>go to walmart
>lucky if theres a single wave of Marvel Legends

>go to model kit store
>can buy kits from 1995-2025
>every gundam from every franchise
>mecha anime ive never heard of
>star wars
>dinosaurs
>pokeman
>digimon
>yugioh
>echi girl kits
>accesory packs
>even obscure gundam shows have 10 or more kits

If hasbro wanted too they could stock toybiz marvel legends, they just choose not too. The old toy store aisles are still possible, and only not a thing to maximize profits. I'm not saying hasbro should put out toybiz ML, but they could 100% have a wider selection spanning back to infinite series (or atleast every figure released in the last 2 years) if anyone at the company cared. Same goes for every company.

Its economically feasible to have every main star wars character on shelves for 20$, but hasbro just chooses not too.

(Similar shit with lego desu. Sets from years ago are readily available in stores)

They hate the metal pin anon because the metal pin anon was never wrong.

Give me my metal pins domestic fuckers

>>11454827 (OP)
It's not feasible to do it WHILE ALSO maximizing profits for shareholders.

>>11454970
Not selling product is profitable?

>>11454989
They are selling product: new product. Having old product next to it just competes with their new product for people's dollars and makes the new product less successful as some gets siphoned off as people go grab old product to complete a team they want or the like. Hasbro doesn't like that. Gives the customer too many choices. They want to make sure you have to buy the newest slop they put out in the widest amounts possible. They know some people have an addiction and need to buy like 4+ figures a month, even if it's something they barely care about, just to have a new box to open.

>>11454827 (OP)
The thing is, toys are a FOTM market. And I don't know how we can solve that.
>If hasbro wanted too they could stock toybiz marvel legends, they just choose not too.
Playmates have been reissuing the vintage Turtles with shittier paint apps, so you are correct. Hasbro do release older figures, but not to the same degree as this example. Best I can think of is releasing older BAFs as deluxes. Which I am hoping they do with the old BAF Lizard and Sauron, because I'm not a Marvel collector, but I really like those designs.

Models aren't sold in at the same scale (hue) as toys are. Model companies release fewer of them, so they continue re-re-re-releasing old kits to keep a steady revenue.
Stores also want to have a steady revenue, so they order old kits, along with the new kits and will fill up their shelves with as much stock as they can hold.

Toy companies used to have year round production for their toylines. Everything they made that year would be restocked several times a year.
Toy retailers, like Walmart, found out that you could attract more customers by making it like an event though. IF you change up the shelves every quarter, you make people come into check their store more frequently. So at first toy companies started making two waves a year, and eventually started the quartlerly schedule we have today.

Because toys sell so much and there's only so much shelf/warehouse space available, retailers can only really handle to carry NEW toys. So this is why you don't see much old shit, unless it's some redeco or repack into the newest waves.
Toy stores like Kay Bee and TRU can handle year round stock, since they have a ton more space dedicated to toys, but toy makers have to cater to the whims of Walmart, since they're so big. And since Target/KMart have similar business models, there's more reason to not do year round waves anymore.

Also, ever notice that /toy/ used to shit on ToysRUS for having old stock sitting around? Like, six month old stock, sitting along with new waves and bitching that it never goes on sale. Somehow it also means it's a poor seller, despite toy stores purposely ordering that much stock to keep in place for that long. So public perception became negative for just having old stock, despite it being completely normal to see in the early 90s and before.

>>11454827 (OP)
anon it's more related to how large toy companies are tied to big box stores like walmart/target which dictate having new things only to promote foot traffic across all their merchanidise categories. Smaller hobby shops carry only hobby/toy/some knick knack products so they aren't trying to attract in customers for other reasons. Even the model kits of the same things you are describing put in at walmart or target disappear a few months later replaced by something completely different because they have to adhere to to that retailer's cadence of having new shit.

>>11454827 (OP)
Are you new? This is how toys have always been. At least in the 15 years or so I've been collecting.

>>11455235
This is beautiful...

>>11454827 (OP)
>If hasbro wanted too they could stock toybiz marvel legends or they could 100% have a wider selection spanning back to infinite series
No they fucking can't. Way to completely not even understand how mass production works. To stock old figures from many years back in stores, they have to continually re-solicit them to retailers, either keep producing them or produce a ton and store them (expensive) for years, plus that means they way way more tooling to keep updated/clean/maintained and in rotation regularly at the factory, PLUS each run of old stuff has to be arranged and scheduled around production runs of new things so they don't get behind. On top of all that retail shelf space is literally fought after by the toy companies and they have to pay higher costs for more space and better placement in the aisles. No company or retailer is going to want many years-old figures in the aisles when other companies can have new items in stock.

This is quite possibly one of the stupidest things i've seen anyone say on these boards in years. Seriously.

>>11460741
They should at least make sure to have a constant production on the characters that people want like Luke, Vader etc... the basics of the basics
Spider-Man
There's no point in producing 150,000 Hammerheads or Eternals guys.

>>11454827 (OP)
Haven't thinks looked like this since 2020?

toy shelves have been only half full with loads of empty shelves since at least early pandemic. I have not noticed things ever get any better in 5 years.