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I'm not surprised about the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon figures hitting discount so soon, there's countless unboxing videos on TH-cam that show that they were so poorly made, that the literally broke apart trying to position them out of their box poses. Plus that stupid "no plastic" boxes Hasbro tried meant it was a bit of a crapshoot on the quality on the figure you were actually about to buy.
Honestly, if they're there after Christmas (and of course they will be) I'd love to pick up a set of both movie & cartoon D&D figures. At a cheaper price they're probably worth having to pre-boil to make the joints move.
The amount of pollution caused by producing these junk is astronomical. Gretta Thunbug should protest in front of the Disney headquarter instead of bothering random police officers.
no you dont understand, it's the average person's fault for enabling pollution :^) giant corporations are blameless :^) to stop climate change we must impose rules on the common person and limit their freedom :^) let the poor mega corporations continue on as normal :^)
Because Thunberg wasn't trotted out to champion *for* the environment, but rather, *against* America, using its economic power to win wars, rather than its military. Win, and I should add, *prevent.* *"HOW DARE YOU,"* indeed...
Hasbro's own worse enemy is itself. It's so huge, it has to produce kids' toys... and no kids actually want most of them. It has to produce collectors' toys, but there aren't enough collectors who want every character from every show Disney puts out. There are probably 5,000 people who want a Baron Zemo from Falcon & Winter Soldier, but Hasbro produced 20,000 of them. Repeat indefinitely for everything they make.
People who are very vocal about having progressive politics tend to not be the hugest disney fans to begin with. Shooting a movie in a Chinese concentration camp doesnt really get you much political support from either side.
You know, if these stores caught on fire I get this feeling the insurance company would also kick and scream about paying for Shang Chi and The Last Jedi figures.
The year is 2140. Landfills the world over now reach up high into the heavens. All the garbage and refuse ever created by human beings has been dwarfed a thousand fold by Disney Marvel and Star Wars toys. In once beautiful Yorba Linda, an avalanche of Shuri-copters has buried the city so deep in failure that it will never again see the light of day...
Disney has announced the release of 46 new Marvel films this year, with an added 12 Star Wars shows all to air on Public Station 1 (formerly Disney Plus). I weep, for I will never sell the rest of my Admiral Hodo action figures
I’m only glad they started doing that because it’s less of a hassle for me to get Transformers figures out of their box. That and I no longer have to worry about losing little bits of plastic on my floor, which 99% of the time I found when I stepped on one. It was quite painful.
It costs Disney $0.32 to make and prepare those items for sale in stores and they sell billions of them but a few dozen get put on reduced price sale. Disney makes money and people lie to try and claim Disney is doing bad sales. I may not like Disney for a ton of the stupid shit they do but I am not going to blatantly lie like an absolute dumbass.
I would buy one of the Holdo dolls for $1.99 because I’m 5 years older than Laura Dern and I think she’s still hot. Maybe $2.99, even? But after a certain point, Ollie’s will simply not mark things down any lower! I’d buy six Holdos if they were $1 each, but THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
@@markiangooley Star Wars specifically i feel like the issue is that EVERY SINGLE FUCKING CHARACTER has an action figure. No matter how irrelevant or short their screentime. Craziest thing is I still found Rogue One lego ccbs figures in a store this year, to be fair though those were fucking dreadful for any character that wasnt wearing full armor.
It's part of the life of a book, where it's been can sometimes tell a tale almost as interesting as the book itself. If you wanna new book, you gotta buy a new book. ;)
@@nonplayercharacter6478 Also, never buy an ex-library copy of a book (like I do) because libraries are horrible about marking and stickering up their books.
@@ldoocruz5331 There is nothing wrong with me and it is a lie that a store would burn their merchandise because it would be a lost of money for them and the chemicals released from the burning would harm the environment
I've got it and it's a really good likeness. Well worth getting. There's a Retro Kenner figure, and he also has a Mego Van Helsing figure. I was a huge Star Wars and Cushing fan in the seventies and my biggest gripe was no Tarkin, so now I buy all the Cushing figures I can.
@@nanako4477 What I meant is that just because they call it trash does not mean it is trash because there will always be someone who like the new Disney and Star Wars toys
@@pauljakeman But it is not in the trash or landfill just because the radical right and disgruntled older Star Wars and Disney fans say it should be in the trash does not mean it is actually in the trash
Actually any unprivileged or poor child would be grateful for whatever toy that they got from Toy-for-tots. Yes it would be a tax write off and the kids would be happy about what they got and it would not being giving them trash at all. Also when you are poor you are grateful for any toy that is given to you
Image all those billions of dollars that was wasted in the development, production, shipping and storage of all those garbage toys cost. Think of all the money that would have been made for franchises that actually sell toys.
My buddy bought an old man Han Solo, and permanently stuck a red lightsaber through him. Poor taste? maybe but I laugh every time I see it on his desk.
What pisses me off most is they waste plastic on this garbage but demonize plastic straws and cutlery. I say stop making this plastic waste no one wants and let me drink my smoothy through something that doest feel.like wet toilet paper and self destruct halfway through my drink.
Paper straws are bad for you too. They have PFAS, the same chemical that coats Teflon pans so nothing sticks and once the straw gets soggy, the chemicals leech into your body and stay there forever
Thats why corpos trying to shift the blame to the consumer is nonsense. Every human on the planet doesn't produce as much waste as one Hasbro toy factory.
I got 3 Marvel figures from Ollie’s, no way those things are worth almost 30$ at regular retail stores. They are barely worth the 9$ price from the discount chains.
When this channel's vlogger way of thinking was more common in the executive suites of America, society was nicer, kinder, happier, more enjoyable. Now it's just woke.
Ollie's Greatest Hits (AKA the Ollie's Avengers): Vice Admiral Holdo Shuri Namorrr Shang-Chi Age of Apocalypse Cyclops The Eternals (all of them) Rey Flying around in their Shuri-Copter and firing their Eternals Disc Launchers at the bad guys, this team will keep your pegs warm and your wallet full, by never being purchased.
After the fiasco with "tuck friendly swimwear for trans kids"? I bet Target will become the "new Ollie's" in the near future, selling things at discount because that'll be the only way Target can get anyone to buy anything from its stores.
@@crazyralph6386 Proof Shuri is unworthy to take on the Black Panther mantle. 'Black Panther' fans want to see T'Challa as Black Panther, NOT his little sister.
I'm honestly VERY temped to pick up a few Ironheart masks on December 10th at Ollie's (it's specifically a 25% one day sale on toys) because they're so generic they'd make a great base for a custom mech mask. That said, hey Jeff, make sure so browse Ollie's AFTER December 10th. If nothing has moved....there's going to be a huge problem.
You should smuggle a little tape-measure into the store so you can measure how deep the shelves of reject toys go, and how high the towers of failure go
I’d hypothesize it’s because they buy them for literal pennies on the dollar. So even if they sell only a quarter of that merchandise, they are still bringing in a decent return on their investment.
People do buy stuff from Ollie’s I just recently watched two different videos one of them buying Star Wars figures from Ollie’s and one opening the figures that they bought at Ollie’s
I get some cool action figures from Ollie's. Masters of the Universe, Starwars, the Ghostbusters, figs that came out and had spotty distribution in their main retail stores later end up at Ollie's.
