I can't say that it's because no one remembers the show, because they milk Angel hard now too. It's kinda weird since they're all called cousins too.
This really did feel like Disney's answer to Pokemon before Spectrobes. I would've dug merch of them back then.

>>11719202
>They literally have Pokemon tier lineup
They literally do not.

>>11719216
>Spectrobes
I was trying to remember the name of this game. Was a fun departure in the monster collecting genre.

>>11719202
Never seen anything from the franchise beyond the first movie, but most of those designs look a bit too samey to me.

>>11719216
>Spectrobes
The box art for the first DS game looks so familiar, but I can't tell if I actually played it or just saw it often when browsing in Gamestop.

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>>11719202
It's not so much Pokémon and more like 100+ flavors of Pikachu, most people only care about the original Stitch while the other experiments come off as obscure, weird offshoots from him. Still, I see the appeal, at the very least it's a more interesting toy concept than making every single 101 Dalmatian.

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>>11719202
Lilo in that picture is making me lose my shit she looks so stupid

>>11719525
Lol. Didn't even notice until you pointed it out. Looks like she's got five o' clock shadow.

>>11719202
By far disney's most infuriating quality is negging fans of very specific titles out of merchandising or acknowledgement. They'll make all the brown magical girls, ducktales, and spiderman dolls in the world but if you're a fan of any of the movie to tv show spin offs (Tarzan, Hercules, BLoSC, Stitch, etc) you dont even exist in their eyes.

At the very least someone should make a lind of blindbag cousins (not unlike those key chains from a few years back) but alas we are damned to drown under infinite stitch merchandise. Hell it took them nearly 20 years to merchandise Leroy.

>>11719202
Furries are not as big an audience as you think, though much bigger than they should be

>>11719670
I keep thinking about Kingdom Hearts and its very microscopic Disney presence. Squenix is really the only company pushing anything for it, but Disney themselves revert back from appealing to neckbeards to wholesome family values. And yet they still create the cringe that is the "Disney Adult".

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>>11719202
At least they made these. I hate it when Disney gaslights the cool things

>>11719988
It is a company whose very existence has become contradicting. They speak out of both sides of their mouth and still manage to disappoint everyone, and after all the bullshit the disney adults will still pony up the mountains of greenbacks to waddle around in the decaying ruins of Walt's parks. It's right out of the pages of 2000AD.

Suffice to say if you want anything made for these obscure works you'll have to commission somebody or make them yourself.

>>11719990
I loved the purple and orange guys. Took them everywhere as a kid.

>>11719649
No, it looks like she has a mouth inside a crater in her face.

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I wish there was Melty merchandise

>>11719202
It sounds like a stretch of an idea but if Disney really wanted to make merchandise, they should make a virtual pet.

I think they're starting to catch on since more merchandise of the cousins has been showing up lately, but it's still largely just Angel and sometimes Leroy and Reuben.

I'll never understand why they didn't market them more when the show was running, it had the potential to be Disney's answer to Pokémon and they just wasted it. Even Disney Japan haven't jumped on this shit really.

>>11721183
Leroy and Reuben only just began getting merchandised within the last two years. They really need to popularize the rest. Hell instead of sending Stitch abroad, they could have done as much with the cousins.

>>11721183
Reuben is pretty remembered, I'm surprised it took this this long. Angel was always a shoe-in.
There's certainly dudes here and there but they work better together, and served as a good excuse for Lilo and Stitch to go out on adventures together

>>11721183
Japan has too much of their own IP's already. They obligate Sonic, made Voltron a US property, that time Yo-kai Watch was an actual Pokemon replacement ...

>>11721274
They did like Stitch a whole lot at one point in time, after the hype of the first movie and show but way before the US remembered him and Disney started cashing in on merch. My workplace even sold some translated Stitch manga. It helps that Japan really likes Hawaii.
They even did their own anime after the first TV show ended, but it did some fucked shit like making Lilo grow up and leave Stitch and him getting adopted by another girl, I think it took place in Okinawa too.

>>11721272
>dudes
duds, I mean
I understand the complaint that most of the cousins are just "stitch but x", and he's still the one that stands out the most

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I already knew there was a Stitch manga, but only now did I find out there's multiple ones and one of them is about Stitch accidentally crash landing in sengoku era Japan instead of modern day Hawaii

>>11719525
Girl needs some teeth.

>>11721572
Japan's got an entire multiverse going on, and they're doing little with it. We could've had gachas and a 3DS game and such.

>>11721572
This one is awful. It completly misses what stitch can and how it behaves. It speaks fluent english...

>>11719202
My favorite was the volcano lizard thing

>>11719202
Where the fuck are the Ruben plush dolls and figures in the west. At least Japan and probably Asia remembers good ol 625.

It's usually just Stitch, Angel, Scrump, and fucking Leroy.

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Stitch already makes more money than Star Wars and Marvel.
Could it be better? Maybe, but toy companies probably already know what sells and doesn't sell, hence what they're producing right now.

>>11723213
Given how much they loathe Walt, I'm still surprised they havent ditched Mickey for Stitch as a new corporate mascot. He's about as hollowed out as Mickey these days.

>>11723064
Asians love stitch

>>11723213
Holy shit, I knew Stitch was popular but had no idea he was THAT popular. In that case, the franchise seems really underutilized.

>>11723598
Yea Asians still love him

Even as someone that grew up watching this show religiously I can tell you right now that I do not remember 99% of these designs and of the ones I do, my only reaction is "oh yeah that guy."
Frankly I was flabbergasted when they started shilling Angel in the leadup to the live action remake until I realized the simplest answer of "she's basically just Girl Stitch and we want to sell toys of that" was probably the right one. If she didn't already exist they would have just made one up instead of pulling from a 20 year old cartoon.
That all said, Reuben was an actual character and not a glorified monster of the week so I'm shocked they aren't doing more with him at least

All I saw today, hunting down other crap for a foreign friend, was Stitch clearance