Disney had everything Solid IPS An iron strong fan base Adults who were willing to buy toys for themselves and their children They had a money printing machine at their fingertips, and they squandered it on yelling at us and calling us ists and phobes I can’t *imagine* fumbling such a big bag so damn hard
God if you told 10 year old me who would watch the battle of Hoth over and over again that star wars would fall from such grace. I wouldnt believe it. The games, spin offs, toys, collectables... i didnt think it was possible.
Pretty much, yes! I can't comprehend just how stupid you have to be to do that. If they played their cards right, they could've earned billions. Aaand they still could still make woke stand-alone original movies if they so desired for ESG points, just not in their major IPs.
I don't know who "us" is. If you felt guilty about a callout, idk what else to tell you except you are guilty, at least in your own mind. The rest I agree with though
Imagine how much money they would've made on that Mandalorian stuff if it had all been available when the show first came out. By the time it did, the Star Wars brand was so toxic even that couldn't sell.
It is not just that but they also overly done them and saturated the market, i mean the sheer amount of Grogu merch alone is way overdone, they did sell at first but than once everyone had it, people were like ok we are done. like they have to realise the collectors market while well was popular it is still a very niche limited market.
I remember going to Walmart one time as a kid and I saw a rare TESB Cloud City Luke and his hand could come off. Never bought it as some other kid came over and took the figure claiming that it was an "army man"
I thought you were joking by talking about "fierce Shuri" but then I saw they actually put that on the damn box. Disney has become a complete self-parody.
Another reason why these kind of toy’s don’t sell is the fact that they don’t look appealing to kids, even bad movies like Jurassic World and Transformers still sell pretty well in terms merchandise because at least they have cool looking Dinosaurs and Robots that would make Little Timmy want to buy it but who’s going to buy an action figure of the lady in a purple jumpsuit 😂 Edit: I might as well add TMNT there too because the Mutant Mayhem are selling like crazy.
Who the F can afford Transformers anymore? That was my thing. That's my favorite franchise from the 80's & I started collecting right from the start. But I had to pretty much totally quit. They are now grossly over-priced. $19.99 was my limit for a deluxe but they had to push it to $24.99. Even if I have the money I just can't bring myself to pay that price. How many kids can afford to pay $24.99 for a toy that, in reality, is not worth more than $7.99?
Thank you. These toys look wilted and miserable rather than cool and actually playable for kids. Most of the time, they HOPE most sales are going to ADULT COLLECTORS which is why they look more like they intend them to stay unopened than played with but like so many things, current Disney doesn't understand the collector market and assumes 'fans' will buy anything with their name stamped on it. Even the most famous figures talked about were made with the intention to be played with first and foremost.
My thoughts exactly, even if the Jurassic World sequels are mediocre, they still make a lot of sales, and I still am a consumer for the Jurassic stuff lol
Friendly reminder that we’re all meant to be recycling our straws and bottles, yet Disney are pumping out thousands of tonnes of plastic per year which they will then send to landfill.
Test: Put a box in front of the store, filled with Eternal or Shang Chi items and write " For less/Take it if you want for free" and wait what happen...if the box is still filled a few days later you know whats going on...
*"WE'RE HERE! WE'RE QUEER! AND WE'RE COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN!"* They are screaming their plan in the streets. You go after the children as the older generation, the resistance, slowly dies off. They are playing a long game. They know they can & will slowly turn majority of the population GAY. I'm just happy that I was smart enough to never have children. I don't have to worry about it.
I'm old enough to remember when it was the other way around, i.e., when Michael Eisner ran Disney. I bet the shareholders who voted out Eisner in favor of Bob "I want to be President of the United States! Bring in the Woke! They'll get me to the White House!" Iger, are REGRETTING this.
I don’t think it’s just that. A part of the problem if I remember is that Disney has just started overproducing stuff because in the past collectors used to snap up stuff en masse. They now just overproduce and when you combine that with things like consumer burnout, political issues, bad marketing of their toys and occasionally bad pricing in some s cases you get what you see here. Also the fact that they keep pumping out character after character for marvel and such. There’s only so many characters people actually care enough to buy an action figure of. No one will buy a figure of *insert random D tier character of a Disney franchise here* and yet they make hundreds of thousands of them. I don’t think it’s necessarily just the politics as much as bad business and bad product.
@@CanaryGamesESCMarvel Comics and Disney (via its subsidiary, Marvel Studios) is under the delusion these "random D-tier characters" could and should be well-known A-tier ones, and keep Astroturfing these D-tier characters in place of the (straight white male) A-tier ones they already have.
I wonder if these toys were still on the shelves in the Walmart stores that were completely looted and destroyed. Or were they also left to rot on the shelves, long with the fresh produce?
Read this about Harrod's department store, in London, England. The ultimate insult of a product is when it is marked down, displayed next to the entrances and exits-- and few to none are shoplifted.
The problem is Ollie's never lowers their prices. Except maybe once a year for a holiday sale. If they would lower the prices or put the crap on clearance, I'm sure toy customizers like myself could use some of those figures.
I still can't believe they made an Eternals movie. I've been reading superhero comics for over 3 decades. Not only can I not remember a single Eternals story, I can't name more than two Eternals. Sometimes I forget they even exist. Is it any wonder that a movie about them directed by someone who'd never done a movie of that type turned out to be boring, unloved and also forgotten about?
It sucks, because the whole wave was really awesome. Instead of reusing parts like most legends, they had all unique molds, bright colors that popped, and excellent likenesses. I absolutely loved the wave.
I notice most of the figures that aren't selling are the "diverse" or "woke" characters that we were told we had to like but no one really wanted or asked for
I give it a year or so and they'll be shoved into large boxes and sent for recycling into more useful stuff like protecting cables from the elements or garden furniture!!
Cartoons were the reason why toys would sell! Remember the cereals with a toy from a popular cartoon? Saturday morning cartoons wasn't just a fun time, it was also a good business strategy. But...cartoons are pretty much extinct now. The ones that do exist are not good, ugly animations, crude and perverted humor that no parent would want their child to watch etc. Disney quit making good cartoons, and none of their stuff for kids can't be trusted. Hollywood lost the formula. These toys will never sell.
I think it's a matter of pride that a lot of these characters are unknown by the general populace. Even the ones that are known have been bastardised in some way to the point where people simply don't want anything to do with the, 'versions', on show.
What’s crazy is I was actually excited when Disney started getting all these property’s I was super excited about Star Wars but damn was I heart broken.
Finally I’d be sad about all these wasted materials, but with companies like Disney…it brings a smile to my face that their losing all that money as well as at the stores.
Disney isn't losing a cent on these unsold toys. Disney licenced the rights to Hasbro at some point then Hasbro renewed them in 2013 and 2020 for x amount of years. Basically Disney gets a fixed amount every year regardless of how well the merch sells it's up to Hasbro to sell enough to make back that yearly licencing fee. You can say a flat fee is a bad idea because of what happened with Star Wars toys back in 1977 but it's been a long time since a licenced toy was a massive seller.
