The WORTHLESS Mountain of Disney Junk KILLS The Toy Market
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2024
- I'm back out in the retail space and this time, I see a new disturbing trend forming. Also, in today's video, we show you the real life, economic impact of what happens when this is the dire state of the toy industry. Finally, if you're a collector, you'll love the sneak peek of the toy collection I feature in this video.
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Fun fact, kids don't want shit toys.
Kids do want Disney toys and they will buy them
@@jamisoncowling2094A long time ago , in a galaxy far away ?
@@bulkhungry No then kids want toys today and now
Holy shit, Copey McGee, settle down.
They're fine with shit toys, they don't want toys of things they don't care about
Remember everyone, this is why Toys-R-Us died.
Disney killed Toys R Us. May Disney be damned.
@@LH74 That and the mountain of debt they were leveraged against.
Toy R Us is not dead they are still around in collaboration with Macy’s
@@jamisoncowling2094 dead is dead. No one wants some pet cemetery version of Toy's R Us.
No toysrus refused to accept the concept of progression
Just like sears, kmart, etc
Also their failed partnership with amazon.
Amazon just settled their lawsuit for 51million with toysrus
Hasbro has to be pissed off at Disney at this point
They were happy to sign the contracts.
They chose ... poorly.
You'd think poor sales, drooping attendance, South Park's Panderverse, vlogs like this one, lawsuits, etc, would modify people's & corporations' politics.
If I were hasbro, I’d cut all ties with Disney completely, maybe every company should. Down with the house of mouse
They Are .
Disney had screwed Hasbro every step of the way.. from yearly Star wars movies to just cranking bad TV and films.
The amount of plastics and non recyclable materials all going to landfill with this stuff , almost as bad as the movie industry itself. Shameful
And I'll bet Disney simps for the enviro movement yet makes all this trash out of plastics
I'm inside literally hundreds of homes a month for my work, the amount of absolute crap Chinese made toys inside Americans homes is shameful and an embarrassment. And then theres the adult belongings. We need to stop buying so much crap, its disgusting.
Junko pops as well
@@warpet2011American consumers are literally paying for the nuclear weapons China has pointed at them and their children. And virtually 100% of Americans are oblivious to that fact.
Platic shitfigurines like this should be outlawed at this point with the amount of damage it is causing us
Doesn’t surprise me that the Godzilla x Kong toys are selling because even if the toys aren’t good they are at least fairly priced and kids will definitely take cool looking giant monsters over a boring looking lady in a jumpsuit.
Little boys don’t want to play with toys of grumpy women characters they’ve never heard of? I don’t believe it
They are actually selling? At my local stores none of those toys are selling. Maybe once the movie actually comes out, the toys will move
@@capttuttle7422Not in my shop. Lightyear toys we got 3 months before the movie came out. We sold 4 units. All spaceships. 1 month before the movie 25% off. When the movie came out and it was underperforming 75% off.
Captain Marvel 2. Those figures were 75% off when they went on the shelves.
Now Disney's section in my shop is just Lorcana cards and boosters, a handful of Spider-Man and Avengers characters and some Toy Story figures. The Pokemon and anime figure section, Hotwheels and Jurassic World/3rd party dinosaurs are swarming the Isle.
Chances are if TOHO started selling Godzilla Minus One here in the States THAT stuff WOULD SELL!
That's the most bought toys in our local toy store which is great 👍
In the future, Archeologists will keep digging up Shuri Copters. They will think it was our Goddess
I can hear those archeologists curse Disney when they dig up another pile of their toys.
@@flitsertheo
“What’s this?? A box of scrolls? Information? Stories of old-?” *cracks open old box, deep sigh of frustration* “Fuckin’ DISNEY AGAIN-!”
+1 Internet
And they're always claiming some old ruin is a tomb or a temple. Priestess of Ollie's! Hail the Great Ollie! Probably waste a lot of time searching for Shuri's mummy.
.. Archaelogists can tell now the iridium layer to distinguish the before & after the dinosaurs..
Future archeologists will discover the Disney-junk-toys-that-never-sell layer line directly at the soil 😂
They will gather so much evidence the before and after disney became a big pile of 💩 - Insert a random Attenborough image -
Action figures should not cost $15 without coming with a vehicle. Without, they should be $5.
Is that in 1980 dollars?
Dollar General, Big Lots, and some other discount stores have started selling 3.75" figures for a little over $1 a piece. Some with vehicles I've seen as low as $5. Now I understand they're generic and the paint isn't always great but these are 1980s prices and some of them are kind of cool looking. if I was a kid these days I'd make a whole ass army.
$10 Shuricopters: "Am I a joke to you?"
(Yes, Shuricopter. You're a joke to everyone)
I remember when they were $3 for at least 20 years. From 1980 to 2000.
Today, they should be $1.99 w/o vehicle and $2.99 with vehicle. The cost to make these toys has to be ridiculously low considering they are MADE IN CHINA. Considering now I can buy a 75 inch TV for $400-500, why are these toys priced so high?
