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Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2022 23:25:34 No.10072446 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>10072453 >>10072575 >>10073622 >>10078647 >>10086137 >>10086196

Never Confuse Your Personal Likes For Being Popular

I see this mistake in /toy/ all the time. People think their brand is super popular, and selling out everywhere, when the truth is just it had a small production run.

Nothing made for adults is super popular for kids. I mean that with literally every brand on here. The adult market is small as fuck.

>but what about pulse and collectots items
They exist because its a showcase to HOLLYWOOD what hasbro can do. After hollywood sees the ML and SHF they bait and switch to the 10$ kid lines as their main product.

You aren't even the customer

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2022 23:27:37 No.10072452 Report

Quoted By: >>10072455 >>10073670

a thread died for this :(

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2022 23:27:52 No.10072453 Report

Quoted By: >>10073287

>>10072446
Gi who?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2022 23:28:42 No.10072455 Report

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>>10072452
It's probably the retrospammer, he is also a scott shill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2022 23:29:06 No.10072456 Report

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>burger shit
Don't care.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2022 23:31:04 No.10072460 Report

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Joe bros… it’s over

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Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2022 23:32:35 No.10072462 Report

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>>10072455
Products like the marvel legends helmets exist to confuse HOLLYWOOD. No one even buys them. They show them during inter company meetings, to convince studios that they can make ten dollar helmets.

When the actual helmets come out, they are those cheap one sided masks. By the time anyone is the decision trees find out, its too late, the products have shipped and probably already made a profit among the child demographic

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Anonymous Sun 02 Oct 2022 23:52:21 No.10072486 Report

Quoted By: >>10072550 >>10073348

The only popular adult line is dc multiverse, which outsold ML and has endcaps now. Even todd realizes adult product doesn't matter and started making super powers.

No kid is buying toys for 25$. They are lucky if they can get one for ten.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 00:29:52 No.10072550 Report

Quoted By: >>10072746 >>10073481 >>10078645

>>10072486
I was in middle school around 2015, I remember begging my mom to get me a 3.75 inch Black Series Vader. It was less than ten USD and I had good grades, so she relented. Still have him all these years later.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 00:40:32 No.10072575 Report

Quoted By: >>10072659

>>10072446
I mean with Classified in particular, everyone I know who has any of the figures loves them, the problem being that nobody can actually FIND them because of Hasbro's retard-tier distribution. A shame as they're probably the best Western retail-tier figures out there at the moment.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 01:31:46 No.10072659 Report

Quoted By: >>10072684

>>10072575
Read the post. Youre confusing small 300 person facebook groups for a huge market. Youre not getting genuine opinions, your just getting cherry picked ones from small corners of the internet.

Gi joe was provably a failure and did worse than any hasbro property ever. It failed at the box office and kids rejected the toys. If you go to macys you can see them marked down, and find every classified figure. Around christmas ollies will be giving away gi joe. In fact they already are.

>the hiss tank
15,000 fans is not a success when fisher price is getting 500 million units sold.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 01:41:30 No.10072684 Report

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>>10072659
No one gives a single shit about gi joe

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 01:47:16 No.10072690 Report

Quoted By: >>10072694 >>10072706 >>10086139

Gi Jane is more popular than Gi joe

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 01:50:55 No.10072694 Report

Quoted By: >>10072717 >>10078868 >>10086121

>>10072684
>>10072690
Why has G.I. Joe failed to connect with modern audiences. You’d think it would be a slamdunk in the age of the Modern Warfare games, Jar Head, Generation Kill, and Battlefield games, and the war of terror in general.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 01:56:43 No.10072706 Report

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>>10072690
Kek i'm sure that was because of that chris rock joke.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 01:59:36 No.10072717 Report

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>>10072694
Because GI joe is a toy brand, and kids don't buy toys unless they are featured on youtube kids.

Goojitsu is super popular among kids all because people on tiktok were filling them up with water hoses.

https://youtu.be/3sEoa0tZxh0

Its got 2 million views, not counting tiktok, and i can confirm every kid who saw these types of videos went and bought one

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:21:36 No.10072746 Report

Quoted By: >>10073019 >>10073093 >>10073229

>>10072550
How is America still like this? In the 90s my allowance was like $8 a week. With inflation the allowances have to be higher now, over 20 years later

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:24:49 No.10072750 Report

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>Hasbro Europe
The same people who decided not to sell the $60 collectors only toy at all because "Kids won't recognize it as a police car"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:25:56 No.10072755 Report

Quoted By: >>10072758 >>10072765

People confuse toys for action figures and vice versa here. Adult collectors are large portion of the action figure market but a tiny portion of the toy market. Action figures have fallen out of favor with kids

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:26:55 No.10072758 Report

Quoted By: >>10072769

>>10072755
no joke, its nothing but adult men huffing and puffing like their collection is a big deal, youtubers are especially to blame for this

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:29:42 No.10072765 Report

Quoted By: >>10072771 >>10072772

>>10072755
Why do they have so many at Toys R Us then
I'm pretty sure a lot of them on the lower end are for kids too but they are getting priced out because of inflation

