>biggest toy store in the city is closing>go check it out>this is their Marvel Legends sectionWhat the fuck
>>11636130saving this picture for a youtube video
>>11636150Be sure to credit me
>>11636130Hasbro ought to offer buy back programs for businesses stuck with all this shit and use it as leverage to get rebates or reduced licensing fees.
>>11636139the wild thing is they're at full price. This store always does that, keeps things at full price until they rot in the shelves. >>11636150If you need more pics let me know. The whole store is a shitshow of old crap.
why does the mouse push hasbro to make the dogshit stuff? do they really see a benefit to doing this when they could pump out classic x-men costume figures or something in the same line?like i don't collect marvel legends but with star wars they made a bunch of shit for the acolyte and kenobi that never sold when they coulda done something else like obscure OT characters. obviously it hurts hasbro but what about their streaming or theater releases?
>>11636190If youre concerned about the fall of hasbro, you can watch my latest youtube video on the topic
>>11636262link?
>>11636190They took a gamble on eternals, since GOTG set a very high bar. Frankly they risked LOOSING more money by not making these. It's the stores who get fucked.
>>11636159>use it as leverage to get rebates or reduced licensing feefor the mentality of these types of people, this is exactly like property owners that let buildings rot empty when urban cities have a homeless problem, or let malls or large office towers get decrepit. They get to write-off taxes on that garbage or make claims against their insurance, or both. Yes, exactly, they do have losses and do lose hundreds of thousands and even millions, but few of those people lose their actual jobs, or their actual stock options, and even if they do lose their job, it takes a while. The CEO that was in charge of Disney when this happened is now gone but he got paid millions to be fired, just like college and NFL coaches and all these other people that fuck up in life and then fail upwards.>>11636130You can post pictures of the DC stuff from McFarlane, and then whatever they have for say Super Mario or Sonic or other big movies of the last 4-5 years. This could be an interesting thread.I mean, I don't think most people live in any area where there any store that is just a 'big toy store' that can devote an entire aisle to just MCU stuff. In any stores in my city and it's one of THE largest metro centers on the planet, top 5, the biggest department stores might have two aisles this big for just LEGO's but even their Star Wars or Harry Potter or Marvel sets only take up a smaller section of one aisle. They probably make enough say Star Wars LEGO sets that they could do a display like this MCU display but I've never seen anything like that anywhere.
>>11636262https://youtu.be/pjjZjaqW2KM
>>11636263Wrong person linkedhttps://youtu.be/pjjZjaqW2KM
>>11636189...is it a wonder why they are going out of business?
>>11636130>Pic relatedThe Pokemon section at a Toy Kingdom>vid relatedWhat a clearance event looks like at Toy Kingdomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p013EcdOESg
>>11636130It couldn't be as pitiful as the Star Wars section has become.
>>11636189>the wild thing is they're at full price.Walgreens was like that too for years. Now they pretty much don't have a toy section any more at the one nearest to where I live, and it's just a few things for toddlers and that's it.
>>11636150Stop advertising your shit channel on 4chan.
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They need to just toss these in the trash, you cannot even give these figs away for free
>>11636647I'm not clicking your link fsggot.
>>11636130I’m convinced not only will brick and mortar toy stores not exist in a decade but the major toy manufacturers won’t exist either. iPads have completely replaced toys.
>>11636130Marvel tried so hard to make that breakfast club of literally whos into the next big thing and absolutely no one liked it and I couldn't be more happy.
>>11636759ALL the White characters except for Angelina Jolie is a back-stabbing villain, and team diversity are all the good ones. Throw in a gay kiss, which was cringe as fuck. The only good part was the appearance of a Celestial, which is apparently a forgotten thing in the MCU now. The Earth moves on without giving a shit that there's the dead corpse of a giant being that was born when the universe itself was born billions of years ago on Earth. The movie sucked in every damn way. Throw in the merch with Hasbro doing stuff like scaling down Salma Hayek's big tits to a smaller size.
