@@bannedfreespeech Nah but they probably remember customers or even guys that come in. When I worked a minimum retail job I remembered a few people who were usually there. This friendly old mute guy who never spent more than $100 at once, a group of contractors who always had multiple carts and a few others.
Remember that time when Disney virtue signaled that they were a environmentally responsible company by releasing the soundtrack of WALL·E only in a recycled paper envelope instead of a jewel case in order to "Save The Planet", even as they continued to churn out billions of tons of landfill-destined "collectibles". I Love That Story... LOL.
@@kpsk8031 dont worry, they only need to force "minorities" into everything to get their score back up. minorities are in quotes because these are global brands and the "minorities" are only minorities in certain countries, not on a global scale
So what eventually happens to all this crap when they FINALLY accept that it's NEVER going to sell? Can the toys even be DONATED to some kids charity, or does it all NEED to be destroyed in order to satisfy some sort of business 'write off' rules? Even though most kids would probably rather get NOTHING than be disappointed with an Admiral Holdo or Eternals action figure...
It used to be that when you got your own action figure, you were officially a star. Now it just means children in a Chinese factory will see a tiny plastic rendition of you over and over throughout their 22 hour work day.
Nah. It’s the overproduction and bad character selection of OT figures that don’t sell. Di$ney SW died after the Last Jedi. It’s been sludge since then especially D+ 💩
That and the fact most people already have toys of the cooler Star Wars characters, heck, I still have some Attack of the Clones toys from 2002 that I just donated. lol
Hasbro has done a tiny bit of flooding the market in the past couple of years. Their G1 line has been releasing just about every character, just about in original release order and they are getting to the 90's-2000s stuff which isn't as popular. Plus they had a hit with their newer line (I think it was the RescueBots line) and they are trying to branch that line out. Hasbro will do and mess it up, I think it's just starting to happen because they started with just one line and now they're up to 3 or 4 different lines, might even be 5.
This reminds me of the time I used to just browse around the toy section as a kid and just looking at the prices. The only difference is that the toys aren't as fun looking as before.
the prices are insane...i paid 2 dollars for my first star wars figure and now they're 20...it's never been cheaper to manufacture them..even designing a prototype...making molds...
Seriously, what a dumb marketing strategy, the economy has been a broken mess for half a decade now and all these toy companies think families will buy a Shang Chi or Eternal doll? We have bills to pay and if we buy a toy, it's going to be one of the cooler ones not those boring ugly toys that Disney is trying to guilt trip parents to buy. lol
Feels like Hasbro overproduces EVERYTHING but what people want: Transformers and Power Rangers. All I can say is, that's what you get for Disney basically doing a hostile takeover.
even then some of those mentioned end up on discount chains nationwide because of either certain exclusivity deals with retailers, or they just end up being overproduced toys that nobody wanted either-or works
Keep your eyes peeled at Burlington and Ross Dress for Less if you have them in your area. I have been getting ridiculous deals on Studio Series Transformers at Burlington (just picked up a Hot Rod and 2 Sweeps for $12 each yesterday)...and Ross even had a few Autobot Arks.
Nobody talks much about the Kevin Smith's He-Man figures being also a common offering at Ollie's, but knowing what he did to one of the best 80's animated heroes of all time gives me a sense of Schadenfreude whenever I see them stacked on the pegs. If he wanted to make a Teela show, all he had to do was say, "We're making a Teela show, so don't expect too much of He-Man in it," and I would've been like, "Okay, fine. I like Teela."
He said that they wanted to tackle the story of how Teela became the next Sorceress. And he also said that now that that's out of the way they can go back to focusing on Adam/He-Man. *REAL* fans of MOTU understand this. The rest are still clueless because they drank the Clownfish Kool-Aid.
@@sci-fi.tsunami You may be right, but that doesn't change the fact that the newer line toys, both retro-style or based on his series, are on clearance at Ollie's because they couldn't sell at retail price.
@sci-fi.tsunami I think the fish were trying to say what Nat's saying here, bad marketing derailed the chances for the show to succeed doing something different. To contrast to another show from the same franchise, Netflix She-Ra exploded like wildfire because what you saw is what you got.
Basically everything Marvel has made since end that’s been titled with one of their successful male super heroes has been given the Disney bait-n-switch. So I’m sure retailers can’t wait for the all female Avengers movie. Sure those babies will fly right off the shelf…
The cost to produce a plastic figure, doing the modeling, mold making, etc is enormous. Now, they can do a steel mold that makes multiple figures, but still, its expensive. I would think the toy companies would have to start rethinking doing every minor character. Or just giving up on certain toy lines like Star Wars. Obviously, no one is buying Star Wars toys now. Even the classic characters.
Documentary 30 years from now: Digging up the mythical landfiill where all the marvel/star wars toys were buried, like the Atari E.T. cartridge landfill.
I'm a woman from Poland, I haven't seen any SW or Marvel movies (only first Hulk from 20 years ago, which I liked) and yet I love to see this series of yours. It's fun and I don't know exactly why. Probably it's a mix of poetic justice, your commentary and calm voice, music - and I can feel like a kid in shop with toys.
I'm still wrapping my mind around this concept of supplying to a demand that isn't there... I don't know to be grumpy about this venture, or to maniacally laugh at it. There's a disconnect truly within the pop culture realm - especially when it comes to Disney's management of their "investments," or lack thereof. Kids aren't being strongly marketed to by Disney/Marvel. There's no compelling to play or have fun with all that wasted retail estate. Didn't homeboy do his research? Evidence still points to not ....
