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06-09-2021, 08:02 PM | #10761 |
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Unbelievable...😲
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06-10-2021, 03:00 AM | #10762 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Feb 2020
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"...I got casual toy buyer friends who see any classified in a store, and they buy the whole lot. Just because they know its in demand and want to help or flip the toys later. These people would not be buying these toys normally, but because they know how crazy the market is now, they are buying the toys anyways."
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"Same for all these online toy collectors, who don't give two shits about GI Joe. But now they are gobbling up every Classified release cause it's the hotness and valuable.
As much as we want the toys to get better stocked, it will reach a point where the scalpers and such drop the line and that's when the toys become common on shelves and we get the peg warmers which end up killing the line. This is also the part where Hasbro has to be careful about not over producing as often with toy lines fans go nuts, demand more, the companies make more, then the interest wanes in the collector communities which are gobbling up entire cases at a time, and instead you got tons of inventory starting to peg warm. The line dies. Lot of companies know this, and on purpose keep the lines from being overproduced to try and avoid peg warming." Hopefully, the casual fans will be just that, flipping casual, and disappear. Stop buying up stuff they really have not a lot of interest in. It would be interesting to know if all the scalpers, casual fans who really aren't interested, people buying just to buy, people buying multiples, etc., if they all stopped buying could we get these figures easily then? And who knows if we will ever even get to peg warmers. If this movie flops next month the entire G.I. Joe brand probably gets the plug pulled and goes back into the Hasbro archives until who knows when. But that is a totally different topic. |
06-10-2021, 05:06 AM | #10763 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Hartselle, AL
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Not sure if anyone else here is an Indiana Jones fan as well but the movies came out on 4K for the first time this past Tuesday. I just wanted the regular release because it comes with a map and I went about getting it how I always have in the past. On the street date check online what stores around me have it and go grab a copy any time during that day. I never rushed out to the stores to grab a movie before and I have a lot of them including a ton of EXCLUSIVES. But this time getting this regular wide release has been like trying to get everything else this past 18 months. No stores had it, sold out, etc, etc, etc. I check some sites and read what's been typical for the past year, "Oh there was underestimated demand. There was a production issue. A lot of people wanted it." It seems like we are in a perfect storm of collecting right now. Like you said above you know people who would not normally be buying stuff but they are right now. You have that combined with Hasbro either underestimating demand, having no faith in the brand, COVID, or whatever, collectors buying multiples, a proliferation of scalpers seeming to buy up anything that seems to have value, I don't know what you call them casual scalpers now, distribution issues, etc. All this just makes the average collector, like myself, beyond frustrated and pissed at what others are doing. Many of us just want to be able to do what we used to do not that long ago. You know, walk into a store at any random time and be able to buy what we want. At the very most, check online on the street date and be able to find at least a few items of what you want easily nearby. Now it has turned into a second job that has serious competition. Who wants that in a hobby?
I found it funny watching a recent "Infinity Equation Podcast" when one of the guys on there said he was trying to buy some Vipers, Firefly, and other Joes on Pulse the second they went up last time. Then shortly later admits he didn't know Snake Eyes was a commando who never came with a sword originally and doesn't really know much about it all. I thought to myself, then why the F are you trying to buy figures you know nothing about? WTF?! Hopefully, the casual fans will be just that, flipping casual, and disappear. Stop buying up stuff they really have not a lot of interest in. It would be interesting to know if all the scalpers, casual fans who really aren't interested, people buying just to buy, people buying multiples, etc., if they all stopped buying could we get these figures easily then? And who knows if we will ever even get to peg warmers. If this movie flops next month the entire G.I. Joe brand probably gets the plug pulled and goes back into the Hasbro archives until who knows when. But that is a totally different topic. |
06-10-2021, 05:35 AM | #10764 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Denver
Posts: 478
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Not sure if anyone else here is an Indiana Jones fan as well but the movies came out on 4K for the first time this past Tuesday. I just wanted the regular release because it comes with a map and I went about getting it how I always have in the past. On the street date check online what stores around me have it and go grab a copy any time during that day. I never rushed out to the stores to grab a movie before and I have a lot of them including a ton of EXCLUSIVES. But this time getting this regular wide release has been like trying to get everything else this past 18 months. No stores had it, sold out, etc, etc, etc. I check some sites and read what's been typical for the past year, "Oh there was underestimated demand. There was a production issue. A lot of people wanted it." It seems like we are in a perfect storm of collecting right now. Like you said above you know people who would not normally be buying stuff but they are right now. You have that combined with Hasbro either underestimating demand, having no faith in the brand, COVID, or whatever, collectors buying multiples, a proliferation of scalpers seeming to buy up anything that seems to have value, I don't know what you call them casual scalpers now, distribution issues, etc. All this just makes the average collector, like myself, beyond frustrated and pissed at what others are doing. Many of us just want to be able to do what we used to do not that long ago. You know, walk into a store at any random time and be able to buy what we want. At the very most, check online on the street date and be able to find at least a few items of what you want easily nearby. Now it has turned into a second job that has serious competition. Who wants that in a hobby?
