‘Star Wars' Toy Sales Fall in 2017

Why is this happening?

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/-star-wars-toy-sales-fall-in-2017-as-movie-tie-fatigue-sets-in

toys are for children but not enough Nu-Wars 30-40 year old males have children they can buy toys for and those that have children are too poor to take them tot he movies and especially too poor to buy their kids children.
Its a basic economic trend of the millenial generation. Baby Boomers who own the toy manufacturies haven't realized this fully yet but they are dead soon and that is our only hope.

>buy their kids children
i mean toys lol

Freud would have a field day with me. Lord forgive me.

Asian cutie.

>Why is this happening?
Maybe read the article you linked? Or did you want some meme explanation involving soy.

Maybe if they made new characters that aren't "ugly black stormtrooper" and "beige feminist".

Well I already bought the full set of action figures and funko pop figures the first time around. So this second time I didn't buy a Finn, a Rey, or a Kylo because I already had them. I would have bought those anyway but I'm on a budget now that my parents are making me pay rent.

Why wouldn't you buy your kids children? Got to teach them the rule of survival of the fittest, the strong ruling the weak, the rich controlling the poor. Teach them how the real world works.

>The latest installment, “The Last Jedi,” didn’t include many new memorable characters beyond those introduced in the preceding film, Johnson said.

Good movie = good toy sales
Shitty movie made by someone who revels in giving you the finger while he shoehorns his agenda = shitty toy sales

It's really that simple. Also none of the ship designs are interesting or new

Children don't want toys. They want apps and games.

Now if they released a LEGO Star Wars Episode 7-8 game and it bombed, then there's a problem.

It also doesn't help that the toys are shitty quality and there were few to no new cool characters.

>funko pop
>full set
>parents making me pay rent

I haven't been impressed by bait this good in a long time

>The latest installment, “The Last Jedi,” didn’t include many new memorable characters beyond those introduced in the preceding film, Johnson said.

Exactly. What did people really think Holdo and Rose would be more compelling for kids than Snoke or Kylo?

Just had this thread. Take your shit to /toy/

there are lego star wars phone games

Because they thought they should just slap a Star Wars sticker on a toy and make a buck.

What children watched TLJ?

What children watched it and were inspired to buy toys of their favorite character? Like I can't even imagine that.

Toys are for adults. Japan has had this figured out for a long time.

Few new characters and what new ones exist are awful. No new outfits of significant physical changes to the main cast. Why would you buy a new figure if they are the same as the old ones? Notice the article doesnt mention lego because you are buying them for the locations AND characters

But there isn't a single attractive female in the new Star Wars cast to make figures of.

I hope we get a deluxe bishoujo statue of rose's sister soon

>While “Star Wars” was still the top-selling toy line during the nine-week holiday period

>While “Star Wars” was still the top-selling toy line during the nine-week holiday period

>While “Star Wars” was still the top-selling toy line during the nine-week holiday period

This is the strangest part to me, my little bro and his friends don't give a shit about Star Wars. When I was a kid all the guys were at least interested in the shitty prequels. Now all boys do is play Fortnite and Call of Duty.

IT'S BECAUSE THESE MOVIES ARE FUCKING TRASH AND NO ONE WANTS TO BE ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL FUCK UGLY!!!FACT!!!

what about daisey ridley

S-Should I stop wearing glasses?

Just never open your mouth for any reason. Not even to breathe or eat

noun
noun: toy; plural noun: toys; modifier noun: toy

1. an object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something.
"a toy car"

Retards today don't know how to free think, role play or disconnect from a keypad, so there's your answer.

Also:

Wil Wheaton

> who are the others in the collage ? ? ?

>after this meme, I finally shaved my caveman beard
>looks 10 years younger
Thanks Sup Forums

Because who the fuck wants to buy a Bobby Lee action figure.

>Same facial hair
>Same glasses
>Same expressions

Do they do it on purpose, or do people of that political affiliation just independently develop these traits?

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not even any cool new aliens. except the dog horses and the crystal foxes, but how the fuck do you make a crystal fox toy that doesn't cost $3,000 to produce. all the other aliens are all generic brown things that all look like catfish.

That's a good explanation and depressing.

We should put them out of their misery and just gas them.

Toys need to happen in waves. Longtime stayers like Lego or FisherPrice rebrand ever year to start new trends. Star Wars will always have fans to buy lightsaber toys and all that but now their brand is too over-saturated and has been everywhere for 3 years so now kids are bored and want other shit.


also the last jedi was baaad

It's utterly baffling why children aren't clamoring for awesome and cool toys such as this one

WHO THE FUCK IS SNOPE?

>generic brown things
same with the character outfits

it seems to be an emotional state the games industry understands

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>a nog
>a pingpong
>a mary sue
>"why aren't they buying star wars merch????"

although I suspect Kylo, Snoke, Chewie and Luke fared decently.

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>The absolute state of Nu Wars
It just keeps getting worse and worse

based ((Lucasfilm)) and their bland uncreativity

We could have had this.

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F

>The most aesthetic one is a skinny Mexican guy
What has this franchise come to?

Because even with a decade of data showing this, pandering to SJWs doesn't help your bottom line because they don't give single fuck about the fandoms they criticize. They only care about whining on their blogs.

At the end of the day, girls are still playing with Barbie, and strong independent womyn in dresses and jumpsuits don't sell.

Girls aren't particularly drawn to SW toys. That leaves a bunch of Rey figures that boys don't want, and that's the only character with a lightsaber other than Luke, but kids don't remember Luke.

No one wants shit tier toys.
Duh.

Stop posting the same shit in multiple threads, unoriginal faggot. Wait a day at least or head back to

>>>r/theRonald

This has been happening forever though. Nobody wanted C3PO or Jar Jar binks. There's always been shitty undesirable characters.

This was a main character.

They make all these characters defy gender roles and they wonder why little kids don't care. Disney BTFO