Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5486221-20160803133231/@comment-3096633-20160920210334

Yoponot wrote:

Superbike10 wrote: I don't see too much of a benefit of a full reboot of a 10 year old series especially in a age of streaming. You can find the previous Ben 10 shows on legit streaming services at various places like amazon, google play, and host of places. Ben 10 is first and foremost a show to sell toys. Playmates needs a tie in show airing right now to help promote the toys thus the reboot. If toys where not going to be made, the reboot probably wouldn't be happening because like you said, the old shows are all on streaming services. It's not even like they can just air the old show on CN and then reprint the old toys. Bandai has the old molds and obviously Bandai either couldn't manage adding another toyline or they where too pricey. Even if Bandai was working on the reboot, a big part of seeing the show is ads and "NEW SERIES" and "NEW EPISODES". You can't market an old show with ads that say NEW SERIES and NEW EPISODES because that's false advertising. The old show is already on Netflix/streaming services so it won't be promoted as a "new show added to streaming services" thus making it harder for kids to find. Not to mention some of the old molds might be broken, thrown away, or too expensive to make at a justifiable price point in today's economy (see OV toys being smaller). yes sadly a lot of the budget that was used to make Omniverse came from the income in selling toys. When the toyline failed the series as a whole fall down with it. Even through Omniverse may had good ratings that just not enough in the end for cartoon network. I have something like this for example. http://ask.fm/DerrickJWyatt/answers/121382167156