>>11636130Why don't they just contact Ollie's and resell them to Ollie at a disc>>11636189>the wild thing is they're at full price. Oh lmao>>11636761Druig is not a villain either, although he is a bit forgettable.>The only good part was the appearance of a Celestial, which is apparently a forgotten thing in the MCU now. This was used in Brave New World to be the source of adamantium
>>11636761>>11637187I caught The Eternals second hand on TV and it mostly seemed to be 3 hours of people standing on a beach and talking.I've never cared for Marvel capeshit but what the hell was that
>>11636359>alolan vulpixsegs
>>11636189is the business thought to wait and keep them full price until they've got something that needs the shelf space and will sell easier?
>>11636759Interesting how they seemed to ignore the fact that Eternals has never once been a successful title at all. Even guardians had some good successful runs in the past, but never Eternals. They made a movie from a book no one has ever liked, and ended up making a movie no one has ever liked.
>>11636130Why do Americans make such ugly shit
>>11636130>They call them Eternals since they will eternally haunt toy store pegsWorse than that Masters of the Universe Origins wave….>Wakanda Forever on pegs
>>11636130I saw Star Wars TFA figures in Walgreens five years after the movie's release. This is getting close to that.
>>11637297The movie had Feige and a bunch of other people at Marvel jacking off to "THIS IS A PERFECT FILM OF DIVERSITY! WE HAVE AN INDIAN DUDE AND A SHOWCASE OF INDIAN CULTURE TO CAPTURE THE MARKET FOR THEM BECAUSE THERE'S MORE PAJEETS THAN ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET NOW, AS WELL AS GAY BLACK PEOPLE, ASIANS, BROWNOIDS, AND STUFF! THIS MOVIE IS A PERFECT HARMONY OF DIVERSITY, AND WE'VE CAPPED IT OFF WITH WHITE VILLAINS TO EDUCATE WHITES ON HOW BAD THEY ARE SO WHITE PEOPLE WILL WANT TO STOP BEING WHITE! THIS MOVIE IS PERFECT! WE'LL MAKE BILLIONS! JAMES CAMERON WILL BE TOTALLY JEALOUS!"It turned out that absolutely everyone they pandered to hated it too. Even the gay Black people. This whole movie was written around "team diversity," and the story line as well as its place in the overall MCU come across as after-thoughts. It really shows with how the deviants disappear from the story and it becomes about standing on the beach talking about feelings while making the White ones understand that everything they did was wrong while colluding to kill an ancient celestial. And it tried too hard to be an "eye-candy" movie with all the CGI special effects while trying too late. Maybe 25 years ago the visuals would have impressed an audience, but not today. Hollywood needs to understand the "Nolan Batman formula" of focusing on storyline over CGI effects, but they just openly refuse to.
>>11637438was the first disney wars really that bad for figures? i stopped collecting when lucas sold and just started again lately, so i never really noticed. thought i remembered the same volume of stuff on shelves as there were for the prequels
>>11637357Your country has literally never made anything pretty Ken.
>>11637297>They made a movie from a book no one has ever liked,Thing is, this is exactly what Disney producers Think is what happened when MCU made a Captain America movie, Thor movie, Ant-Man movie, and Guardians of the Galaxy. They were under the impression comic books consisted of Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and X-Men. And everything else was a fourth rate nothing that no one has ever heard of or will ever care about. When MCU made pure successes out of what film producers assumed to be failed shit books with zero fans, they assumed they could make a movie out of literally anything and it will print money forever.
>>11637585>Ant-Man movie, and Guardians of the Galaxy.Both comic books as well as Black Panther were flops with multiple re-launches since the 1970s, yet somehow they had success as movies. Go figure.
>>11636130If the store is closing, then it's most likely the liquidators that are stocking the empty shelves with whatever they managed to get on the cheap. It gives the illusion to the casual shopper who was drawn in by all the "STORE CLOSING" signage thet there are plenty of deals left when in fact most of the bargains are long gone.
>>11637297And then did it again with Kamala Khan
>>11638049Good point.I still want to see more pictures of the rest of the NON-Marvel stock but OP seems to have disappeared on us.