@@Ushio01 Yes, the loss is only by the buyers of the license and the producers of the items, Disney owns NO factorys for to produce Disney items (its like the NBA or NFL fan stuff, the Organisations dont produce these fan stuff in own factorys)
@@thatboyandhismusic88 There might be a little bit of that, but the problem is a lot of the plastics toys are made of can't really be recycled as it degrades during the process. On top of being more expensive than producing new plastics so it's not really worth doing. And there simply isn't much that can just be reused in a million Han solo figures, So typically unsellable stock will just be quietly shuffled out the door.
I am surprised my kids didn't want any of Disney's toys. It shows how well aware they are to not like these toys. My wife and I were Really Surprised. 😳
The interesting thing about the GoG 3 merch at the beginning of the vid is at least it had been picked over, you move to Wakanda Forever and there is rows of the stuff.
I love these kinds of videos because it really shows just how much Kids and adults alike just don't like this stuff. Most of this stuff will eternally stay on shelves or get tossed
Some stuff does get donated... unfortunately not by the companies but by small profit who buy these dirt cheap and then give them away to the less fortunate kids
@@yellowblanka6058 I just knew someone was going to post something stupid like this. Yeah maybe in the states but definitely not in other poverty countries who have zero knowledge of who these toys actors are or the wokness political aspect behind it. A toy is toy in the eyes of children wo never own a single one before. People in the US are spoiled and privileged af. Yes US has its bad but its not like other countries who have it way way worse.
@@TheRX78ONE So you must have been in that one part of the country that didn't have pegs full of Jyn Erso & Cassian Andor figures from Rogue One (take your pick 3.75" or the 6" versions) or the ever popular Constable Zuvio, Finn & Guavian Enforcer in the 6" TFA Black series. If I'd known, I would have sent some down to you since your neck of the woods was deprived of some really good figures. It's also rough that your region missed all 8 waves of Marvel Legends figures that year.....your retailers' inventory control systems must have been down or something.
The problem with the toys is part corporate greed ( pricing), lack of focus (they're all over the place with characters) and then the obvious absolute crap that Disney is cranking out... There's just no desire toget on board collecting this stuff. Especially as the corporate greed of 100 projects a year, plus retro properties, and all at higher than a giraffe's nuts!
@taydrabrookshire347 The hell it isn’t. The movie hasn’t even broke even and I recall seeing a book already discounted 30% before the movie had even released. Gonna be SO much Mermaid crap 😂
Ollie's stores all over the country just received massive pallets full of Hasbro Black Series and Marvel legends. Cases of Zorii Bliss from Ep 9 that are bound to peg warm for the rest of time
Disney need to stop making too many females and black characters. It’s sad and true, but they don’t sell period. All they need is one badass female or cool badass black character. Just one of each!
Who in the right mind would buy a pregnant, blackwashed Spider-Woman? That is something I would give to a kid of the parents I hate as a middle finger to them.
Are these toys like comics, where the publisher makes the individual stores buy a ton of copies, whether they sell to the people or not, and count them as sales when reporting?
I'm surprised you didn't take notice of the lone Real Ghostbusters action figure at 9:00 all by itself. It looks like an Egon Spengler, too. Should have gotten that so poor Egon wasn't spending all of "Eternity" next to these Eternals. Egon deserves better.
Interesting to see so many of those classic Black Series figures rotting on the shelves. Those USED to sell. This shows the true brand damage. Ever since the ESB 40th anniversary figures, the fans have bailed on this property and no longer see the value in collecting. In Marketing, we call this a "dead brand".
What it shows is that collecting toys is a dying industry....kids don't play with them as much as they used to & adults are either hitting the price threshold, they no longer have room or they are at the point in their lives where they are not able to buy toys. Star Wars is not a "dead brand"....the toy industry needs to rethink its business model.
@@robertdickson9319it could be that they got multiple copies of the the same character and just don't want any more because they barely look different from one another
@@robertdickson9319 Things are too expensive now. Cost of living etc. Here in the Uk our country is bankrupt. National debt is now greater than our output for the first time since 1961 and mortgage rates are climbing. People dont seem to have the spare cash they used to in order to spend on fun things. And those black series figures are superb, they used to sell like mad here at higher or low prices, but not anymore. Star Wars has been badly damaged, and prices etc are hurting people. Lastly I think all the older collectors like me who have been with the films since 77 have more or less got all they want or have room for....They made a push to tell us they did not want us around as we were too set in our ways, too old, let the past die etc, and so we left. But these are the people that had the most cash to spend....pretty stupid, but thats Disney and now its all coming home to roost. I hope they continue to shed money and end up crashing and burning...it will be fun to watch.
Collectors know Disney toylines aren't genuine toylines. Sure, the build, packaging, articulation, paint apps, presentation, thematic era and sculpt are great, but real collectors know Disney will only roll out Original Trilogy merch to bait other people into buying their stuff again, not as a genuine collection that you can complete as a toyline. Collectors know this, and all of them are sick and tired of being baited into owning only ...half... of a toyline.
This morning in a supermarket I saw a Landspeeder Hot Wheels. I bought it without hesitation--im a 60 year old white male. The original trilogy still works for me. I don’t even like the prequel trilogy, to say nothing of the Disney crud 😢
Can I watch with you I've always wanted a watch company have a mental break while sitting next to somebody with a lawn chair and some beer you like to join me edit this is also my plans for the Apocalypse
What did the 70's have? I know Star Wars was 77 & I think Mego & Micronauts started in the 70's. The 12" GI Joes were from the 70's but everybody loves the 80's line with Cobra. Most of the awesome stuff that's still around came out in the 80's.
@@sci-fi.tsunami yeah, I was born in 75, and 80's clearly dominates the toy world. He-Man, GI Joe, Transformers, TMNT, M.A.S.K., Star Wars, etc... Still popular today. Videos games too!
90's kid and Star Wars figures greatly improved in the 2000's. Tonka will never be the same though as the longest time you could get metal trucks and heavy equipment for dirt/sand boxes. Stopped receiving them as presents when they went all plastic
Some of those figures, like the Chewbacca, were pretty sweet. It's a sad commentary on how unpopular these franchises have become (and probably how much product has been pumped out) that even good figures of good characters sit unsold.
It's more a combination of overproduction due to overordering due to a reluctance to accept that toys are not as popular as they were 10 - 40 years ago. This is more on Hasbro/Mattel & retailers than Disney....Disney already made their money on this stuff.
I dont get it. I am an original fan from 77 and in the Uk. If I was there I would be grabbing the Chewie figures, the Tarkin, the Boush Leia and so on at cheap prices. None of the new stuff but anything from the classic films I would go for. Its amazing that even those are no longer selling out...the will be the ones people will pick at some point, its the fact that they are even there that is sad.....