Two things are a certainty in life:
1. We are all gonna die someday
2. No one will ever buy a ShuriCopter
tf is a shuricopter
The toy consumer base that once existed inbetween pre-schoolers and adult collectors no longer exists. The disappearance of Saturday morning cartoons. The proliferation of digital entertainment (especially free-to-play games). It's a perfect storm hitting the toy manufacturers.
They should have pivoted to Minecraft toys and the like.
Sad to my generation but true.
Your leaving out a lot of stupid on part of diseny / Hasbro
Agreed. It saddens me how Transformers feel so cheap now
They quit making toys for kids, its all bullshit for adult babies. Anything that might pass for a toy is snapped up by collectors for them to sit on and dream of retirement so the kids now dont have any toy based childhood tentpoles. Theres no gi Joe flight carrier or he man castle or barbie Malibu dream house to wish for. No point because they wouldn't get one even if it existed so they don't have the attachment we did as kids to certain toys and lines. Turns out its kinda hard to be a toy company that doesn't sell toys for kids but junk for hoarders and wishful thinkers. They only toys are for toddlers or the cheapest marketing crap like Ryan's mystery turd .
As a father of a young boy who rarely plays with toys, it doesnt surprise me to see these things sitting on store shelves. Kids arent into them anymore.
It’s at the same time painful and positive to hear cause you won’t get to tell him “no more toys” but he won’t be a playful person!
Going to the store must be nice then. Not hearing I want this. But at home you'll hear buy me more v bucks dad lol
I don't have a kid but I have young nieces and nephews and generally speaking I really feel that if they have access to tablets, THAT is there go to toy. Otherwise the main things they want are mostly tiny "lottery" unboxing things that they open with excitement and then forget about within the hour for eternity.
Maybe below the age of 7 you get more excitement for toys like baby dolls and trucks. But generally I think children get their fun through other means now.
To be fair, it's because a lot of them suck these days. Weirdly proportioned action figures that don't bend, strange choices for figures (who wants a cantina band action figure?) and just an overall disconnect from toy designers to kids.
Unless transformers 🤑
The earth is littered with the ruins of empires and kingdoms that thought they were eternal.
lmao
These dummies really thought kids would be running around pretending to be shuri? 😂😂
They are running around being Rose Teco instead. I have not seen any of those toys in any resent videos.
I literally- no bullshit- forgot entirely who that was for a minute, and was trying to remember who she was in Star Wars.
But she´s the smartest and the bestest evaaah inventor, pilot, warrior and ra*ist, so the kids who don´t want Shuri action figures are ra*ist!
they would if the character was any good. sadly Disney is incapable of creating any good characters now and is intent on ruining their legacy characters
@@JohnCena2011 that character is a straight L. 😂
Imagine being the ceo who turned hasbro into…this. Losing billions a year. Hell, lost a billion alone last quarter! That’s a skill! …I think.
More of a skill issue
Honestly could be a Toy Story plot all its own: Woody and the gang wind up missing on a trip yet again, only this time they find themselves at a remote thrift store with endless isles of toys that were rejected and never bought.
What makes it wild could be the inclusion of the shopkeeper, who is a kid at heart but has been around the toys for so long he knows that they actually talk, and he put up with it for so long that the toys and the shopkeep converse like nothing is weird.
As for plot, lets say the shopkeep really doesnt want to throw away all the excess toys that build up over time, and usually when its time to purge the store, he gathers huge amounts of them to be donated to developing countries where children may never get toys where they live.
What could happen is the shopkeepers boss comes and finds out he has lagged behind on selling the sadly unpopular toys and orders the entirety of the toys inside the store to be sent to the junkyard, and immediately has a bunch of workers scooping toys into trash trucks.
Now with the shopkeep, the toys are generally acting like themselves. The rejects dont act like their characters for the most part, like real people, and are comfortable with the shopkeeper because he can keep a secret. But with other humans, they obviously act like objects.
Near the climax of the film, the boss and shopkeep get in an argument over the whole fiasco, and Woody gets an idea to save the rejects: they all animate and act like entire armies, almost possessed by poltergeists to scare the boss out.
Since the shop becomes condemned, you would think oh all the toys have nowhere to go and now tons of them will be scrapped. Not a problem, as the shopkeeper discovers an abandoned mall in the middle of the woods, large enough to hold millions of toys comfortably and happily. In return for saving his friends, the shopkeeper returns Woody and friends to Bonnie just in time again before they leave, except this time one of the shopkeeper's favorites decide to join them, as his adventure with the shopkeep has ended, and wishes to see greater pastures.
Not bad, that was a nice read
Honestly, I kind of like this!
Disney would reject it for being "too creative" (or some other bullshit) and release an infinitely financially safer film that's pretty much this exact same plot but done half assed 6 months later
If this isn't the plot for Toy Story 5 I'd be even more disappointed than I am now
That’s a great idea dude
And they keep telling us plastic straws and combustion engines in cars are the problem, yet this shit is completely unrecyclable and requires fresh plastic to be made.
