Why come most US retailers that carry Blokees get most of everything except the Pokemon line?
>>11878311So you don’t know?
Because blokees doesn't have the pokemon license in america.
>>11878334then they should get one?
>>11878344Doesn't work that way sam.
>>11878334>licensethat sounds like the most anti american word possible.
>>11878311Blokees no longer does Pokemon because Game Freak did a heckin' war crime denial or something and made china buttmad. It's pretty funny, though a bummer for those who liked Blokees kits.
>>11878333U tell me.
>>11878401Pretty sure Blokees are getting back to Pokemon soon now the drama has blown over. IIRC they even put out some teasers.
They know blokees will mog the shit out of jazwares so they won't allow them out here
>>11878391It's where a company makes an agreement with another company to sell products based on their IP. Famous a Canadian toy distributor ended up with the Dragon Ball license for all North America right before it became huge in the United States.
Blokees has the license for model kits. Bandai already releases model kits for distribution in north america so we are assuming that's preventing Blokees from getting releases at retail. Jazzwares has the license for action figures in north america so even if Blokees marketed them differently the Jazzwares license would probably block those too.
>>11878645Western licensing is retarded then
>>11878645Companies can block others? Or is it just a "can't step on toes" law?
>>11878651>>11878665Why would a company allow multiple manufacturers to make the same product? That would just piss them all off when the sales cannibalize each other's. It's not one company blocking the other like Bandai blocking Blokees from releasing model kits. It's Pokemon Company's contracts preventing multiple companies from releasing the same products in the same regions.
>>11878699Asia has tons of brands making pokemon toys and you don't see companies crying about it
>>11878719They're not giving Pokémon an extra cut of their profits for exclusivity.
>>11878401wrong>>11878417correct
>>11878699DC toys?
>>11878719There's tons of companies making Pokemon toys for the US too just not for the exact same or super similar product. All the companies in Asia making products are also working within certain product categories. One does model kits, one does small figures, one does plush, one does building blocks, etc>>11878763>DCWhich? Spinmaster had DC kid lines which has just gone back to Mattel. McFarlane was doing the 7" collector stuff and statues but now Mattel is getting the collector stuff back next year too. This is now a new phenomenon. For most brands the contracts divide up categories of things that each company is able to produce. Sometimes the pie is cut up into a million slices like TMNT was for many years with some companies doing kids lines, some doing plush, vinyl, retro, crossovers, 7" collector, etc.
>>11878311bacause America is a greedy little shit hole that scalp Pokémon cards for a living
>>11878786>ESL third worlder>seething about AmericaIconic combination.
>>11878417I know they put one out for Mewtwo, which is the only thing keeping me from ordering the restocked Select. What else?
>>11879060Well you have to consider that is probably going to be similar in height to the shf one
>>11878401it was more that china's military was looking for things to be mad about and pokemon just so happened to hold an event at a shrine that was dedicated to WW2 victims and japan being obviously japanese, this includes soldiers, who are japanese. i gotta say, if we look at chinese people, they sure as shit love japan, from games to anime to tokusatsu, but the government keeps trying to brainwash their people to keep thinking that japan is still le evil rape country. it's pretty obvious with this stunt that the chinese military pulled that the chinese people dont give a shit at all about le heckin war crimes and cannot wait to get their hands on more pokemon consumerism
>>11878783>This is now a new phenomenon.Yes and no. Funko, for example, is still going to have cross-license rights to a lot of IP it has access to until it really loses more luster and is seeing are purely soulless garbage. But even the existence of Funko and Pops hasn't elimated the existed of say Q-Figs or Tooneys or Culture Fly, or any number of other company's making vinyl figurines of a particular IP. I think you are correct as to action figure and action figure like toys (like what Spin Master did in 12," 4" and other sizes) but both they and McFarlane were doing Retro 5POA except everything SpinMaster did was in ReAction sizes. This is likely why we never saw Super7 try to do any DC (and they never did any Marvel other than the tiny bit of stuff that was done when Funko was running ReAction).
>>11879524That guy's response had a typo there. They def meant to say "not a new phenomenon". The rest of their post back up that same argument. The examples you gave are also different categories in the eyes of toy companies and the contacts. Funko Pops are vinyl figures. Which is why the Marvel ones have the springs in them so they can be sold as bobbleheads. Hasbro has the vinyl figure segment locked down for Marvel.And QFigs are probably considered vinyl statues since they've got bases. Contracts may even distinguish things that are sold via blind boxes vs regular packages too.
>>11878786>ma ma, ma ma>no puedo comprar me tarjeta de pokemon, ma ma
>>11879135That's a good point, actually. Didn't realize he was so much smaller and Mewtwo's supposed to be like 6'7". Thanks.
Got these two guys in today. Cinderace is a lot of fun, wish his knees and elbows bent a bit more than 90 but otherwise great. Tyranitar is kind of a brick, but a very cool brick, and what little poseability he has is quite expressive. Not bad for £35 for the pair.
