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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Did you see what happened with Thundercats? Bandai released the Thundercats stuff 3 months after the show premiered and they sat on the shelves until the line was canceled back in April. That is why toys should be out in advanced or at the exact same time a show premiers.

The ThunderCats toyline did not fail because it was out to early, it failed because Cartoon Network didn't even try to find a child audience for this. Cartoon Network, being the morons that they are, only consider a show sucessful if it sales a shit ton of toys. For that they need a strong child audience, not an adult audience.

For more evidence that the timing doesn't matter, look at Ninja Turtles. TMNT and ThunderCats have the same toy to show time frame (3 months, give or take). ThunderCats is still shelfwarming. Ninja Turtles is currently sold out almost everywhere I go. The difference is that Nickelodeon marketed the hell out of TMNT. Cartoon Network gave on ThunderCats before it even started.

Basically the bottomline is that Cartoon Network is why we can't have nice things.