Why didn't any of the Stargate toylines take off and make history like it's star brethren; Star Trek and Star Wars?
Dignity to actually end the franchise instead of milking it forever
>>11703913A new show was announced at the end of 2025
>>11703734>like it's star brethren; Star Trek and Star Wars?I think they did as much as Trek relative to the show output. Star Wars just have always been on a level very few have matched, let alone in live action SF genre. And maybe being mostly Canadian produced hindered investment in toys after the movie. Stargate was always more grounded and not flashy enough for a vast toyline empire. There were some interesting ships but most of those came years later so it was probably too late then. We get some collector focused stuff because it's too minor then.
Did the cartoon show really had no toys? I thought those were a packaged deal back then.
>>11703967what happened to Bestlock? You don't really hear about them anymore but apparently they still exist.
>>11703968We truly live in a society.
>>11703734Star Wars got a Death Star set. Star Trek got bridge sets. Stargate got... ...no Stargate? Oh no wait, they did, after you bought 9 billion worth of janky figures to BAF one.You can't screw a pooch much harder than Kenner and Diamond did when the one playset you needed was also the franchise name."Oh yeah, we got Stargate. Stargate, no Stargate".
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>>11703968They have been trying to bring the show back since before the Bald Billionaire bought MGM. They did that young Catherine thing and other stuff to try to gauge interest and go nowhere fast. The fandom for Stargate is aging even more than the Star Trek fans and they don't spend the money or have the history Trek does. And even Trek toys don't really sell, only Star Wars has managed to crack that, and only with stuff like the storm troopers, which is why you see so much Black Series stuff at Ross, Ollies, and closeout clearance places all over.
>>11703734Because Stargate was always just a bit shit. Always that show that was on in a weird timeslot and just before something you really wanted to watch.It's like some own brand sci-fi. Good enough for the price but you know you'd rather have something more expensive.
>>11710667Yeah, that BAF system sucked, especially when the only way to get the toys was special order. The whole BAF system stems from a flawed model where all figures must sell equally. If they'd just realize that some characters are important enough to exist but aren't going to sell like hotcakes, they wouldn't have to beat a square peg through a round hole.
>>11703967 Put out CoD style figures from MARA Blocks or 1/18 well articulated and proportioned figures and I will buy them.
>>11703734Because it has even less than either of those franchises. Star Wars has guys in cool armor, guns, laswer swords, space ships, more space ships, space stations, even more space ships, robots, wacky aliens....Trek has space ships, lasers, weird looking swords, uniforms, themed jewelry, loads of aliensStargate has...typical normal looking army guys, aliens are just regular ol people but with a gold thing on their forehead, barely any space ships at all ever...Naked guys in metally dog helmets, naked guys in rags with boring looking spear thingys, bronze age peasants, planet Canadan woods or planet desert outside of LA every single week....
>>11703734it wasn't sexy or cool enough. the sci fi in there looked tame and even uninspiring.
>>11715945>it wasn't sexyIronically the pilot had full frontal female nudity.
>>11716306The show was originally on cable. It was on Showtime, I think? Then it went to syndication and then got bought by Sci Fi Channel, still cable but more restrictions. They had side nudity, like when Daniel came back to life after ascending both times, or the females showing side boob but no nipples or front chest nudity, etc.
lol, the beast of burden figure is just an ugly G1 MLP horse with yarn for hair.
>>11716443>souless garbage
>>11712737Stargate fandom is growing: lots of people discovered and rediscovered the franchise during COVID. I am surprised at the number of kids who know stargate. But I agree the owners never invested much in merchandise or multimedia outside of collectors’ markets.>>11715760> Stargate has...typical normal looking army guys, aliens are just regular ol people but with a gold thing on their forehead, barely any space ships at all ever...Naked guys in metally dog helmets, naked guys in rags with boring looking spear thingys, bronze age peasants, planet Canadan woods or planet desert outside of LA every single week....Stargate had amazing writing (most of the time), great mythos, and great character chemistry. I hardly noticed any of those things you mentioned because the storytelling was so good.>>11716379Probably the main reason it never got a huge following. Spending the majority of your run on premium pay cable tv really limited your reach back in those days. I only discovered it after it moved to sci-fi channel, and I remember they would run through the whole series in a loop on monday nights, likely just to bring people up to speed on the show.
