It was no personal attack. I was pointing out that you cannot refute two solid arguments with just one person’s experience.
This post doesn’t have to do with personal experience?
I don’t buy the idea that female action figures are a rare sight or unpopular. My best buddies daughter has TONS of 'em and they never had to look hard to find em at the toy shops.
I also don’t think having the lead in TFA be female was a “risky move”. Maybe if they made the movie right after ROTJ, but not now. Movies, comic books, cartoons, ect. have been putting strong females in the lead for a long time now. (though it does seem that the scale is just recently tipping towards even)
I’m also not surprised that an action figure of the lead character in a Star Wars movie sold well. Who would be?
Seems like the reporting of someone who is very much out of touch.
There are plenty of articles out there about this subject. It was a widely reported phenomenon when TFA came out that there weren’t enough Rey toys on store shelves to meet demand. I don’t see how it’s so hard to believe. It’s not like they’re saying that female figures are like needles in haystacks. There just aren’t nearly as many of them as male figures which I think is a fairly obvious fact.
Was having the lead in TFA be female a “risky move”? Fuck no. I think that’s pretty clear. I guess the question is though if studio execs and toy companies still misguidedly think that it might be.