Before Disney, you could buy anything Marvel or George Lucas and have a good chance to sell it for a profit. After Disney, you buy anything Marvel or George Lucas, and you probably would have to give it away for next to nothing.
@crazyralph6386 Nope, if anything, the value has declined somewhat. Before Disney, they were pushing over 80 to over a hundred bucks. After Disney, they dropped to under 80 to 90 bucks. I got a vintage electronic Star Destroyer for under 60 bucks after Rouge one came out as proof of this.
@jamisoncowling2094 That is outright false. You can't say oh look they paid X amount of dollars for Star Wars and over this amount of time, they maid Y amount of dollars, and that means they made that money back. The way it actually breaks down is like this. When Disney bought Lucas Films, that means all that debt becomes front-loaded, and Lucas Films is automatically in the Red. On top of that, debt is the production is production cost of every movie, show, and general running and day to day operation costs of Lucas Studios. Meaning that, let's say you put the total cost to buy Lucas Films and everything Star Wars and etc. Disney has produced so far together along with the total staff , etc.. Bill's together, along with total income so far from returns of licensing and the share of ticket revenue combined. You'll find there is not an iceberg chance in Death Valley. Disney has earned back that cost Bob Igor spent in buying Lucas Films, Marvel, or FOX. If anything, Disney has massively lost money and lost so much money that during an investor call, Bob Igor was outright up and asked if Disney has earned back the money Bob Igor spent on buying Star Wars and he didn't even answer the question. To try and sweep under the carpet, the net Loss George Lucas Studios is operating at they are actively canceling the divisor with in parks and recreation to avoid shareholders knowing how much money Star Wars is bleeding from the Walt Disney Corporation. You can actually go and look up the earnings report yourself. You'll the actual income and expenses of Lucas Studios (Star Wars), Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, and CNN are not openly shown. I know business, and when it is a success, the numbers are published, and when it is a failure, you don't see numbers. When the brand is bleeding money, it is hidden on the earnings report to try and prevent the blowback from shareholders.
@@jamisoncowling2094The character in the movie might have been called Admiral Holdo but her words and actions were those of a petulant (feminist) child, not an admiral. Calling her Admiral Gender Studies is simultaneously accurate and giving her far more respect than she deserves.
When I was a kid, the stores from 2000-2006 would always have their Star Wars section all picked over and it was hard to find a character to spend allowance money on. Now nobody buys that stuff as Star Wars just isn't fun anymore
@finkamain1621 yeah remember back in the 90s my late wife ( just a friend at the time) trying to get the Tasha Yar Playmates figure because that was the short pack at leasing the Chicago area. She eventually grabbed one for each of us at a local variety store visiting family in Michigan. Similar with the Power Of The Force Leia figure we searched high and low for that one though it was fun fecking with the speculators at comic shows by one of us feigning interest in an overpriced figure and the other would mention just loud enough to be overheard oh don't bother buying that one. I saw one at the Toys R US just down the street. Inevitably you'd see the guy whisper something to his table partner and peel off some bills and send the guy off on a wild goose chase.
When I was a child I dreamed about how cool it would be to have Marvel Comics movies and more toys, seeing my imagination come to life. Sadly, this is what we got instead. 😢 RIP childhood
I know. I used to say, why cant we bring back canceled shows that were beloved but never had a chance to grow an audience? Or, wouldn't it be nice to have this show that's been off the air for years come back and we can see where all the characters are now! Monkeys Paw for sure.
The stuff WCBS has been saying is quite true. Went to an Ollie's last night in search of some cheap Transformers. Black Oanther, Thor, and Shang Chi shit EVERYWHERE. Just thrown about the shelves.
I went to a Ollie's a few days ago and they had a bunch of Studio 86 Coronation Starscreams for $14.99 and Buzzworthy Bumblebee Silverstreaks for $3.99.I had to get a couple of each for that price I'm sure they'll be worth something in a couple of years once they're long gone from store shelves.
That's why I chuckle when these Disney movies do poorly and people are like, "oh they will make it up in merchandise!!!" like, no they won't. Who buys merchandise from unpopular series and movies that no one went to watch in the first place? I haven't seen a single Elemental toy anywhere, yet I am made to believe it will pay for itself in toy sales.
Man I remember back in the 80's Star Wars, DC and Marvel action figures were selling like hot cakes sometimes you want a certain characters they were always sold out until the next shipments few weeks later and now no one care about these toys selling today
Oh! How silly of me. Just realized, the stunning and brave new audience Disney/Pukeusfilm/Marvel was after, they don't like toys! Don't worry. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, will take all of them to that island he found in that old Christmas special.
It looks to me like Disney cashed the cheque, so their spreadsheet shows in the black. The original retailer (Target/Walmart etc) needs to stop ordering stock...but they won't
😂😂😂Walmart has had some of the SW figs on the shelf for over a year and they won't clearance the stuff.Stuff most obvious is Landos,Lady Jays and stuff from the last batman movie😂😂.Hasbro never needs to make another Lady Jay or Lando EVER!!!!
12:41 - the most desperate attempt to sell Booo-Karen figures I have ever seen. :D Put her into a pack with the most popular characters: Darth Vader, Luke, Mando and Darth Maul. :D If I collected action figures I might actually buy the pack for the good characters and set Boooo on fire and film it for morbid fun.
@@jamisoncowling2094 I would make an exception for the pr0pag4nda device Bo-Karen. Pr0pag4nd4 is bad for democracy, freedom and quality of life in general.
I picked up two Marvel Legends Hammerheads at 6 bucks each at Ross. Now Tomax and Xamot have business suits when they're exploiting legal loopholes at the Extensive Enterprises branch on my shelf
I've said it before about SW toys in particular but this can apply to Marvels toys as well - I don't think Disney realized that it wasn't just kids that drove the sales of those toys but mainly adult collectors. When they told all the old hard core fans of those franchises to fvck off in an effort to please a very small percentage of the population, the so called 'modern audience,' they lost all those customers for their toy range. They claim that kids just don't play with toys anymore but it is actually the loss of grandparents that would buy three of each for presents: one for their collection, one for their children's collection, and one for their grandkids to play with. Then when the grandkids became adults they would get new ones to replace the old ones that they payed with. They screwed themselves out of generations of customers to pander to a very small section of the population that didn't care about those franchises to begin with and weren't going to do more than tweet how brave and modern you are but not actually consume them.
To be fair, the MCU is made to be lowest common denominator. Its purely engineered to make money with no soul being as bland and inoffensive as possible. I can recount the plot of every Avengers movie ever made because I've seen like 3 atleast movies already.
"If you're ever lost in the woods, just burn a Shuri coptor or two for warmth. They'll burn forever, just like their box office numbers." And just like their box office numbers, they'll release toxic fumes that will land you in the hospital.
It boggles my mind that there are still products from the force awakens and rogue one still out there on shelves, that stuff is a couple of years away from being a decade old
It would be interesting to see how these companies calculate how many action figures to make. Toy Maker “I can see a market for 10,000 maybe “ Disney executive “double that, then double it again!”
