[acdcguy]

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Originally Posted by acdcguy

Digimon: The Movie I believe only got a domestic release. It made over 16 million, on a 5 million budget. That's a modest success but indicates a small viewership. I was a big Digimon fan as a kid, still am, but I never saw Digimon: The Movie in theaters and most of my friends did not as well. We weren't aware of Omimon/Omegamon until he was referenced in Adventure 02. So super die hard fans that saw everything and then some probably saw this film and the Japanese versions if they had the means to. More passive fans probably aren't that aware of Diabolomon. They may recognize it at a glance but it's not a figure they have ties to or desire to own unlike the classic characters from the tv series.

So my whole point was perhaps the mainstream fandom was exposed to Diabolomon at some point with the tv airing of Digimon: The Movie (most likely didn't see it in theaters), but have no attachment to it like they do the eight digimon that belong to the core digidestines. Diabolomon should follow an Omegamon/Omnimon figure.