I don't normally post editorials like this, but I firmly believe now is the time to say these things and bring these issues to direct light. Mattel is the company that we have deserved to handle the Ghostbusters license for the past 28 years, but I think (certainly now that the action figure line is dead) that it is the company that we just didn't need.
Mattel had been selling Ghostbusters action figures for the last two years, and when they first came out we were ecstatic. We accepted everything that was given to us as pure gold, and restrained as a community to make any negative remarks in terms of accuracy, price, and quality. In hindsight, I was extremely naive to have accepted what we were given, as I'm sure many of you would agree. In the end we were blamed for the demise of the line, due to poor sales, by a
'cash strapped company' complaining that the fans were unable to keep the line alive. Mattel, you may know is the #1 toy company in the world, with revenues of more than six billion dollars in 2011, and net income (profits) of over
$750 million dollars in 2011 alone. Is it really our fault Mattel has exhausted the Ghostbusters community's buyer pool? Let's look at some of the horror stories that Mattel (and MattyCollector.com) have done to some of the fans...
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