Yeah, I did quick research and took a detour to my closest Ollie's recently. Not going back. The toy section wasn't nearly as big as on these videos, the store was kind of crummy, and the area was slightly sketchy.
@@lo1bo2 I'd spend more on gas heading to the nearest Ollie's than I'd save on purchases even if they magically had everything I had an interest in picking up.
Tbh im a star wars fan but i just cant bring myself to care about the high republic, disney made all the cool old republic stuff non-canon and ngl it was tons better then the high republic and didnt contradict anything disney are/were doing with star wars yet they threw it all out for no reason, im not interested in what they are replacing it with
Captain Carter might have sold better if they called it Captain Britain lol At least that name has some history. You can tell how valuble this stuff is by how they get dumped in a pile at the back of the shelf :)
I know the videos are about how bad this sh!t is selling... but man, I wish we had stores like this in the UK... some great, cheap figures there to customise! ...and, i'd have picked up that Tarkin figure 😃
They want to socially engineer girls into boys by pumping billions and billions into films and merchandise to cater to an audience that doesn’t exist, and they have the hubris to think they can will it into existence.
It goes against the activists' idea gender is interchangeable and as easily changed as flipping a light switch, instead of expensive and time-consuming surgery, physical and psychological therapy.
@@longtsun8286 kids like toys that are for the opposite gender does not have anything to do with transgender ideology or having a surgery to change one’s gender. I grew up with two older female cousins as a child and I played with them a lot as a child and so I played with both toys that are considered boy toys and toys that are considered girls toys. Also I have both girls toy and boys toys in my toy collection. Both those things I mentioned about myself does not make me less of a man. And I firmly believe that toys should not be developed or divided by gender. If a boy plays with a baby doll or a girl plays with a Hotwheels car they will grow out of it. I grew up and grew out of it when I was a kid because when I was a kid I did have a baby doll that I eventually grew up and no longer played with and that does not make me any less of a man for doing so
As a kid I never saw Star Wars toys discounted. I remember my parents driving to other cities trying to find action figures or ships. Now you can trip over Star Wars toys anywhere…how sad.
He was pretty much the first environmentalist. He didn't want to waste all the energy used to spin up the Death Star super laser so he had to use it somewhere.
In New Zealand, the Black Panther claw launcher and that Grogu's Journey book, cost about 22 dollars (US) each! I'd say all the other stuff is similarly expensive here.
You had Grand Moff Tarkin as a kid? That makes me feel old because back in the 70s & 80s I DIDN'T have Grand Moff Tarkin. He was my most wanted figure from 77-83 but for some odd reason they never made him. By the time they finally did make him in POTF 2 I no longer cared.
Kenner thought nobody wanted a figure of an old man. Alec Guiness was excepted as he was the only good guy character to have (and fight) with a Lightsabre.
The most WTF toyline I've seen in my life has to be the John Stewart Green Lantern musical instrument/walkie-talkie assortment. I first thought it might be a line designed around the whole JL, but it's nothing but John Stewart. The toys and packaging are reminiscent of what you'd find in a grocery store toy section, and could someone please explain the connection between Green Lantern and music?
Was at Ollie's today (Cranberry PA location) for the first time. Didn't see any Shuricopters but I did see some Ironheart shampoo bottle figures. Oh and cases upon cases of 3.75" Rey, General Leia, and whatshername from Rogue One for $3.99. Aside from the usual end caps full of Eternals and Namorrr, I saw some really weird stuff too: Young Justice and Generator Rex toys from 2010-2011. Like there were entire pegs of them too 😂 Just a really bizarre bit of retail archeology.
The back cover price for "Light of the Jedi" is $16.00 US at Ollie's $3.99. We can now see the tremendous cost of failing Literature. At $3.99, they still make a profit. The next time you walk into a major bookseller and feel the pinch of a nearly $20 paperback, ask yourself two questions: First, how much of the cover price is subsidizing a publisher's greed? Second, how much of that $20 does the author get? (The answer would shock you!) That boring exposition on the back cover reads like someone trying and failing to write a crawl for the title screen of a Star Wars movie. But the back cover is about as punchy and exciting as a shopping list, besides being too long by half. I can see this entire series being jobbed to Ollie's by some poor comic book shop owner who is trying hard to make way for the holiday season. I hate seeing books of any kind being pulped in an age where it's become practically torture to get anyone to read anything longer than one of those shopping lists. I feel worst for the trees that died to provide publication for such an awful idea.
The retail price goes to the retailer. They purchase their stock at wholesale. The manufacturers/publishers got their money when the product was INITIALLY ordered and sold. They make nothing off that $3.99 price. That goes to Ollie's, or whichever retailer.
You sound like the kind of person who likes book tubers like Michael k. Vaughn and Roger. I like him too. He has a calming influence on me. Crimin-olly too. Fun fact, guys name has Olly in it, one of my favorite stores and it's in this video. Yay!😂😂😂😮
@@lo1bo2 That's not how book sales work. The retail book stores, such as Barnes and Noble, 'pays' an extremely small price for the books they have on their shelves. If the book doesn't sell they ship them back to the publisher for a refund, basically a credit towards their next purchase from that publisher. That publisher will then lower the price of the book and re-sell it to the bookstore as a Bargain Book. If that doesn't sell then the bookstore will return it again to the publisher that will then lower the price even further and dump it on small independant bookstores and places like Ollies where if it finally doesn't sell it will get trashed. It costs next to nothing to print books. Ever seen the inside cover of a paperback where it says if you've bought it without a cover it was stolen? Don't know if they still have that in there but it is/was there because those paperbacks are so cheap to manufacture that retail bookstores don't even return the whole book for credit but just the cover. Someone, I've done it to tens of thousands of books (magazines work the same way too) when I worked at a bookstore for 5 years ages ago, tears the covers off and they are sent back to the publisher, the rest of the book goes in the trash. Don't think of the 'money' businesses (not the retailers that deal in cash, etc.) make in the same way as your or my money works. They make their actual money off of investors while their 'income' from sales is all electronic transfers. As long as the publishing companies 'income' exceeds their 'expenses' every quarter their investors give them more real money. So when that book doesn't sell the first time at the retail store they can refund the price and re-sell it back to them. No real money actually changes hands just credits and debits on a spreadsheet. As long as their credits are larger than their debits then they can tell their investors they have made a 'profit' and get more money from them. The only way they get actual cash transfers from the retail bookstores is when say millions of Stephen King books they print sell and only a few thousand get returned. Then they will get actual bank transfers from the retail stores, and as I've mentioned the cost for printing those books are pennies each when printing in those volumes, so they can afford to eat the costs of printing other books in lesser quantities that don't sell during their initial run. It's all a racket.
Small Soldiers was my childhood's favorite movie. Watched the vhs and played the game to bits Couldn't get the toys anywhere in Belgium. I still would love to have them now though, but the prices oof Would love for Dinosaucers to make a return just to have collectibles of that
I really wish that those stores would carry anime figures because I would love a cheap bunny girl rias figure instead of paying $400 for it I really want a cheap one I’ve never been to one of those stores before
Liberals: ban plastic straws to save the environment! Everyone else: do you have any idea how much pollution Disney has caused making plastic toys that will sit on shelves forever and slowly rot? Liberals: STRAWS!!!!!
