>>9571268sounds like you're 4 and just barely started making memories.
That Snake Eyes with the realistic guns, diorama piece, and ninja shit was announced at Toy Fair and preorders were opened up shortly afterward. Jabba's Barge was announced at Toy Fair.
Mezco kinda did the same thing, but that preorder was basically just a lead time.
And this is only a recent thing, for both Toy Fair and SDCC. Almost all preorders come months afterward, because trade shows are mostly for marketing purposes. It's better to actually sell shit at places like SDCC instead of taking preorders because you have a captive audience that is all ready to spend a ton of money there. And that requires announcing shit way ahead of time. Nevermind that all those nerds who spent a ton of money to get there and buy shit already blew their savings, so asking them to preorder something doesnt makea lot of sense.
I honestly can't think of any preorders that were announced at SDCC (aside from Previews shit, that is actually a monthly thing). 4H, McFarlane, Creative Beast and Storm Collectibles, Hasbro, Mattel, Blizzard, Capcom, Square Enix, NECA, Mezco, Eaglemoss.. who else goes?
... MAYBE 1000toy's Hellboy? I know it was announced at SDCC, but i only remember the deadline to preorder it was in November that year. OH, i guess not. Preorders actually opened a month later. The Hasbro Sentinel was announced in July, but there was no SDCC that year and only goes to show how SDCC is just to announce shit they didn't have ready in time for Toy Fair.
but that's besides the point, because that argument stems from
>I don't think they have ever shown off anything 100% new at one of those, usually it's just to get orders made of current and upcoming stockwhich shows how that guy has a pretty bad memory or is some newfag.
