>>11728933
I’m nice and warm with a gooey center like a microwaved stretch Armstrong

>>11728931
Ok

>>11728936
microwaving them was a thing? what was the pump for?

>>11728931
As a Mexican, Amazon Mexico is working fine for Mexican products, but it's malfunctioning for products of Amazon United States.

>>11728931
I was wondering what happened. I got my motu multi bot yesterday so I'm good.
This fucker is gonna burn the house down while we are still inside ain't he?!

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>>11728931
Are we gonna get bootleg bart shirts for the war in iran now?

>>11728931
You know they'll get redundant data centers spun up in a matter of hours right?

>>11728983
You know the shipping containers of toys aren’t coming right?

>>11728985
What do you get out of the fear mongering? Are you that bored? Go outside.

>>11728931
So amazon with one of their big AWS features for businesses is multi region fail over for their ec2s and other implementations; does not have fail over for their data centers? If this is true it's pants on head retarded

>>11728994
Yeah I fixed it. Fucking phone posting apparently made me pants on head retarded as well

>>11728987
>fear mongering
This is a warning anon. We are heading food shortages, lockdowns and detainment warehouses. I love my /toy/bros. Be prepared and play with your figures while you can.

>>11729008
Ok lil bro

>>11729012
A cancelled line will save us?

Looks like it's all fixed now. Guess the sky isn't falling after all. Shit!

>>11728931
Common domesticGOD victory. Importsissies on ACK watch.

>>11729065
Wait for the boots on the ground

>>11729068
Started last night. The US death toll is also way fucking more than 6. Information blackout but they can’t keep it secret much longer because families are going to start asking questions soon. I feel bad for anyone that doesn’t understand how fucked everything is and that life as they knew it is unironically over.

>>11729071
Sure it is Ivan sure it is.

reminder that energy/oil prices going up means prices of everything go up due to increased transportation costs

>>11729111
Yup. Production costs will shoot up too. The pain is only starting.

>>11729111
30 DOLLAR SIX INCH FIGURES BABY

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Soon americans can only afford toys made domestically like this

>>11729135
KINO
Thirdiebrowns will never know the joy of army men.

>>11728936
>>11728944
I prefer Jammy Rogers myself.

Guess it's time to grow up, stop wasting money on toys, go outside, touch grass and have sex.

>>11729135
It will be the same thing only they'll be 3D printed and come pre-broken in the mesh netting packaging

>>11728976
More like Rick n Morty

>>11729071
>that life as they knew it is unironically over.
For most of us on this board, this will be the third war in the Middle East within our lifetimes. This is business as usual.

>>11729236
That's quite depressing when you think about it. Also gas is already going up, going to cut into the toy budget real fast.

Seems like every couple of years we're fighting a war in the middle east. Just glass the fucking region already.

>>11729265
Nah, perhaps stop fucking around with foreign countries and regions to prop up a shitty system?

>>11729266
If they'd stop fucking around with us we could. Alas, the American way is not to simply bend over and take it from foreigners as it is in the Caliphate of Yurostan.

>Igor Sushiko
The guy is borderline Armchair Warlord tier.

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>>11729209
I'll be doing none of that.

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>>11729236
This is at least the fifth that I've lived through with direct US involvement. 7th if we include the two in Afghanistan.
Plus 3 Lebanon Wars.
At least 3 Gaza Wars.
2 Intifadas.
Add another dozen or so for civil wars.
I'm probably forgetting a few.

>>11729236
>Scrubs is back on
>Malcolm in the Middle soon to be back too
>We're back at war in the middle east
It feels like I'm in high school again!

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>>11729352
Time is a flat circle.

>>11729353
Plastic factories are in China, tooling factories are in China, paint factories are in China. Moving factories to SEA lower your cost of labor in production and final assamble but every thing used for the productions had to ship from China and that transpotation cost balance out what you saved in labor cost.

>>11729352
>>Scrubs is back on
Oh wow, thanks for the heads up. Had no idea.

>>11729369
It actually feels like the old show too somehow.

>>11729356
All those factories could easily be built and exist in India. They could easily have continued to have been built and existed in Mexico and other parts of Central and Latin America.

But the post Carter era choices by both sides was to allow the Chinese to exploit slave, and non-Han Chinese labor and their poor to build themselves from the sub-third world shit-hole that they were in the 1960s-1970s and decades before into an industrialized power.

And to allow all that home-based manufacturing to be off-shored. Business who donated to both parties and a few particular individuals got rich and we still have people in poverty and still lost almost 100K job last month.

>>11729743
They can easily exist in Indiana and there would never be a single tariff charge at all, while adding to the US Economy and granting jobs to Americans.

>>11729763
Would you pay $100 for a single Marvel Legend?

>>11729795
in addition to what would be an increased price of the toys there is the very real price of damage to the environment and the health of the people living near these factories
we are better off letting the third world make stupid shit like marvel legends, the only factories america should be worried about are for essential industries

>>11729763
Then why don't they exist?

