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I'm just failing to see what the benefit of the acquisition is for NECA if they don't retain the licenses unless if was to literally buy out a competitor to kill it. And, maybe it's just me, but while both are/were toy companies, NECA and Diamond Select Toys were not competing for my dollars...

I managed to get an order in for Year One Batman last week on Walmart’s app, but the figure I actually got was the platinum one. This is one case where that’s not what I wanted. I put in another order a day or two later but it was canceled. Just put an order in for both Year One Batman and...

Yeah, I don’t quite understand what’s the move here and value for NECA if they’re not getting the existing licenses to supplement their current ones. The distribution business seems like it was a failing one for Diamond specifically and a challenge for any company in general, so not sure why...

Oh, I didn’t realize that Super 7 was done being able to do updates of the original Playmates. It does look like they got to most of the original few years of the ‘80s line, though. Kind of hoping the figures go on deep discount somewhere so I can build a collection. Sent from my iPhone...

What do you mean by stopped being able to do that for Super 7? And yeah, I would love NECA to do more of the later figures that never showed up in the cartoon. They just did it with Wyrm. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I want Pizza Face. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Playmates hasn’t solicited any new retro releases, right? I saw the ones revealed at Toy Fair. Very excited for the old school Sewer Lair re-release. I remember begging my mom for it for my 5th birthday. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Archangel looks great. He’s sitting in my pile of loot at BBTS. Also, didn’t realize Articulated Thoughts was on Tapatalk before this post. Very excited about that. Sharing photos in so much easier. Sad to see the Fwoosh die off, but glad to find a similar community here. Sent from my iPhone...

I do think the Super7 Ultimate Turtles stuff looks great. Very interesting concept to try and make "ultimate" versions of the original toy line vs. a media source like the cartoon. I noticed almost everything single wave for it is on BBTS still, most with a discount. That seems unusual.

I don't collect Super7 and don't really have any opinions on them, but in general, this is the approach of a lot of small- and medium-sized businesses where revenue from sales is immediately reinvested in the business for subsequent product development and/or manufacturing. It's not a Ponzi...

He did end up selling out by the end of the night. Would've been a five-minute sell-out without the extra fees. But yeah, I agree that I would hope this gives Mondo pause at keeping up the release speed they were doing before the tariffs. They were basically releasing one figure a week between...

Mondo just listed Nightcrawler. The total it was showing me was $53 USD more than it costs for the Wolverine figure that went up for sale a few months ago. And Nightcrawler is on the smaller side. I imagine any over-sized figure like Sinister would be $350. Hoping they refund customers the...

If I'm understanding correctly, this would incentivize companies to import items in bulk themselves vs. having them ship directly to consumers (like Mondo sometimes does with items shipping directly from China to consumers via DHL).

I'll be able to maybe get like the HARDAC figure in like six months when a bunch are jumped at a single Target near me but unlikely to see anything else. (I'm assuming HARDAC won't be popular.)

Haha. I hadn't even considered that, but yeah, there's an incentive to be sloppy for companies.

Based on the NY Times article I'm reading, it sounds like the 30% is still happening and that it'll be the case for 90 days. I imagine companies are going to be rushing to get stuff on boats and in the US ASAP. Very curious what the timing even looks like for toy companies. Like, I imagine...

Really hoping the Bruce Wayne wave goes up on Target.com at some point.

Is it just those two? I imagine Rocksteady would be paired with Bebop.

Must be a rich people Target. All the ones I’ve been to in the NYC area are pretty sad, but there’s one I go to during the holidays when I’m in Michigan that always looks like this. It’s in the fancy town where Madonna grew up. Every time I go there I see multiple McFarlane DC Multiverse...

There are a decent number of listings in the US for the wrestling set at like 40-50% off the Target price before taxes and shipping. Was there a giant sale on these before? Curious how sellers are able to offer such a discount. On a related note, IDW put out a hardcover collected edition of the...

If the announcement really is a meaningful change or reduction in tariffs, it’ll be interesting to see how quickly toy companies and retailers remove tariff surcharges and price increases. Like, the Mondo Nightcrawler is going up for sale this week — does this mean Mondo removes the 20% tariff...

It’ll also still have the effect of other countries not trusting the US, so partnering more closely with China and other countries for trade and with other areas. Also, US companies will likely be still conservative with investments in terms of hiring and expansion because they don’t know what...

I wonder if that language was there before and they forgot to remove it.

The street scene listings mentions more “Sewer Lairs” coming. Unclear if that was there before or if it’s new. Also unclear if that means they’ll produce more of the living room or lab or if it means new areas like the kitchen.

BBTS charged me for a bunch of items today -- ML X-Force X-23/Warpath pack, X-Force Archangel, and some Funko Batman: The Animated Series Pops -- and there wasn't any indication of a tariff charge. They're still in my pile of loot, so not sure if that charge would be added. then.