Wendy's in Canada banned plastic straws a while ago and at the same time they got rid of paper cups in favor of plastic cups. Nobody should ever believe any corporation is trying to "save the environment" because it's all just a selling point
I think a really big issue with these toys, aside from most of them suck, is that they are still too expensive at Ollies. They might actually sell more of them if they were $5 or less. the original asking prices of those figures should not have been over $10 to begin with.
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The problem is also Hasbro distribution… a lot of Star Wars figures I see rotting on the shelves are difficult to find in Europe. And toys sellers there do not even know or have this figure in their shop because Hasbro just send boxes without informing them what there is inside… 😮
Any plans to present Harrison Ford with a copy of Stealing Solo? Having a characteristically surly quotation from him about what he thinks about it, as a tagline on the cover, could be the icing on the cake: "You nerds need to stop bothering me with this Star Wars shit." - Harrison Ford
He is not wrong though, quite a few videos exist of people opening boxes to find their brand new figures that they just bought have broken/ missing limbs. That would be a frustrating experience
Chances are, more people likely bought Lame of Thrones over anything Star Wars High Republic. Even though it looks like a cheap ass parody, its probably a lot better than anything Disney now.
I'm not surprised about the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon figures hitting discount so soon, there's countless unboxing videos on TH-cam that show that they were so poorly made, that the literally broke apart trying to position them out of their box poses.
Plus that stupid "no plastic" boxes Hasbro tried meant it was a bit of a crapshoot on the quality on the figure you were actually about to buy.
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Damn it Larry, I see you freaking everywhere.
Darned Larry, I was gonna point it out, lol.
Honestly, if they're there after Christmas (and of course they will be) I'd love to pick up a set of both movie & cartoon D&D figures. At a cheaper price they're probably worth having to pre-boil to make the joints move.
Wakanda Forever....on toy shelves.
Most racist movie ever made 😂
"For a thousand generations, children played with action figures, before the dark times, before the buyout."
Before the tablets...
The amount of pollution caused by producing these junk is astronomical. Gretta Thunbug should protest in front of the Disney headquarter instead of bothering random police officers.
no you dont understand, it's the average person's fault for enabling pollution :^) giant corporations are blameless :^) to stop climate change we must impose rules on the common person and limit their freedom :^) let the poor mega corporations continue on as normal :^)
That's literally why I hate Funko Pops, because I know more than 0 animals have died as a direct result of their creation.
That would mean she recognizes logic and common sense, which are qualities she obviously, and sorely, lacks. 😒
Because Thunberg wasn't trotted out to champion *for* the environment, but rather, *against* America, using its economic power to win wars, rather than its military.
Win, and I should add, *prevent.*
*"HOW DARE YOU,"* indeed...
Burning tires in Kuwait?
Large waste of plastic from toy companies?
Nope.
People who want their air conditioning on 62 or lower.....
How dare you..
The Shuri-coopter will still be sitting on these shelves years from now still collecting dust
Suri copters They will be found by future civilizations, still not sold
Along with those Eternals disc launchers.
I mean, it "could" be customized as a weird 6 inch scale Star Wars/generic sci-fi air speeder? 😂😂😂
No it won’t they do sell, both of the black panther movies made a lot of money. Also the new black panther movies was a really fun movie to watch
Or they'll be tossed into the dumpster, freeing up shelf space for toys children actually want.
Hasbro's own worse enemy is itself. It's so huge, it has to produce kids' toys... and no kids actually want most of them. It has to produce collectors' toys, but there aren't enough collectors who want every character from every show Disney puts out. There are probably 5,000 people who want a Baron Zemo from Falcon & Winter Soldier, but Hasbro produced 20,000 of them. Repeat indefinitely for everything they make.
Sad thing is kids these days don't care about anymore
Lego and Bandai will be getting the vast majority of $ I spend on my kids this year 😅
@@dr.robotnick1888 Why should kids care about a bunch of boring dolls and actionless action figures?
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My kid enjoys playing with used toys from Goodwill.
I wonder how many "environmentalists" are disney fans.
No matter what they are both fake hypocrites.
People who are very vocal about having progressive politics tend to not be the hugest disney fans to begin with.
Shooting a movie in a Chinese concentration camp doesnt really get you much political support from either side.
You know, if these stores caught on fire I get this feeling the insurance company would also kick and scream about paying for Shang Chi and The Last Jedi figures.
If those stores caught fire you know it would be arson for sure.
The insurance would pay do any lost of merchandise due to fire because that is what is paid to do
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Dont forget Eternals and Wakanda Forever
The year is 2140. Landfills the world over now reach up high into the heavens. All the garbage and refuse ever created by human beings has been dwarfed a thousand fold by Disney Marvel and Star Wars toys. In once beautiful Yorba Linda, an avalanche of Shuri-copters has buried the city so deep in failure that it will never again see the light of day...
Disney has announced the release of 46 new Marvel films this year, with an added 12 Star Wars shows all to air on Public Station 1 (formerly Disney Plus). I weep, for I will never sell the rest of my Admiral Hodo action figures
This needs to be read out by the epic movie trailer guy
Loving the new Wall-E prequel film idea.
Nice to see Hasbro's reducing plastic campaign to save the world is going well.
I’m only glad they started doing that because it’s less of a hassle for me to get Transformers figures out of their box.
That and I no longer have to worry about losing little bits of plastic on my floor, which 99% of the time I found when I stepped on one. It was quite painful.
What is shocking is the reduced price of $9.99 and they can't sell. I don't think any of the items would sell if priced at $1.99.
It costs Disney $0.32 to make and prepare those items for sale in stores and they sell billions of them but a few dozen get put on reduced price sale. Disney makes money and people lie to try and claim Disney is doing bad sales. I may not like Disney for a ton of the stupid shit they do but I am not going to blatantly lie like an absolute dumbass.
I would buy one of the Holdo dolls for $1.99 because I’m 5 years older than Laura Dern and I think she’s still hot. Maybe $2.99, even?
But after a certain point, Ollie’s will simply not mark things down any lower! I’d buy six Holdos if they were $1 each, but THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
They could be free and they still wouldn't able to get rid of these. They're going to end up in a landfill
The only ones who might buy them are resellers who don't know any better.
@@markiangooley Star Wars specifically i feel like the issue is that EVERY SINGLE FUCKING CHARACTER has an action figure. No matter how irrelevant or short their screentime.
Craziest thing is I still found Rogue One lego ccbs figures in a store this year, to be fair though those were fucking dreadful for any character that wasnt wearing full armor.
Did they seriously put their discount stickers on books? Come on guys, you don't put stickers on books!
Target does that BS too smh. Its so frustrating
It's part of the life of a book, where it's been can sometimes tell a tale almost as interesting as the book itself. If you wanna new book, you gotta buy a new book. ;)
@@nonplayercharacter6478 Also, never buy an ex-library copy of a book (like I do) because libraries are horrible about marking and stickering up their books.
They do. But they come off Fairly easy. If you take your time. I love Ollie's book section.
Use hairdryer to get off
One might say there's almost...Namor...room on the shelves for more Black Panther toys...