@@Simon-xc5oy Me too, i am 58 now and the only items i would buy were the 77 figurines, Tarkin is a part of my childhood. And how the times chages? 1978: COOL, youre the greatest, you have a Luke Skywalker figure! 1983: COOL, youre that great, Buddy! You owns a AT-AT model! Today: Haha, youre such a looser, your parents bought you "The last Jedi" toys, hahaha!
If I was loosing money from people not buying toys, the last thing I would do is create another toy line for the same movie well after it came out Why did they make more black panther toys And why did they make fking shampoo for it
*losing money If you need to remember the spelling remember the opposite word has the same number of letters: Tight/Loose - 5 letters Find/Lose - 4 letters
Because *YOU MUST* buy them or else you are racist! You need to support the strong, independent, *BLACK* boss-babes! That's what life (these days) is all about. Raising up the strong *BLACK* wimmins as the war against white males rages on. F'in insanity! Screw Disney! Let'em crash & burn! Nothing lasts forever & all good things must come to an end.
It’s possible that these are being created due to some contractual obligations. I don’t know for certain but I wouldn’t be surprised if Disneys deals with toy companies involved requiring a certain number of toy lines and this is just filler or something to meet a quota
This stuff is being created based upon the pre-release expectations of the movies performance. Based upon the performance of the first Black Panther movie as well as the general LACK of tie-in items for it, the expectation for the second movie was high. They guessed wrong.
Think another reason alot of the hasbro stuff doesn't sell is cause most of it is over priced out the gate. Before clearance its like 20-30$ per figure with tax. Even the Dungeons and dragons figures sat on the shelf at 24$..picked them up when they were half off
@@MADMONEYMAN5000 yea, last few Hasbro stuff I got, was a little disappointed. The joints look like shit and they just keep going up in price and no extra anything, hands heads or accessories. They're almost as much as a NECA figure
I was walking through a store the other day and checked out the toy aisle. I was thinking of have my own little Justice League on top of my of my bookshelves. Getting all the figures I would have wanted would have cost me like $150. Do parents really want to spend so much money on toys for their kids?
This is a big reason why toys are failing as an industry...we have reached (or are really close to) the point where toys are no longer affordable for the masses. The price increases on these toys over the past decade outstrips inflation and that is unsustainable.
@@juanbautista7214 I'm at the point where Hasbro will have to be cut from being part of my collecting unless I can get their stuff on the cheap. And NECA does some good work. Which is why I don't mind paying more for some of their figures sometimes
I remember when either The Last Jedi or Rise of Palpitine came out that my local Walmart was selling Star Wars themed paper towels. That's another way to sell merchandise: make it useful in other ways.
That just means they have to chops half the profit maybe not even half given other partners to produce and ship etc not just branding. Thats why it isnt done too often only initially to hype for a new release of a movie that no one hasnt seen yet but know the title.
I remember back when I was a kid they asked why there wasn't as many Princess Leia figures, and they said back then 70s/80s "she's not a top selling character".
I would have sympathy for some of the stores. They may have made a contract years ago and now keep having to deal with load after load of Disney toys and it takes up retail space that could have been used for toys from franchises that sell well.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from your adventures going to Target and Ollie’s is that, Disney enjoys pegging these stores with their endless supply of useless toys and merchandise.
the mindset of this disney is authoritarian... the NATURAL way it works is that a product is produced AND THE PUBLIC decides the relevance, the popularity... AND THIS CAN'T BE FORCED... this is what these disney freaks are doing... they assume the customer does not know what they want... they assume the customer NEEDS to be told what to like... and they assume that popularity for a movie or toy is created by the sheer brilliance, enlightenment of the corporation ,the producer, rather than a consumer thinking for himself/herself... This all ends in revolution.... the people who have been oppressed, force fed, marginalized, and pissed on will rise up and destroy the corporation authority.... drop enough of these corporations and the whole goddamn country goes... and then woke is DEAD
There are no Ollies near me, so I've never been to one.....and I wonder how I would feel if I ever did visit one. Would I be thrilled at the super-cheap deals I might find? Or would I be depressed because I would find nothing but endless stacks of crap...
Went to one for the first time a few months back. It's a combination of the two. Where yes they aren't wrong in that it's reasonably cheap, and yet I'd be hardpressed to find something that stood out for me that screamed "buy me!".
Thanks for doing these videos. I have a feeling that Disney sees toys and comics as an utterly disposable marketing expense. They clearly have zero interest in making money on it. Besides it's not like Disney didn't already get paid for all that junk. As you keep pointing out they don't see the sell thru and no one at Disney cares. No one at Disney puts any of the pieces together to get a truthful picture of how this dead merchandise is a prime indicators of dying IP and their own clueless marketing divisions.
It just dawned on me all my poor minority friends, never had more than a hand full of broken used figs from any toy line. Period. Oh and they could never swim in a public pool.
The Sheri Copter made me laugh out loud. Almost spewed my coffee. . I think its funny that the Jessica Drew doll has the largest thighs I have ever seen on an action figure but yet she also has the largest thigh gap I have ever seen. Why is that??? Usually you don't see those two things together on the same superhero because on real women the thighs tend to rub together in a stunning and beautiful way.
Love how we stopped getting plastic window packaging to be environmentally conscious yet there sit all those Shang Chi figures with no plastic packaging yet those figures are enough landfill plastic all on their own. What a fucking waste making that shit. 🤪
@@robertdickson9319 Tell it to the shareholders, Disney stock has been dropping in value for years and is still going down, they could do with some good news and Bob Eiger is desperate for some to give them.
Remember when that insanely high-quality She-Ra doll was being offered for only a 48-hour presale? I don't even know who that "Thena" character is, but if I wasn't willing to drop $200 for She-Ra (a character I love and absolutely wanted to buy), then what're the odds I'll drop $300 on someone I don't know at all? It's madness.
I was @ the Disney Store the other day, & saw something that blew my mind, & it was the Star Wars Black Collection, nothing but all the black characters from the Star Wars franchise, & I thought now that's a little prejudice...lol
TLJ absolutely killed my desire to buy anything star wars, not at all surprised to see it on the pegs. Was tempted with Mandalorian but that stuff all sold off to scalpers so f that. The other thing I noticed was that once the black series line started to get traction EVERYTHING became black series. They used to be really high quality, now if everything is black series, nothing is black series. They look terrible and not worth the price. They take us for absolute fools.
The last time Ahsoka sold well was when Hasbro did a Black Series release of her from the final season on The Clone Wars cartoon (a good show). You couldn’t find them in stores.
It’s over saturation of the market for one. Disney just literally flooded the market and post pandemic everyone has gotten a lot tighter with costs spiraling up on everything. Disney over produced and now they’re paying the price for it. Oh and as a regular 1/6 collector I can say that hot toys products are always limited in their numbers ( 1500 to 2500 maximum usually). They keep their values up cause they don’t flood the market. If you wanna know how to market see what hot toys or the 1/6 scale producers do.
