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I have not heard any movement, although I occasionally ask about it. I think we are still trying to build traffic to the DST site before we launch an exclusive.

13 hours ago, NerdyTrev said:

Can you hint to us what era these figures are specific to, if any?

2000s. 

Thanks, Luke! Order from Luke, guys. 

Ring set is coming up, solicit in September, I think. 

We had very few DnD Heroes sets left to sell them, but they sold out of what we gave them. I think 50+. Villains we had more and they sold more. Under 100, though. 

I think Joe will be a different beast. More competition, from ReAction and Super 7, but bigger fan base than 80s DnD.

I won't get too into detail, but if we get started now (I've seen the designs), maybe we can show them at Toy Fair or NYCC. Series 84 goes up for pre-order late August. 

We'll see. Series 1 is far from sold out, but if we can sell a bunch to Pulse, maybe. 

Yes, it is Spidey-themed.

The Joe Series 1 and 2 sets sold once we put them out. I kept restocking, and found some Ninja Force on Sunday, so I put them out.

The Transformers exclusive sold well, despite our thinking it would not make it to the show, and I sold a lot of TF Series 3, as well. 

Hopefully, being at Walmart is a good sign. We talked to Hasbro about Pulse at the show, so maybe that is still a possibility. 

We sell to a company that stocks collector toys in Walmart, they've done exclusive VHS figures in the past, so maybe they bought some. It's entirely possible. 

9 hours ago, Navaan said:

As long as I get an Echo eventually, I'll be less bothered. But politely, this set lost me as a first run buyer. I'll just get Mary secondhand. I have no interest in DD Elektra, yellow DD, black Kingpin, or new costume Bullseye.

For the sake of the line, I hope others buy it. It just is not going to be me.

I hope you can get her cheap!

On 7/21/2023 at 12:13 PM, Chigarillo said:

Some of it sure, but how long had people been clamoring for Young Avengers and then we get that recent boxset with a 2nd Marvel Boy mate rather than Stature or Speed?

Who in DST/Marvel wanted or demanded the 2013 team rather than a boxset of the classic lineup, when both Stature and Speed had been in recent or upcoming MCU projects?

You know who else was in recent projects? America Chavez and Kid Loki.

On 7/21/2023 at 12:13 PM, Chigarillo said:

Who thought up Gamerverse mates and then went "let's just throw out another slightly different version of Hulk, Cap, Iron Man and Widow. No one wants Spider-Man video game mates or even a Ms Marvel based on the Avengers game design!"

Those were exclusives. I'm pretty sure Walgreens requested Avengers game Minimates and we were doing waves of four figures -- who would you choose if you were Walgreens or even a line planner? We'd recently released Ms Marvel in the animated line. Spidey Minimates we tried to sell, but I'm pretty sure there was no interest

On 7/21/2023 at 12:13 PM, Chigarillo said:

Yes, we are a vocal minority here and Zach is stuck doing what DST thinks will sell and will appeal to consumers. But it's difficult to not look at say Marvel Legends figures and go "they recently made Pretty Boy, Random, Cho'd, Skullbuster, Rose, Orb, Zero, Crossfire and other D, E list characters... What gives?"

Who is the person going "the people really want a 84th Iron Man variant or a 21st Cyclops figure"?

if you're taking about Series 80 and 81, those lines also had Constrictor,  Ghost, Silver Sable, Lilandra, Corsair, etc. 84 will have Typhoid Mary and the new Bullseye,  a different character. And every ML Series also has a new Cap or Iron Man. They're called anchor characters.

And ML has a lot of retail outlets -- Walgreens, Target, Amazon, Pulse. We are just not as big a line or company. 

On 7/21/2023 at 9:43 AM, Navaan said:

AEW minimate ring, not with AEW champion MJF, or Sting, or Darby Allin, or Keith Lee, or PAC, or any other wrestler, but a commentator; at least add alternative Tony Schiovane, Jim Ross and Tazz parts...

I doubt anyone wants to have to buy the ring just to get a popular wrestler. We already have Darby Allin/Sting 2-pack planned, and MJF is a front runner for Series 3.

On 7/21/2023 at 9:19 AM, Chigarillo said:

Just a baffling, baffling decision. DST just can't get out of their own way lately...

Can we get build a figures and two packs back? Cause these monkey's paw boxsets ain't it.

Build a figures are not allowed by the licensor, sorry. Two-packs were not selling, retailers were less likely to order them due to the price of a case (>$100) and the likelihood they'd be stuck with peg warmers. And it's not as if the six-pack format meant our character selection process changed. If we had released series 82 and 83 as two-packs, the characters (and price) would have been the same. 

We did not cut Echo because she was a female and/or indigenous. We dropped her because she was expensive, lots of tooling and lots of tampo. Lots of extra parts so she could turn into Ronin. If we're going to lower the price of Marvel packs to satisfy complaints, we need to cut costs.

She will be released eventually, just not in this set. 

Daredevil will come with a D-Man mask, hopefully that counts for some people. 

Not really, she's done and will be added to an upcoming set. 

Just saw this. Hot Wheels track scale, but it looks like it's got a big seat for that figurine, maybe you could get a Minimate (or half a Minimate) in there?

At the panel and in the booth, there will be! None right now.

Shown at SDCC, I believe. Solicited late August.

Haha. Nope,  good old room 32AB. The AB is for "Abysmal Attendance."

On 7/7/2023 at 9:21 PM, Navaan said:

So what, if anything, can we hope for?

I honestly don't know. If Series 2 does as well as Series 1, and we renew the license, anything is possible!

I'll keep pushing for it. 

I am not sure of the status of our MMPR license overall, let alone for Minimates. I am still waiting for the Vinimates 2-pack to ship. (It will, there are just some factory issues.) 

Godzilla, we're moving forward with new Gallery Dioramas and busts, but I do believe MM are dead extinct. 

While the animated items have been no problem, including our Venger diorama, getting traditional D&D items approved has been more difficult. I think if the approvals were going better, you would have seen Gallery Dioramas by now, and Minimates might have been possible. As it stands I would not count on it. 

It was half villains, half different Spidey outfits. I don't think I can share the art, sadly.  

We do have the license for the new game, we're doing some Gallery Dioramas. We developed a whole wave of Minimates for the last game, but our buyer backed out, I'm not sure who it was developed for. It would have been great, if the buyer had come through. But I'll ask about Minimates.