>>8437844>If it's a supply and demand issue, why make it even more difficult to get them, would that not lower demand even more?I've conceded that there most likely was pressure from Lego on manufacturers and marketplaces to stop minifigure listings. Now that we've heard from a seller, we can all but confirm this to be the case. The fact remains that minifigure listings can still be found, albeit in camouflaged form. If the demand was still high (if it ever was high), but there was a way to circumvent delisting by the marketplace, then wouldn't you see more listings regardless of how its masked? If it was a matter of avoiding certain keywords and not showing certain images, then why wouldn!t a minifigure seller do so presuming these figures are still in such high demand? My point is that these figures were probably not in much demand to start, and most sellers must have decided it was not worth the risk of carrying them.
>They're not COGO, a quick search clears that upOk
>Xingbao uses the same Lego minifig designXingbao made changes to their minifigure design back in 2018 to avoid possible legal trouble from Lego, so their inclusion on my list is correct. Even if you remove them and Banbao from that list, it still represents a sizeable number of brands with their own propietary figure design. I also forgot to add Woma to that list, and I'm sure there's still more that I'm not recalling at the moment.
It's easy to point to Lego as the sole factor, but I still believe there are other market forces at play. I'm not obsessed with being right, but I do enjoy playing devil's advocate.