ESG-funded companies: "You WILL buy these toys." Customers: "lol nope" This isn't capitalism. This is Leftist religious messaging wearing the skinsuit of capitalism.
The problem is that problem gamblers on Wall Street think that the natural ceiling can be shattered. Welp, traders had their Icaros flight, and are now finally getting their massive ego to earth.
@@Code7Unltd What are you talking about? This religious message pushing is the antithesis of capitalism. Are you mad that no one is buying what your church is selling?
They look at the wrong charts, overproducing everything for fear of not having enough, except that creates the problem of having this many toys that no one will ever buy.
It’s not necessarily all because they “aren’t” selling. Some of it is due to distribution. GI Joe had been hard to get for a lot of people. Then randomly they show up at Ross and Ollies, when they never hit stores. The crappy figures get over ordered and the good ones never hit.
Yeah, GI Joe is mostly because stores don't carry them, because they aren't "popular"( which is ironic, because that is the Hasbro line that sells consistently, due to having a hardcore fanbase). This is a huge departure from Star wars and Marvel, which do not sell, because nobody wants them, which is east to see due to the figures that are always on clerance are all the main characters....you know the ones who are suppose to sell....
Too extent with Transformers too, it was super hard to find generations Cosmos in Walmart and he ended up being super rare until randomly showing up at Ross.
@@fx4g172 I managed to snag the twins and 3 stalkers for custom fodder at Ollie’s. Plus I found one Tiger Force Ram cycle at Ross. The Viper 3 packs remain a West Coast myth I think. Even the bloody Eternal’s got low enough that I grabbed a few just to use the heads for customs on Valaverse bodies. But not Phastos… never Phastos. Admiral Holdo will sell before Phastos.
Simply put, kids don't play with toys any more, not like I did back in the 1960s when I made my own Thunderbirds models out of discarded bits and pieces of other models and toys I had lying around and sent them on imaginary missions. Once you put a phone in front of a child - they're done. Besides, Disney STAR WARS is done - and so is Marvel and DC. Duh!
That is not true at all Disney brands are still very popular and people like Disney and the fact is Disney + is the number one streaming service in America
@@jamisoncowling2094 Old-school Disney stuff is still valuable, especially animation memorabilia. A single Mary Blair concept painting from Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, or Peter Pan fetches between $15,000 - $30,000 each in today's market (as of the summer Heritage Auctions session I watched live a few months ago), and a cel from the original Little Mermaid film goes for $5,000 - $20,000+ depending on the shot, number of characters, background painting included, etc. THAT'S where the money is with Disney fans. It's not with anything modern so far and Disney+ continues to hold high numbers when compared to all other streaming services, but they're not doing a great job attracting new members with the amount of lackluster or censored content on the platform.
I had no idea I had an Ollies near me until I checked their website today. I am excited to see we have one. They must be relatively new in my area. It looks like they took over an old Toys R Us location. I am planning going out there this holiday weekend. I hope to get that rare hard to find Shiri Copter after all this time.
Man, I remember when all I had was the DSI which my brother and I had to share, our PS2, and flipping through the channels to see if something good was on. I miss those day sometimes.
Stores like Ollie’s are evidence that the economy is in the tank. Ollie’s is a dump by the way. It’s depressing knowing that where our stores located there used to be a Toys-R-Us in the same building.
2:39 the GI Joe retro collection HISS tank reissue being an Ollie's rotter surprised the hell out of me because all reissues of it in the past sold incredibly well, and it was retailed reasonably at $25 for the tank and a figure to where it was a rare good bargain at full retail. But no one bought it, and so there it sits and rots.
I've seen quite a few sitting on Walmart shelves. Maybe it's regional supply problems there there's a glut of them on the West Coast, but a shortage on the East Coast, or they've been sitting in a wherehouse for two years.
The funniest & saddest thing about all this, for me personally, is that for years I kept saying they need to get rid of assortments. We always had 1 short-packed figure that nobody could find & a crap-ton of pegwarmers that prevented them from being restocked. Well, now they got rid of assortments & are shipping solid cases of 1 character. And I can admit that *I WAS WRONG!* Not really sure what the solution is now. But solid cases sure ain't it.
Hi just found your video and I am amazed and a bit jealous. I did watch the Star Wars movie in 70s and I was about 7 years old. Now I am 55y and when Disney+ came to our Sky TV I have been watching a lot of Star Wars. The figures are very expensive in UK and hard to get. So unfortunately no chance to collect them when you a carer for a Disabeld child and also a single parent. I love the Mandalorian and my friend gave me a Mandalorian backpack. I treated myself for a small Lego Mandalorian and it cost £12.00. We Don't have shops like that in the UK. We Essex. I just watch and think I love to have some or nearly all the Star wars stuff. Never going to happen. We don't to Hollidays and so we never ever travelled to where you are. Thanks for showing this stuff.
I visited an Ollie’s down here in Florida for the first time and I legit felt like I was on the set of a WCB video, looking at actual screen-used props. 😅😅. I couldn’t believe my eyes!
You know what's funny? I never saw those toys in stores around here, it's almost like the local stores of my country know only the cooler characters sell, no one will buy a ShuriChopter that's for sure.
