Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-34275138-20180523181530/@comment-5488183-20180525115743

Narifia wrote: I have no doubt that if the Jasiri/Kion set had been released in the US it would have sold like crazy, and even the Makuu and ReiRei sets might have sold reasonably well (as such, the only unique "villain" characters we got aside from Janja were Mzingo and Ushari, and Cheezi in the Blind Bag series). Actually, the Jasiri/Kion set was released in the US. It was first found by one of our US members (Julia, I think?). If anything, this just proves how bad distribution was in the US.

I do agree with everything you've said, though.

Something else I'd like to add, which probably contributed to poor sales, was the constant figure re-releases in different packaging. This figure, for example:



Was released in 6 different sets. 6. Even in their last batch of TLG merchandise, they released this figure for the sixth time in the Poseable figures series, despite it being available from the very beginning. This wouldn't be so bad if they didn't keep adding one figure that people actually wanted for each set, thus forcing them to buy a duplicate figure all the time.

Let's also not forget the series 5 blind bag fiasco, where Just Play handed out different dates to different people, none of them being correct.