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  1. It stinks, Last Ronin is one of the first box sets I’ve wanted in awhile but I just can’t justify the $35 on it. All I want is the Mikey, the other 3 are kind of boring. For the same price you can get the Neca deluxe figure and it’s overloaded with stuff (I have it on the shelf, it’s awesome). if the box set goes on sale I’ll probably pick it up. Now what I’d really kill for is a box set of the Fortnite designs. A girl can dream, no? 🤭

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  2. 6 hours ago, Trekker 42 said:

    I just want to acknowledge how well thought out this chart is with plenty of examples and a relatively good flow. 
    Well done. 

    Thank you!! I don’t talk a lot here but I certainly am passionate about stuff. 

    5 hours ago, NerdyTrev said:

    What's keeping you from it? I remember appreciating your videos and I would happily tune in again.

    Life and depression got in the way. Honestly I’ve been thinking about going back to it the past couple of months. Maybe I will, even if it’s not all Minimate stuff. Thanks 🙂

  3. 13 hours ago, DSTZach said:

    How are they not the movie designs? Miles, Gwen, Peter, Miguel and Ham are all pretty much how they appear in the movies. You honestly think that a lack of sweatpants will eliminate the entirety of the movie fan base? I'm sure a small percentage of them will see this set and a small percentage of THEM will want it, and a small percentage of THEM will buy it, and that's probably still more than who is currently buying Marvel Minimates.

    Zach--

    I have a lot of strong opinions on the phrase "pretty much," for a grown woman I have way too much time on my hands to talk about toys on the internet. I've made a little chart detailing how these figures don't really stand in for what the mass market sees as Spider-Verse. Times are changing, peoples perceptions on characters evolve. The casual buyer thinks Miguel is this roided-up beefcake, they think Hobie Brown is a Spider-Man, etc. It's not a matter of sweatpants, it's a matter of people caring more about something when it's a thing they know. I think a reliance on comics is going to be a detriment moving forward, people are going to be more excited by the versions of characters they know and associate with. People know these characters from media outside of paperback and tbh the average fan isn’t going to go read comics after watching the movies

    I never should have quit Youtube, I got too many opinions and too little a void to scream into

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  4. I can’t help but feel disappointed by this, it’s such a weird thing. On one hand, this is an opportunity to have Spider-Man and his friends on shelves again. On the other hand, it’s 100% characters that have (arguably) been done better elsewhere - I’m looking at you, Ben. On the other *other* hand, it’s clear this was made to piggyback on the Spider-verse movies with the character selection but it’s not the spider-verse designs so you lose that market. 
     

    If DST wanted to do a Spider-Verse box set, they should have gone all in. Swap Ben for Hobie, make a jacked AF Miguel, bathrobes Peter with his kid as an accessory would be so cute. 

  5. On 9/28/2023 at 8:36 PM, DSTZach said:

    I believe, due to their success, we want to do more D&D MM. Both sets sold out. I do not know what the characters would be, though. I doubt we would do more animated, as we hit all the big characters. And the game is a tough one. But fingers crossed. 

    Baldur’s Gate 3 is a D&D video game and it’s huge right now. I feel like not capitalizing on that is a big miss. 

  6. I’ve always considered Minimates to be in the realm of kids toys - they were sold at Toys R Us for years and always were bright, colorful characters. I wonder how the sales figures on kids-focused and adult-focused IPs have been.

    There’s definitely more Joe fans than just men in their 50’s, I’m a 28-year-old woman and the classified line is one of my favorites. It’s one of those lines that ascends needing an attachment to the IP just because each release is so cool. Hasbro provided an extremely quality product at a budget price point. You buy a Snake Eyes, you got *the* Snake Eyes to end all Snake Eyes. $22 for a single 6” figure versus $40 for four 2” figures is a lot harder for people to justify. I think the entire industry is moving to a 6” preference, it’s a uniform scale so everyone can compete in the same arena.  I had both my TMNT and D&D sets drop in my pile of loot last week and I just couldn’t do it, it’s so much money for so little. I think I’ve officially moved on after what, like 15? Years of collecting. There’s just nothing to care about and what is there is so expensive. I got bills to pay, a wedding coming up, i can get a half a tank of gas or 4-5 Minimates

    I’ll be entirely honest, I never see the DST socials promote Minimates at all. Just a single post of the stock product art going “this exists!” And that’s it. A 360 video of some statues isn’t going to make me want to run out and buy them. Minimate solicitation images are *ROUGH* and always make the product look inferior, most people expect what they see is what they get. 