@@Ihavethetouch I am not out of touch at all the fact is Disney is a monopoly and the sooner we except the fact that big corporations and companies own everything the sooner we can get on with our lives
The only Marvel Legends figure I really gave a crap about was the comics USAgent. Finally got it at Ollie's yesterday after however long it's been since it released of never seeing it in regular retail. Seeing your Disney Dumps gave me the idea of looking at Ollie's.
@@andrewtaylor940 yeah. There's a couple waves you can almost get in one visit. I might try to see how many pieces of that Bonebreaker wave I can get in one go before I give up and get the whole BAF on eBay.
It's not like they can do much about it.. they just go in and buy stores that are "closing out' (Because they couldnt' sell this stuff).. Ironically, our Toy section (went in yesterday looking for something else, but I always check the toys) had been cleaned out on 4 of the 6 rows and the primary toy table pile... (3 aisles, only one wall was untouched)
No sure who has more depressing work. People working in kitchen design shops where you get 2-3 customers per week. Or ones in such toy stores. Where you change prices on stuff 50 times in a month and it is ALL SAME STUFF that never sells.
I don't know Ollie's specific disposal policy, but typically they're landfilled because the toys and their packaging are too difficult to separate from their cardboard, different types of plastics, and little bits of metal components to be economically viable. Just think of it as carbon sequestration! (Don't think of all the carbon wasted in their manufacture, transport, and disposal, tho.)
Just proof the carbon shit is an ESG scam. These big companies that virtue signal while using 1000x the amount we do don't give a shit about it and neither do we.
Just my opinion: 1. Aside from these just being absolute garbage, i don't think toy companies leveled back to reality from being at during covid times when people had extra time and money to spend on toys. Back to reality, toy companies. 2. Too many toy lines, products, versions, etc, make collecting draining emotionally and, of course, financially. The market is oversaturated. It doesn't feel special anymore to collect them, just my opinion. 3. If you are collecting, thinking it will hold value in the long term, you might want to reconsider that. Toy companies will just continue to manufacture toys with the slightest tweaked version to milk money out of buyers. And, buyers will buy. Your toy now will just be vintage tier 2. Tier 1 is probably 90s and back. 4. There will be lots of garage, attic, and basement toy stores in the near future.
I did buy two Thor Hammers, the kids loved them. Mom didn't. They beat everyone and everything up all christmas, which I think was the idea. Sorry I missed the wolverine claw. that would have mixed it up a bit.
Here in New Zealand, we have had all things Disney's Wish in the clearance bins over a month ago. The film wasn't even a thing yet and they were putting out toys??!! No one knew (knows?) what the hell these toys were for! Also, being down, down under AND a big GI Joe collector, it makes me cry seeing all those figures and vehicles that become cost prohibitive because of shipping costs in discount bins. 😭😭😭
Safe to say most of this heading back to the recycling/trash dump after the holidays, not even the poor people want em. 5 more years like this and goodbye disney.
Disney won’t go away at all they are a hundred years old this year and they are planning for the next hundred years and the fact is that Disney toys and merchandise does sell in stores
The real test is how many Star Wars and marvel toys sell during Ollie’s card membership night. That’s when Ollie’s sell a lot of toys because of the special discounts that night
At 27:20 that looks to be an FYE electronic store and all their junk is way overpriced even on used stuff like DVD's and CD's and they have tons of Funko POP garbage that just sits there, I always wonder how they manage to stay open with nothing being sold.
Gijoe was my main obsession as a kid. I have some vintage and been getting the classified. I wish I had an Ollie's near me. I'd love to get a few on sale
@@jamisoncowling2094If they did, why is so much merchandise gathering dust in those stores, unsold years and years after their release? WAKE UP! No one buys these toys for themselves (including children as well as adult collectors), their friends, their children or grandchildren.
Those Wong figures reminded me of 2 years ago when Marvel Execs acted like he would be the new "Nick Fury" style character for the multiverse saga. Hurts to miss that one.
I am watching this while I have Starwars Gallaxies EMU booted up waiting for my character to heal & wishing disney would just let Star Wars rest in piece or sell it back to Lucas. Ya I know that will never happen they will wring every cent out of it then throw it in the incinerator like they are doing to every damn franchise they get their grubby mitts on these days.
Slightly topical to the KotOR remake being canned, but its interesting that Revan/Bastila figures aren't on discount shelves. Sure, they haven't had widespread movie appeal and probably weren't made on masse, but it almost seems to be one of the few Star Wars categories not ruined yet
Seeing Beast Wars in stores takes me back to Caldor when I was little! I detest John Stewart. I detest his bad attitude. The animated series made him worse. He got in between Hawkgirl & Hawkman.🤦♂️
Of course we've had record inflation but regardless of that the price on new toys is shameful. As a kid of the 80's and 90's I look back and realize that toy collectors hoarded action figures as a relatively cheap hobby. Now the manufacturers have adapted to the collector mentality beyond "offerings" and basically just sell toys as boutique items across the board now. Just like comics, the entire hobby has a bottom that won't slowly arc down, but instead just drop out suddenly.
Idk if this is related to the lack of interest of customers, but in my country there's a huge wave of discounts on star Wars merchandise, I found it on Amazon. (Not good figures btw)
New employee: Hey, what's the deal with that guy?
