I am the Indy collector who has been featured in a few articles and will be featured in the next issue of the OFFICIAL magazine. I have been lucky to be in contact with some Hasbro guys ( even though they get an earful from me ) I was VERY vocal before this line was released that Hasbro HAD to stay away from the problems of the Kenner and LJN lines…They didn’t They “SHOULD” have put one mix of movie characters to each case and cased the figures out at 8 figures each. However, Hasbro paid wayyyy too much for Indy and they had to try to get figures sold to make the money back.

The Line has made a KILLING for Hasbro. However, it is DEAD!!! It’s sad because it is TOTALLY the fault of the people who made the assortments and in some cases character selections.

As far as Character selections, Hasbro could have done research to see that the Belloq in white or Idol temple gear would have been MUCH more fitting than the boring Ark suit. Hell, we can get a 1983 version of that figure for as cheap as the new one on ebay.

Hasbro should have NEVER made an Indy figure that did NOT come with his hat…Shame on Hasbro for not knowing that the Hat is as important as Indy is.

One of the most ignorant moves made though was the assortments..The same figures that were NOT selling should have NEVER been introduced into the Last Crusade cases..Not only that, the LC figures were packed in TWO SEPERATE cases which lead to DOUBLE the peg warmers packed to only 3-4 new figures.

The Temple of Doom figures will show up for sure and the Temple playset wil lsell well too. However, UNLESS Hasbro rushes out the 2009 Raider’s set in Dec. I bet the farm that we don’t see it.

If Hasbro had the brains for it, they would rush the second ROTLA wave out to pump up 2008 sales. They can ship those under the current contracts with the stores.

This was the line of my life..was it GREAT? YES!!! was it destroyed by the hasbro team? YES!! shame on hasbro for thinking that it would perform like Star Wars or Gi Joe…Also, It seems like the team members could NOT wait to kill Indy and get back to SW.

It’d be nice if I could find any of the LAST CRUSADE figures anywhere but on Ebay.

The same thing that affected sales then is happening again, it seems. A shame. I would go the DTC route as well. I managed to get all of the Last Crusade wave through HTS through sheer patience and they were WELL worth the wait!

I really hope the Temple of Doom and second Raiders wave see the light of day somehow. And if they do, DTC would be the way to go for guys like Brody and Donovan to be released.

I said this when the line was released– too many old white guys that dont sell, no real costume changes and no real interesting look characters on the whole. “Most” (yes I am lumping here) “action” figure buyers dont want figures of someone who could be their teacher at a college. I think the success of this toy line just goes to show all the toy companies may be right that a civilian wave just wont sell.. ICMG in the star wars line will reiterate this even further.

Say “hello” to another “on hiatus” Hasbro product. I guess Indy will soon be shaking hands with all of the cancelled Star Wars Episode 1 figures that have never seen the light of day.

Conversely, it looks like the LEGO Indiana Jones line is doing well enough that they’re continuing it into 2009 with sets from all four films–I’ve been keeping up with those, and enjoying them immensely.

-Q