Both are things that can be improved
single action figures should never cross the double digit dollar mark
Build back better😂😂
Transformers:
Unless they are either very large in size, or highly detailed/engineered and not meant for play(Like Hiya Toys' articulated Godzilla figures), but yeah I 100% agree with you otherwise
The mountain of toys gets taller with every video.
And even though it's taller the products have barely changed. XD
You be ruined,
Forgotten!
Spending eternity rotting
In some landfill! -
Stinky Pete from Toy Story 2
My 8-year-old just wants toys that are experiences to put together such as jewelry and slime diy.
That's exactly it. The action figure died in the 80s, and the only ones complaining here are grown adults looking for collectibles to flip for profits...
I remember when my Dad Got me a small metal tool set to build with. Take apart with thin Wrenches and make A car, Helicopter, anything. It was really fun.😊
@@smog-097 Ya that's one thing I noticed within the gaming community with physical media collectors & 4k movie for steel books. It seems like most of the youtubers just have monetary vested interests.
How about they also bring back the Crash Dummy toys? I know there was one where you could crash into a wall and build it again quickly
Same.
Seeing those Black Panther toys still on the shelves reminds me of how when I saw a few VHS tapes the final time I went to K-Mart 10 years ago this May.
VHS tapes were the biggest part of my childhood!
@@nicktechnubyte1184 Same here. I used to watch some of my old VHS tapes until 2014 or 2015. And that's only because I finally found proper DVD copies of them.
My local Ollie's toy section has shit from 2011. They're covered in dust and I wrote "help" on the top of one Young Justice Aqualad figure's bubble with my finger 😂
@@planetschlock👍👍👍
Those toys are still going to be there ten years from now
Whatever happened to just regular old toys? Big cars/trucks, army men, dinosaurs, etc. I went looking for army men for a little cousin’s birthday, checked Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and a few others - nada. I finally found an extremely cheaply made, overpriced bag of them at… hobby lobby. The selection of anything other than Disney toys and nerf guns at Walmart and Target was abysmal
It's really sad. I am a 14 year old teenager and i LOVE toys. It's just painful to see them slowly get more expensive or directly start disapearing.
@@M4teo.go to the local garage sales and bulk trash,you can often find awesome stuff for little to nothing
the only real action figures that're seriously demanded, are legos.
Thanks so much for all the wasted petrochemicals and other resources to produce this toxic trash Disney and Hasbro!
Yeah that's all I see. Same when I see Lego, just landfill full of toxic runoff eventually.
I promise you'll feel better if you throw off the shackles of environmental indoctrination
I bet those production waste products are creating a lovely environment!
@aldunlop4622 no one throws lego away though.
I hope the new Godzilla Kong film is good. But even if it’s not good the toys will probably still sell well since kids definitely prefer monsters over whatever the hell disney puts out
Kids and adults still really enjoy the movies and shows Disney puts out
@@jamisoncowling2094Not from the data we are getting. Disney+ is in fast decline. Disney lost a billion dollars+ on its movies last year.
Those toys sell like crazy. My shop is always restocking. We still have the Godzilla Vs Kong toy line. Still full price and kids are buying that. They are buying Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! Jurassic World...but Marvel and Disney toys...nah.
The only thing Disney that sells in my shop are character mugs and classic Disney character pajamas for women like Goofy, Daisy, Mickey and Donald.
@@silicabeastmaster1175ironically enough hot wheels is also probably selling better than marvel & Disney merchandise, literally rolling out like hot cakes probably compared to the house of mouse
Truthfully you can never really go wrong with Godzilla especially considering everything else that’s going be out
I actually saw new Wish toys dumped at Goodwill last weekend! I absolutely love watching Disney fail. This is exactly what they deserve.
..you should try and find a life...really!
Agree with 100% that Disney should fail.
@@EspecialDelivery hate to break it to you...they arent.
Same thing will happen with Moana 2 toys a year from now, especially the new cast of lame characters.
@@arthurhall8238 they might not completely fail but they're not doing great and are failing in the eyes of anyone who isn't a virtue signalling leftist. Disney is trash as is everything they're involved with, that's why the new alien movie will likely suck which is a shame
hasbro lost 1 BILLION IN 3 MONTHS IN 2023 AND IT WAS DURING CHRISTMAS...wild
Honestly, those Just Stop Oil protestors ought to protest these shelves full of garbage instead of blocking traffic and disrespecting art. THIS is a real waste of resources and a drag on the environment…
honestly I think regardless of what these toy companies do kids still wouldn't be interested in these toys. Kids simply don't care about action figure type toys anymore. they're more into building/interactive type toys which is odd considering the stereotype that kids do nothing but sit on their ipads all day. They love diy slime kits and those engineering cardboard building kits, pretty much anything that involves them creating something is what they're into. They also really love those tiny mystery unboxing type toys for some reason.