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:30:34 No.10072769 Report

Quoted By: >>10072775

>>10072758
Probably has something to do with action figures being like a power fantasy and kids now are being socialized differently -- so that any kid who wants a power fantasy goes to video games and that only leaves other kids with toys since video games suck up a lot of time

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:31:29 No.10072771 Report

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>>10072765
>Why do they have so many at Toys R Us then
because idiot youtubers convince people what they like is a big deal and continue to get curb stomped from moronic advice

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:31:42 No.10072772 Report

Quoted By: >>10072786

>>10072765
You don't think adult collectors go to Toys R Us? I've seen plenty talk about doing so

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:32:30 No.10072775 Report

Quoted By: >>10072788

>>10072769
>any kid who wants a power fantasy goes to video games
wrong, they go on tiktok and slam down the latest and sickest memes for that ranking up of social clout

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:34:54 No.10072786 Report

Quoted By: >>10072793 >>10072800

>>10072772
So Toys R Us carries shelves and shelves of action figures for adult collectors?
Then there are enough adult collectors to make it worthwhile

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:35:03 No.10072788 Report

Quoted By: >>10072798

>>10072775
That can coexist with vidja, back in my day it was arguing on forums on the Internet. Now I just do it about toys rather than ccgs and vidya

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:36:06 No.10072793 Report

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>>10072786
It's still a tiny sliver of the overall toy market

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:37:43 No.10072798 Report

Quoted By: >>10072809

>>10072788
and children talk about the hella epic feels when rapping along kayne or dababey, BLM ACBA LGBT+

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:38:54 No.10072800 Report

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>>10072786
>there are enough adult collectors to make it worthwhile
clearly not

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:42:36 No.10072809 Report

Quoted By: >>10072813 >>10072827 >>10073390 >>10073402

I can't wait for oy companies to try to maximize profits by going DTC. Pulse, Creations, Haslab, if they can cut retail out they will. Why sell to retailers at wholesale rates when they can sell to us for retail? Plus postage, plus begging us for production money up front with kickstarter shit. Better preorder in the 1-3 days it's open though or you won't deserve to own one.

Kids don't want these anymore because they cost $25+. Or rather their parents see it as an excessive price to pay. I wonder what would happen if the government investigated these companies for price fixing?

>>10072798
Trump lost

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:44:04 No.10072813 Report

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>>10072809
Damn, americans truly can't make toys anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:49:39 No.10072827 Report

Quoted By: >>10072835

>>10072809
The thing is this is one industry where I think there isn't price-fixing. Hasbro going insane and jumping out ahead of Mattel and McFarlane in the domestics prices, while Mattel only modestly raised prices and McFarlane is still sitting at the same prices as 2019

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 02:51:58 No.10072835 Report

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>>10072827
hasblow is run by greedy fat people have you seen the pulse con live streams? narcissistic nerds

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 05:09:35 No.10073019 Report

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>>10072746
It’s not like this anymore, 2015 was almost a decade. Hasbro charges FIFTEEN USD for a Star Wars 3.75 inch figure. Most kids couldn’t get that with an allowance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 06:11:26 No.10073093 Report

Quoted By: >>10073592

>>10072746
>With inflation the allowances have to be higher now, over 20 years later

You would think this but people still think relative to when they were kids. Millennials who are having kids now are still thinking relative to when they were kids when they go to the toy aisles. Pus wages are stagnating.

And meanwhile, game prices have mostly stayed the same. Consoles have blown up in price, yes, but there's a ton of cheap or free game options out there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 08:42:15 No.10073229 Report

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>>10072746
Americans are poor and dumb.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 10:17:10 No.10073287 Report

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>>10072453
Joe mama

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 11:53:19 No.10073348 Report

Quoted By: >>10084450

>>10072486
Yeah I saw those spinmaster DC figures are $7. As a kid it’s not even a contest; it’s one ML vs 3 of those and your mom still has a couple bucks left over. It’s no wonder ML are not selling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 12:35:40 No.10073390 Report

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>>10072809
>I can't wait for oy companies to try to maximize profits by going DTC
And here we are in a thread warning about your feels don't equal financial success.

This is the dumbest most absolute retard take. DTC is not as profitable as retail, and they only go DTC when retailers refuse to take it. VOLUME is where it's at, and we do not buy enough to justify any company abandoning retail. Ask ANY toymaker and they'll tell you how much they wish they could get everything to retail.

Super7 was close to DTC, they were e-tailer and online store almost exclusively for years and constantly talked about how they wish they could get their toys to retail, and they finally did with many ReAction figures.