Old Employee: Oh, he comes once a week to film toys and never buys anything
Do you think a minimum wage retail person cares what he does? Also looks like no one is buying things at Ollies
@@bannedfreespeech Nah but they probably remember customers or even guys that come in. When I worked a minimum retail job I remembered a few people who were usually there. This friendly old mute guy who never spent more than $100 at once, a group of contractors who always had multiple carts and a few others.
@@bannedfreespeechyup. You definitely remember a regular no matter what job you have 😁
he bought that captain america shield not too long ago at an ollies, so he aint loitering
Remember that time when Disney virtue signaled that they were a environmentally responsible company by releasing the soundtrack of WALL·E only in a recycled paper envelope instead of a jewel case in order to "Save The Planet", even as they continued to churn out billions of tons of landfill-destined "collectibles". I Love That Story... LOL.
There's a soundtrack for Wall-E? Wasn't that film from 2008, so why release the soundtrack a decade or so later?
You are right. That should make the "E" from ESG very angry.
@@kpsk8031 dont worry, they only need to force "minorities" into everything to get their score back up. minorities are in quotes because these are global brands and the "minorities" are only minorities in certain countries, not on a global scale
My thoughts exactly. Every time I watch these videos I think of the many landfill sites filled with this plastic cr*p.
Saving The Planet is all a grift, too many idiots looking for a Bandwagon to join.
These Videos NEVER get old, even Christmas can't save Disney.
So what eventually happens to all this crap when they FINALLY accept that it's NEVER going to sell? Can the toys even be DONATED to some kids charity, or does it all NEED to be destroyed in order to satisfy some sort of business 'write off' rules?
Even though most kids would probably rather get NOTHING than be disappointed with an Admiral Holdo or Eternals action figure...
@@StreetPreacherr There going to be buried in the desert, like those ET Games.
Yes Christmas can save Disney people do buy Disney merchandise and toys
Kids don't play with toys anymore. The ones that do hate these and collectors hate them.@@jamisoncowling2094
@@StreetPreacherr They could donate them to kids in juvenile hall to deter crime.
It used to be that when you got your own action figure, you were officially a star.
Now it just means children in a Chinese factory will see a tiny plastic rendition of you over and over throughout their 22 hour work day.
Yes, sadly
😢
Knowing that makes liberal actors and actresses happy. It's the commie way.
Even the original trilogy figures don’t sell anymore. They’ve completely destroyed the Star Wars brand.
Nah. It’s the overproduction and bad character selection of OT figures that don’t sell.
Di$ney SW died after the Last Jedi.
It’s been sludge since then especially D+ 💩
That and the fact most people already have toys of the cooler Star Wars characters, heck, I still have some Attack of the Clones toys from 2002 that I just donated. lol
I’m actually shocked by the number of GI Joe and Transformers on clearance.
I got this week a Transformers Coronation of Starscream for $19.99 and Studio Series Hot Rod for $12.99! That was a steal deal!
@@Robd07 impressive
Well at least transformers figures at least get sold compared to the many Disney slop that never sells
Same here, although I could go for that Beast Wars Megatron. He has been one of my favorites from the series.
Hasbro has done a tiny bit of flooding the market in the past couple of years. Their G1 line has been releasing just about every character, just about in original release order and they are getting to the 90's-2000s stuff which isn't as popular. Plus they had a hit with their newer line (I think it was the RescueBots line) and they are trying to branch that line out. Hasbro will do and mess it up, I think it's just starting to happen because they started with just one line and now they're up to 3 or 4 different lines, might even be 5.
This reminds me of the time I used to just browse around the toy section as a kid and just looking at the prices. The only difference is that the toys aren't as fun looking as before.
the prices are insane...i paid 2 dollars for my first star wars figure and now they're 20...it's never been cheaper to manufacture them..even designing a prototype...making molds...
There are none of the cool characters on sale...like Stormtroopers, and guys for Army Building.
The toys are still as fun looking in the toy section
Saw some Magnetos only thing worth picking up
They should play people to buy them 🤠
People are buying food instead of merch from terrible movies.
At least you can get feed
Seriously, what a dumb marketing strategy, the economy has been a broken mess for half a decade now and all these toy companies think families will buy a Shang Chi or Eternal doll? We have bills to pay and if we buy a toy, it's going to be one of the cooler ones not those boring ugly toys that Disney is trying to guilt trip parents to buy. lol
My fat ass likes food way more lol
Feels like Hasbro overproduces EVERYTHING but what people want: Transformers and Power Rangers. All I can say is, that's what you get for Disney basically doing a hostile takeover.
even then some of those mentioned end up on discount chains nationwide because of either certain exclusivity deals with retailers, or they just end up being overproduced toys that nobody wanted
either-or works
Keep your eyes peeled at Burlington and Ross Dress for Less if you have them in your area. I have been getting ridiculous deals on Studio Series Transformers at Burlington (just picked up a Hot Rod and 2 Sweeps for $12 each yesterday)...and Ross even had a few Autobot Arks.
could it be disney request? they dont do that before disney era, at least not this much...
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold the phone. There's Beast Wars Monopoly?!
I need to get to the local Ollie's and hope they have a stack of them in stock!
Yeah, my girlfriend got it for me. It's pretty fun.
As a formal employees of Ollie's, I understand the pain all these employees go through with all these Disney's toys😢
Shoplifters can't even be bothered to steal this stuff.
You couldn't pay me to accept this garbage as gifts.
