two words: Rock Lords. when a toy company thinks kids are so ******ed that they'll play with rocks with Gobot-ically simple transformations, they not only jumped the shark, they left the dimension we all share. As for GI Joe, i think when they toyed with that odd GI Joe Extreme line, that almost killed Joes for me. (Sigma 6 was a decent comeback.)
True, but that doesn't compare to Trendmasters. They were actually doing well with toys for the original Godzilla film franchise and Independence Day, but they jumped the shark with the horrible American Godzilla movie. The final nail on their coffin was Battlefield: Earth.
There were toys? I"ll have to hunt a john travolta figure down, along with a tom cruise from some movie he's done, and have exciting scientology adventures with them!
You mean like War Planets? Yeah, that pretty much jumped the shark. Including the Shadow Raiders figures from Irwin. Action Man, ReBoot, Mighty Max and Max Steel (can you say Action Man rip-off?) comes to mind...
Action Man was definitely a line that jumped the shark... So many dodgy variations, and they did just end up repeating themselves in the end! I totally forgot about Max Steel, but you can;t really accuse it of jumping the shark - It was just a rip off, and barely lasted long enough to actually make the jump.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Furby yet. My sister used to own two of them, we could NOT get them to shut up. At all. How the hell those things caught on I don't know, but thank god they died off years ago. I think I still own some Humvee they produced for that "recent" (by this, I mean ten plus years ago) remake of a Godzilla film. I never actually owned any of the figures or trailers that were supposed to go with it, just the vehicle and the missiles. Then I discovered my Busou Shinki can fit in it.
Classic Doctor Who from Character Options = They finally released a companion and it was one the vast majority of fans couldn't care less about ( Peri ).
Damn. I totally loved Rock Lords when I was younger. And I bought a few War Planets in high school...
I did see those. They look pretty cool! On the diecast tangent a little, the Matchbox line is one that got lame for a while (IMHO) and then completely turned it around; lots of great vehicles in it, now. Actually, I think the current HW lineup is pretty good, overall, too, with nice real cars and nice funky-weird fantasy cars, instead of the distorted-weird stuff they were doing earlier in the decade. I just wanted to post the awesome sharkmobile.
That was the thing... War Planets on its own sucked, as a concept and as a toyline. Then Mainframe came along, and applied some Reboot juice to it and made a cool show out of it. So... would that be considered a reverse Shark jump? Where something total rubbish was taken and coolness was extracted from it somehow? It's just too bad Mainframe didn't do too well with producing things that translated well into toy form (Transformers being the exception)