😂 awesome.
Very good.
Nice pun, here🍪
-drum roll beat-
The ollie's that is close to me just told me they burn all the disney toys to make more room
That is a lie and you are exaggerating things
@@jamisoncowling2094lol what is wrong w u
@@ldoocruz5331 There is nothing wrong with me and it is a lie that a store would burn their merchandise because it would be a lost of money for them and the chemicals released from the burning would harm the environment
I'd buy that black series Tarkin figure only because I'm a fan of Peter Cushing.
can you imagine if they had produced that in 1977?
Literally got one at a Ross (similar to a TJ Maxx) tonight for $5.99 lol
I've got it and it's a really good likeness. Well worth getting.
There's a Retro Kenner figure, and he also has a Mego Van Helsing figure.
I was a huge Star Wars and Cushing fan in the seventies and my biggest gripe was no Tarkin, so now I buy all the Cushing figures I can.
That store is practically packed to the ceiling with that trash.
No it is not trash at all, Disney toys and Star Wars toys are not trash
@@jamisoncowling2094cope
@@nanako4477 What I meant is that just because they call it trash does not mean it is trash because there will always be someone who like the new Disney and Star Wars toys
@@jamisoncowling2094 not enough liked it though, because if they did it wouldn’t be there.
@@pauljakeman But it is not in the trash or landfill just because the radical right and disgruntled older Star Wars and Disney fans say it should be in the trash does not mean it is actually in the trash
Financial Advice: Donate it all to Toys-for-Tots as a write off.
Why do poor children have to get this trash for Christmas?
Don’t be mean to underprivileged children please.
I wouldn’t subject my worst enemies to those excuses for toys. That would be a war crime.
@@RenlangRen Because coal costs money!
-E.S.
Actually any unprivileged or poor child would be grateful for whatever toy that they got from Toy-for-tots. Yes it would be a tax write off and the kids would be happy about what they got and it would not being giving them trash at all. Also when you are poor you are grateful for any toy that is given to you
@@jamisoncowling2094 Suck take.
Get into the giving spirit and give something that isn't an embarrassment.
Image all those billions of dollars that was wasted in the development, production, shipping and storage of all those garbage toys cost. Think of all the money that would have been made for franchises that actually sell toys.
Disney toys are not garbage toys what you say is a lie. Disney toys are very popular and they do sell a it on the store shelves
@@jamisoncowling2094cope
@@jamisoncowling2094 You're a few years late to start shilling for Disney toys.
@@MK_ULTRA420 I am not to late for Disney and I am not shilling anyone because I am not trying to deceive anyone
@@jamisoncowling2094 That's all you're doing here. Have you even seen these dolls and how boring they are?
Ollies looks like toy stores used to look in the 80s and thats sad in so many ways
They charge 80s prices as well. My Ollies has walls of Star wars retro collection figurines for $3.
My buddy bought an old man Han Solo, and permanently stuck a red lightsaber through him. Poor taste? maybe but I laugh every time I see it on his desk.
What pisses me off most is they waste plastic on this garbage but demonize plastic straws and cutlery. I say stop making this plastic waste no one wants and let me drink my smoothy through something that doest feel.like wet toilet paper and self destruct halfway through my drink.
Paper straws are bad for you too. They have PFAS, the same chemical that coats Teflon pans so nothing sticks and once the straw gets soggy, the chemicals leech into your body and stay there forever
How many straws does it take to make a Shurri Copter? 🤔
Thats why corpos trying to shift the blame to the consumer is nonsense. Every human on the planet doesn't produce as much waste as one Hasbro toy factory.
PJW did a video on paper straws recently, apparently they’re more harmful to the environment than plastic straws
The best is being forced to use a paper straw to drink out of a plastic cup that uses like 50 times as much plastic as a straw..
i do not like that Disney owns these properties because they keep releasing low quality *everything* and the toys are just more of the same.
I got 3 Marvel figures from Ollie’s, no way those things are worth almost 30$ at regular retail stores. They are barely worth the 9$ price from the discount chains.
Which figures?
@@nunyabizness6595 Iron Man, Rogue, and Mageneto
When this channel's vlogger way of thinking was more common in the executive suites of America, society was nicer, kinder, happier, more enjoyable. Now it's just woke.
That is not true at all, a lot of Disney toys that are made today are very good quality
LOL the fact they thought the demand for this trash would be that high is truely hilarious 😂 Never has a company been so out of touch!
Wakanda Forever……..on the shelves.
I look at the Shuri copter the same way Charleton Heston looked at the Statue of Liberty on that beach.
Ollie's Greatest Hits (AKA the Ollie's Avengers):
Vice Admiral Holdo
Shuri
Namorrr
Shang-Chi
Age of Apocalypse Cyclops
The Eternals (all of them)
Rey
Flying around in their Shuri-Copter and firing their Eternals Disc Launchers at the bad guys, this team will keep your pegs warm and your wallet full, by never being purchased.
Exactly 1 year ago, Black Panther filled Walmart and Target. 1 year later, it now fills Ollie's...how the mighty have fallen!
And I’d bet the farm T’Chala probably outsells all the wooden and bland supporting characters combined!
After the fiasco with "tuck friendly swimwear for trans kids"? I bet Target will become the "new Ollie's" in the near future, selling things at discount because that'll be the only way Target can get anyone to buy anything from its stores.
@@crazyralph6386 Proof Shuri is unworthy to take on the Black Panther mantle. 'Black Panther' fans want to see T'Challa as Black Panther, NOT his little sister.
@@longtsun8286 M'Baku deserved to be the successor
capt marvel figures and books are still everywhere in my area despite being 40-70% off.
This is peak sales for retail stores. If these toys don't budge then it's really going to hurt their sales
You know what kids want for Christmas? A bunch of poor-quality toys from shows they never heard of and movies they didn't want to go see! lol.
I'm honestly VERY temped to pick up a few Ironheart masks on December 10th at Ollie's (it's specifically a 25% one day sale on toys) because they're so generic they'd make a great base for a custom mech mask.
That said, hey Jeff, make sure so browse Ollie's AFTER December 10th.
If nothing has moved....there's going to be a huge problem.
@@Not_Always Dont forget, theres one for every obscure side character with only 5 seconds screentime too.
You should smuggle a little tape-measure into the store so you can measure how deep the shelves of reject toys go, and how high the towers of failure go
How does Ollie’s make a profit? No one’s buying the crap from Disney or Hasbro? Why do they still take it when most of it will end up in a landfill?
I’d hypothesize it’s because they buy them for literal pennies on the dollar. So even if they sell only a quarter of that merchandise, they are still bringing in a decent return on their investment.
People do buy stuff from Ollie’s I just recently watched two different videos one of them buying Star Wars figures from Ollie’s and one opening the figures that they bought at Ollie’s
@@jamisoncowling2094cope
I get some cool action figures from Ollie's. Masters of the Universe, Starwars, the Ghostbusters, figs that came out and had spotty distribution in their main retail stores later end up at Ollie's.
Specifically for disney movies, hasbro has a good streak with transformers and my little pony
Before Disney, you could buy anything Marvel or George Lucas and have a good chance to sell it for a profit.
