Muppets (including The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock)

Honestly every line not getting to the "scraping the bottom of the barrel" point these days is not a bad thing. I don't need everything to be the '87 TMNT line because that just gets me in financial trouble. If it's not being made then I'm not tempted to buy it.
 
How much does slow releases hurt sales for a line? I haven't been collecting long enough to have a good sense of how important maintaining momentum is for maintaining sales. I assume there is a sweet spot for release timing where collectors aren't overwhelmed but also don't lose interest. It seems like we're in a contraction period in action figures, where there are fewer and fewer new figures coming out from most companies. I just hope that doesn't create a spiral of fewer releases and lower interest/sales.

In addition to wanting the NECA Sesame Street line to persist and increase release pace, I am also eager for Boss Fight Studio to announce another wave of Fraggle Rock figures. I really want the classic Mokey shown in the interview with Veebs. Was that back in the spring? I assume both BFS and NECA have slowed figure production, like many companies seem to have done. I hope it's just a slow down and not a stop. Keep it rolling, please!
 
It certainly doesn't help.

There are key elements that destroy toylines:

1)Long gaps between releases.
2)Super long and repeated delays/pushing back release dates.
3)Lack of communication from companies.
4)Long preorder windows.

Those 4 things will murder lines more than anything else. Destroyed interest and faith and all that. That's why a lot of companies are implementing shorter announce times, or trying to. Putting their product out like...AS it's ready to ship, i.e; Mezco.
 
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