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Smashmaster12

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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? 🤭
  2. I just got one from a friend, so I’m good. Hope to see you on my journeys!
  3. For those who want it, BBTS has the first set for what it should have been: $24 https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/190488?o=11
  4. Thank you!! I don’t talk a lot here but I certainly am passionate about stuff. 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 🙂
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Oh. That’s, uh. Disappointing. Out of all the Netflix things to go for, something I hadn’t heard of until right now doesn’t seem like the best bet. Good for Snyder fans I guess…
  9. 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.
  10. Loved the heck out of Barbie, my girlfriend and I thought it was hilarious The real marathon is Shin Barminheimer (Shin Kamen Rider, Barbie, Pikim 4, Oppenheimer)
  11. I’m sorry, I don’t understand business so I shouldn’t have said anything. Was stupid of me
  12. 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
  13. 2024 until the next set comes out? That’s awfully slow for a new license. I know there’s the one 2-pack coming out but that’s not a lot of product to keep people interested in the brand
  14. Oh those look nice..! @DSTZach Any idea when this and the AEW set will go up on the DST website? I have some credit from the photo contest last year I’ve yet to use
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. Okay, I gotta ask because I don’t understand wrestling at all but I’m also incredibly nosy— Who is CM Punk and what did he do
  18. 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.
  19. DST had posted the winners the other day: https://www.diamondselecttoys.com/blog/minimates-photography-contest-winners Hey, thanks so much DST for picking my Halo shot!! I was really proud of that one, that means *so* much to me to be selected! 😭💜
  20. Without any word on shipping or any responses to my inquiries, I got an email from DST this morning saying a package was out for delivery. I guess they do exist
  21. 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!
  22. No email yet, but I haven't gotten any word from them since I placed my order
  23. I've never had a website give me this kind of error. No matter what shipping type I pick, I can't order two Minimates because they're different products?
  24. I see the NYCC sets have been put up for pre-order, but they don’t list an arrival ETA. Any idea of when they should ship out?
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