How was Jackie Chan Adventures able to get 95 episodes if it hardly had any toys? Usually cartoons depend on toy sales to survive (Sym Bionic Titan got canceled because it didn't have toys). This makes it all the more shocking this and Hey Arnold got so many episodes because neither show had much toys at all
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>>152104319Was there a reason why Jackie Chan and Hey Arnold had so many episodes even though they had very few toys? Sym Bionic Titan got canned after 20 episodes and Thundercats 2011 got canned after 26 episodes because neither of those two sold toys, so how did Jackie Chan and Arnold do well?
>>152104319Star power at the time.
>>152104745and as for Hey Arnold? How did Hey Arnold get 100 episodes if it hardly had much merch? The reason Beware the Batman got cancelled was because it had poor toy sales, so how did Hey Arnold get 100 episodes? It barely had any toys
>>152104319How was Jackie Chan able to get 156 more episodes out of China?
>>152104319>Uncle isn't Jackie's uncle in real life
>>152104319>>152104722>>152104792>>152104928Did an ai make this thread
>>152104722Believe it or not most shows back in the day used to get their profits from the ad breaks, not merchandise. Not to say that there weren't glorified toy commercials like Transformers and G.I.Joe, but that it was still entirely feasible to make a good profit without relying on merchandise. By the time things like Sym Bionic Titan came out this was no longer true. Things like streaming, the death of the 3/4 Network monopoly, and the growth of alternative entertainment like videogames means that television commercials just don't bring in the money that they used to and what money was left was spread out over a much wider area.
>>152105097I don't recall Gumball having a lot of merch and yet, Gumball has many episodes and even came back recently
>>152105248A comedy like Gumball is very cheap to make and has a lot less overhead (cheap as in to actually make, not in inflated executive salaries/grifting etc) than an action cartoon, and furthermore is on streaming rather than competing with streaming.
>>152104319Back then Saturday morning cartoons were big and advertisement was very lucrative so I'm going to assume it pulled in a lot of viewers.