>>11638049>>11638141I'm here. The figures have been there for months now. This store is huge, and was a big part of the city, to the point where they would do midnight toy "premieres", it was awesome.The day after I took the pic they set the entire store at 40% off. I'll go back in Monday after work and see what's left.The store updated every isle with new product (Barbies, Plushies, Lego, Hot Wheels, Jurassic stuff), only Marvel Legends and Star Wars have ancient stuff. The Transformers section disappeared and the Mcfarlane is a couple Batmans and a bunch of the Wildcats red hood guy.
>>11638049If the liquidator thinks he can get full retail price for 4-year-old figures that were already a flop at the launch, then good luck to him.
>>11637755>Calling DnA GotG a flopI see we have some revisionist history occuring here.
>>11638336>>11638049Liquidators will keep the original tags on this stuff so when they put it on "40% off" they are still trying to recover part of the original mark-up (likely 50%). The loss already happened to the store owner, who purchased - in this case - those Eternals probably direct from Hasbro, at $9.99 each, to sell at $18.99 or more depending on if they purchased directly or the wholesaler.The liquidator picked up the merchandise, and other crap if it's a real store closure, like fixtures, for a flat fee and possibly a percentage of what they are able to sell.So if they end having to later sell those Marvel Legends for $3.99 (or about 80%), they still clear something. Those bodies are useless for fodder because of the stupid costumes, but perhaps the legs and arms might help people. I'd buy a certain few JUST for the extra heads if they were $2-4 each.
>>11638544Problem is, MLs are very inconsistent with what heads are compatible with what bodies, and there isn't any up to date sources of ball neck-head compatability so you can be sure you can use what you are buying before you buy it. The custom scene just kind of expects you to want to waste money buying loads and loads of spare parts and experimenting.For example I got a Druig Eternal cheap simply because his particular costume looks cool and villainous and so if I could find a cool head that fits him it would make a nice looking villain costume. But as of yet I have not found the head to use.Obviously there is the dremeling option but I am not a fan of that since it permanently changes the part though I would go for it if it made a perfect figure I wouldn't ever want to change.
I don't think I can go back to my local toy store. I used to collect MOTU Origins stuff, but stopped a while ago, after moving around toys on my displays all the MOTU stuff ened up in storage, after a year I decided if it isn't being displayed I should just sell it off. I had the castle grey skull but I thought it would be too costly to ship so I brought it and a bunch of figures and vehicles to my LTS. I went and asked the owner if he was buying "retro" MOTU stuff and he said he'd take a look, I forgot that the name of the line was Origins and so I said "retro" instead. As he was looking over it he commented it was wierd none of the figures had copyright dates on them, I tried looking for one too but couldn't. I didn't worry too much about this as I bought all this first hand from the store. Then he asked "Wait this isn't Origins, Is it?" and again I had a momentary memory lapse and couldn't recall the name of the line. After that he made an offer of $80, I accepted, got the cash and left, about a week later I went in again looking for some christmas gifts. That's when I saw my castle grey skull on display with a tag marked $80 and "2001 Grey Skull Complete". I bought some stuff and left. Eventually someones going to look at all the stuff and tell him its origins and he's going to think I scammed him on purpose, right?
>>11638648He made the final decision to give you that offer. But if you do feel bad, you could always go back and say you made a mistake and give him partial his money back too.
>>11638648He bought a lot of stuff for $80 then sold off just one piece for $80 (and the rest was profit). Don't feel bad. He probably made 5X the money off of you than what he paid.
>>11638648Most comic book shops make as much as ten times what they pay for stuff. And the more desperate they see you are, the more they'll low-ball you. If he's been in the business long enough, then he knew exactly what he bought when he made the offer of $80. And he most likely made ten times that off of you. So don't feel bad, especially since you're still a customer giving him money for shit he low-balled other people for.
