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05-18-2017, 04:29 AM | #1 |
Cobra Lab Rat
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: California
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This is a longer post on Megabloks and what is being observed. It's kinda odd.
-If you take a look around Target, Walmart and various stores, I think you will notice that they're cutting back on Megabloks products displayed in the toy aisles. What they have is very likely to also be from older waves and old stock also. -Remember when I said Mattel buying Megabloks was going to be really bad for Megabloks in general? Well I think the current situation is tied to that, but read my notes with a grain of salt because Mattel is Mattel. Nothing about their company makes sense business wise because their companie's CEOs and Top brass are too powerful and company politics plagues their company. My notes could be very wrong and instead be explained by Mattel having a power struggle between former Mega corp and Mattel top executives currently. I will assume that's not the case, but if it is, that would be hilarious. Think Game of Thrones, but in a Toy company. And yes, it's that bad but onward!!! Either way, have fun reading me tear into Mattel. ---------------------------------------------------- NOTES on why new Megabloks product is simply not showing up at stores currently and why various store aisles selling Megabloks product are shrinking the shelf space they devote to Megabloks currently. -I think Mattel just ran Megabloks into an overstock situation with retailers by first dropping the value of various products (they keep taking away minifigures from multipacks etc) and then increasing the price continuously above inflation for the past years or so.(because Mattel LOVES LOVES LOVES to do this, no joke). Basically the retailers have finally reached one of those dreaded Peg warmer clogs that Hasbro fans complain about all the time and Mega Corp the original owners, would have NEVER NEVER allowed. -Then introducing strange and bizarre products like the carded Halo minifigures for 5-7 bucks which is double the price of a normal bagged minifig because apparently they didn't realize that Megabloks went to all the trouble to make them bagged to prevent pegwarming and Mattel just double the price per minifig AND reintroduced pegwarming to Megabloks. And that's not even getting started on bizarre offerings like those shipping containers and the dubiously price $8-10 buck 2 packs. HO BOY!!! This sure doesn't help. -Lastly, Mattel is notorious for poor distribuition because Mattel is an awful company as anyone who has had the displeasure of dealing with them knows. I think you can guess that this year, Mattel decided to take Distribution from Mega Corps finally, with terrible results and various product no shows. -Not helped by the disastrous failure of Destiny Megabloks, which I've heard from various sources are selling extremely poorly and slowly due to the lack of widespread appeal of the Destiny game. (It's just not that popular a game, so the Destiny megabloks are EVEN LESS popular.) >This year and last Christmas, we were supposed to be already SWIMMING in new product in large numbers. Instead, all the aisles in the big box stores are shrinking and both Toys R US and the big box stores have a lot of old stock. Meaning the new product isn't getting here correctly for some reason. I'm guessing this stuff will come out during THIS YEARS Thanksgiving or Christmas, but the fact there's been such a dead period for 2-3 months from February to May currently does shows to me how awful Mattel is handling Megabloks one way or the other. Oh and to give you an idea of what should ALREADY be in stores near you, in large numbers, you just have to look at the Megabloks Amazon online store. They usually have in stock what is planned to be available locally at your Big box stores. -------------------------- https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...CPGRHJJ6C87GXK https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...VPM48TZN0HDY9X https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IT3T5IW...oding=UTF8&me= https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...CPGRHJJ6C87GXK https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...0KYXZT8Q5DKT6C https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...JGWADBK81C0BQC https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...N581K4YSTKHGRN https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...N581K4YSTKHGRN https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...ZQVBKQVTS2GB0W https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...VPM48TZN0HDY9X ----------------------------- By the way, if your store is still trying to sell through old product, they will probably have these and various turtle toys with Destiny products. If your Target or Walmart has these, then chances are very slim that you will get more than a few token cases of the new stuff until later this year, we shall see. https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...CPGRHJJ6C87GXK https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...08ZZXYF0M99HXY https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...08ZZXYF0M99HXY https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...D53Q2M5K42KWG5 https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Construx...D53Q2M5K42KWG5 |
05-18-2017, 07:45 PM | #2 |
B and H Comics
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,579
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And yet I can easily find WWE figures that I collect. And Bill Minke (not spelled correctly) just went on WFigs and asked for pictures of our stores stock..and within a month of that all old figures were removed from shelves and new stock is arriving in mass. Such an evil,company.
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05-19-2017, 11:57 AM | #3 |
Wants to try Yo-Jo cola
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Posts: 444
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Well, they're not shipping stuff to Brazil other than Minions or TMNT, which suck. So, yeah, no CoD, no Halo, no Terminator and no Assassins Creed = EVIL!
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