14 year old kid here. I'd say that the fact that almost the whole world is shifting to the souless digital crap makes things that require creativity or actual concentration refreshing.
The toys are not meant for kids, they are actually being put out there for collectors. Except that the movies suck so nobody wants them.
From the view of someone who collects figures imported from Japan and sees prices significantly above this as reasonable for what I buy, these feel like they're pricing for the adult collector while making them kids toy quality, which makes them too expensive for parents to justify for their kids and too cheaply made for adult collectors. It's a middle ground you don't want to be in. Figma, a Japanese action figure line targeted towards adults, usually has figures priced at at least $60, some going into over $100, but they're high quality with partial hand painting to prevent machine painting errors and have a good amount of extra parts. However, the parts are quite small and wouldn't fare well with a child.
I do agree, After seeing what they charge for dollar store level toys here, I started to collect imports and now that’s all I really collect. It’s wild to me how overpriced and underwhelming all of these Hasbro or Disney figures are, especially for the price and quality.
Plastic recycling business is going to be booming soon, I'd invest now.
Sadly non of that shit on shelves is recyclable
@@neros1277 Damn... well Disney is the next ecological disaster then.
I collect Ninja Turtles, Jurassic Park, Monster High, and Tick. I used to be a huge Marvel and Star Wars fan, but I refuse to touch anything Marvel and Star Wars until Disney no longer owns them.
Exactly ... I totally agree
I used to be obsessed with Jurassic Park action figures!
I remember The Tick 😅
I recently got back into collecting some hot wheels, feels a lot more valuable than the recent Disney merch, especially for how cheap a 5 pack of hot wheels cars is compared to a single legos Star Wars toy (seriously 40 to 50 bucks for the spider tank, the same one that broke because one of my cats knocked it over)
I really love Jurassic Park. I started collecting Jurassic Park Lego sets sense 2018.
They might want to consider not making toys for crap movies and shows.
Well Turning Red doees't have a McDoanld's Happy Meal set so they did something right there. But a Pixar movie not releasing for sixteen months does.
Right talk about decreasing the amount of plastic waste
How about not making crap movies and tv shows?❤
Crap has always been on tv and movies, you’re just blinded by nostalgia
Any toy or merchandise manufacturer doing business with Disney is making a mistake.
No they are not making a mistake selling Disney toys or making Disney toys
@jamisoncowling2094 Trust me, there are a lot of good reasons not to bother licensing anything from Disney.
For starters, the license agreements heavily favor Disney influence on what and how much you make of what properties.
Secondly, Disney licensing fees are unreasonably expensive.
So yeah, that is why Disney merchandise costs shot up so much.
Hasbro earnings report outright mentions the drastic increase in Disney Licensing fees and influence Disney has on what merchandise they make.
@@davidanttila9305 That is what is happening everywhere. Inflation is not just hitting companies like Hasbro and Disney it hits all of the different businesses and merchandise that they sell or make which makes the cost of goods go up across the board. You can’t say that is just Disney who charges a lot for their licensing fee when all the major studios do it for their toys
@@jamisoncowling2094 There's a world of difference between doing a business that Bob Igor and the board has devalued every property they own and doing a business with properties that still have value.
Disney is bleeding money from everywhere.
The fact that Hasbro Disney licensed products is rotting in discount stores should speak volumes as to why Licensing anything Disney is a bad idea.
You could probably License anything from illumination and probably move the merchandise.
It's called good business senses and that is something both Hasbro and Disney is completely missing!
@@jamisoncowling2094 Speak of the Devil. Hasbro Lost over one billion dollars and ridiculously fast in this case three months.
ClownfishTV just did the video. czcams.com/video/oUD_vsr8-UI/video.htmlsi=XVSMtooJQsydA5QP
Another 25 minutes of Disney/Marvel toys not selling…unfortunate for the stores themselves, but maybe Disney should stop making shit movies and tv shows!
Apparently Hasbro wants out of their contract with Disney as a whole. Ollie's isn't even taking Wish merch.
Ot tcapable of it now I believe.
@@greenliongirl07 Good! It's about time they said "Just how much money are we willing to lose on this bad Disney properties?"
Old crap and he's still whining and crying. Get a life dewd.
@@tljscrewjob6397 From my understanding, this isn't new. After Wakanda forever failed to sell merch, there was a cut back in toys made for the 2023 little mermaid raceswap and because of the lack of sells there 23's knock off Ariel is getting ditched for the 89 version in toys and there's a question of how much if any toys will come out for the live action Snow White. The failure of Wish though might mean that remake really will be better off forgotten on Disney plus.
$6 for those large x-men figures is a great price. Up here in Canada, they're still trying to get 30$ for the same ones. They've been sitting on shelves for 3+ years now and stores are too stubborn to lower prices to a reasonable level.
Then let them sit, my Canadian friends🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
They will end up in Dollarama soon enough. Patience. 🤣
In Brazil everything is allways at full price.
