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I always felt like the sweet ice delight cottage didn't look very pony somehow. I remember it was still strongly believed to be a thing back in the nineties when I came online, because it's on one of the inserts. That along with the Flutter Pony house seem to have fallen by the wayside. I wonder if there's a committee who reviews all these prototypes and gauges the interest from distributors and then goes, nup. Not worth it.Still convinced poor PE sales in the US are the main reason UK Hasbro didn't push ahead with Paradise. Seems to me like the PE we got here were all in US boxes and so basically were leftover US ones that didn't sell. Which meant no point manufacturing Paradise. US didn't need her, they had a SS one. So we missed out. Ultimately it's all about what will sell, the production cost, price point and whether there's a market.
Quote from: Taffeta on March 15, 2018, 10:26:08 AMI always felt like the sweet ice delight cottage didn't look very pony somehow. I remember it was still strongly believed to be a thing back in the nineties when I came online, because it's on one of the inserts. That along with the Flutter Pony house seem to have fallen by the wayside. I wonder if there's a committee who reviews all these prototypes and gauges the interest from distributors and then goes, nup. Not worth it.Still convinced poor PE sales in the US are the main reason UK Hasbro didn't push ahead with Paradise. Seems to me like the PE we got here were all in US boxes and so basically were leftover US ones that didn't sell. Which meant no point manufacturing Paradise. US didn't need her, they had a SS one. So we missed out. Ultimately it's all about what will sell, the production cost, price point and whether there's a market.If it's anything like now they bring the prototypes to Toy Fair and if there aren't enough orders the whole thing gets cancelled. That's why usually prototypes exist for things that never made it to market.
Quote from: Wardah on March 16, 2018, 09:07:44 AMQuote from: Taffeta on March 15, 2018, 10:26:08 AMI always felt like the sweet ice delight cottage didn't look very pony somehow. I remember it was still strongly believed to be a thing back in the nineties when I came online, because it's on one of the inserts. That along with the Flutter Pony house seem to have fallen by the wayside. I wonder if there's a committee who reviews all these prototypes and gauges the interest from distributors and then goes, nup. Not worth it.Still convinced poor PE sales in the US are the main reason UK Hasbro didn't push ahead with Paradise. Seems to me like the PE we got here were all in US boxes and so basically were leftover US ones that didn't sell. Which meant no point manufacturing Paradise. US didn't need her, they had a SS one. So we missed out. Ultimately it's all about what will sell, the production cost, price point and whether there's a market.If it's anything like now they bring the prototypes to Toy Fair and if there aren't enough orders the whole thing gets cancelled. That's why usually prototypes exist for things that never made it to market.Or sometimes the prototypes are made just as an entire line gets cancelled- I think that happens a lot. I actually like prototypes quite a lot-
Quote from: Galactica on March 16, 2018, 02:53:03 PMQuote from: Wardah on March 16, 2018, 09:07:44 AMQuote from: Taffeta on March 15, 2018, 10:26:08 AMI always felt like the sweet ice delight cottage didn't look very pony somehow. I remember it was still strongly believed to be a thing back in the nineties when I came online, because it's on one of the inserts. That along with the Flutter Pony house seem to have fallen by the wayside. I wonder if there's a committee who reviews all these prototypes and gauges the interest from distributors and then goes, nup. Not worth it.Still convinced poor PE sales in the US are the main reason UK Hasbro didn't push ahead with Paradise. Seems to me like the PE we got here were all in US boxes and so basically were leftover US ones that didn't sell. Which meant no point manufacturing Paradise. US didn't need her, they had a SS one. So we missed out. Ultimately it's all about what will sell, the production cost, price point and whether there's a market.If it's anything like now they bring the prototypes to Toy Fair and if there aren't enough orders the whole thing gets cancelled. That's why usually prototypes exist for things that never made it to market.Or sometimes the prototypes are made just as an entire line gets cancelled- I think that happens a lot. I actually like prototypes quite a lot- That certainly happened for Jem. The Stingers, Astral, Regine...and then bam, line gone. Stinger doll prototypes sold for $10,000 on ebay, years later...
Quote from: Mermaid on March 14, 2018, 11:31:07 PMIs sweet delight cottage a petite pony set? The pony that’s with it always looked bigger to me, kind of like the merry go round game ponies.The wedding set is amazing!The chairs out front look like the same model as the Paradise Estate ones, so it'd be a regular pony playset based on that scale.
Is sweet delight cottage a petite pony set? The pony that’s with it always looked bigger to me, kind of like the merry go round game ponies.The wedding set is amazing!