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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

They won't know unless they try.

We're not talking about an untapped market here, we're talking about a product that has consistently failed to sell outside of a few notable releases.

Think about it, back when we first got SHFiguarts Sentai releases, nobody had any reason to believe that full teams wouldn't eventually be completed, and yet the line still didn't perform up to Bandai's standards. That right there set a precedent for the future of Sentai figuarts. Simply put, if they had the potential to be huge sellers, theoretically speaking Bandai would have tried to capitalize on this. Keep in mind that these figures also came out at a time where Bandai's attention wasn't split between a billion franchises so it's not like the Super Sentai figures had much else to compete with.

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The Samurai 5 pack does not count because that was a SDCC exclusive, was a pack containing 5 figures that had already been out for a few years, so most people that really wanted the characters had already bought them, gave them a metallic paint job, and did not even include the regular red ranger.

Why is everyone so afraid of them just trying to do it? It wouldn't be $500 because that make each figure $100 a piece. Bandai needs to just try it. Come out of their comfort safe zone and test it out. It's not like half the figures in the box are going to require a new mold. Hell, if they did a Kakuranger pack, 4 of the 5 rangers would all have the same body and only a new head. Same goes if they did Abaranger or Gekiranger. I don't see what the harm is in just trying it out once.

I'm not afraid of them trying to do it. I'd love to have a full team of Timeranger, Abaranger, and Megaranger. Just from a business perspective, there's not much reason for them to do it. Business decisions are much more complex than throwing something at a wall and hoping it sticks. With toy companies, there has to be a sizable enough market to overcome the inevitable production costs, and driving them up to create toys for a franchise that historically hasn't faired well just doesn't make that much sense.

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Collector's are willing to shell the money out for rangers WHEN THEY CAN GET THE ENTIRE TEAM!! There is no point in just owning one or two rangers to a team.

You and others may be willing to do that. Others aren't and are perfectly fine with only having one or two figures to represent that series. And you can't try to appease both crowds without making the production costs absurdly high.