I second the dollarama comment. Then big box or Bianca’s
Well, I hope they like their 'decorations' then.
The local salvation army was giving away Black Panther dolls "for free" as presents for our Dec 2023 Christmas. The kids receiving these dolls were happier to get cheap candy.
😂 wAkAnDa FoReVeR
That's just sad 😂
@@MASTEROFEVIL i mean its true. What kid wants a black doll with fuck all for articulation?🤣
I work in the toy dept half the problem is that the price is set way too high for what the toy actually is. When the Federal minimum is $7.25 an hour before tax and one action Star Wars action figure is $30…
That’s a little over four hours of work (before being taxed) for one 6 inch action figure.
I always remember your channel when i see the Shuri copters lol
Of course they expected every black little girl to buy one, it's representation after all how could they not love it..?
It's basic knowledge that all little black girls love weird sci-fi helicopters. Weird sci-fi helicopters give them the confidence to become astronauts and presidents, or at the very least teachers.
This is what Disney really believes.
They’re called the eternals because they eternally stay on store shelves
Ahsoka is not the 2024 Shuri Copter. The Shuri Copter is still around to be the 2024 Shuri Copter!
I'm so glad Disney Toys are not selling.
Disney toys are selling I know that for a fact
@@jamisoncowling2094Aww , it's ok lil' guy . Bless your heart . Mommy and Daddy said your special, and don't ever let anyone tell you different .😊
@@bulkhungry Don’t make fun of me and yes I am special though I don’t have to say why because I know why I am special
As much as I hate many of Disney and Hasbro’s decisions recently (which have backfired), I find it so weird how some people make hating Disney their entire personality. Y’all are equally as weird as those Disney adults.
Disney thought the cute little star would sell lots of merch, but the scrapped human shapeshifting star was far more beloved and probably wouldve sold alot more of its merchandise.
Disney not only robbed themselves of profit but us as well.
Fr, theres alot of missed out stuff from their scrapped storylines, i remember zootopias all too well, they even got enouth scrapped that you could make an entirely different movie with it, which you can find on youtube! :]
When you show black history month and you showed godzilla and a dinosaur from jurassic park those were most likely going to be purchased and the person was like yeah nah randomly place it at a random spot
The problem isn't just that kids are more interested in digital things. It's advertising. I remember when I was a kid, watching kids TV shows, those ads were CRAZY. They made me feel like I needed to have those toys. No one is wasting their time on cable TV these days. Kids are either on CZcams, TikTok, streaming services, or kids games. And you know what CZcams shows kids? Shitty mobile game ads. The cycle perpetuates itself. It's sneaky like that. Mobile games are way more profitable than toys because kids don't need to steal their parents money to give mobile games money (although they do that a lot too). Just watching those awful ads is enough, and kids eat it up. To the kid, it doesn't feel like they're paying for anything. It's all "free" entertainment. In fact, the parents see it that way too. They don't need to take the time to go to a store and open their wallet to buy their kid a toy. Kids passively entertain themselves for "free" by just screwing around on their iPads.
Even in the late 2000s I used to play with virtual dolls and playsets that were free. Flash games were definitely part of the pop culture transition between toys and apps.
My kids have only played with Lego. They’ve never played with action figures. I guess the same goes for most kids these days and when they reach a certain age they only focus on their screens and abandon traditional toys.
The Black books piled on the rack makes me realize why I DON'T buy a lot of modern books that are strictly advertised for Black readers because I know I'm going to end up in an American Fiction scenario.
“Remember you guys were slaves????” Edition #32 🙄
Still can’t believe that magical negros movie is coming out lmao
Modern books, as in ones frm last few years, are full of much worse woke nonsense than the movies coming out today are. If you want to be safe, you need to find indie authors to read instead.
@@kipolem53lmfao explain woke
Someone needs to revisit the “Island of Misfit Toys”
No they don’t Rudolph is a classic
Man, after 5 years of not watching this channel, it's so nice to see this type of video. Comfy, like settling in with a bacon cheeseburger and Big Trouble In Little China.
disney never learned.
They don’t have to learn because they know what they are doing because they have been in business for over a hundred years now
Never will, to the last day they’re in business they will still prop up grumpy women comic book characters no one has ever heard of
@@joec4997 The people that have read the comics and know the Marvel universe know who the woman characters are in Marvel so you can’t say they are unknown
ok, characters that noone cares about. happy now?@@jamisoncowling2094
@@jamisoncowling2094 ok, characters no one cares about
I can't believe Ollie's still thinks they can sell this garbage. I wish my local Ollie's would just get rid of it all, to make room for more coffee, office supplies, and books. 🙄
I'm sure Ollies is buying these toys for pennies a piece. No way they are paying much for them.
It has to be pennies.
I got a Rey for Free and haven't even been able to sell her. 5 bucks. I'd even take 2$. I've sold other stuff, but *nothing*
Over Christmas my nephew bought two of the black panther spears from Ollie’s my kids thought they were Link’s Spear from tears of the kingdom. I don’t have the heart to tell them otherwise.