I found it funny watching a recent "Infinity Equation Podcast" when one of the guys on there said he was trying to buy some Vipers, Firefly, and other Joes on Pulse the second they went up last time. Then shortly later admits he didn't know Snake Eyes was a commando who never came with a sword originally and doesn't really know much about it all. I thought to myself, then why the F are you trying to buy figures you know nothing about? WTF?! Hopefully, the casual fans will be just that, flipping casual, and disappear. Stop buying up stuff they really have not a lot of interest in. It would be interesting to know if all the scalpers, casual fans who really aren't interested, people buying just to buy, people buying multiples, etc., if they all stopped buying could we get these figures easily then? And who knows if we will ever even get to peg warmers. If this movie flops next month the entire G.I. Joe brand probably gets the plug pulled and goes back into the Hasbro archives until who knows when. But that is a totally different topic. I don't think whether the movie flops will make a difference. Toy sales are truly targeted towards kids and even a mediocre or marginal successful movie generates revenue and brand recognition. Hasbro has been doing this strategy for years with Transformers and those movies are not that great. I think the Studio Series line of transformers is absolute garbage, but am amazed that they keeping making them. I don't think any of this hurts. As long as they keep pushing the line, I'm good to go. I doubt they will get to Spearhead, Blizzard, Shockwave or Lightfoot deep, but who knows. I look at Power Rangers and am like, how many pink ones can you make lol |
06-10-2021, 08:33 AM | #10765 |
Crimson Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Virginia
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I mean...this year's Studio Series might be an exception.
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06-10-2021, 08:44 AM | #10766 |
Crimson Guard
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Location: PA
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Literally zero other reasons to be upset someone likes the same thing you do.
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06-10-2021, 08:57 AM | #10767 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Apr 2021
Location: DFW, TX
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I kinda agree. I loved GI Joe as a kid. Watched the cartoon and played with the toys all the time. That being said I can't tell you what weapon belongs with who or where everyone is from lol. The idea that you have to remember every bit of trivia when it comes to something you enjoyed as a kid is kind of crazy. Hell, I'm 42 years old and I'm lucky if I remember what day is trash day. As a kid my #1 love was TMNT but even still to this day I will see or hear something about that franchise that I just don't remember from being a kid.
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06-10-2021, 09:07 AM | #10768 |
That Ruined Face
Join Date: Sep 2007
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I had to look up "gatekeeping". I have never heard the term. That is some ridiculous elitist nonsense. Holy shit. Can't even believe it's a thing. Well...I can. But it's still sad. Not to derail the thread but if one "gatekeeps" how does one expect for a line to grow beyond the current fanbase and attract new collectors? Idiotically illogical.
Because Classified figures are and the best figure line going. Not hard to figure out. At all. I hope more people that know fuck all about GI Joe get into it. Classified is a gateway drug...just like crack and heroin
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06-10-2021, 09:10 AM | #10769 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Apr 2021
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06-10-2021, 10:11 AM | #10770 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Michigan
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Agreed. But on a super serious note, nobody should be buying GI JOEs unless they can name which brand of shampoo Cover Girl uses. ;-)
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