>>11879547Not sure why you are defending one anon to another anon - but their points essentially reinforce one another. You seem to want to imply that collectibles that don't articulate or are otherwise viewed as the "adult collectibles" people want them seen as, to be taken seriously here, are different things. This anon >>11878783 even specifically differentiated one of the things they listed as "collector" but not all, and separated vinyl. Argumentative for argument's sake much?
>>11878665>>11878699As someone who knows a thing or two about ip law, yes you can absolutely block sale of these items by the company in the states. You can even go as far as block imports because you have a license to be the only person who sells whatever you're selling. Europe does this shit too as do other countries. It shouldn't be a surprise, this bullshit law about toys and plushies not being allowed because of the children was a cover because big companies like hasbro and jazwares want their shit to sell over the others.
>>11881021imports i get, but Blokees appearing in domestic retailers I just dont
>>11881498Blokees is a Chinese company.Some of the stuff they are licensing is actually even owned by a 'competitor.' Hasbro (with Takara) owns Transformers, and those model kits, in various scales/series, were allowed to be sold in the states almost immediately. But Hasbro would compete with them with the Marvel live action shit, which is probably why the Rivals stuff is what started appearing first even if the older live action (infinity war MCU) is more popular. So yeah, Hasbro probably did use their contract language like this anon >>11881021 typed as justification to block it
>>11881520but why not Transformers?
>>11881706Hasbro probably thought it wouldn't sell any better than things they license and don't sell.No one is going to turn down licensing money.Disney doesn't need every penny from making Donald Duck underroos or Spider-Man vinyl figures that it's interested in actually making those products themselves. They make plenty of money on licensing fees, especially if it includes a merchandise cut, which it usually does for movie related crap. Sony and Netflix are probably collecting more than just license fees on every K-Pop Demon Hunter whatever that is sold.All this is just a guess, sonny.If you really care that much, just fucking @ hasbro or @ blokees.
>>11880737those are both shf?>>11880835how tall are those? 13cm?
>>11883151The Blokees Cinderace is about that height, yeah. Tyranitar is just shy of 7".
>>11883151Left is SHF, right is the Jazwares Select.
>>11883353Really?Left definitely looks sleaker and the tail potentially looks like it would have more flexibility.But overall, the right, except for the obvious hex or pin joint in the nail, looks like it displays better?
>>11878311Because the master license to scaling figures is held by a very cringe company
>>11883371Right is basically what the Mewtwo model since XY looked like. Left is like someone making a figure based on what someone thinks Mewtwo looked like in various media.
>>11883630I only started watching some of the animated Pokemon stuff just in the past few months, so really most of my experience and knowledge is off memes, image boards, clips. I would get a Mewtwo based on looks alone but honestly, you could hang me over a bag of boiling oil and I couldn't be confident that I could pick out one picture of what the Pokemon is SUPPOSED to actually look like That word salad all typed out - I thought Bandai was known for being accurate? I know weebs who complained about the (Jazzwares and McFarlane) MHA toys against the TM/Bandai versions over that specific thing?
>>11883630Left is technically from 13 years ago slightly before XY even came out since it's pretty much just a recolor of the D-Arts with some different accessories. The sculpt's based more on older art and the movie.
>>11883991that seems to give a decidedly more female appearance - not completely, more suggested
>>11879150"Fantastic" is a Blokees line that either comes with a lot of accessories or is larger than the usual Transformers. I cant remember right now and really wish they put clear sizes on those boxes.
>>11883991God i wish Mewtwo looked like this in the games
>>11878665yes, it does depends on the license agreement but yes it is definitely possible. There are different levels of license agreements companies can make with each other. In the west, especially America, it is far more common for a company to be willing to shell out the extra cash for exclusivity licenses as well as much broader Master Licenses that cover damn near everything under a very broad category. For example, in the early days of Funko before they were even a craze yet, Hasbro had a pretty broad Star wars and Marvel toy related license. It had a license on selling vinyl figurines through the Mighty Muggs line. They threatened Funko when Funko made a Wolverine Funko Pop. Funko realized Hasbro's agreement with Disney did not include exclusivity to making bobble heads, so this is why all of their marvel and star wars funko pops except that first Wolverine are Bobblehead style.Of recent times Jazzwares has a highly specific license with Disney to make the Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron line. They can make and sell mini sized scale accurate toys of Star Wars vehicles with mini character figures as accessories. the first bit of the accuracy is to avoid stepping on the toes of Hasbro's Mission Fleet line which is slightly super deformed even for the vehicles. The second bit is the more important part and the one that is highly restrictive to what they can do. "vehicles with characters as accessories". this means they can not sell just a Droid 'vehicle' as itself, because this counts as a 'character', they had to put cockpits and such into them even if that is technically inaccurate.This meant they had to put a transprent character stand and foot hold on the back of the dwarf spider droids with a battle droid, so they could make and sell it. And it also means they can't just make a big character pack to fill slots on things like the ATAT or LAAT, that would step on the agrreements Hasbro already has.
>>11878699because the Asian companies are not as likely to want to pay the extra money for the exclusivity deals as American companies are. it is a difference in cultural mindset.and yes it TECHNICALLY is Bandai blocking Blokees because they paid for an exclusivity so they could block others from competing.