New carded Star Wars and Marvel figures at Family Dollar/Dollar Tree, that day is coming.
I believe it.
Totally. I purchased the blind force wielder from Rogue One at Dollar Tree. Back when it was actually a dollar.
Hasbro missed the boat with their Star Wars Retro Collection. They should have just reproduced and continued the entire old Kenner line of action figures and vehicles in earnest instead of putting out that tired vintage collection. It's guys in their 40s and 50s with a lot of disposable income who are buying the OT stuff. Not kids. Also, as an older collector it's great to have mint versions of Kenner figures I had as a kid without having to break the bank to buy an original.
Hasbro's latest financial statements (2023) confirmed this. The revenues from Star Wars, Marvel etc dropped $360 million 😅😅😅 they usually get around $1 billion + per year in that department.
I worked with kids you wanna know how many are interested in toys?
All of them especially elementary grade school kids.
They always brought their stuffed animals, cars, Lego or Poppy Playtime toys to recess.
And loved to play with the centers Lego’s and the girls with the dolls in the doll room.
As well as their videogames and ipads for tech time.
Just not the toys that don’t sell. (Why parents won’t buy them)
Hey I worked as the floor supervisor for the toy department in Ollie’s back from 2019-2021! Shocking that so many of those figurines are still on the shelves, I had those same ones sitting around when I worked there.
The garbage cans are made out of recycled Marvel and Disney merch. 😄
🤣🤣🤣🤣 good one
No they are not made out of that
@@jamisoncowling2094Disney's number one shill
@@bullettime1116 I am not a shill for Disney
@@jamisoncowling2094 🧢
I’m sure part of the problem was Disney’s insistence that Hasbro crank out so much of each product despite all of their internal research telling them that none of this crap was going to sell in anywhere near the quantities they wanted on the shelves. Disney will NEVER understand they will never replicate the OT toy sales. That was a rare one time only miracle.
I was very disappointed not to see the return of the Admiral Holdo figure. I’m guessing they finally put her in the trash. Which is what they should have done with the script that put her in a movie.
When I was watching TLJ and her first scene came up I remember thinking "WTF?!"
$25 for Star Wars. Closer to $40 in Australia and they sit there until they drop them in price.
Collectors are becoming more savvy when it comes time to spending money. We see a million on the shelf so it’s never going to be a collectible.
Also people don’t have the disposable cash they had now.
I personally gave up. The only new toys I've bought over the past five years are Star Wars vintage reissues. I wanted the GI Joe and Transformers reissues, but they're over-priced while being lower quality than the originals. I want to get back into collecting Final Fantasy again, but that's somehow significantly more expensive than anything else.
Yeah I was excited to see GI Joe come back but god damn I am not paying 35 dollars for a fucking GI Joe. Jesus. Them shits were 3 dollars a Kmart when I was a kid.
7:59 I knew that Spider-Woman figure would pegwarm the moment it was first revealed because who wants a pregnant action figure? The Wokies call it “stunning and brave,” yet they’re not buying it either.
Every young boys idea of a good time, a pregnant action figure 😂
It's not like she can get an abortion, thanks to the conservatives. She has to be preggers!
Sjws never put their money where their mouth is.
They just want to force you to have no option except that.
Seriously, I wonder how the talks for designing that toy went. Did no one asked: "Why would kids want to play as a pregnant mom, instead of the way cooler Spiderman?"
I think even toy manufacturers aren't yet willing to discuss simple 3D printed toys, but those are also cutting into their overall sales. Floppy dragons and skeleton astronauts in various colors and sizes sold at vendor shows on the weekends. I'm seeing just as many kids going after those as shampoo bottle figures.
Something interesting to note is that all of the live action star wars stuff didn't sell, yet I did not see any clone wars stuff on shelves.
Just goes to show
I had to pause the video at 3:51 but those are Ghosts'N'Goblins figures. Neat, didn't know those existed... Might have to make a trip to Ollies!
What I really miss are the roleplay toys. The star wars nerf blasters, actually passable lightsabers, the cool (and reasonably priced) gauntlets...hell, I've bought all the Playmates Star Trek roleplay item releases, and im really hoping they hold out and release the tricorder.
What is the name of the background song? That 50s, “mom grocery shopping in a dress” kinda music??
Happy go lively is the name of the track
@@sirgalahad1376 Thanks dude!!
@@sirgalahad1376Thanks!
Hasbro caused their own problems but...they should be pissed at Disney.
What Hasbro is dealing with is the same problems that every business was facing last year and the name of that problem is inflation, war and illegal immigrants that are harming the economy and the ability for farms and businesses to be able to ship products it has nothing to do with the movie it is based on
They've ruined the power rangers toyline
@@moseskuria1234 No they did not because I had some of the power rangers toys when I was a child and they were cool
@jamisoncowling2094 Bandai did way better job they released everything in time including most zords, figures with power ups and etc. Hasbro didn't even finish the toyline from the most recent seasons they acquired.
