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TMNT, ThunderCats and SilverHawks are probably selling at a healthy level but may have dipped somewhat over the years. |
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I totally agree.
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Brian's idiot move to make 3 GI Joe DIC variants hopefully taught him a lesson to stop wasting time on variants, period. People want our classic characters yet, like Shipwreck, Quick Kick, Spirit, Snow job, Mutt & Junkyard etc. Brian keeps making the junk that he wants will only continue to hurt his business.
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I actually totally buy that preorders are down across the whole industry. Collectors went absolutely CRAZY for preorders from like 2020-2022 because the supply chain was so jacked that preorders were about the only way to be sure you'd actually get a toy. Now that things have returned to normal(ish) we're all settling down and realizing that almost everything is back to being readily available, often for a little less with patience. So preorders are likely back in 2019 territory, which I can 100% see being only a fraction of what they were during the pandemic. I'm sure massive inflation has played into that as well.
*obviously just basing this off of my own experience and what I've seen others mention across a few different forums and social media. But I know I had to start a friggin spreadsheet to track my preorders at one point, there were so many. Now I pretty much only need to advance-order exclusives or crowdfunds. |
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Do only the full waves come in the cardboard covers? I just received one without and it bothers me a lot.
I need symmetry.
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No, I think they stopped doing those across with everything.
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SDCC exclusive leak - Pizza Chef Mikey
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To be fair, this is what exclusives SHOULD be - variants. If they're hard to get they won't be a giant hole in your collection.
I'll admit I still had a bit of an angry chuckle when I saw these though. They're so lazy, even by Super7 standards. |
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Exclusives were once upon a time "harder" to get. I don't feel that way lately, though.
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That's my point. Variants are lazy and take away from getting New characters that we keep asking for, making us wait longer for them. It's annoying cash grab and Super7 is king of it!
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They should have tossed in a Grybyx or Ice Cream Kitty (like Mondo does with their buddy pack-ins) to add value to the release. Not these lame pizza boxes (albeit appropriate here) that everyone has from Super7 and NECA. |
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See... that Mikey makes total sense to me. I want it. And that Sheila. These are great!
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Though even as far as that goes, this IS pretty lazy. Undercover Raph had more effort put in than this. But... at least this makes this that much of an easier skip for me. More power to those that want this, though.
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And yeah, this kind of exclusive doesn't take away from anything. There's basically no new tooling budget for a figure like this. Maybe the chef's hat is new, but nothing else from the looks of it. |
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I don't know how much effort goes into a repaint wave like the DIC wave, but I can't imagine it would be enough to take away from an actual new wave (I could certainly be wrong on that). Super7's bigger problem (ignoring poor QC for this point) is that they just have way too many licenses and, so far as it seems, are spread too thin across them. So I think all the lazy repaints are like a stopgap measure for them, keeping the line going while they try to play catch-up. If you look at the Ultimates line when they started TMNT, they had way fewer licenses than they do now... and they were still struggling to keep up. That problem has only been exacerbated with the flood of new licenses (the Triceraton will have been something like a two-and-a-half year wait by the time we get it - and their target is supposed to be... six months?).
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