Nobody talks much about the Kevin Smith's He-Man figures being also a common offering at Ollie's, but knowing what he did to one of the best 80's animated heroes of all time gives me a sense of Schadenfreude whenever I see them stacked on the pegs. If he wanted to make a Teela show, all he had to do was say, "We're making a Teela show, so don't expect too much of He-Man in it," and I would've been like, "Okay, fine. I like Teela."
He said that they wanted to tackle the story of how Teela became the next Sorceress. And he also said that now that that's out of the way they can go back to focusing on Adam/He-Man. *REAL* fans of MOTU understand this. The rest are still clueless because they drank the Clownfish Kool-Aid.
@@sci-fi.tsunami You may be right, but that doesn't change the fact that the newer line toys, both retro-style or based on his series, are on clearance at Ollie's because they couldn't sell at retail price.
@sci-fi.tsunami I think the fish were trying to say what Nat's saying here, bad marketing derailed the chances for the show to succeed doing something different. To contrast to another show from the same franchise, Netflix She-Ra exploded like wildfire because what you saw is what you got.
@@sci-fi.tsunamiand you believe him? bahahahaha you deserve the shit thrown to you
Basically everything Marvel has made since end that’s been titled with one of their successful male super heroes has been given the Disney bait-n-switch. So I’m sure retailers can’t wait for the all female Avengers movie. Sure those babies will fly right off the shelf…
The cost to produce a plastic figure, doing the modeling, mold making, etc is enormous. Now, they can do a steel mold that makes multiple figures, but still, its expensive. I would think the toy companies would have to start rethinking doing every minor character. Or just giving up on certain toy lines like Star Wars. Obviously, no one is buying Star Wars toys now. Even the classic characters.
Documentary 30 years from now:
Digging up the mythical landfiill where all the marvel/star wars toys were buried, like the Atari E.T. cartridge landfill.
I was also thinking about all the Jar Jar merchandise from twenty years ago.
Shuri copters will be filled first in line
However, that E.T. landfill was mostly filled with the contents of the former Atari's service centre in Texas.
Lots of failed toylines are buried in landfills. Nobody will care about these either.
I'm a woman from Poland, I haven't seen any SW or Marvel movies (only first Hulk from 20 years ago, which I liked) and yet I love to see this series of yours. It's fun and I don't know exactly why.
Probably it's a mix of poetic justice, your commentary and calm voice, music - and I can feel like a kid in shop with toys.
The hiss tank is awesome. It will fit the old figures from the 80s also and it’s worth its money considering it goes about 30 on Amazon.
I grabbed one last month. Lol
I had the original one and it rocked. I didn't care for the H.I.S.S. driver's goofy red outfit - but Wild Weasel's red outfit was bad@$$!
Haven’t seen them at my Ollie’s yet
@@George-de6hd same here. I cleared out a few of their model cars tho. Lol
I would have been all over those 👍
The GI Joe stuff is legit. If you can't afford the vintage, this stuff is good. Whoever does their market research should be fired.
They make excellent backups when you want to baby the 80s originals
I'm surprised that they haven't tried selling these in bulk to gun ranges as novelty shooting targets. 😂
I don't think the range wants to be polluted by waste plastic.
"we've been filming this wall for the last 5 months" lol! Yup, it's still better entertainment than the shows the toys are from.
I'm still wrapping my mind around this concept of supplying to a demand that isn't there... I don't know to be grumpy about this venture, or to maniacally laugh at it. There's a disconnect truly within the pop culture realm - especially when it comes to Disney's management of their "investments," or lack thereof. Kids aren't being strongly marketed to by Disney/Marvel. There's no compelling to play or have fun with all that wasted retail estate. Didn't homeboy do his research? Evidence still points to not ....
ESG-funded companies: "You WILL buy these toys."
Customers: "lol nope"
This isn't capitalism. This is Leftist religious messaging wearing the skinsuit of capitalism.
They surely didn't.
The problem is that problem gamblers on Wall Street think that the natural ceiling can be shattered.
Welp, traders had their Icaros flight, and are now finally getting their massive ego to earth.
@@Code7Unltd What are you talking about?
This religious message pushing is the antithesis of capitalism. Are you mad that no one is buying what your church is selling?
They look at the wrong charts, overproducing everything for fear of not having enough, except that creates the problem of having this many toys that no one will ever buy.
It’s not necessarily all because they “aren’t” selling. Some of it is due to distribution. GI Joe had been hard to get for a lot of people. Then randomly they show up at Ross and Ollies, when they never hit stores. The crappy figures get over ordered and the good ones never hit.
Yeah, GI Joe is mostly because stores don't carry them, because they aren't "popular"( which is ironic, because that is the Hasbro line that sells consistently, due to having a hardcore fanbase). This is a huge departure from Star wars and Marvel, which do not sell, because nobody wants them, which is east to see due to the figures that are always on clerance are all the main characters....you know the ones who are suppose to sell....
Those 4 or 5 GI Joe Snakeyes movie figures peg warm. Everything else sells as soon as it hits shelves.
Too extent with Transformers too, it was super hard to find generations Cosmos in Walmart and he ended up being super rare until randomly showing up at Ross.
Seen the Crimson twins once at Ollie's, the few cases they had sold out in about a day.