After Disney, you buy anything Marvel or George Lucas, and you probably would have to give it away for next to nothing.
Has the Vintage line of SW toys ‘78-‘85 appreciate in value because of it?
@crazyralph6386 Nope, if anything, the value has declined somewhat.
Before Disney, they were pushing over 80 to over a hundred bucks.
After Disney, they dropped to under 80 to 90 bucks.
I got a vintage electronic Star Destroyer for under 60 bucks after Rouge one came out as proof of this.
Disney has made over a billion dollars on star wars and they have made more then what they paid for in money for both Marvel and Star Wars
@@jamisoncowling2094cope
@jamisoncowling2094 That is outright false.
You can't say oh look they paid X amount of dollars for Star Wars and over this amount of time, they maid Y amount of dollars, and that means they made that money back.
The way it actually breaks down is like this.
When Disney bought Lucas Films, that means all that debt becomes front-loaded, and Lucas Films is automatically in the Red.
On top of that, debt is the production is production cost of every movie, show, and general running and day to day operation costs of Lucas Studios.
Meaning that, let's say you put the total cost to buy Lucas Films and everything Star Wars and etc. Disney has produced so far together along with the total staff , etc.. Bill's together, along with total income so far from returns of licensing and the share of ticket revenue combined. You'll find there is not an iceberg chance in Death Valley. Disney has earned back that cost Bob Igor spent in buying Lucas Films, Marvel, or FOX. If anything, Disney has massively lost money and lost so much money that during an investor call, Bob Igor was outright up and asked if Disney has earned back the money Bob Igor spent on buying Star Wars and he didn't even answer the question.
To try and sweep under the carpet, the net Loss George Lucas Studios is operating at they are actively canceling the divisor with in parks and recreation to avoid shareholders knowing how much money Star Wars is bleeding from the Walt Disney Corporation.
You can actually go and look up the earnings report yourself.
You'll the actual income and expenses of Lucas Studios (Star Wars), Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, and CNN are not openly shown.
I know business, and when it is a success, the numbers are published, and when it is a failure, you don't see numbers. When the brand is bleeding money, it is hidden on the earnings report to try and prevent the blowback from shareholders.
I'm absolutely shocked at the size of the Star Wars section at Target.
Almost 20 minutes in before an appearance by Admiral Gender Studies.
Her name is Admiral Holdo, not what you called her. Show that character the respect she deserves because of her rank
@@jamisoncowling2094The character in the movie might have been called Admiral Holdo but her words and actions were those of a petulant (feminist) child, not an admiral. Calling her Admiral Gender Studies is simultaneously accurate and giving her far more respect than she deserves.
When I was a kid, the stores from 2000-2006 would always have their Star Wars section all picked over and it was hard to find a character to spend allowance money on. Now nobody buys that stuff as Star Wars just isn't fun anymore
@finkamain1621 yeah remember back in the 90s my late wife ( just a friend at the time) trying to get the Tasha Yar Playmates figure because that was the short pack at leasing the Chicago area. She eventually grabbed one for each of us at a local variety store visiting family in Michigan. Similar with the Power Of The Force Leia figure we searched high and low for that one though it was fun fecking with the speculators at comic shows by one of us feigning interest in an overpriced figure and the other would mention just loud enough to be overheard oh don't bother buying that one. I saw one at the Toys R US just down the street.
Inevitably you'd see the guy whisper something to his table partner and peel off some bills and send the guy off on a wild goose chase.
@@jamisoncowling2094 hello mr i need to replay to all anti-disney coments on this channel.
And I wonder how much allll those Namors are going to cost Ollie’s? And that wasn’t just one row of Namors, either.
It's Naaaa-Morrrr, not Namor.
You are a member and they won't give you a heart WOW you are wasting your money.
Let me give you a ❤ great comment btw👍
@@Mr_Robotts I refuse to call him Naaa-Morrr. And I understand you’re making fun of what Marvel did too him. 👍
@@DidierWierdsma6335 Thank you!
This stuff will be coming to a local dumpster soon, keep an eye out, oh boy I would call the city for litter if I found this in my yard.
When I was a child I dreamed about how cool it would be to have Marvel Comics movies and more toys, seeing my imagination come to life.
Sadly, this is what we got instead. 😢 RIP childhood
I know. I used to say, why cant we bring back canceled shows that were beloved but never had a chance to grow an audience? Or, wouldn't it be nice to have this show that's been off the air for years come back and we can see where all the characters are now!
Monkeys Paw for sure.
Corporations will milk anything as long as they can.
The mcu is kinda built on just being a soulless cashgrab.
"Not really a fan. But who is?" Gotta admit, that made me laugh. 😂😂😂
The stuff WCBS has been saying is quite true. Went to an Ollie's last night in search of some cheap Transformers. Black Oanther, Thor, and Shang Chi shit EVERYWHERE. Just thrown about the shelves.
I went to a Ollie's a few days ago and they had a bunch of Studio 86 Coronation Starscreams for $14.99 and Buzzworthy Bumblebee Silverstreaks for $3.99.I had to get a couple of each for that price I'm sure they'll be worth something in a couple of years once they're long gone from store shelves.
@@ronaldclayton4232 damn dude, lucky. All I found were Silverstreaks at $10, whi h is more than they cost anywhere else they gather dust.
That's why I chuckle when these Disney movies do poorly and people are like, "oh they will make it up in merchandise!!!" like, no they won't. Who buys merchandise from unpopular series and movies that no one went to watch in the first place? I haven't seen a single Elemental toy anywhere, yet I am made to believe it will pay for itself in toy sales.
In the last month (10/2023) finding Shuri Copters is one of my favorite hobbies. In Indiana those etnals disc shooters are DEEP at my ollies
I've even managed to find some all the way over here in New Zealand LOL
i feel so bad for the owners of the store cuz its not there falt for not sellling anything
They really need to lower the price on those Marvel figures
Man I remember back in the 80's Star Wars, DC and Marvel action figures were selling like hot cakes sometimes you want a certain characters they were always sold out until the next shipments few weeks later and now no one care about these toys selling today
crazy how times change
People still do care about Disney toys
@@jamisoncowling2094cope
@@jamisoncowling2094 well not these ones aperntly
@@thefunnychiptuneman Yes they do age about them in my home state Disney toys do sell out in the stores
All those spear sets are so inspiring for modern black kids.
Disney loves pain… I think they actually hate themselves.
All that plastic is going to end up in the ocean.
Oh! How silly of me. Just realized, the stunning and brave new audience Disney/Pukeusfilm/Marvel was after, they don't like toys! Don't worry. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, will take all of them to that island he found in that old Christmas special.
Wakanda forever isn't even worth wasting an M-80!
I`ve heard that there was a shortage of plastic on the planet ... well now i know where it went ! LOL
It looks to me like Disney cashed the cheque, so their spreadsheet shows in the black. The original retailer (Target/Walmart etc) needs to stop ordering stock...but they won't
lol it's like watching two different species of whales fighting.
They will, they will. Ashoka don't have it's own new merchandise, it has mainly repacked old figures.
Hasbro, Target and others are learning at last.
