BBTS emailed yesterday saying they've removed ALL DST pre-orders. Many had been previously left up because there were still hopes some merch would come in. Over on Fwoosh a year ago DST Zach had stated that the Muppets Uncle Deadly / Pepe 2-pack had already been "on the boats" and should have been in the warehouses last year, however they simply never materialized despite the company rep saying they had indeed been manufactured.Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. I was really enjoying their LOTR line among others.
>>11616124Did the X-Men Inferno mini figure box set ship at least to stores?
>>11616124Yep.I've had a pre-order for almost 12 months now, for the Metallic version of the Iron Giant that just got cancelled - but this by Entertainment Earth.>>11616168>ship at least to storesWhich annoys the fuck out of me, because I know some metallic IGs were made and sold, I just missed out by relying on an on-line pre-order.
>>11616124I know the new owners are selling some of the Diamond Select stuff that was announced at SDCC, you can even order for it on-line, but it's a different e-commerce site that the regular Diamond site.
>>11616124If only they stopped making those shittymates, they'd've been around longer. Good riddance
>>11616691Diamond's problem was NOT with their toys and collectibles. Those did reasonably well and they seemed to manage production, and even re-issues, well, unlike other similar companies with the same kinds of production 'runs.'They went bankrupt because DC took their business away and then eventually, the rest of the comic book market - which was already fucked up in a lot of ways, was badly hurt during lock down and they weren't prepared or able to recover without stiffing and screwing over a lot of smaller businesses, including some toy companies.
>>11616124>>11616168>>11616484Americans can't do anything right, especially with woke comic book crap no one reads >fwooshCringe>>11616696Guess they deserve to go out of business if they can't change with the times and fail to cater to modern audiences that want things like Labubu
>>11616706Get a new gimmick.
>>11616711that's why dst failed, couldn't innovate and make new gimmicks for the same boomer crap>NO NO NO NO DST WAS WHOLESOME IT WAS KINOreal glad it failed and you faggots will continue to make threads about their failure
>>11616715Yawn.
>>11616717>NOOOOO DC STOLE THEIR BUSINESS NOOOOOO TODDY MCFARTY KILLED DST kek, comic book fags are retarded
>>11616722Boring.
>>11616696And thank fucking God. If anyth8ng Diamond was one of the major contributing factors to why comics are as dead as they are. Back before Diamond, you could buy comics at your local grocery store, in fact it's how many children discovered comics back in the day. But then in comes Diamond who regulates comics to specialty stores only, specialty stores run by possibly the most inept, under trained, and poorly managed individuals on the fucking planet. You wanna know why LCS' are dead. Look no farther than their greedy piece of shit owners. When the big two walked away it was a blessing. You can actually buy comics again at regular stores. Not that it matters now that they cost fuckin six goddamn dollars. No one's spending that for a 22 page poorly written and badly drawn book these days. But yeah, fuck Diamond, they pretty much killed the comics industry.
>>11616768I don't disagree with you. I'll skim a floppy but they are a waste of time. I'd rather read a trade and that's most consumers. Graphic novels/sequential art is as popular as it was when Action Comics was selling in the millions of copies but monthly floppies only sell decently, for a 'popular culture' medium, when speculators and shit like excessive variant sales create a false boost.That said, I regret that this means DST is also going under, considering they made some neat affordable things and had some good licenses.
>>11616774>Graphic novels/sequential art is as popular as it was when Action Comics was selling in the millions of copiesOnly if you're counting Manga. Unfortunately western comics, even on TPB form, just don't sell like they used to. Compare the western comic section to the manga one at any Barnes and Nobel. Western comics take up like a third the space the manga wall does.
>>11616124Damn so no Sweetums?
>>11616776Scholastic still sells better than nearly all manga in North America, son.
>>11616867I don't think we're counting comic books and children's books in the same category. So your argument doesn't really make sense.
>>11616792Nope.
>>11616768>e. Back before Diamond, you could buy comics at your local grocery store, in fact it's how many children discovered comics back in the day. But then in comes Diamond who regulates comics to specialty stores only, specialty stores run by possibly the most inept, under trained, and poorly managed individuals on the fucking planet. Newstand distribution had been having issues for decades by then too, it's part of the reason why comic shops sprung up in the first place. Newstand purchases were limited and irregular so a lot of areas that month to month you wouldn't be guaranteed successive issues or even the same titles. Many non-superhero focused publishers ended up dying in part of that, Gold Key being a peak example.Newsstands could still purchase comics even in the Diamond domination era, most just chose not to because comics just don't sell that well. Especially with their rising prices.