Go back to plebbit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 12:50:38 No.10073402 Report

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>>10072809
>guy still obsessed with 2020 politics and chuds is a dumbass
DTC will never work because dealing with end users is not worth the operational costs compared to the amount they make by selling in bulk to retailers both domestic and overseas. the only business model DTC might kind of work on is individual sellers who make and sell their own stuff, but that's the only way they can do business anyway and they have no mass manufacturing capacity compared to big brands, and thus will never be able to move as many units and generate as much revenue let alone profit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 13:36:39 No.10073440 Report

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>>10072684
>comparing the single most profitable franchise ever to GI Joe
Wow you're retarded

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 14:14:52 No.10073481 Report

Quoted By: >>10073576 >>10078870

>>10072550
>I was in middle school around 2015

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 15:37:22 No.10073576 Report

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>>10073481
I’m unfortunately old enough to drink alcohol now. I wish I could be seventeen forever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 15:45:58 No.10073592 Report

Quoted By: >>10073624 >>10078579 >>10086167

>>10073093
Video games are for brain damaged retards.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 16:08:36 No.10073622 Report

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>>10072446
You know how the tagline for G.I. Joe is a real American hero? It has never been that popular in Europe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 16:09:41 No.10073624 Report

Quoted By: >>10073646

>>10073592
Sorry to inform you, anon, but so are toys if you are over 5'0 tall.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 16:26:21 No.10073646 Report

Quoted By: >>10073650

>>10073624
Go spend money on useless steam sales and get that wholesome epic boner you crave so deeply because wholesome chungus gaben said so.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 16:29:36 No.10073650 Report

Quoted By: >>10073652

>>10073646
Guessed wrong, anon, I don't pay for video games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 16:31:01 No.10073652 Report

Quoted By: >>10073666

>>10073650
Still makes you a brain damaged gamer. Dark souls figma never.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 16:45:49 No.10073666 Report

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>>10073652
Would not buy, Dark Souls doesn't even have characters worth having a figure of

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 16:48:43 No.10073670 Report

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>>10072452
All according to plan

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2022 05:21:55 No.10078579 Report

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>>10073592
fake and gay

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2022 06:23:26 No.10078645 Report

Quoted By: >>10078994

>>10072550
>all these years later.
You are not qualified to use this phrase. Anyone born after 2000 makes me sick.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2022 06:27:15 No.10078647 Report

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>>10072446
>hasfag thinks the toy world is hasbro-centric

unironically kys

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2022 10:45:38 No.10078857 Report

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>>10072684
Did you just compare joes with Pokémon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2022 11:12:44 No.10078868 Report

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>>10072694
>Why has G.I. Joe failed to connect with modern audiences.
Very little media has been pushed. Retaliation made money but not enough for them to make a 3rd film likely due to all the director and actor messes they created. Renegades did better ratings than Transformers Prime but the artist died iirc and with Hub doing as bad as it's been lidded. The only new media made was a poorly made Snake-eyes film that had no idea what it wanted to be, and as such we have no strong media to promote the toys.

Love or hate it Bay's Transformers films pumped life into that brand and ensured it two tv shows and a long life that is still holding it up today. Joes might have had this chance but they kept screwing up the brand because they could never figure out what kind of product they wanted to make as well as the fact that we have compartmentalized being patriotic as being problematic further crippling the brand. Hell it's why they are trying to lean into Snake-eyes and ninjas as a means to down play the "Real American" hero part.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2022 11:14:30 No.10078870 Report

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>>10073481
anon it's 2022. If you were born in 2004 you'd be 18 now, if you were born in 1982 you'd be 40 right now. Time marches on and we use to keep that in the front of people's mind so they get relationships and kids to help ease the pain that you will die and be forgotten.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Oct 2022 12:58:32 No.10078994 Report

Quoted By: >>10084240 >>10084244

>>10078645
zoomers make me wish the Children of Men dystopia was reality

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Oct 2022 23:13:22 No.10084240 Report

Quoted By: >>10084244

>>10078994
This board makes me wish the Mad Max Dystopia was a reality

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Oct 2022 23:14:50 No.10084244 Report

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>>10078994
>>10084240
You both make me wish Onions green was reality

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Oct 2022 01:45:10 No.10084450 Report

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>>10073348
Too bad the roster is so fucking small. I wanted to get on board with them but I got tired of seeing Batman, Superman, weird Batman, weird Joker, another weird Batman, weird Superman, more weird Batmen. Come to think of it, sounds like Multiverse too...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Oct 2022 04:35:02 No.10086121 Report

Quoted By: >>10086144

>>10072694
>Promote new GI Joe movie
>have everyone involved make a not GI Joe movie
>flood the market with bland movie products
>movie is ass as expected

If they were going to waste that much money, Hasbro should have just went balls in on red and blue lasers, over the top terrorists, and ditch the tacticool shit. Make it 3d animated and fortnite it up. They get away with guns and explosions for kids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Oct 2022 04:49:20 No.10086137 Report

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>>10072446
>a U.S. military themed toyline isn't popular in Europe
Wow. Breaking news.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Oct 2022 04:50:23 No.10086139 Report

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>>10072690
Lol. The slap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Oct 2022 04:57:50 No.10086144 Report

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>>10086121
Paramount has full say because Hasbro doesn't put up investment money in the first place. They take the licensing check and a lock on toy deal rights for which they get the bulk of the profits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Oct 2022 05:24:45 No.10086167 Report

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>>10073592
ywnhs

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Oct 2022 06:20:39 No.10086196 Report

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>>10072446
“ML? Like Mythic Legio-“
“Ooohhh they’re bitching about those shitty Marvel Toys again.”

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