😂😂😂Walmart has had some of the SW figs on the shelf for over a year and they won't clearance the stuff.Stuff most obvious is Landos,Lady Jays and stuff from the last batman movie😂😂.Hasbro never needs to make another Lady Jay or Lando EVER!!!!
Making all of those toys for The Batman was silly. That film is not for kids at all
This place is more foul than a landfill. Calling that heap trash is an insult to trash.
12:41 - the most desperate attempt to sell Booo-Karen figures I have ever seen. :D Put her into a pack with the most popular characters: Darth Vader, Luke, Mando and Darth Maul. :D
If I collected action figures I might actually buy the pack for the good characters and set Boooo on fire and film it for morbid fun.
You should not burn any toy regardless of where it is from because it is bad for the environment
@@jamisoncowling2094 I would make an exception for the pr0pag4nda device Bo-Karen. Pr0pag4nd4 is bad for democracy, freedom and quality of life in general.
Disney sure has a habit of making unwanted things.
I picked up two Marvel Legends Hammerheads at 6 bucks each at Ross. Now Tomax and Xamot have business suits when they're exploiting legal loopholes at the Extensive Enterprises branch on my shelf
The moral of the story is never pay full price for a marvel legends wave. Particularly the movie figures.
I’m wondering how much more garbage will be made with The Marvels movie coming out.
I love how Grogu's story had Bo Katan and Ahsoka but not Mando.
It’s hard to
Believe that Din Djarin doesn’t get much toys as Grogu and Bo Kataan. Is there no toys for young boys to play??
You're doing God's work sir and I thank you. Small Soldiers ftw
I've said it before about SW toys in particular but this can apply to Marvels toys as well - I don't think Disney realized that it wasn't just kids that drove the sales of those toys but mainly adult collectors. When they told all the old hard core fans of those franchises to fvck off in an effort to please a very small percentage of the population, the so called 'modern audience,' they lost all those customers for their toy range. They claim that kids just don't play with toys anymore but it is actually the loss of grandparents that would buy three of each for presents: one for their collection, one for their children's collection, and one for their grandkids to play with. Then when the grandkids became adults they would get new ones to replace the old ones that they payed with. They screwed themselves out of generations of customers to pander to a very small section of the population that didn't care about those franchises to begin with and weren't going to do more than tweet how brave and modern you are but not actually consume them.
To be fair, the MCU is made to be lowest common denominator. Its purely engineered to make money with no soul being as bland and inoffensive as possible.
I can recount the plot of every Avengers movie ever made because I've seen like 3 atleast movies already.
Disney is now really eternal. These will never leave!
"If you're ever lost in the woods, just burn a Shuri coptor or two for warmth. They'll burn forever, just like their box office numbers."
And just like their box office numbers, they'll release toxic fumes that will land you in the hospital.
They call him Namor because his figures don't sell Na' more.
It boggles my mind that there are still products from the force awakens and rogue one still out there on shelves, that stuff is a couple of years away from being a decade old
It would be interesting to see how these companies calculate how many action figures to make. Toy Maker “I can see a market for 10,000 maybe “ Disney executive “double that, then double it again!”
And then add a zero
Just found out we actually have an Ollie's in our area... it's about 30 miles away, but, we do have one, now I have a Saturday mission.
Yeah, I did quick research and took a detour to my closest Ollie's recently. Not going back. The toy section wasn't nearly as big as on these videos, the store was kind of crummy, and the area was slightly sketchy.
@@lo1bo2 I'd spend more on gas heading to the nearest Ollie's than I'd save on purchases even if they magically had everything I had an interest in picking up.
Tbh im a star wars fan but i just cant bring myself to care about the high republic, disney made all the cool old republic stuff non-canon and ngl it was tons better then the high republic and didnt contradict anything disney are/were doing with star wars yet they threw it all out for no reason, im not interested in what they are replacing it with
Captain Carter might have sold better if they called it Captain Britain lol At least that name has some history. You can tell how valuble this stuff is by how they get dumped in a pile at the back of the shelf :)
US Agent did nothing wrong. 😂
Decades from now collectors can get these toys for one cent each.
It’s actually: Namooorrrrrrrrr..rrr
I need to go to one of these cheap stores around here and see if they have a discount Beast Wars Megatron figure.
Yes.
Get both him and Primal. They're still great toys
I know the videos are about how bad this sh!t is selling... but man, I wish we had stores like this in the UK... some great, cheap figures there to customise!
...and, i'd have picked up that Tarkin figure 😃
Its weird how rare any bargain or thrift store is for anything but clothes in europe.
Same feel bad for Tarkin stuck there with sequel figures
@@firstname3343 It's sad to see OT figures like Tarkin, Lando - even Luke, Han, Leia and Chewie at discount... Disney has really killed the franchise!
I don’t understand how Disney doesn’t understand how little girls and boys are wired differently and like different things.
Disney is committed to rewiring little boys and girls.
They want to socially engineer girls into boys by pumping billions and billions into films and merchandise to cater to an audience that doesn’t exist, and they have the hubris to think they can will it into existence.
I have meet people who have girls who like Star Wars and boys who like Disney Princess
It goes against the activists' idea gender is interchangeable and as easily changed as flipping a light switch, instead of expensive and time-consuming surgery, physical and psychological therapy.
@@longtsun8286 kids like toys that are for the opposite gender does not have anything to do with transgender ideology or having a surgery to change one’s gender. I grew up with two older female cousins as a child and I played with them a lot as a child and so I played with both toys that are considered boy toys and toys that are considered girls toys. Also I have both girls toy and boys toys in my toy collection. Both those things I mentioned about myself does not make me less of a man. And I firmly believe that toys should not be developed or divided by gender. If a boy plays with a baby doll or a girl plays with a Hotwheels car they will grow out of it. I grew up and grew out of it when I was a kid because when I was a kid I did have a baby doll that I eventually grew up and no longer played with and that does not make me any less of a man for doing so
maybe they should make a ghostbusters nerf gun he says after just walking past one !
Man, sure those old Beast Wars re-issues aren´t selling... I thought people wanted them more..-....
I can't quite make out the prices on Optimus Primal and Megatron, but if it's low enough I might be tempted.
Small market and the prices were too high (like everything else). They are nice, though.
As a kid I never saw Star Wars toys discounted. I remember my parents driving to other cities trying to find action figures or ships. Now you can trip over Star Wars toys anywhere…how sad.
did they really pre dump the Ironheart stuff to the discount stores 😂
Ollie 's and Ross are going to have to build more stores for Disney surplus.
Ngl I would have grabbed one of those Jet Jaguar figures.
Not even the 100 shuricopters aren't going to boosting sales
I’d want that Grand Moff Tarkin figure, Tarkin is cool
He was pretty much the first environmentalist.
He didn't want to waste all the energy used to spin up the Death Star super laser so he had to use it somewhere.
In New Zealand, the Black Panther claw launcher and that Grogu's Journey book, cost about 22 dollars (US) each! I'd say all the other stuff is similarly expensive here.
You had Grand Moff Tarkin as a kid? That makes me feel old because back in the 70s & 80s I DIDN'T have Grand Moff Tarkin. He was my most wanted figure from 77-83 but for some odd reason they never made him. By the time they finally did make him in POTF 2 I no longer cared.