>>11616768>If anyth8ng Diamond was one of the major contributing factors to why comics are as dead as they are.>DEY KILT DA COMIXS!!!>IT ONLY TOOK DEM DECADES MAN, DECAAAADEEES!!!>BUT ITS DEY FAULT!!!!!Do you make it a habit to go sperging against the wrong party just to have something to sperg out about? Newsstands weren't buying comics stupid, and by the end of the era that they were they were MASSIVELY defrauding the distributors by tearing off the covers to get money back and selling the coverless books out the back door. Holy Uninformed Retard Batman!
>>11616946>>11616962>>11616975Why is everyone hyped for Chainsawman and anime has no problem faithfully adapting the source material? Yet comic books need to make everything woke and ugly.
>>11616980Why the FUCK are you @'ing me with your completely unrelated retarded comment? What the FUCK is wrong with you, you insipid retard???
>>11616987Are you new? It's a bot. Just ignore it.
>>11616991Are you sad? Comic books are dead and will never be popular like chainsaman
>>11617005>>11616980Boring.
>>11616946dang
>>11616975>>11616962News stands still work in Japan and foreign countries, which is why manga is big there, in part. Why they failed here, other than maybe car culture, people no longer reading newspapers, magazines, etc. (which has also fallen way more in the USA than in other countries), who knows. But the other thing to remember is that news stands would rip the comic cover off and not send them back, they would just get pulped (or re-sold for less illegally by some sellers), which fucked the publishers over. DIamond partially created the whole 'not returnable' aspect of floppies which was also part of the death knell of the Local Comic Shoppe
>>11617397Yawn.
>>11616719He did it for nothing it's almost over. Todd's diaper crotch articulation figures suck. I wish he would have stuck with making more swivel cut statues as he originally planned because we got worse.
>>11616706>Labubu>>11616715>new gimmicks>>11616719>NOOOOOO TODDY MCFARTY KILLED
>>11617628Why did they think a rockman in boxers would outsell some of the other potential choices they didn't make from the jusrice gang?
>>11617890Because he's charming
>>11616768>Back before Diamond, you could buy comics at your local grocery store,I never noticed this. I just thought retailers themselves phased them out because book stores had the space for that instead. newsstands sell comics anymore, neither
>>1161818>newsstands *dont sell comics anymore
>>11618188You could still get comics at grocery stores if they chose to carry them, it's just that most didn't because comics didn't really sell.For a while in 2010-2013 ToysR Us was carrying comics,eventually they stopped because they just weren't selling that well. Barnes and Noble would sell individual comic issues too for a while, 7-11 too. None of these markets are very profitable so you don't see more. Newstands themselves are long dying and many magazines shifted to more of a seasonal premium format than monthly editions
>>11617890> TODDY MCFARTY made all of them into Super Powers, made almost all of them (save for Hawkgirl and Guy/GL) into action figures - and made other things, like the robot and Lex, that he could have made, plus the kaiju that was barely in the film for about 10 minutes
>>11616768>>11616962I think most people don't realize how shit the busienss side of things are. Distributors have been buying up smaller distributors for decades, since the 90s. Lots of deregulation (or no regulation) fucked up the market for a lot of things. DVDs, CDs, and magazines. So Diamond buying Capitol (and Marvel buying their own distributor and the ramifications from that) is one of the few distribution fuck ups that was publically known, mostly due to how small the market is and how involved fans are.With things like DVDs/BDs, a lot of people didn't know shit happened, yet you felt the ramifications from that, which is partly responsible for physical media dying.The 90s and early 00s was rife with deregulations and new regulations, which allowed companies to eat up entire markets. Shit like Disney owning 27 radio stations, 10 tv stations, plus ABC, ESPN, Marvel.... and there are other companies who own even more.
>>11618221>You could still get comics at grocery stores if they chose to carry them, it's just that most didn't because comics didn't really sell.They've all been replaced by those kid guidebooks you see at magazine racks at checkout. That age really died quietly. I don't even think 7-11s have magazines anymore neither
>>11618779tl;dr actually just fault crapazon >and, for certain things, digital piracy
>>11617891Charm doesn't sell action figures apparently
>>11618779>Distributors have been buying up smaller distributors for decades, since the 90s.Clinton, Bush, and Obama gutted antitrust laws down to abslutely nothing. That's how Blackrock got to control $20 TRILLION of the US economy. >which is partly responsible for physical media dying.1. spend money physically producing media and its packaging, then spending money to physically distribute it2. spend money on servers where an infinite number of copies can be sold/streamed with zero physical costs, and it comes with the bonus of the paying customer not owning the content, so there's no way to lose a sale to used media as people buy/sell/trade physical media. Guess which one's cheaper and more preferred.