@@fx4g172 I managed to snag the twins and 3 stalkers for custom fodder at Ollie’s. Plus I found one Tiger Force Ram cycle at Ross. The Viper 3 packs remain a West Coast myth I think. Even the bloody Eternal’s got low enough that I grabbed a few just to use the heads for customs on Valaverse bodies. But not Phastos… never Phastos. Admiral Holdo will sell before Phastos.
Simply put, kids don't play with toys any more, not like I did back in the 1960s when I made my own Thunderbirds models out of discarded bits and pieces of other models and toys I had lying around and sent them on imaginary missions.
Once you put a phone in front of a child - they're done.
Besides, Disney STAR WARS is done - and so is Marvel and DC. Duh!
It still is some what surreal & staggering how many decades old profitable franchies have been sacreficed & utterly wiped out since the early 2000's.
And all because of the theory that if you make it appeal to girls, you will make more money.
Not once has it ever worked.
That is not true at all Disney brands are still very popular and people like Disney and the fact is Disney + is the number one streaming service in America
@@jamisoncowling2094 Old-school Disney stuff is still valuable, especially animation memorabilia. A single Mary Blair concept painting from Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, or Peter Pan fetches between $15,000 - $30,000 each in today's market (as of the summer Heritage Auctions session I watched live a few months ago), and a cel from the original Little Mermaid film goes for $5,000 - $20,000+ depending on the shot, number of characters, background painting included, etc. THAT'S where the money is with Disney fans. It's not with anything modern so far and Disney+ continues to hold high numbers when compared to all other streaming services, but they're not doing a great job attracting new members with the amount of lackluster or censored content on the platform.
Should just dump all that crap at Disney corporate office or the theme parks.
Imagine someone shows up at Disney Land in a 26 foot U-Haul truck full of these toys and just tosses them all at the front gate.
I like how desolate the store itself looks too. Nothing is faced, shit everywhere like no one cares, because no one does.
Illumination is eating Disney’s breakfast, lunch and Dinner.
Illumination is the new Pixar and new Disney animation studios.
Disney is being “Illuminated” at the box office by Universal!
A WCBS toy dump video without holdo wouldn't be complete 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really hope executives at Hasbro sees this.
They're just counting their days until they get their golden parachutes.
Wish I had an Ollie’s nearby. Clear to me that WalMart never carried this stuff or if they did it was over priced.
Most of Walmart's regulars only buy food anyway.
I had no idea I had an Ollies near me until I checked their website today. I am excited to see we have one. They must be relatively new in my area. It looks like they took over an old Toys R Us location. I am planning going out there this holiday weekend. I hope to get that rare hard to find Shiri Copter after all this time.
I bought a HISS tank. That was one of my 1st awesome toys in the 80s.
Nice that something like that is a steal
I think the big issue is kids no longer play with toys or play board games. It's all about things that can done on a phone or tablet.
True. There on tik tok
Man, I remember when all I had was the DSI which my brother and I had to share, our PS2, and flipping through the channels to see if something good was on. I miss those day sometimes.
Stores like Ollie’s are evidence that the economy is in the tank. Ollie’s is a dump by the way. It’s depressing knowing that where our stores located there used to be a Toys-R-Us in the same building.
"Hasbro overproduces everything" except power rangers strangely enough. Not counting the zords apparently
I just don't get why they make so much of these things. They can't possibly believe that people want all this at huge amounts.
Their so-called "market research" has failed them again. lol
It's amazing because I bet you have to be a college graduate in order to get those jobs.
You can't produce 3. You need hundreds of thousands to lower the production costs
People do want and do buy Star Wars and Disney toys and merchandise
@@jamisoncowling2094 after watching this amd other videos I'm not sure about that.
@@Adnabman Well it is the truth people do want Disney toys and merchandise
2:39 the GI Joe retro collection HISS tank reissue being an Ollie's rotter surprised the hell out of me because all reissues of it in the past sold incredibly well, and it was retailed reasonably at $25 for the tank and a figure to where it was a rare good bargain at full retail. But no one bought it, and so there it sits and rots.
I've seen quite a few sitting on Walmart shelves.
Maybe it's regional supply problems there there's a glut of them on the West Coast, but a shortage on the East Coast, or they've been sitting in a wherehouse for two years.
The funniest & saddest thing about all this, for me personally, is that for years I kept saying they need to get rid of assortments. We always had 1 short-packed figure that nobody could find & a crap-ton of pegwarmers that prevented them from being restocked. Well, now they got rid of assortments & are shipping solid cases of 1 character.
And I can admit that *I WAS WRONG!* Not really sure what the solution is now. But solid cases sure ain't it.
Remember the Video Game Crash of 1983 in 2023 it the beginning of the Hollywood Entertainment Crash and Hasbro is a prime example of the Fall
Few things please me more as a toy collector then seeing Hasbruh's and Disney's terrible decisions rotting in an Ollies.
I used to collect GI Joe's back when they were 12 inches tall in the 70s.
Hi just found your video and I am amazed and a bit jealous. I did watch the Star Wars movie in 70s and I was about 7 years old. Now I am 55y and when Disney+ came to our Sky TV I have been watching a lot of Star Wars. The figures are very expensive in UK and hard to get. So unfortunately no chance to collect them when you a carer for a Disabeld child and also a single parent. I love the Mandalorian and my friend gave me a Mandalorian backpack. I treated myself for a small Lego Mandalorian and it cost £12.00. We Don't have shops like that in the UK. We Essex. I just watch and think I love to have some or nearly all the Star wars stuff. Never going to happen. We don't to Hollidays and so we never ever travelled to where you are. Thanks for showing this stuff.