Genuinely amazed Disney haven't leaned into the Clone Trooper army building with their figures, whenever a new variant gets released they sell out so fast, Prequel figures in general usually always sell, but being so desperate to push their own trilogy, Disney just keep releasing figures people don't want.
At 2:45, did anyone else noticed how they packaged "Infinity Ultron" (an actually cool character) as a buildable figure, implying you'd have to buy five or six other figures to get him? I wonder if that was on purpose... Merchandise used to be one of my favorite aspects of the release process, I will always have fond memories of seeing the new Force Awakens merch in 2015, (yes, I'll admit it.) Now it all blends together, with dry colors, weird toys and unremarkable characters. It makes me sad honestly... but they kinda did it to themselves.
With the more common appearance of clone troopers in star wars, you would think more of them would be on shelves instead of these characters people don't like.
You would think, but for whatever reason, Hasbro avoids making the characters people want. When they do make them, they make them in limited quantities.
Yes...Hasbro continues to make poor decisions with character selection and assortment ratios - not a recent issue but one that continue to plague the toy industry.
It would be assumed as the country gets super hero fatigue and the comic companies are hemorrhaging fans, the toy companies will follow suit....I also think a lot of it has to do with kids dropping the action figures for phones.
In the old times, children's would cry and make a scene to get the toy they want but the parents wouldn't buy.....nowadays they would do the same to NOT get those toys
Do little boys want figures of ladies in purple jumpsuits? Might as well try selling figures of lunch ladies, complete with tweezer to pluck their chin hairs.
Disney needs to start reserving space in landfills in advance of their movie releases.
Do you think these will become treasured items like the Atari 2600 ET Carts?
@@Ichijoe2112 maybe , its history and something to laugh about
Tons of new Indiana Jones toys need to be dumped there.
@@Ichijoe2112 LOL, Worse. Disney is becoming a landfill.
When I see these characters I don’t even see characters anymore I just see the actors. You know what I mean ? What happened.
Disney had everything
Solid IPS
An iron strong fan base
Adults who were willing to buy toys for themselves and their children
They had a money printing machine at their fingertips, and they squandered it on yelling at us and calling us ists and phobes
I can’t *imagine* fumbling such a big bag so damn hard
God if you told 10 year old me who would watch the battle of Hoth over and over again that star wars would fall from such grace. I wouldnt believe it. The games, spin offs, toys, collectables... i didnt think it was possible.
Pretty much, yes! I can't comprehend just how stupid you have to be to do that. If they played their cards right, they could've earned billions. Aaand they still could still make woke stand-alone original movies if they so desired for ESG points, just not in their major IPs.
I don't know who "us" is. If you felt guilty about a callout, idk what else to tell you except you are guilty, at least in your own mind. The rest I agree with though
@@demisagoatnobody is even guilty of anything that's why it's annoying to be preached at by these companies on a 24/7 basis
@@demisagoatsounds like you’re the one on disneys side like an SJW
Imagine how much money they would've made on that Mandalorian stuff if it had all been available when the show first came out. By the time it did, the Star Wars brand was so toxic even that couldn't sell.
And then they added lizzo🤦♀️
It is not just that but they also overly done them and saturated the market, i mean the sheer amount of Grogu merch alone is way overdone, they did sell at first but than once everyone had it, people were like ok we are done. like they have to realise the collectors market while well was popular it is still a very niche limited market.
That Greef Karga is also a Credit Collection figure, which is a silly repaint gimmick. They are not popular amongst collectors
Can't wait for the mountain of Baby Yoda 💩😂
@@thenatureboy1837 They showed one mountain at another Ollie's location.
I remember as a little kid literally having to hide my favorite figure in the store so I could come back and find it later. Haha
Hahahaha, I too remember doing that at my local Kmart.
I do the same thing now
Did that with the Terminator 2 figures, those sold out the second they came in
I remember going to Walmart one time as a kid and I saw a rare TESB Cloud City Luke and his hand could come off. Never bought it as some other kid came over and took the figure claiming that it was an "army man"
@@samcortez420 I too remember Kmart, such a long time ago
I thought you were joking by talking about "fierce Shuri" but then I saw they actually put that on the damn box. Disney has become a complete self-parody.
Another reason why these kind of toy’s don’t sell is the fact that they don’t look appealing to kids, even bad movies like Jurassic World and Transformers still sell pretty well in terms merchandise because at least they have cool looking Dinosaurs and Robots that would make Little Timmy want to buy it but who’s going to buy an action figure of the lady in a purple jumpsuit 😂
Edit: I might as well add TMNT there too because the Mutant Mayhem are selling like crazy.
Yeah ,hasbro should at least had use the comic designs, i think more children might had been more interested
Who the F can afford Transformers anymore? That was my thing. That's my favorite franchise from the 80's & I started collecting right from the start. But I had to pretty much totally quit. They are now grossly over-priced. $19.99 was my limit for a deluxe but they had to push it to $24.99. Even if I have the money I just can't bring myself to pay that price. How many kids can afford to pay $24.99 for a toy that, in reality, is not worth more than $7.99?
Thank you.
These toys look wilted and miserable rather than cool and actually playable for kids. Most of the time, they HOPE most sales are going to ADULT COLLECTORS which is why they look more like they intend them to stay unopened than played with but like so many things, current Disney doesn't understand the collector market and assumes 'fans' will buy anything with their name stamped on it.
Even the most famous figures talked about were made with the intention to be played with first and foremost.
My thoughts exactly, even if the Jurassic World sequels are mediocre, they still make a lot of sales, and I still am a consumer for the Jurassic stuff lol
Friendly reminder that we’re all meant to be recycling our straws and bottles, yet Disney are pumping out thousands of tonnes of plastic per year which they will then send to landfill.
you know you are a dying brand when people aren't even stealing your merchandise
😂😂😂😂😂
The people you go out of your way to cater and pander to don’t even buy (or steal) your merchandise. It’s perfect poetic Justice
But Ariel tho…
Test: Put a box in front of the store, filled with Eternal or Shang Chi items and write " For less/Take it if you want for free" and wait what happen...if the box is still filled a few days later you know whats going on...
@@donlalo2002 Hello
Remember, Disney is constantly complaining about plastic and pollution...
And yet they're polluting store shelves and random landfills. Oh the irony
Everything Disney touches rots and decays, it's pretty astounding the lengths they'll go to, to die on the Woke Hill.
*"WE'RE HERE! WE'RE QUEER! AND WE'RE COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN!"*
They are screaming their plan in the streets. You go after the children as the older generation, the resistance, slowly dies off. They are playing a long game. They know they can & will slowly turn majority of the population GAY. I'm just happy that I was smart enough to never have children. I don't have to worry about it.
I'm old enough to remember when it was the other way around, i.e., when Michael Eisner ran Disney.
