​Earlier this week, the New York Toy Fair was held. This annual event is where toy companies display their wares for buyers from stores like Toys R Us, Target, and more, hoping that these companies will order their products — and only then will they begin production. Thus, there are plenty of action figures planned by toy companies that never come out, because corporate toy buyers look at boring like numbers and ratings, and rarely do they base any of their decisions on how freaking cool a movie was. Thus, the action figure landscape of the last 30 years is littered with could’ve-beens and should’ve-beens — so much so that we’ve already covered 10 action figure toylines that were too awesome to make it to toy store shelves back in September. Since the NY Toy Fair was held earlier this week, displaying all the wondrous promise of toys to come, we thought we’d take another look back at some of the toys which were promised and then cruelly denied us.

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