Wish there was an Ollie's near me. It looks like a kick to go through and laugh.
The real 'Holdo Maneuver' is hiding unsold Star Wars merchandise behind something that can actually sell.
I’m not ashamed to say this makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside
I visited an Ollie’s down here in Florida for the first time and I legit felt like I was on the set of a WCB video, looking at actual screen-used props. 😅😅. I couldn’t believe my eyes!
You know what's funny? I never saw those toys in stores around here, it's almost like the local stores of my country know only the cooler characters sell, no one will buy a ShuriChopter that's for sure.
Teen groot is pissed that no one bought him, Thor, and Star Lord 10:26 😂
I work at Walmart and the funny thing that's been happening alot is people popping off the heads action figures
I remember the Lebron James heads were the most stolen heads from my Walmart. Not one Space Jam figure had an intact head on it lol
Lol what do they do with a head?
I have no clue! But thier targets are now the Spiderman toys
A Hugh Grant action figure 😂 I never imagined I would see a day that was a thing. Hilarious!
Gotta be honest, some of that GI JOE and FF stuff looks pretty good. I kinda wish we had an Ollie’s rn lol
As a liquidator they vary like my Ollie’s here locally doesn’t have any GI Joe and an overload of Black Panther stuff
You went right by 2 Tigertrons, beast wars at 4:00, i was always looking for Tigertron back in the day and could never find him
Hopefully Disney doesn't buy the Gi Joe franchise and ruin it as well.
unlikely, consider Hasbro is running HasLabs campaign on them.
The new HISS tank was crowfunded immediately by fans.
I want Disney to buy G. I. Joe
@@jamisoncowling2094Well we have all seen how much out of touch you are so...
@@Ihavethetouch I am not out of touch at all the fact is Disney is a monopoly and the sooner we except the fact that big corporations and companies own everything the sooner we can get on with our lives
The only Marvel Legends figure I really gave a crap about was the comics USAgent. Finally got it at Ollie's yesterday after however long it's been since it released of never seeing it in regular retail. Seeing your Disney Dumps gave me the idea of looking at Ollie's.
I've snagged almost the whole controller BAF at Ollies. Just hunting for Thir Herald of Galactus for the head
@@andrewtaylor940 yeah. There's a couple waves you can almost get in one visit. I might try to see how many pieces of that Bonebreaker wave I can get in one go before I give up and get the whole BAF on eBay.
I feel a little bad for Ollie’s, I’m afraid they got screwed on the deal.
It's not like they can do much about it.. they just go in and buy stores that are "closing out' (Because they couldnt' sell this stuff).. Ironically, our Toy section (went in yesterday looking for something else, but I always check the toys) had been cleaned out on 4 of the 6 rows and the primary toy table pile... (3 aisles, only one wall was untouched)
I wish we got more GI Joe stuff in Europe. Those tanks look great.
With the miles of empty aisles it looks like you no clipped into a backrooms toy store!
GI Joe is my bread and butter through and through! ❤😊
So, Ollie's is the Disney+ of Hasbro?
I will send you a Shuri-copter.
the GI Joe stuff has been pretty good; heard they might remake those 12 inch figures like they had in the 60s
If YOU have been injured in a landspeeder accident... call Tarkin, Tarkin, Leia, and Chewie. We'll get you the credits you deserve !
Seen a lot of black Ariel dolls on the shelf too. Like all the black Santa’s in Walmart lol
I don't understand why they prefer to let all of these rot in selves and don't make them available to europe
Yeah I totally remember Dr.Strange using a disc launcher.
It was his greatest weapon.
The most powerful spell of all: Destructo Disc! 💥
These videos are like a gift that keeps on giving, thanks for the entertainment!
No sure who has more depressing work.
People working in kitchen design shops where you get 2-3 customers per week.
Or ones in such toy stores. Where you change prices on stuff 50 times in a month and it is ALL SAME STUFF that never sells.
Im curious but are unsold toys recyled? Its a lot of plastic to just throw in a landfill
I don't know Ollie's specific disposal policy, but typically they're landfilled because the toys and their packaging are too difficult to separate from their cardboard, different types of plastics, and little bits of metal components to be economically viable. Just think of it as carbon sequestration! (Don't think of all the carbon wasted in their manufacture, transport, and disposal, tho.)
@@TheranthropeChina sweat shop don't care about this, this is a very first world issue.
@@MarvinHartmann452 Are you AI?
Just proof the carbon shit is an ESG scam. These big companies that virtue signal while using 1000x the amount we do don't give a shit about it and neither do we.
@@Theranthropealong with the unsold Funko Pops
Just my opinion:
1. Aside from these just being absolute garbage, i don't think toy companies leveled back to reality from being at during covid times when people had extra time and money to spend on toys. Back to reality, toy companies.
2. Too many toy lines, products, versions, etc, make collecting draining emotionally and, of course, financially. The market is oversaturated. It doesn't feel special anymore to collect them, just my opinion.
3. If you are collecting, thinking it will hold value in the long term, you might want to reconsider that. Toy companies will just continue to manufacture toys with the slightest tweaked version to milk money out of buyers. And, buyers will buy. Your toy now will just be vintage tier 2. Tier 1 is probably 90s and back.