I bet the shareholders who voted out Eisner in favor of Bob "I want to be President of the United States! Bring in the Woke! They'll get me to the White House!" Iger, are REGRETTING this.
I don’t think it’s just that. A part of the problem if I remember is that Disney has just started overproducing stuff because in the past collectors used to snap up stuff en masse. They now just overproduce and when you combine that with things like consumer burnout, political issues, bad marketing of their toys and occasionally bad pricing in some s cases you get what you see here. Also the fact that they keep pumping out character after character for marvel and such. There’s only so many characters people actually care enough to buy an action figure of. No one will buy a figure of *insert random D tier character of a Disney franchise here* and yet they make hundreds of thousands of them. I don’t think it’s necessarily just the politics as much as bad business and bad product.
@@CanaryGamesESCMarvel Comics and Disney (via its subsidiary, Marvel Studios) is under the delusion these "random D-tier characters" could and should be well-known A-tier ones, and keep Astroturfing these D-tier characters in place of the (straight white male) A-tier ones they already have.
Disney needs to stick with original princesses.
Finally someone agreed with me "Natalie portman looked beautiful as padme but horrendous as jane foster"
I love the way Disney both hates its own customers and completely misunderstands their desires. *Guaranteed success guys!*
A headless chicken running around with a laser gun for a head shooting random post-it notes is the executive director.
I wonder if these toys were still on the shelves in the Walmart stores that were completely looted and destroyed.
Or were they also left to rot on the shelves, long with the fresh produce?
And the books don't forget the books.
And work boots!
Cards, pens, and papers also untouched
Read this about Harrod's department store, in London, England.
The ultimate insult of a product is when it is marked down, displayed next to the entrances and exits-- and few to none are shoplifted.
If they sell alcohol is Bud Light still there!
The Eternals figures will eternally be on shelves collecting store dust
The problem is Ollie's never lowers their prices. Except maybe once a year for a holiday sale. If they would lower the prices or put the crap on clearance, I'm sure toy customizers like myself could use some of those figures.
@sci-fi.tsunami I still go their for fodder bodies $10 isn't too terrible depending on what you need
I still can't believe they made an Eternals movie. I've been reading superhero comics for over 3 decades. Not only can I not remember a single Eternals story, I can't name more than two Eternals. Sometimes I forget they even exist. Is it any wonder that a movie about them directed by someone who'd never done a movie of that type turned out to be boring, unloved and also forgotten about?
It sucks, because the whole wave was really awesome. Instead of reusing parts like most legends, they had all unique molds, bright colors that popped, and excellent likenesses. I absolutely loved the wave.
I still have full endcaps of eternals figures at my local Walmart, still at full price
To be honest that Grogu doll's gimmick moves pretty smooth. I'm very surprised. What a waste for a good animatronic toy design.
Waste? Honestly it is a great toy,the only problem could be the price but a gogru that moves should sell better
@LaloSalamancaGaming69 No. No one wants to own an icon of brainwashing propaganda. That's the reason for all this.
@@LaloSalamancaGaming69 Yeah your right. Sorry for my word choice is not precise enough.
I got one for my birthday
I notice most of the figures that aren't selling are the "diverse" or "woke" characters that we were told we had to like but no one really wanted or asked for
I think black kids likes Iron Man or Thor but white kids are not that interested in Wakanda stuff
Looks like the Eternals are living up to their name, as they will be eternally on the shelves.
I give it a year or so and they'll be shoved into large boxes and sent for recycling into more useful stuff like protecting cables from the elements or garden furniture!!
TARGET: " We can't discount shuri figures! That would be RACIST!😬
WALMART:" NONE of this Black Panther stuff is selling.....Discount it ALL.😐
Should have recasted
@@jrob4795 Agreed.
somebody with presence could have carried the movie.
So think about what it means to pay money for to take a black male/female at home for your entertainment...
@@drhkleinert8241 Whoa!
THATS a spicy take!
A long time ago in a toy shop far far away Disney were able to sell their merchandise.
BEFORE THE DARK TIMES. BEFORE THE FORCE AWAKENS.
@@sci-fi.tsunamiBefore the Disney cooperation and ESG scores
I'm surprised they are here on store shelves - didn't they used to send them to an island somewhere? : /
@@sci-fi.tsunami
Before The Kennedy.
Cartoons were the reason why toys would sell! Remember the cereals with a toy from a popular cartoon? Saturday morning cartoons wasn't just a fun time, it was also a good business strategy. But...cartoons are pretty much extinct now. The ones that do exist are not good, ugly animations, crude and perverted humor that no parent would want their child to watch etc.
Disney quit making good cartoons, and none of their stuff for kids can't be trusted. Hollywood lost the formula. These toys will never sell.
I think it's a matter of pride that a lot of these characters are unknown by the general populace. Even the ones that are known have been bastardised in some way to the point where people simply don't want anything to do with the, 'versions', on show.
Like Flash.
What’s crazy is I was actually excited when Disney started getting all these property’s I was super excited about Star Wars but damn was I heart broken.
They subverted our expectations.
I was like 10 i remember my heart sank thinking no more clone wars :(
these ips were already great why would anyone want the mouse touching it??
*properties
@@Mrshoujo *property’s
Finally I’d be sad about all these wasted materials, but with companies like Disney…it brings a smile to my face that their losing all that money as well as at the stores.
Disney isn't losing a cent on these unsold toys.
Disney licenced the rights to Hasbro at some point then Hasbro renewed them in 2013 and 2020 for x amount of years.
Basically Disney gets a fixed amount every year regardless of how well the merch sells it's up to Hasbro to sell enough to make back that yearly licencing fee.
You can say a flat fee is a bad idea because of what happened with Star Wars toys back in 1977 but it's been a long time since a licenced toy was a massive seller.
Itt: damage control from disney simps
@@Ushio01 Yes, the loss is only by the buyers of the license and the producers of the items, Disney owns NO factorys for to produce Disney items (its like the NBA or NFL fan stuff, the Organisations dont produce these fan stuff in own factorys)
If they have ever bought hasbro, Transformers and Gi Joe would have the same fate as sw and marvel
It would be really interesting to see a video on how the recycling process works for the figures that are never sold
There isn't really one, eventually they just get dumped.
@@DuskFalconus In one video he mentions getting recycled for parts but that could be wrong I suppose
@@thatboyandhismusic88 There might be a little bit of that, but the problem is a lot of the plastics toys are made of can't really be recycled as it degrades during the process. On top of being more expensive than producing new plastics so it's not really worth doing. And there simply isn't much that can just be reused in a million Han solo figures, So typically unsellable stock will just be quietly shuffled out the door.
It goes like this: 1) line the toys up on the fence along with the Bud Light cans 2) open fire
They get handed down to discount stores until it hit’s liquidation
I am surprised my kids didn't want any of Disney's toys. It shows how well aware they are to not like these toys. My wife and I were Really Surprised. 😳
The interesting thing about the GoG 3 merch at the beginning of the vid is at least it had been picked over, you move to Wakanda Forever and there is rows of the stuff.