>>11618920>Guess which one's cheaper and more preferred.false dilemma, because #2 takes 20 years for the streaming service to become profitable (if ever). They're only moving numbers around to make it seem like they're generating real money and hiding losses behind other departments, so that shareholders don't notice.Streaming makes far less money, hence the studios wanting to make their own streaming services in the first place. And it's also why they don't even want to reveal how many people are watching them, instead obsfucating it with "minutes watched."I don't know if you're old enough, but Netflix used to release their more popular series on DVD/BD and they made a lot of money, but they stopped doing that because they wanted people to subscribe to them instead, since they were losing licenses due to paramount/disney/etc making their own services.#1 generated so much money that movies that bombed in theaters would actually become profitable from the amount of physical copies that were sold. The money they made was so big that it actually greenlit sequels from those bombs (blade runner, tron, etc). And movies that didn't bomb? That's a shit ton more cash, ontop of their profitable box office. There's a reason why retailers treated a movie's DVD/VHS/BD release as an event.The DVD/VHS/BD release is why movie toylines actually existed at retailers for almost an entire year, because they would get a sales boost from the home market release 6-9 months later.Remember when movies had their own seperate toyline? I remember. That doesn't exist anymore, due to #1 being killed off because of distributors eating each other and everyone wanting to make their own streaming service.
>>11618920You're absolutely right but I'm afraid you're arguing with Subjectanon, who is convinced it's still 2005 and is also certifiably insane.
>>11619194God you sound old as fuck go outside touch grass
>>11618920
>>11619197good, 4chan should be old people
>>11619261And this is why 4chan is dying and Discord servers are replacing it. Refusal to adapt and chasing away newer generations for having diverging opinions. Similar reason why arena shooters are fucking dead; Quake oldfags refuse to touch a game made for them if it's even remotely different from old Quake, which most other gamers either aren't interested in or lose interest as they instantly get stomped by shut-ins who have spent the past few decades playing nothing but Quake.
>>11619270this doesn't sound like a problem at all to me,why the fuck would I want fuckass discord kiddies on 4chan? If you'd rather be on discord stay there.
>>11619281>this doesn't sound like a problem at all to me,why the fuck would I want fuckass discord kiddies on 4chan?Because the alternative is this site dying altogether, and you having nowhere to go. Unless of course you join a Discord server for boomers I guess.>If you'd rather be on discord stay there.I can enjoy both platforms and want 4chan to thrive. But if 4chan is going to survive the existing userbase needs to accept they are no longer the majority.
>>11619288somehow deader chan boards chug along. 4chan could bleed visitors for years and still be afloat. I'd rather have a slow as fuck board than deal with dumb fucks who type like nogsOh no I won't get a reply within 5 minutes, who gives a fuck?
>>11619281The guy's just a troll, who's making up nonsense just to shit the place up. He doesn't actually care about discord or the topic of this thread.He probably doesn't even own any toys either. IF he does, his collection is made up of Chinese brands. Ask him to post 7 figures together with a timestamp and he'll come up with an excuse to pussy out.
>>11619293>Oh no I won't get a reply within 5 days, who gives a fuck?FTFY
>>11619294>his collection is made up of Chinese brandsAmericans can't make anything what is this delusion? winning ww2 has resulted in zero industry for Americans
>>11619295Ok, I got other things to do with my time too.A lot of you newcommers suffer from groidbrain. Popularity is quality to you. I don't need 4chan to be booming, I don't need to listen to the most popular music or watch the most popular shows. That's the real difference between old 4chan culture and what modern users want it to be.
>>11619319>That's the real difference between old 4chan culture and what modern users want it to be.Old 4chan culture is dead and buried. The closest thing that exists to it is the Sharty, and NOBODY wants that variety of cancer on here.you are being replaced and there is nothing you can do about it.
>>11619323I can do my part in making this board really cringe and boomer fr fr no cap and make you kids want to avoid it.
>>11619338And you will fail.
>>11619394Isn’t 4chan was dying according to you?