  7. 19 hours ago, DSTZach said:

    I honestly don't know if the prototypes are even painted. I have not seen them as of yet. We were waiting to hear back on pricing at one point to find out who needed to be cut to reach the new, lower price point, so that may have held them up, or at least held up the solicitation. Also, we may be waiting to see if the FF and Young Avengers sets sell through a little more. 

    Two MM sets in a month is certainly POSSIBLE, but we only offer 10-12 new items every month so as not to overwhelm retailers. If we offer more than one Minimates set, that's another product that has to wait a month to be offered. And we have multiple product categories, including busts, action figures, statues, etc., and multiple licenses, upwards of 20 at last count, jockeying for position. Some of those licenses have time factors, where we need to solicit a certain number of products within a certain window. Marvel MM are not in a particular rush.

    That said, I don't think one MM set a month is a bad thing, better than feast or famine. Usually we wait for the previous wave to be released before soliciting the next, but that is not a hard-and-fast rule. We didn't do it with AEW, we're not doing it with D&D or Turtles. Here's a breakdown of solicits.

    August 2022 -- MMPR 2

    Sept. 2022 -- Young Avengers

    Oct. 2022 -- D&D Heroes

    Dec. 2022 -- AEW Young Bucks

    Jan. 2023 -- Turtle Blimp

    Feb. 2023 -- D&D VIllains

    May 2023 - Last Ronin

    June 2023 - TMNT

    July 2023 - Marvel (tentative)

    Aug. 2023 -- AEW (tentative)

    I’m sorry, I don’t understand business so I shouldn’t have said anything. Was stupid of me

  8. The more product out there the better. I don’t understand the hesitancy to solicit sets if something is already available to preorder, every other toy company I know does multiple sets dropped at once. This feels like drip-feeding

  9. A nice looking set, I appreciate all the tampo work on the tattoos. I do wish there was a bit more in the box, maybe entrance gear (is this something wrestlers still do?) for alternate outfits.

    The only person I recognize is Kenny Omega and that’s only because he’s also the guy who cosplays Sans Undertale and Sephiroth on stage. That’s what it takes for me to be interested I guess?

    Also OCD brain is annoyed that the way the wrestlers are positioned on the front aren’t the same positions they have in the tray but I think that’s a me thing. 

  10. This is certainly a choice but I don’t know if it’s a good one. Between 4 box sets we have only 9 unique characters and 56% of the figures we have are Snake Eyes, Scarlet, and Storm Shadow. Retro 70’s Joes feels like it would be a fun SDCC set once the line has gotten through the main ones. Maybe it was something Hasbro wanted, but I’m going to be frustrated if this line goes the way of Kingdom Hearts with a strong start and then nothing but bad picks for the rest of the line. 2 Joes and 2 Cobras was such a great foundation

  11. I've been able to mature past my name like twice now, it's about becoming your truest self 😜

    I don't know if it says anything, but I do believe there's an untapped market in the Youtube space for Minimates. Covid caused a huge explosion of new collectors for a lot of lines I noticed. If it says anything back when I did Youtube, I'd get dozens of (What I assume were children) comments asking more about Minimates, where to find them, etc. I'd say reaching the following I did based on a single toyline alone was impressive. There's some very dedicated collectors on Instagram too, and they're all chill from the ones I've talked to.

    I don't know if you could replicate it again though, usually toy reviewers have a niche and if you go outside of it that video tends to perform poorly.

  12. I've tried to get word from the customer service email to no avail (First I needed to cancel and change address because I'm moving, then no revisions, and now I just want an ETA). I reached out to the DST Twitter like a Karen and all I got was "If you don't have any updates by the end of the week try emailing us :)"

    Anyway, I'd love that promo. Thanks for being cool!

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