>>11471354
the frustrating part is that there is no way for Lego to know about how that affects my decisions.

for example, if each Animal Crossing set included ONE (or two?!) more Minifigure(s) I might have bought ALL of them (okay honestly maybe it depends on which characters, but still...) so instead I only buy a few, and even then, I'm not exactly super happy, wishing this $75 set had more than 2 characters grrr....

All Lego would see is "hmm... Animal Crossing is not selling..." and they might come to the wrong conclusion about exactly WHY that is. it's not that I don't want to buy, I just want MORE... to buy. and instead they just cancel it, figuring people don't want it at all.

This likely happened to Vidiyo, where the sets and characters were amazing, yet horribly over-priced. if they were simply cheaper (seriously Vidiyo was a solid twice-as-expensive as sets at the time) it would still be going strong, but they didn't sell at all, and yoinked off the shelves quickly