I think what you’re failing to realize is that there’s a difference between discussing our complaints on a discussion forum and expressing those complaints to representative of the company that you have the problems with. I never said that we all weren’t upset or that some of us haven’t “whined” because they haven’t produced the toys we would like them to make, nor did any of us say that you were the only “whiney” person on the boards, you’re just the first one to have taken that a step further and submitted your complaints to Thinkway, and in a rather unprofessional way.
You obviously didn’t listen to what I was saying about Hasbro either, as I wasn’t referring to either of those two brands, I was talking about Star Wars, which was a movie, not a TV show in case you didn’t know that. Hasbro holds Q&A sessions with several different Star Wars fan sites and they are allowed to send in two questions and Hasbro responds to them. They are a much larger company, so they can easily do something like this, whereas Thinkway is a smaller, foreign based company (their HQ is located in Canada). Over the years enough people have whined to them about things that they want that I think Hasbro has really gotten tired of dealing with collectors. They also make the claims time and time again that collectors are not their main focus, kids are, and I’m sure Thinkway feels somewhat similarly.
I’m not so “weak” that I would give up on this collection, because I would love nothing more than to see them produce a true Wave 3 that includes Zurg, Pete, Trixie, Mrs. P, and Stretch or some other toy, but if they decide that they aren’t going to make any more Collection toys there isn’t much that any of us can do. We can voice our concerns and express our desires for this line to continue, and given the number of emails they’ve likely gotten regarding Wave 3 I’m sure they already know we all would like for this to happen, but7 they are a business, and if they look at the sales figures and see that the Collection toys aren’t selling that well, and the non-Collection stuff is, they’re going to make more of the non-Collection stuff and less of the Collection stuff.
Unfortunately, you’re grossly over-estimating just how many people actually buy these things. Yes there are a lot of Collectors out there, but we are a very small amount of their sales, and if you haven’t noticed, the Collection stuff is what is either sitting on shelves or being clearanced out because it’s not moving, while the other stuff seems to move rather frequently and consistently. While the movie was in the spotlight the Collection was popular, but most of the people that wanted the Collection toys have purchased all that they’re going to buy, and therefore any further Waves of Collection stuff will not do very well, as much as it pains me to finally admit that. I’ve held out hope as long as I could that we will see the toys that we want made eventually, but anymore I think it’s pretty fruitless to do so. In the event that they do make another movie we may yet see our elusive Wave 3 made, but even that may be a “pie-in-the-sky” dream. We had a good run while it lasted, and I’m thankful to have gotten what we did.
Anyways, rant over, but I just wish more people would read the whole posts that others are making and try to understand what they are meaning rather than just taking one word and running with it.
And tried looking for the Collection toys both in Pixar Place at Hollywood Studios and in Downtown Disney. Didn’t see a single one.
I wanna new collector toys…
