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>Cartoon Network never made a line of officially licensed rainbow monkey plushes
Why was CN so fucking retarded when it came to merch of their shows excluding the Powerpuff Girls? That shit would have printed money.

>>150530520
Ed Edd n Eddy got shafted the hardest. Or maybe they didn't and Antonucci just didn't sign off on a lot of stuff.

>>150530520
Yeah as a kid I always wanted stuff like that and it was always really hard to find if it even existed. Some of those shows had really blatant things they could have sold as merchandise too and just... didn't.

>>150530551
Antonucci waa very anal about maintaining final say on anything and everything CN wanted to do with EEnE. He knew how to beat the execs at their own game and CN always resented him for it.

>>150530458
I appreciated Rainbow Monkeys, it felt very believable as a merch heavy franchise that kids would like. A little combo of Care Bears, My Small Horse and other toy based collector series.

Agree with this anon >>150530520 that they could have done something. I wonder what the cost and risk in producing all this merch really is. I'd imagine it's expensive but you see plenty of attempts at it so it can't be unfeasible either.

>>150530520
CN in its prime made shows to sell ad space, not to sell toys. Trying to convince a toy manufacturer to invest in what is essentially a running gag in a show that isn't nearly as well known as a Disney IP was a hard sell.

>>150530551
Antonucci seems like the kind of guy who'd hate merchandise. Kind of like Bill Watterson.

>>150530898
It was also that the 90s and aughts were slowly but surely expanding a large pile of rules regarding advertising to kids.
Also wasn't Rainbow Monkeys partially a joke making fun of just how hard 'cute' was being used to market with shit like Care Bears