>>8604069I always remembered most of their prices being pretty good. Lots of figures for 3.99 or 3 for 9.99.
My favorite KB was a KB outlet. It was in a mall way out where and the store was at least 4 times larger than the average KB, which were always very cramped.
The outlet received all kinds of stuff that I'd never seen anywhere. I specifically remember finding Mission Impossible figures there and only there. It was also the only place I'd ever seen the AvP Hive Wars series, which blew my mind. I was VERY into the early Aliens and Predator toys, constantly scouring thrift stores, comic shops and anywhere I could for figures... when I saw these Hive Wars figures my heart nearly skipped a beat. I had never seen or heard of these before seeing them at the KB outlet.
It's ONLY place I ever saw these, as if they were produced in 96 but no stores picked up the contract, then they just sat in a warehouse for 2-3 years before KB bought up the stock for pennies to put in their outlets. I think KB did this with a few lines.
The 90s was a time of massive oversaturation in the figure market. The sheer quantity of different lines, repaints, franchises and figures in general is crazy in retrospect. I remember my childhood Wal-Mart having 4 aisles dedicated to just action figures alone. Not a dedicated toy store, but a fucking Wal Mart. That particular store also had the toys/figures much nearer to the front of the store back then so there wasn't much avoiding it if your parents were shopping lol. Now, the Wal Mart I frequent most has just half of an aisle dedicated to figures. One side is Legos, the other figures.
