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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

TRU clearancing the figures is a pretty good indication.

So is Walmart clearancing figures.

Oh, and Target has them "on sale."

Plus you have that CN press release.

The guy's inability to comment.

That is a pretty clear indication that the show has been cancelled.

I'd call that lucky on your part.
Around here Target just keeps getting cases, no clearance.
Walmart just fully restocked and sold out of everything except 2 6'' cheetara's and 2 6'' lion-o's. They only have 4 figures currently on the 4''.

TRU just restocked today and still sold a lot.

Granted that's all my local stores.
It's easter time right now though too. So of course sales are happening. That's not an indicator of anything. As for clearancing. Different stores clearance at different times. It must not be selling in your location but your location doesn't dictate the rest. It's still going pretty damn strong in my location. To the point my area it's now impossible to find an armor of omens. One of my local walmarts has also clearanced out Young Justice figures, and for two weeks both it and TRU were clearancing out Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man 2. Went to the stores today several times(shopping for blind packs and other comparative reasons) and they all readjusted those lines to higher than they were pre-clearance. At TRU Cap/Thor/Ironman 2 were 9.99 and at walmart they were up from 5.00 to $8.96. Pretty scary with the cost matching the avengers line cost.

As for releases. The slow pace is actually working in its favor as more kids discover the show, they can still find their favorite characters. The 6'' collector scale line could be sped up some, but it's still pretty new too considering it was an 8'' collectors line not that long ago(which means it's still got figures that need to go through the entire sculpt to prototype to production version and mass production process that takes upwards of 6 months). Which also shows strong retailer support since an entire line was adjusted and ordered. If it wasn't doing well, why would the retailers bother with ordering the 6'' at all? It's not like bandai makes them take it. The retailers carry what they want to carry based on what they think will sell, and often times make requests or impose their will as to what they want. It's a pretty complicated issue when you really look at how the system works of toy company to major retailers to you the consumer.

If the retailers aren't confident in it, why does TRU and Target both have exclusives? That right there shows they do have faith in sales of the line overall if even some locations are slower than others.

Wait until SDCC and NYCC for more figure announcements. Toy Fair is retailer focused, not fan focus. As we've already seen there's also a new role play item coming out which is the sword and shield packaged together. If the line was being phased out we wouldn't see new items like that at all.

TF Animated was also more complicated than can be spoken about clearly. There's a lot of intercorporate BS no one wants to or is allowed to talk about with how that ended. The ratings stayed high though. So high YTV ordered a season 3 before CN did, let alone would CN even announce that it was renewed even though YTV did announce that.

As for this guy's inability to comment. It's called an NDA, or Non-Disclosure agreement. You're not allowed to spread information unless you've been given the okay to speak on whatever part you want to speak about(in this instance, it seems he's only allowed to talk about what's going to air this "season" on CN and even that seems to have a 2-4 week lead to the episode in question). Otherwise you could burn that career bridge for future endeavors or even your current roles in work. That's just normal business stuff. Doesn't mean anything at all. It's also to prevent employees from airing intercompany dirty laundry so to speak too.