Bought my niece a book ('The Hobbit') for her birthday and figured that I'd pair some Lego with it, considering her age class, but couldn't find a single (affordable) Lego tie-in. So I tried 'Lord of the Rings' instead, same story. Then I tried 'Rings of Power' as a last resort, and the only results were 'Lord of the Rings' tie-ins, rofl.
You can buy a shitty plastic Gandalf pipe to smoke some Shire weed (left over garbage from The Hobbit era), but not a single 'Rings of Power' piece of merchandise.
The Harry Potter franchise on the other hand is still going strong. They're even releasing new Lego kits each year, although each of them is paired with a little Harry Potter Lego figure, resulting in a Harry Potter clone army if you are foolish enough to buy them all as gifts.
I don't even know a thing about Rings of Power. Like, I've never seen the Hobbit movies but I know most of the plot and runtime through osmosis and memes around the time it came out.
The literal only thing I know about Rangz is there is a black dwarf woman. Not even hate memes (like House of the Dragon) from people mocking it, or true believers trying super hard to push it.
Literal silence since it came out.