In other words, when you see a movie makes X amount of dollars at the theater, the studio does not get all that money. The longer it stays in theaters, the ratio shifts to theaters. When a movie first comes out, most of its revenue goes to the studio. Let me address this, because you may not be aware of how box office receipts work. Repaint wise there's Normal Ghidorah, Poster Ghidorah, Final Battle Ghidorah, and you could easily do a lighting firing version or accessory pack.īut at this point I'd rather speculate about what else is in the Kong accessory pack. Dark Phoenix from that same year was a bomb that lost money. It made less money than it's predecessors but it didn't lose money. Maybe they could’ve squeezed out one repaint (probably not at that price point), 3-4? Gtfo That’s why Godzilla vs Kong got swept under the rug If you’re a major franchise film that isn’t at least closing in on a billion worldwide, you’re a failure.
Those were modest successes, KoTM definitely lost money. it made 180 million less than Skull Island, and 140 million less than the 2014 Godzilla. Detach the tail and fold the wings back and it’s be only a little bigger than the NECA TMNT two packs. Let’s not pretend like it’s packaging would’ve had to be huge. No way we wouldn’t have gotten 3-4 reissues of Ghidorah. It just didn’t perform as well as expected. KOTM may have flopped but it wasn’t a bomb like everyone likes to say it was. Ghidorah would've been a one time mold use release, which Pacific Rim had built into the designs, so doing those monsters with shared parts was something they could do to further cut down on costs.
Target didn't want that shit on their shelves, and KOTM bombing just made things worse. Ghidorah didn't have retail support at all. Toho is a pain in the ass.Īnd Pacific Rim was a huge selling line for them, AND they had Toys R Us to stock things, so there was more retail support. Except you can go to anyone that's gone through Toho and hear the same things.