4. There will be lots of garage, attic, and basement toy stores in the near future.
I did buy two Thor Hammers, the kids loved them. Mom didn't. They beat everyone and everything up all christmas, which I think was the idea. Sorry I missed the wolverine claw. that would have mixed it up a bit.
Here in New Zealand, we have had all things Disney's Wish in the clearance bins over a month ago. The film wasn't even a thing yet and they were putting out toys??!! No one knew (knows?) what the hell these toys were for!
Also, being down, down under AND a big GI Joe collector, it makes me cry seeing all those figures and vehicles that become cost prohibitive because of shipping costs in discount bins. 😭😭😭
In Brazil those vehicles only comes at full price and small stocks, and sell over time. To see them in clearance is absurd!
I love Transformers and wish I had an Ollies to get some of that Beast Wars stuff.
Safe to say most of this heading back to the recycling/trash dump after the holidays, not even the poor people want em. 5 more years like this and goodbye disney.
Let's hope it happens in 2 to 3 years.
Disney won’t go away at all they are a hundred years old this year and they are planning for the next hundred years and the fact is that Disney toys and merchandise does sell in stores
The real test is how many Star Wars and marvel toys sell during Ollie’s card membership night. That’s when Ollie’s sell a lot of toys because of the special discounts that night
As a member of Ollie's, I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder!
At 27:20 that looks to be an FYE electronic store and all their junk is way overpriced even on used stuff like DVD's and CD's and they have tons of Funko POP garbage that just sits there, I always wonder how they manage to stay open with nothing being sold.
Admiral Holdo will end becoming the mascot of this channel...
Gijoe was my main obsession as a kid. I have some vintage and been getting the classified. I wish I had an Ollie's near me. I'd love to get a few on sale
I used to collect Action Force, I quite fancied Baron Ironblood's version of the HISS.
Star Wars and Marvel will put Ollies out of business.
No it won’t because Star Wars and Marvel does sell in stores
@@jamisoncowling2094If they did, why is so much merchandise gathering dust in those stores, unsold years and years after their release?
WAKE UP! No one buys these toys for themselves (including children as well as adult collectors), their friends, their children or grandchildren.
It’s only a matter of time before funkos are like this
I’m so excited I always love these videos
4:54 - It looks like something from Dino Fury. I recognise the re-purposed Triken and Milneedle from Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger.
Those Wong figures reminded me of 2 years ago when Marvel Execs acted like he would be the new "Nick Fury" style character for the multiverse saga.
Hurts to miss that one.
Why not make Stephen? Oh right Wong's cheaper
Why don't they make Millennium Falcons into plushies? They would bank.
Cause those are things the fans actually want and like, Disney doesn’t want the fans to be happy, only the activists
You should film at Ollie’s Army Night that’s coming up to see if anyone buys the Disney crap at 25% off
19:51 Speaking of blind boxes, I bought 2 LEGO minifig boxes to get X-Men 90s Wolverine. I got it, but I also got MCU She-Hulk. Ugh.
I am watching this while I have Starwars Gallaxies EMU booted up waiting for my character to heal & wishing disney would just let Star Wars rest in piece or sell it back to Lucas. Ya I know that will never happen they will wring every cent out of it then throw it in the incinerator like they are doing to every damn franchise they get their grubby mitts on these days.
Slightly topical to the KotOR remake being canned, but its interesting that Revan/Bastila figures aren't on discount shelves. Sure, they haven't had widespread movie appeal and probably weren't made on masse, but it almost seems to be one of the few Star Wars categories not ruined yet
On the topic of KotOR, I'm slightly surprised the Rakatans were never made into figures.
I don't want Disney to touch my beloved KOTOR or Old Republic, they would surely butcher it.
wow! Space Jam 2 toys with the Lebron heads still attached!
Seeing Beast Wars in stores takes me back to Caldor when I was little!
I detest John Stewart. I detest his bad attitude. The animated series made him worse. He got in between Hawkgirl & Hawkman.🤦♂️
the Christmas themed storm trooper was the only cool thing in the starwars line up this year lol
...that Stealing Solo would be a Great idea to do as live action movie
Fanboys did it in 08
@@bannedfreespeech but not with kidnapping Harrison Ford. That would be mad funny to see!
they overproduce the stuff that won't sell and underproduce the things that the customers want
The prices even on clearance are NUTS!
Of course we've had record inflation but regardless of that the price on new toys is shameful. As a kid of the 80's and 90's I look back and realize that toy collectors hoarded action figures as a relatively cheap hobby. Now the manufacturers have adapted to the collector mentality beyond "offerings" and basically just sell toys as boutique items across the board now. Just like comics, the entire hobby has a bottom that won't slowly arc down, but instead just drop out suddenly.
Dumb comment. 🙄
Yeah the gi joe snake eyes movie figures seem to shelf warm hard!
10 yr old me would have loved that GI Joe section. The rattler plane and HISS tank would’ve been awesome to have!
Idk if this is related to the lack of interest of customers, but in my country there's a huge wave of discounts on star Wars merchandise, I found it on Amazon. (Not good figures btw)
Ya jeff they have sold for penny's dont you remember those 3 cent star wars toys.
I have never bought movie merch, but I like these videos.
Why do I like thoese videos??, 🤣🤣🤣😎
Always a Highlight for me. 😊