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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

People can't watch it legally when CN does not stream the show online. It's kinda hard to watch something that isn't there.

Anyway, the toys don't sell because Bandai has done nothing to advertise them. Bandai only releases them because they were given the license, but they don't give a damn about it. If they cared, they would take pride in the line and try to sell it like crazy. Plus, in order to get the toys to sell, you have to release new figures every 3 months, NOT do figures, 6 months later release a couple more, and then nothing for 8 months.

Also, since when does a toy line need to sell for the show to continue? Johnny Test doesn't have a toyline and it is on CN 60 times a day. Samurai Jack and Transformers Animated had toylines and they were still canned.

Samurai Jack and Transformers Animated are very poor examples, Samurai Jack ran for four seasons, that's decent, and Transformers Animated ran for three, which is okay. Transformers was ended because Hasbro (not Cartoon Network) wanted to focus on the movie property as it was far more lucrative (and had a much higher global audience) and since they own pretty much every single thing about and relating to Transformers that's their call to make. But they still lived up to every promise they made to Animated including releasing figures of Arcee, Ironhide, and Rodimus Prime after the show went off air. Samurai Jack was never about toys in the first place and action figures were just a afterthought once they saw the ratings it pulled in.
It's true that shows can survive without a toyline to support it, but for action properties like Thundercats it's difficult though not impossible (Avatar managed to pull through despite the abysmal fate of its toyline, though I loath the comparison).