[46 Zone]

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Originally Posted by sbartek1974

Hey guys! Stalker is being clearanced out! Anybody want him?



Boy! Can't wait for the windowless packaging!!!

Nice!!! It's even better with the Discount Sticker artwork!!!

I'm surprised they added the extra head. Those were usually missing when those were peg warming in the store.

[IzzyTipsy]

I like how Walmart puts the sticker over the character's face so potential buyers can't tell that the package for a Black man has an Asian man inside.

Somebody's mom is gonna be "Oh, wait until Junior gets the Stalker I finally found for him for his birthday!"

[DarkLordMordred]

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Originally Posted by sbartek1974

Hey guys! Stalker is being clearanced out! Anybody want him?



Boy! Can't wait for the windowless packaging!!!

I know some people say they don't see colour, but this is ridiculous!

[SmokeBellew]

So I keep a half-assed eye on the ME retro walmart guys on Walmart.com out of idle curiosity. It's not a regular thing, but when I happen to think about them and I'm at the computer, I check to see what's still hanging around and the price. Grunt jumped from $12.93 to $20.00, and when I clicked to see if it was walmrt selling or a 3rd-party, it was a 3rd-party but "fulfilled by walmart" and it was no longer available from walmart itself. This is something I think I've noticed in the past with other stuff: it seems like walmart will sell their stock to a 3rd party seller who then jacks up the price on the website without the product actually physically changing hands. Yet another reason walmart sucks.

[AWOL]

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Originally Posted by SmokeBellew

So I keep a half-assed eye on the ME retro walmart guys on Walmart.com out of idle curiosity. It's not a regular thing, but when I happen to think about them and I'm at the computer, I check to see what's still hanging around and the price. Grunt jumped from $12.93 to $20.00, and when I clicked to see if it was walmrt selling or a 3rd-party, it was a 3rd-party but "fulfilled by walmart" and it was no longer available from walmart itself. This is something I think I've noticed in the past with other stuff: it seems like walmart will sell their stock to a 3rd party seller who then jacks up the price on the website without the product actually physically changing hands. Yet another reason walmart sucks.

Do you think modern 4-inch Joes ever have a chance of returning to retail?

[SmokeBellew]

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Originally Posted by AWOL

Do you think modern 4-inch Joes ever have a chance of returning to retail?

You know, never say never. What goes around, comes around. If the trends continue, I suspect highly-articulated 6" stuff will price itself out of the market, people will lose interest in it and it'll become a "premium" format, and smaller scales will increasingly move in to fill the retail void. Thing is though, in order to keep the price down below/right at $10, that stuff will have to be simplified and articulated less, like Spin Master's DC figures and Mattel's Jurassic Park/World. Seems like there's a growing demand from both kids/parents and adult collectors for more cost-effective toys.

[AWOL]

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Originally Posted by SmokeBellew

Thing is though, in order to keep the price down below/right at $10, that stuff will have to be simplified and articulated less, like Spin Master's DC figures and Mattel's Jurassic Park/World. Seems like there's a growing demand from both kids/parents and adult collectors for more cost-effective toys.

So what you're saying is, they'd actually have to make GI Joe toys again, as opposed to the display pieces we're getting now. One can only hope.

[SmokeBellew]

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Originally Posted by AWOL

So what you're saying is, they'd actually have to make GI Joe toys again, as opposed to the display pieces we're getting now. One can only hope.

I guess that depends on whether or not there's actually enough kids left buying or if it's primarily an adult market now. And if it's the latter, are adults willing to continue buying at current and likely future inflated prices, and do they want toys that remind them of their childhoods or collectibles that do more than the toys they had has children? In other words, fucked if I know. lol

I will say that we can maybe see from the upcoming Indiana Jones toys that the action figure market for children is apparently now primarily made up of younger, preschool-aged kiddos. If lines like Spin Masters' 4" DC line disappears, I think we can surmise there aren't many older boys still buying toys.

[AWOL]

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Originally Posted by SmokeBellew

I will say that we can maybe see from the upcoming Indiana Jones toys that the action figure market for children is apparently made up of younger, preschool-aged kiddos.

Do you mean these?

[SmokeBellew]

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Originally Posted by AWOL

Do you mean these?

Yep. They're basically Imaginext toys.