WOKANDA NEVER AGAIN
I love these kinds of videos because it really shows just how much Kids and adults alike just don't like this stuff. Most of this stuff will eternally stay on shelves or get tossed
Seems like a massive waste of materials and man effort molding/assembling these plastic chochkes that will just sit on shelves.
"If you don't like toys of strong independent black wimmins then you are racist!" - Disney
Some stuff does get donated... unfortunately not by the companies but by small profit who buy these dirt cheap and then give them away to the less fortunate kids
@@SemekiIzuio How nice, so they get the castoff toys that nobody else wanted.
@@yellowblanka6058 I just knew someone was going to post something stupid like this.
Yeah maybe in the states but definitely not in other poverty countries who have zero knowledge of who these toys actors are or the wokness political aspect behind it. A toy is toy in the eyes of children wo never own a single one before.
People in the US are spoiled and privileged af. Yes US has its bad but its not like other countries who have it way way worse.
I remember when you couldn't find star wars figures and marvel legends. How the mighty have fallen. 😅😂😅😂😅😂
When was this mythical time frame?
@@robertdickson9319 This had to be in back 2016, Captain America: Civil War and Star Wars: Rogue One. Good times...
@@TheRX78ONE So you must have been in that one part of the country that didn't have pegs full of Jyn Erso & Cassian Andor figures from Rogue One (take your pick 3.75" or the 6" versions) or the ever popular Constable Zuvio, Finn & Guavian Enforcer in the 6" TFA Black series. If I'd known, I would have sent some down to you since your neck of the woods was deprived of some really good figures. It's also rough that your region missed all 8 waves of Marvel Legends figures that year.....your retailers' inventory control systems must have been down or something.
@@robertdickson9319 Hard to say, here in NY it's touch and go with some of these things
The problem with the toys is part corporate greed ( pricing), lack of focus (they're all over the place with characters) and then the obvious absolute crap that Disney is cranking out...
There's just no desire toget on board collecting this stuff.
Especially as the corporate greed of 100 projects a year, plus retro properties, and all at higher than a giraffe's nuts!
It's nuts how expensive all those toys are.
You should film more about the new woke black little mermaid's merch rotting with discounts 😂
Not happening
@taydrabrookshire347 The hell it isn’t. The movie hasn’t even broke even and I recall seeing a book already discounted 30% before the movie had even released. Gonna be SO much Mermaid crap 😂
@@taydrabrookshire347it was racist to change her skin color to black
@@PatrickGotHands Blackwashing is anti-white bigotry.
You buy these Black Mermaid stuff for your daughter: You blame her by her friends.
You dont buy it: Youre racist
Funny clowns world we live in
Ollie's stores all over the country just received massive pallets full of Hasbro Black Series and Marvel legends. Cases of Zorii Bliss from Ep 9 that are bound to peg warm for the rest of time
Zorii makes a great figure to mod to be a female BAT for cobra army building
@@mrdunbar6758 That's a cool idea! I still have my custom female B.A.T.'s from the 25th line. I need to pull them out & make a video about them.
Disney need to stop making too many females and black characters. It’s sad and true, but they don’t sell period. All they need is one badass female or cool badass black character. Just one of each!
I wonder how much they paid for the content? I bet employees are likely moaning that they are getting more garbage that cogging up the shelves!!
Who in the right mind would buy a pregnant, blackwashed Spider-Woman? That is something I would give to a kid of the parents I hate as a middle finger to them.
Gotta love these WCB’s toy videos. Keep ‘em coming.
Are these toys like comics, where the publisher makes the individual stores buy a ton of copies, whether they sell to the people or not, and count them as sales when reporting?
Pretty much, yes
I'm surprised you didn't take notice of the lone Real Ghostbusters action figure at 9:00 all by itself. It looks like an Egon Spengler, too. Should have gotten that so poor Egon wasn't spending all of "Eternity" next to these Eternals. Egon deserves better.
Someone got to keep the ghosts in check!!
They’re called The Eternals because that’s how long the toys will be on shelves! 🥁
2 things are certainty in life: we are all gonna die one day and those Eternal toys will still be there.
Gotta say... I'm a little interested in the empty shelves - in what is actually selling.
1:51 bro almost let it slip out lmao
They got a lot of representation at the clearance bin.
Interesting to see so many of those classic Black Series figures rotting on the shelves. Those USED to sell. This shows the true brand damage. Ever since the ESB 40th anniversary figures, the fans have bailed on this property and no longer see the value in collecting. In Marketing, we call this a "dead brand".
What it shows is that collecting toys is a dying industry....kids don't play with them as much as they used to & adults are either hitting the price threshold, they no longer have room or they are at the point in their lives where they are not able to buy toys. Star Wars is not a "dead brand"....the toy industry needs to rethink its business model.
@@robertdickson9319it could be that they got multiple copies of the the same character and just don't want any more because they barely look different from one another
@@robertdickson9319 Things are too expensive now. Cost of living etc. Here in the Uk our country is bankrupt. National debt is now greater than our output for the first time since 1961 and mortgage rates are climbing. People dont seem to have the spare cash they used to in order to spend on fun things. And those black series figures are superb, they used to sell like mad here at higher or low prices, but not anymore. Star Wars has been badly damaged, and prices etc are hurting people. Lastly I think all the older collectors like me who have been with the films since 77 have more or less got all they want or have room for....They made a push to tell us they did not want us around as we were too set in our ways, too old, let the past die etc, and so we left. But these are the people that had the most cash to spend....pretty stupid, but thats Disney and now its all coming home to roost. I hope they continue to shed money and end up crashing and burning...it will be fun to watch.
Collectors know Disney toylines aren't genuine toylines. Sure, the build, packaging, articulation, paint apps, presentation, thematic era and sculpt are great,
but real collectors know Disney will only roll out Original Trilogy merch to bait other people into buying their stuff again,
not as a genuine collection that you can complete as a toyline. Collectors know this, and all of them are sick and tired of being baited into owning only ...half... of a toyline.
@robertdickson9319 star wars is a dead brand they chase off the fans who buy the merchandise and sell crap. There's better stuff can collect
This morning in a supermarket I saw a Landspeeder Hot Wheels. I bought it without hesitation--im a 60 year old white male. The original trilogy still works for me. I don’t even like the prequel trilogy, to say nothing of the Disney crud 😢
I think an original and unopened Toy from 1977 is more worth than an original movie used item from the last Movies...
Hasbro is pulling their hair.
Hadbro is getting credit back from Disney
Can I watch with you I've always wanted a watch company have a mental break while sitting next to somebody with a lawn chair and some beer you like to join me edit this is also my plans for the Apocalypse
A little reminder that Hasbro owns power rangers and they gonna ruin it big time.
They need to make figures people want. Instead they make shit no one ask for.
My guess ESG money balances it out.
1:51 Bro was about unleash the gamer word.
