harry potter? wtf.. lol damn little wizards

 

Not bad considering the big displays that were at TRU and other stores for the first 2 movies was given to Cars 2 stuff this year.

 

Well those Harry Potter LEGOs were really awesome, but then again LEGOs are always the top selling toys around, especially when it's themed.

Transformers doing well surprises no one, because it's the Transformers. Our favorite toys always sell well movie or no, but the movie tie-in definitely helps.

And the smaller Legends sized figures are selling like crazy since they're cheaper and have a huge variety, it's the Deluxe and Voyager sizes that just sit forever (though really this is Hasbro's fault for having multiple Bumblebees, Primes, and characters no one heard of like Skyhammer but not including half of the robots that actually appear in the movie in the first 4.5 waves!).

 

Well. At least were up there. Even though the toys are only kind of interesting.
apparently movies + toys are the only way to gain the public attention for action figures.

Iron man Was huge for Hasbro in 2010. But Transformers sales were way down. Despite that argueably Hunt for the Decepticons and Generations showered the fan base with more high quality deluxes than seemed possible.

Though I expect Some more cool stuff from Prime and Generations next year. Even the US release of MP-10. What the fans adore and what the public buys seem to be radically different elements.
Expect lower Transformers Sales next year. With high sales of Spider Man movie figures.

 

Again, this survey is about play preferences and not about sales numbers.

 

I heard somewhere along the line comic book super hero films like thor. green latern, xmen, superman,Hulk may be dying down not as popular anymore I think comic books weren't as popular as they use to be 20 years ago.But Transformers is way different from all of them, I never got into those comics or Like GI Joe.& TMNT was different to me also then other super heroes.

 

I have doubts about the accuracy of this. I think they mean Potter outgrossed TF3 for sure at the box office. But no way I believe an obscure toyline at best, Lego stuff included, did better.

 

Lmfao, HP had a toyline? i dont think the legos count since theyve been there for a while.

 

Can't believe I'm the first to notice this.

This isn't a US website that conducted this survey. Its based out of the UK, so what do you expect?

 

good eyes.

Almost 15% of ALL toys played with are TFs in that summer?!!?? WOW...thats pretty damn good if you ask me...

Hasbros doing some stuff right

 

I am going to requote this guy since people seem to not be seeing it. The article is just asking the kids which toys they PLAYED with, not PURCHASED.

 

Well, since the hair splitting already got started...

A) It's a survey asking kids (just in the UK) which toys they played with the most this summer and in no way reflects actual sales

B) Transformers only account for 14.47% (third place) in a survey where "none of the above" got a sweeping 62.19% of the vote (first place)

C) Technically, kids saying Transformers doesn't necessarily mean DOTM toys despite the new movie being released this summer. For all we know, they're still playing with TF1 or ROTF figures.

All in all, it's pretty much just a useless opinion poll that doesn't mean a lot to... anything.

 

Yeah, the headline's kinda misleading

 

Well, once upon a time, the guys at NECA toys were producing decent and incredible sculpts...which have given way to mediocrity in recent years in the form of slathered paint jobs (the latest figure of Harry looks like he's wearing 3 layers of makeup), and reuse of old molds (I think Voldemort's mold has been reused at least 3 times since 2005).

During the first 2 waves, they made figures of Hermione and Ron...and that was it. They could have reissued those, but no...we had to get more Dementors and Fenrir Greybacks. (If someone hadn't filched my Hermione and Ron figures from work, I wouldn't be so bitter).

 

Exactly.

Nice summary.

 

Harry Potter got a lead only because of the LEGO Knight Bus and is GLORIOUS purple parts.

 

Not surprised about the comic movie toys being so low. Up here in Canada, we've hardly even seen some of them. My local Wal-Mart got Wave 1 of Thor, a handful of GL figures and absolutely no Captain America stuff, (ironic, considering how well the film did in theaters up here).

 

X-Men takes 6% of the poll inspite of there being nothing even close to an X-Men First Class toyline available.

 

No Star Wars toyline? That's strange...

 

no offense but it has jack to do with sales and has something do do with the UK or some junk. The chart isn't even relevant to the US.

nothing has been really flying off the shelves this year. (except Marvel Legends and DC Universe junk)

the only reason stuff seems hard to find is because the shelves are shelfwarming so many toys that the stores still have yet to put out much of anything new, and continue to let it pile up in the back.

It's not a sales chart people.