@@moseskuria1234 You can’t make everything in a toy line and the major toy companies make what is popular because what is popular is what sells and Hasbro knows this that is why they make the same characters over and over again because they know those characters are popular
I blame Disney for this. I first noticed the drop in quality when they acquired Lucasfilm. The cheap, low quality, cash grab, with barely any articulation figures they produced were very disappointing to say the least.
I'm not surprised toys sales have tanked...quality is extremely low and the prices have gotten excessive.
I'm a collector of diecast cars and I used to collect Hot Wheels but mostly Matchbox.
Hot Wheels used to have all metal cars and some had opening doors, bonnets and boots...now all is plastic and nothing opens.
Matchbox slowly went downhill then really dropped when bought out by Mattel...they used to nearly always have moving parts (doors, bonnets) and 99% had suspension and metal bases...now all are cheaply made to even worse than Hot Wheels (originally classed as rubbish in the old days) with no suspension and no openinb parts an 0% metal bases.
I now have to buy direct from Japan to buy brands like Tomica Limited Vintage (very expensive) and other quality brands every now and then because everything in our local malls (this is in Australia) is cheap plastic junk more suited to dollar stores where a pack of 20 nondescript cars cost $2.
Most of these problems occurred because US mega-companies have bought up all the other international brands and made them cheaper to manufacture but kept the same price or raised it even with the low quality.
Also there is less choice these days as 3 or 4 brands own everything.
As someone who has gifted generations of children in my family during Christmas, toys in our family only work up until the age 6, rarer, 10. After that, they'd ask for books, Korean or Japanese stuff, bags, usable items of clothing, gadgets, and even trips as gifts. If "toys" are ever asked for past the 11th age, it would be collectibles of an anime they want, like figmas, or BJDs which are more customized.
This year, for example, I gifted my little niece a couple BJD dolls. NOT a Barbie, she asked for the dolls with the movable joints and a hand-made hooded jackets. I gave the other older niece a Lisa photobook. While my own girl got a new phone, an art set that costed a bit, and dual-tipped markers with a horde of sketchpads that she uses for her art.
Children's tastes have changed. Long gone are days that mainstream media toys were popular or wanted. They still have a place, don't get me wrong, but it seems to not be the case in my family. At times, it was more appreciated if the gift could be used on the daily, if it can't be collected.
It's kind of amazing that in your section of the country, you actually have new Micro Galaxy Squadron, on shelves! That line (at least the classic ships) is the best modern Star Wars toy line bar none.
See them in clearance is disturbing. In Brazil they're rare, expensive and allways at full price.
"All I know is that they're fucking ugly, oh what are they called? Fuggler."
I lost it, too good 👍
It's both nice and sad to see the downfall of Hasbro. I've been covering their financial reports for the last couple years and its a constant downhill fall other than Wizards. I was filled with joy seeing Wizards take a loss in the 4th Quarter because as a D&D fan I'm sick of how they are treating the franchise. Yet, I do lament that the company that brought my GI Joe and Transformers is falling apart. I doubt sales will turn around this year and as long as Hasbro works with Disney they are just throwing money into a trash can. I'm curious if the company will last long enough to trun things around.
I think it's because they have a strangle hold on the toy market and think they can do whatever they want. We need more competitors like in the 80's there were like 5 million toy companies. Today there are like... what... three?!
Its funny how Hasbro was riding a sinking ship ten years before Monopoly will enter the public domain.
Hasbro simply refuses to adapt to the modern age. They think pushing the same expensive BS to buyers thinking it will work when buying habits constantly evolve.
Market saturations. Same thing is happening to gaming and cinema. It's impossible to sell infinite product to a finite market, but damn, do they try.
I work at Walmart and I remember walking past a cardboard shelf with Black Panther Wakanda Forever. It stood there for at least six months and nobody bought a single one.
Don't they have an r&d department! Black people don't buy black toys!
and little girls dont want action figures, boys want them because they are supposed to fight each other.
What a huge waste of plastic
I swear action figures as a whole have just died off for kids even when I was younger I really saw anyone around my age have them as everyone I knew just wanted to buy toys that you could build such as Lego, mega blocks, buildable racetracks or train sets. Also there was things like Beyblade (which hasbro has also ruined) that were just way cooler than having a random plastic figure of iron man and cap. Over the summer I worked a kids summer camp program for my college and what I noticed is that of the toys we would have for kids waiting to be picked up by their parents was that they would always want to play with the lego bricks or have one of us play a board game or cards with them rather than mess around with the lot of action figures we had. Of course there was some that did but it was rare to see over the other things we offered them
Please do more of these. It's so entertaining and makes it feel as though I'm window shopping.
As low income parents of an infant and toddler, me and my husband are limited in both spending and going out. I stumbled upon this video and we're loving it.
