scale figures with virtually no articulation. That's why Hasbro hasn't bothered to follow suit with its own 6" Star Wars figures. That's also why no retailer carries these 6" figures, because no one - no one at all - acknowledges fans or collectors enough to want to get their money from them.

We're just a forgotten bunch that no one cares about or appreciates.