Kenner thought nobody wanted a figure of an old man. Alec Guiness was excepted as he was the only good guy character to have (and fight) with a Lightsabre.
I should find an Ollies. Ive been wanting a og Beastwars Primal and Megatron for my collection.
The most WTF toyline I've seen in my life has to be the John Stewart Green Lantern musical instrument/walkie-talkie assortment. I first thought it might be a line designed around the whole JL, but it's nothing but John Stewart. The toys and packaging are reminiscent of what you'd find in a grocery store toy section, and could someone please explain the connection between Green Lantern and music?
The outdoors stuff I can actually understand, given that Stewart was USMC.
The drum kit? Bruh
Was at Ollie's today (Cranberry PA location) for the first time. Didn't see any Shuricopters but I did see some Ironheart shampoo bottle figures. Oh and cases upon cases of 3.75" Rey, General Leia, and whatshername from Rogue One for $3.99. Aside from the usual end caps full of Eternals and Namorrr, I saw some really weird stuff too: Young Justice and Generator Rex toys from 2010-2011. Like there were entire pegs of them too 😂 Just a really bizarre bit of retail archeology.
Generator Rex? Damn, I'll have to stop over.
The back cover price for "Light of the Jedi" is $16.00 US at Ollie's $3.99. We can now see the tremendous cost of failing Literature. At $3.99, they still make a profit. The next time you walk into a major bookseller and feel the pinch of a nearly $20 paperback, ask yourself two questions: First, how much of the cover price is subsidizing a publisher's greed? Second, how much of that $20 does the author get? (The answer would shock you!) That boring exposition on the back cover reads like someone trying and failing to write a crawl for the title screen of a Star Wars movie. But the back cover is about as punchy and exciting as a shopping list, besides being too long by half. I can see this entire series being jobbed to Ollie's by some poor comic book shop owner who is trying hard to make way for the holiday season. I hate seeing books of any kind being pulped in an age where it's become practically torture to get anyone to read anything longer than one of those shopping lists. I feel worst for the trees that died to provide publication for such an awful idea.
The retail price goes to the retailer. They purchase their stock at wholesale. The manufacturers/publishers got their money when the product was INITIALLY ordered and sold. They make nothing off that $3.99 price. That goes to Ollie's, or whichever retailer.
At $3.99, Ollie's makes a small profit because they bought it extremely cheaply from the original retailer, which LOST money.
You sound like the kind of person who likes book tubers like Michael k. Vaughn and Roger. I like him too. He has a calming influence on me. Crimin-olly too. Fun fact, guys name has Olly in it, one of my favorite stores and it's in this video. Yay!😂😂😂😮
@@lo1bo2 That's not how book sales work. The retail book stores, such as Barnes and Noble, 'pays' an extremely small price for the books they have on their shelves. If the book doesn't sell they ship them back to the publisher for a refund, basically a credit towards their next purchase from that publisher. That publisher will then lower the price of the book and re-sell it to the bookstore as a Bargain Book. If that doesn't sell then the bookstore will return it again to the publisher that will then lower the price even further and dump it on small independant bookstores and places like Ollies where if it finally doesn't sell it will get trashed. It costs next to nothing to print books. Ever seen the inside cover of a paperback where it says if you've bought it without a cover it was stolen? Don't know if they still have that in there but it is/was there because those paperbacks are so cheap to manufacture that retail bookstores don't even return the whole book for credit but just the cover. Someone, I've done it to tens of thousands of books (magazines work the same way too) when I worked at a bookstore for 5 years ages ago, tears the covers off and they are sent back to the publisher, the rest of the book goes in the trash.
Don't think of the 'money' businesses (not the retailers that deal in cash, etc.) make in the same way as your or my money works. They make their actual money off of investors while their 'income' from sales is all electronic transfers. As long as the publishing companies 'income' exceeds their 'expenses' every quarter their investors give them more real money. So when that book doesn't sell the first time at the retail store they can refund the price and re-sell it back to them. No real money actually changes hands just credits and debits on a spreadsheet. As long as their credits are larger than their debits then they can tell their investors they have made a 'profit' and get more money from them. The only way they get actual cash transfers from the retail bookstores is when say millions of Stephen King books they print sell and only a few thousand get returned. Then they will get actual bank transfers from the retail stores, and as I've mentioned the cost for printing those books are pennies each when printing in those volumes, so they can afford to eat the costs of printing other books in lesser quantities that don't sell during their initial run. It's all a racket.
Small Soldiers was my childhood's favorite movie. Watched the vhs and played the game to bits
Couldn't get the toys anywhere in Belgium. I still would love to have them now though, but the prices oof
Would love for Dinosaucers to make a return just to have collectibles of that
Look at all that wasted plastic ☠️
I hope people lost jobs over these abominations
I really wish that those stores would carry anime figures because I would love a cheap bunny girl rias figure instead of paying $400 for it I really want a cheap one I’ve never been to one of those stores before
Let's hope Disney buys all the anime brands so that can happen! 😈
Liberals: ban plastic straws to save the environment!
Everyone else: do you have any idea how much pollution Disney has caused making plastic toys that will sit on shelves forever and slowly rot?
Liberals: STRAWS!!!!!
Seriously and we get those nasty paper straws, thanks
Libs ban straws and bags, which improve our lives and yet they can't see the waste that are those plastic toys.
Wendy's in Canada banned plastic straws a while ago and at the same time they got rid of paper cups in favor of plastic cups. Nobody should ever believe any corporation is trying to "save the environment" because it's all just a selling point
@@enriquevazquez1270 I tried those once... it was like drinking through wet cardboard.
@Anarchist86ed yup i know what you mean. Nastiness
I think a really big issue with these toys, aside from most of them suck, is that they are still too expensive at Ollies. They might actually sell more of them if they were $5 or less. the original asking prices of those figures should not have been over $10 to begin with.
Small soldiers would actually be worth to go out for Black Friday then a army of namors and and Reva’s and holdos
JET JAGUAR!!!!
Yaaaaay! The MSTies salute you sir.
The problem is also Hasbro distribution… a lot of Star Wars figures I see rotting on the shelves are difficult to find in Europe. And toys sellers there do not even know or have this figure in their shop because Hasbro just send boxes without informing them what there is inside… 😮
Any plans to present Harrison Ford with a copy of Stealing Solo? Having a characteristically surly quotation from him about what he thinks about it, as a tagline on the cover, could be the icing on the cake:
"You nerds need to stop bothering me with this Star Wars shit."
- Harrison Ford
The animated DnD figures actually scale very well with the Motu Origins line, and they're pretty well articulated and sculpted
He is not wrong though, quite a few videos exist of people opening boxes to find their brand new figures that they just bought have broken/ missing limbs. That would be a frustrating experience
Chances are, more people likely bought Lame of Thrones over anything Star Wars High Republic. Even though it looks like a cheap ass parody, its probably a lot better than anything Disney now.
$10 for M'Baku is a deal. Cheaper than i could finish the Baf for even buying the re-released figures i missed.
Why doesn't this channel have an Ollie's sponsorship by this point? These video's are a bargain hunting guide for collectors.