>>10249378Megalopolis was an online toy store that was heavily shilled for about a year across YouTube by various different "influencers." Shortly after obtaining a proper foothold, and getting some good word of mouth, they began promoting toys that would be exclusive to their store, under the Premium DNA brand. This included some big licenses, like Madballs.
Around July of 2020 people began to notice that they were getting charged for orders, but they weren't shipping (much like BBTS, you were not supposed to get charged until the item was about to ship). At first it seemed like some scamdemic problems, so people were understanding... but they kept doing it, and they wouldn't ship. This went on for months. I personally had my Great Ape Vegeta Figuarts order through them, which is a reasonably expensive figure ($200~ish). They charged me, and then a month later I contacted them because it hadn't shipped. At first they were responsive, but after about three months they stopped responding to emails, and at that point I backcharged them after googling the issue and finding out that this was widespread. Word was that they were taking payments for figures that they never even ordered from the distributors, and apparently behind the scenes they ran up huge debts with said distributors, which they never paid. All of this eventually came to a head, and they shut down.
Premium DNA came back, and claimed no actual connection to Megalopolis. They just said that they had a partnership, and since Megalopolis was gone, that was over. However people have done a deep dive on them, and found that it's all the same people who ran Megalopolis, which makes sense, because it was literally promoted as the Megalopolis house brand:
https://creationedge.medium.com/the-story-of-toy-overlord-inc-f6e2e041c14aLook, here is a press release from them:
https://news.toyark.com/2020/07/23/megalopolis-announces-battletoads-clay-fighter-and-earthworm-jim-and-more-retro-action-figures-396294 