Magicless Kingdom and the Mountain of Trash
It is not a mountain of trash. Disney toys are not trash
@@jamisoncowling2094 Then Buy them, Must be Treasure to you
@@jamisoncowling2094 we get the message, you love Disney, but you don’t need to stick up for them in every other comment.
@@Black_Revue The Disney toys I do have in my collection I do treasure and I don’t have a lot because I am on a fixed income and I don’t have extra to buy toys
@@tracythomas132 Well I will stick up for what I like when it is being attacked by vicious lies
I remember being a stupid kid and smashing most of my toy collection because I was bored of them. I regretted doing that for years, but thankfully I never got into collecting worthless crap like toys or Funko Pops.
Really In think kids have moved away from traditional toys and gone towards digital media.
I'm not going to lie: whenever I see Hasbruh's stock tanking, I get a bit of a semi.
bruh
All because Disney had to push their message instead of making things people wanted to watch.
'Ooh, Ghostbusters, let's press the button!'
All of us when we see a 'Try Me' toy.
I work at mall with a target and two other stores with comparable toy aisles.
Kids don't even go in the action figure section. They don't care. It doesnt exist to them. They look at the hot wheels at the start of the aisle and never walk down it. The retro collectibles and funko section behind the video games is dust covered and damaged. Nobody looks at it
11:05 fun fact you can’t even use those Disney infinity force awakens characters or playset anymore because you needed to do something on a website that is no longer available. For some nostalgia I went into 3.0 to see if I had every character and when I got to them it said I needed to do something on a website
Makes me miss the days when it was only Rose Ticos that lined the shelves. 😂
toys and dvds sell, garbage movies dont. almost all the mario movie toys sold well and fortnite toys and fnaf toys too, the problem is the iconic characters arent popular and are murders by ip demand then.
The Disney movies are not garbage movies
@@jamisoncowling2094I agree . They're definitely recycled .😅
@@bulkhungry No they are not recycled movies either the Disney movies are really good and great movies it is only the republicans, disgruntled older fans, and radical right saying that the Disney movies are trash or recycled movies which is totally wrong and Disney has not done anything to deserve the hate they get
I wanna be a toymaker but i fear there's no market space for me
Hazbro has to lay off the crack pipe with these prices man lol. 🤣 I think kids still want toys, they just don't want SHIT TOYS. That's what hasbro makes. Shit.
How do you open that toy package so clean and untouched? ---> 20:57
Do you heat it up to loosen the glue?
Well Jeff, RetroBlasting put it this at last in regards to Hasbro they decided to cater to the adult market which is why HasLab exists and abandoning the core market that being kids. Kids pester their parents to buy them toys but because all the figures they make are more orientated towards adults with adult incomes well, it's harder to justify buying little Timmy that Marvel or Star Wars figure when it's cheaper in the long run to buy an iPad.
That's the reality of it. The moment Hasbro decided to go all in on adult collectors that's when things went to shit and Disney didn't help matters because of characters they want to push.
THANK YOU! The thing that makes it so stupid is that Hasbro KNEW how to handle shit with the Brony situation which in hindsight was ten years ago; they knew how to branch out to adult collectors while still making all the FiM so damn cheap you could wheel barrel new toys into your kids' room and they'd be set for *LIFE*. The fact that they couldn't seem to do the same with the Marvel stuff is brow raising.
They decided to pander to adult/collectors and then did the stupid thing of overproducing toys based on characters no one likes. Great marketing strategy.
@@SammEater Well Hasbro's not blameless but Disney oftenn decides what characters they want to push.
Love when they remove all the good stuff to sell this trash. As someone who collects toys from my childhood this hurts to watch.
Kids don’t want *these* toys because toy companies are doing a shit job making them 💀
Direct to ollies 😂😂😂😂
Man we got so much hasbro stuff.
They pay pennies on the dollar. Endless pallets of starwars n marvels crap
They are up to 500plus stores now
G.I. Joe figures are $20 now? They were only around $2.99 in the 80's. Maybe $3.99 at Toys R' Us. I remember when my parents bought me the USS Flag and that was $100.
You're right, they were a little over $3 in the 80's and now most are between $20-$50. Even though they're bigger, they come with more weapons (most of them) and they have more articulation i still can't bring myself to start collecting them again because of that price point, it's just crazy. In my opinion, they shouldn't be anymore than $20
MGA's expected growth in contrast to Hasbro and Mattel is probably because they're targeting adult doll collectors and parents of children that want to buy their children dolls--an entirely different demographic than the merch collector demographic. And while there is overlap between the two... It isn't a lot.
Imagine walking into a toy store back in for instance....1978. Mego Star Trek, Kenner Star Wars, Palitoys Action Man, Mattels Big Jim. THE GLORY DAYS!!! And further into the store giant RC helicopters. Yes massive RC helis in the 70s. And Märklin trains and similar stuff. It was heaven back then.
Fans: "Your shit is too expensive!"
Hasbro: "Wait for it to go on sale if you're gonna be stingy!"
Fans: "Okay."
Hasbro months later: "Uh oh..."