>>11638625Gotcha. One the other hand, I got that Druig and the Ikaris (that's not my Peter Parker kit-bash, but something I ripped off from the internet) to put on to older Mattel DC figures I have of Superman, and in one case, possibly a Mattel Superboy. I already knew that head would work because of fodder I won from an EB auction [PICREL, second row, 3rd from the left side] that I only bid on because no one else was bidding on it and two bodies were intact, one I wanted, and my bid was actually less than I had paid for another one of those. I see your point about dremeling. In some case, I just want the hair and for Druig, I think I am going to put his hair on a spare McFarlane head I have and use that very Clark Kent looking hair from the McFarlane for a plain vanilla Clark Kent using some person in a suit, there's several Marvels of Professor X that would work, etc.If I can find the body for cheap and other make something like postage work (the seller has something else I want or something someone else i know wants), and I can get them to combine shipping, paying 10 for fodder or so is no big deal. It's like a pint + tip, or pint, pint and a half on a night out.
>>11638150Know it's been only a few days but after wasting time today going to the suburbs to chase down a toy.N ear total waste of time, least didn't cost me the gas since someone else drove).Plus hit a close-out/remainder store that had a black series droid for dirt cheap.Still curious about what else they are selling and for what prices and any photos you took, dude.
>>11636480The tablets and phones were even more powerful than the video games and consoles.It's over my brothers.
>>11642196Kids still want toys. They're just too costly now, and the cheap stuff's so cheap that it's not really worth having.
Went back to the store today. They had 40% off sale last week, and things still look the same. Took these pictures. Things are back to full price, it's unbelievable how they just don't put out new stuff for Marvel, Star Wars or Transformers. These guys a few years ago got their own exclusives. It's sad and baffling.Anyway, (1/5)
>>11642668>upside downfigures. (2/5)
>>11642671>upside down againI'm cropping this shit to avoid this. Did they change something?(3/5)
>>11642674(4/5)
>>11642675(5/5)
>>11642668>>11642671>>11642674>>11642675>>11642677Not the americans guy, but american toys really really suck. When I passively see video tours of foreign toy stores, they always seem to have stuff worth the look. But man, Star Wars and otther unsellable movie toys will never not be boring
>>11642668>>11642671>>11642674>>11642675>>11642677So basically they're asking full price for shit that not even Ollie's and Ross could clear out?
>>11642677>>11642675this is honestly the store's fault for buying all this garbage. It should be fairly easy to know what is and isn't going to sell.>Read: not kiddy bumblebee and eternals
>>11642872Toy producers sometimes do bundling where they'll requie you to buy "X" amount of inventory from this one line in order to be able to buy inventory for another better line.
>>11642677>>11642675>>11642671Amazed to see any toy section, much less toy stores, this well stocked. Shame they refuse to acknowledge no one is paying full retail for most of this crap.>>11642674>Did they change something?Not really, it's been that way for a few years, I think it's to prevent too many phone posters posting shit like screen caps from x-shitter, and the like. Any photograph needs to be resized, crop or something to be uploaded straight side up.And thanks for the photos. Really interesting all the way around.
>>11642677Literally no McFarlanes of any value there. The scalpers are like a scalpel, able to excise all figures of value precisely.
>>11636661>tfw Eternals literally bankrupted a toy storeI wonder how many others. I would not take those figures if you gave them to me for free. You would unironically have to pay me at least $20 to take a set off your hands
>>11639245One of the only comic shops left in my area pays 35% of market price for toys. Thirty-Five fucking percent. Fucking robbing people
>>11642916>inventory from this one line in order to be able to buy inventory for another better line.but why producing toys about shit peoples doesn't care ?>Because the right holders force them tobut why ? This sound so retarded
>>11642674When you change the orientation of photos on your phone, depending on your phone and the app you use, it can just add metadata to say how it should look when you open it rather than editing the image itself. When you then go upload said photo here, or anywhere else sane enough to sanitize image metadata of uploads, that piece of metadata is removed and the photo is displayed in the orientation you took it. Cropping forces it to edit the image and not just apply a 'yo, flip this shit next time someone opens it' post-it note
>>11643591At full retail, it is mostly garbage.Those MegaFigs on the bottom right might be something worthwhile, but again, not at full retail.Ditto the Superpowers and the Retro Bat '66 on the far right.