I was a kid in the 70s. We had the best toys, comics, and games. I am grateful.
What did the 70's have? I know Star Wars was 77 & I think Mego & Micronauts started in the 70's. The 12" GI Joes were from the 70's but everybody loves the 80's line with Cobra. Most of the awesome stuff that's still around came out in the 80's.
@@sci-fi.tsunami yeah, I was born in 75, and 80's clearly dominates the toy world. He-Man, GI Joe, Transformers, TMNT, M.A.S.K., Star Wars, etc... Still popular today.
Videos games too!
God, the GI Joe and Transformers aisle in the 80s were like dropping cows into the raptor pen
90's kid and Star Wars figures greatly improved in the 2000's. Tonka will never be the same though as the longest time you could get metal trucks and heavy equipment for dirt/sand boxes. Stopped receiving them as presents when they went all plastic
@@finkamain1621 Tonka made a line of Mad Max style vehicles and figures in the 80's. It was awesome!
I think it was called "Steel" or something.
I wish you showed the pixar stuff as well. Every single time I go to Walmart I always see the lightyear stuff on clearance.
really interesting stuff, this is really why dedicated American toy stores went out of business.
Some of those figures, like the Chewbacca, were pretty sweet. It's a sad commentary on how unpopular these franchises have become (and probably how much product has been pumped out) that even good figures of good characters sit unsold.
It's more a combination of overproduction due to overordering due to a reluctance to accept that toys are not as popular as they were 10 - 40 years ago. This is more on Hasbro/Mattel & retailers than Disney....Disney already made their money on this stuff.
I dont get it. I am an original fan from 77 and in the Uk. If I was there I would be grabbing the Chewie figures, the Tarkin, the Boush Leia and so on at cheap prices. None of the new stuff but anything from the classic films I would go for. Its amazing that even those are no longer selling out...the will be the ones people will pick at some point, its the fact that they are even there that is sad.....
@@Simon-xc5oy Me too, i am 58 now and the only items i would buy were the 77 figurines, Tarkin is a part of my childhood. And how the times chages? 1978: COOL, youre the greatest, you have a Luke Skywalker figure! 1983: COOL, youre that great, Buddy! You owns a AT-AT model! Today: Haha, youre such a looser, your parents bought you "The last Jedi" toys, hahaha!
8:45 That’s 28 rows of eternal launchers, about 6 deep, so that’s about 170 unsold eternal launchers
If I was loosing money from people not buying toys, the last thing I would do is create another toy line for the same movie well after it came out
Why did they make more black panther toys
And why did they make fking shampoo for it
*losing money
If you need to remember the spelling remember the opposite word has the same number of letters:
Tight/Loose - 5 letters
Find/Lose - 4 letters
Because *YOU MUST* buy them or else you are racist! You need to support the strong, independent, *BLACK* boss-babes! That's what life (these days) is all about. Raising up the strong *BLACK* wimmins as the war against white males rages on.
F'in insanity! Screw Disney! Let'em crash & burn! Nothing lasts forever & all good things must come to an end.
It’s possible that these are being created due to some contractual obligations. I don’t know for certain but I wouldn’t be surprised if Disneys deals with toy companies involved requiring a certain number of toy lines and this is just filler or something to meet a quota
This stuff is being created based upon the pre-release expectations of the movies performance. Based upon the performance of the first Black Panther movie as well as the general LACK of tie-in items for it, the expectation for the second movie was high. They guessed wrong.
Think another reason alot of the hasbro stuff doesn't sell is cause most of it is over priced out the gate. Before clearance its like 20-30$ per figure with tax. Even the Dungeons and dragons figures sat on the shelf at 24$..picked them up when they were half off
With Hasbro, it's best to wait for a sale on their figures at this point because of all the price gouging
@@MADMONEYMAN5000 yea, last few Hasbro stuff I got, was a little disappointed. The joints look like shit and they just keep going up in price and no extra anything, hands heads or accessories. They're almost as much as a NECA figure
I was walking through a store the other day and checked out the toy aisle. I was thinking of have my own little Justice League on top of my of my bookshelves. Getting all the figures I would have wanted would have cost me like $150. Do parents really want to spend so much money on toys for their kids?
This is a big reason why toys are failing as an industry...we have reached (or are really close to) the point where toys are no longer affordable for the masses. The price increases on these toys over the past decade outstrips inflation and that is unsustainable.
@@juanbautista7214 I'm at the point where Hasbro will have to be cut from being part of my collecting unless I can get their stuff on the cheap. And NECA does some good work. Which is why I don't mind paying more for some of their figures sometimes
This video made me sleepy. I might make a playlist of disney toys not selling compilation videos for the nights i have insomnia
These are always a fun watch. Nothing like a Disney dumpster fire.
Edit: 2:51 Oh Buzz. You didn't deserve any of this.
The real Buzz.
This one does. Compared to the Toy Story toys that came out during Toy Story 3 thirteen years ago, these new ones suck.
cruddy economy and cruddier movies. Can't imagine why people don't want to spend
I remember when either The Last Jedi or Rise of Palpitine came out that my local Walmart was selling Star Wars themed paper towels. That's another way to sell merchandise: make it useful in other ways.
That just means they have to chops half the profit maybe not even half given other partners to produce and ship etc not just branding. Thats why it isnt done too often only initially to hype for a new release of a movie that no one hasnt seen yet but know the title.
That reminds me of Spaceballs and their themed toilet paper.
its funny how some will blame it on the characters being women but yet spider-Gwen is always sold out
paid $6 bucks for the shuri copter 2 months ago at best buy its great to mod and make one person "jets" for cobra troopers from classified line
I don't recall seeing a flood of commercials for the toys - like there were in the 80s/90s
Jeff, this genre of video never gets old: toys and elevator music. Keep it up! 😁
I remember back when I was a kid they asked why there wasn't as many Princess Leia figures, and they said back then 70s/80s "she's not a top selling character".
No sympathy whatsoever!!!!
I would have sympathy for some of the stores. They may have made a contract years ago and now keep having to deal with load after load of Disney toys and it takes up retail space that could have been used for toys from franchises that sell well.
And also the employees that constantly have to stock and take down toys that don’t sell.
@@CanaryGamesESC I agree with you on that.
1:52 caught yourself just in time
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from your adventures going to Target and Ollie’s is that, Disney enjoys pegging these stores with their endless supply of useless toys and merchandise.
the mindset of this disney is authoritarian... the NATURAL way it works is that a product is produced AND THE PUBLIC decides the relevance, the popularity... AND THIS CAN'T BE FORCED... this is what these disney freaks are doing... they assume the customer does not know what they want... they assume the customer NEEDS to be told what to like... and they assume that popularity for a movie or toy is created by the sheer brilliance, enlightenment of the corporation ,the producer, rather than a consumer thinking for himself/herself...
This all ends in revolution.... the people who have been oppressed, force fed, marginalized, and pissed on will rise up and destroy the corporation authority.... drop enough of these corporations and the whole goddamn country goes... and then woke is DEAD
There are no Ollies near me, so I've never been to one.....and I wonder how I would feel if I ever did visit one. Would I be thrilled at the super-cheap deals I might find? Or would I be depressed because I would find nothing but endless stacks of crap...
Went to one for the first time a few months back. It's a combination of the two. Where yes they aren't wrong in that it's reasonably cheap, and yet I'd be hardpressed to find something that stood out for me that screamed "buy me!".
Generally speaking ollie's is a shit hole....the ones in the video seem to be step above what I've seen
If Pixar still had balls I could imagine a ToyStory spin off starring all these crappy Star Wars and Marvel toys that no one wants.
Thanks for doing these videos.
I have a feeling that Disney sees toys and comics as an utterly disposable marketing expense. They clearly have zero interest in making money on it. Besides it's not like Disney didn't already get paid for all that junk. As you keep pointing out they don't see the sell thru and no one at Disney cares. No one at Disney puts any of the pieces together to get a truthful picture of how this dead merchandise is a prime indicators of dying IP and their own clueless marketing divisions.
It just dawned on me all my poor minority friends, never had more than a hand full of broken used figs from any toy line. Period. Oh and they could never swim in a public pool.
The Sheri Copter made me laugh out loud. Almost spewed my coffee. . I think its funny that the Jessica Drew doll has the largest thighs I have ever seen on an action figure but yet she also has the largest thigh gap I have ever seen. Why is that??? Usually you don't see those two things together on the same superhero because on real women the thighs tend to rub together in a stunning and beautiful way.
at 1:52 dude ALMOST says the nword LMAO
You got me at the trash in between the guardians.
Love how we stopped getting plastic window packaging to be environmentally conscious yet there sit all those Shang Chi figures with no plastic packaging yet those figures are enough landfill plastic all on their own. What a fucking waste making that shit. 🤪
The Shuri copter looks like the MLP'S Tempest Shadow glider.
The fact that they're selling a Shuri Copter and not a Thanos Copter is insulting
Eternals figures will be on shelfs for an eternity.
5:03 The Eternals...eternally on clearance.
Gawd, those toys look cheap!
Look at all that debris
Muahahahahaha!
Detritus.
Boys will be boys and girls will be girls. Shocking. Boys collected Masters from the Universe and girls ponies. What a surprise!!!
Products people don't buy based on films people don't like, current Disney really needs to up their game before they go down into bankruptcy.
Disney made record profits last year - they are no where near bankruptcy...Hasbro already paid Disney for all of these toys.
@@robertdickson9319 Tell it to the shareholders, Disney stock has been dropping in value for years and is still going down, they could do with some good news and Bob Eiger is desperate for some to give them.
Let's be honest. Disney is too big to fail at this point, so they stopped trying
@@noahmaldonado5461 No such animal, it's just a question of when will they spend their last billion and who will the blame when the money runs out?
Remember when that insanely high-quality She-Ra doll was being offered for only a 48-hour presale? I don't even know who that "Thena" character is, but if I wasn't willing to drop $200 for She-Ra (a character I love and absolutely wanted to buy), then what're the odds I'll drop $300 on someone I don't know at all? It's madness.
I was @ the Disney Store the other day, & saw something that blew my mind, & it was the Star Wars Black Collection, nothing but all the black characters from the Star Wars franchise, & I thought now that's a little prejudice...lol
TLJ absolutely killed my desire to buy anything star wars, not at all surprised to see it on the pegs. Was tempted with Mandalorian but that stuff all sold off to scalpers so f that. The other thing I noticed was that once the black series line started to get traction EVERYTHING became black series. They used to be really high quality, now if everything is black series, nothing is black series. They look terrible and not worth the price. They take us for absolute fools.
The last time Ahsoka sold well was when Hasbro did a Black Series release of her from the final season on The Clone Wars cartoon (a good show). You couldn’t find them in stores.
how long is until companies stop even just *buying* these toys/products?
It’s over saturation of the market for one. Disney just literally flooded the market and post pandemic everyone has gotten a lot tighter with costs spiraling up on everything. Disney over produced and now they’re paying the price for it. Oh and as a regular 1/6 collector I can say that hot toys products are always limited in their numbers ( 1500 to 2500 maximum usually). They keep their values up cause they don’t flood the market. If you wanna know how to market see what hot toys or the 1/6 scale producers do.
I bet that Target has been looted and ransacked 3 times by the sun's and they still cannot get rid of those toy's.
Genuinely amazed Disney haven't leaned into the Clone Trooper army building with their figures, whenever a new variant gets released they sell out so fast, Prequel figures in general usually always sell, but being so desperate to push their own trilogy, Disney just keep releasing figures people don't want.
What is the last Disney merchandise that you bought?
At 2:45, did anyone else noticed how they packaged "Infinity Ultron" (an actually cool character) as a buildable figure, implying you'd have to buy five or six other figures to get him? I wonder if that was on purpose...
Merchandise used to be one of my favorite aspects of the release process, I will always have fond memories of seeing the new Force Awakens merch in 2015, (yes, I'll admit it.) Now it all blends together, with dry colors, weird toys and unremarkable characters. It makes me sad honestly... but they kinda did it to themselves.
What was the name of that one at 1:52 about to be?
With the more common appearance of clone troopers in star wars, you would think more of them would be on shelves instead of these characters people don't like.
No we can’t have characters the people like, we got put the strong independent women/minorities that are interesting as a cardboard box
You would think, but for whatever reason, Hasbro avoids making the characters people want. When they do make them, they make them in limited quantities.
Yes...Hasbro continues to make poor decisions with character selection and assortment ratios - not a recent issue but one that continue to plague the toy industry.
Shelves clogged to the tits with diverse characters. Why are toy buyers so racist!?😅
I coulda sworn I saw light year stuff at my target still 😂
Ok, ngl that classic Yondu figure looks cool.
It would be assumed as the country gets super hero fatigue and the comic companies are hemorrhaging fans, the toy companies will follow suit....I also think a lot of it has to do with kids dropping the action figures for phones.
It's not just the woke stuff, it's simply the ugly designs, can you imagine a kid asking for a Holdo or Rose Tico toy for christmas? I can't.
In the old times, children's would cry and make a scene to get the toy they want but the parents wouldn't buy.....nowadays they would do the same to NOT get those toys
Do little boys want figures of ladies in purple jumpsuits? Might as well try selling figures of lunch ladies, complete with tweezer to pluck their chin hairs.
It likely will not be long till Dial of Destiny and any other upcoming Disney/Lucasfilm figures make way to Clearance or Ollies.
Technically, that bloated Jessica Drew is Sony, not Disney. But still a figure nobody asked for.
The funniest part of all this is how I will watch a 16 minute video of you talking $hit in the toy section!😂
Well done!
Children are not as stupid as corporations think they are.