>>11729812
>there is the very real price of damage to the environment and the health of the people living near these factories
Just build them in Flint, Michigan or Gary, Indiana that are already environmental hell holes with a lowered life expectancy. Better yet, build them in a shithole like Phoenix.

>>11728985
Those go through the Pacific, not the middle east. Literally the biggest ports in the US are in California.

>>11729135
Where can I buy these??

>>11729884
From the Tim Mee toys website.
This is the 100 pack in that image, but they've got heaps of different sets.
https://timmeeusa.com/products/timmee-army-tan-od-100?_pos=19&_sid=ec308b320&_ss=r

>>11729883
Where does the oil come from anon.

>>11730266
Your mom.

>>11729369
>>11729390
I didn't know this happened either, watched a short clip and it gave me all the feels to see EEEEAGLE! again.

>>11730267
Must be a.real greasy woman

Target plans to cut the number of toys they sell in half: https://www.brickfanatics.com/target-planning-to-cut-number-of-toys-it-sells-in-half/

>>11730313
I heard about this. Not sure how far it's going to go, but it could affect seeing any kind of toy that isn't your typical staple (yo yos, Legos, whatever) and what isn't a movie-year tie-in toyline.

We're heading towards some rough times guys.

>>11730488
Bane Capital knew Toys R Us was being used by adults trying to escape having jobs so they had to shut it down. There will be no more Toys R Us kids.

>>11730502
Or kids in general

>>11730313
An anon leaked this over a year ago. Retailers are about to put a max price on toys as well. They don’t like losing money so they want cheap toys with pretty much guaranteed sell through. Same with “adult” collectibles. If something is over a certain price point it won’t be going to chain brick and mortar stores.

>>11730511
Legos being the exception of course

>>11730514
Most stores don't even carry lego sets over like $150 anyway, with some rare exceptions, like a few SW sets that are a little over that, and some of the bigass Targets might carry the current year's big modular city set.

>>11730520
And Walmart's started locking them up, making them even less desirable.

>>11730313
Well that's a shame. Target was kind of my last space to get toys in person. Oh well. It's few and far between that I buy figures from them anyway and it's usually an impulse purchase I don't really want that badly. Still, a shame. But it's not like they had stuff I usually would be looking for anyway.

>>11730511
>Retailers are about to put a max price on toys as well.
And if anything they will be increasing figure prices online even if they max price on in store items. Target, Walmart have both done variable pricing that ups prices of 'adult' toys like action figures over msrp online. I have seen it. They know the more wealthy shop online to avoid the masses and the poor are forced to go in store.

Reading some of your guys hot takes I have to assume you're all just fucking shut in retards. Holy shit.

>>11730847
Toy isles will soon not have anything over $20

>>11730871
Parents budget. I don’t know if you know this but most people are living paycheck to paycheck. Purchasing trends linked with household essentials showed parents willing to pay no more than $20 for a single action figure with their weekly purchases.

>>11730918
NTA but Guess what? They are the majority of the customer base. So they dictate the market. There is nothing that can be done about it.

>>11730869
And nothing of value will be lost. I get 90% of my stuff online anyway.

>>11730847
I mean it makes sense doesn't it? /toy/ is the wealthy who spend hundreds or even thousands on designer import action figures, or huge collections of domestics that fill rooms, so most here don't go out to places like Walmart to see the horrors of the real world. They think parents should be buying their kids $28 action figures weekly and deluxes and 2 packs for $40-$58 on special occasions. That's why there are no kids in the action figure hobby anymore. Because parents don't have that kind of money. Taking care of kids is expensive enough as it is before you get to that point. $20 is one home cooked meal for a family of 4. Does anyone think parents struggling to get by with rising costs of gas, food, and now electricity are going to skimp on groceries to buy a little plastic man?

>>11730923
Okay? A question was asked and facts were given. You alright dude?

>>11730927
Lmao here's one of those hot takes I was talking about.

>>11730938
So someone hot taking about how stuff is too expensive now is...actually sheltered, because...things aren't actually too expensive now? What.

>>11730313
this means even higher prices for the lines aimed at adults and more web exclusives, writing is on the wall that hasbro/mattel need to change their business model soon

>>11730953
There's no business model to change to unless you mean going to video games Like Hasbro is failing at or cardboard like Hasbro has to or digital collectibles like ToddyMac

>>11730953
Why do you think the new “core” heman figures are $10 and their kids dc figures are $13

>>11730953
Mattel’s dc waves look like they’ll be every two months for the kids and collector line alternating with 4 figures being the max per wave for each line. Just an observation.

>>11731121
That cannot be. That's only 24 figures a year. That would not pay for the DC license. Look at how many figures ToddyMac had to push out. At one point he put out over 125 DC figures in a year

>>11731128
It’s 48 total including both announced lines not including vehicles, roleplay or replicas. The excuse of the license being super expensive went out the window will Mattel released their kids line prices. Todd was just ripping everyone off because he was the only game in town.

>>11731149
This.
Don’t forget the shampoo bottle figures both those and the 6.5 inch ones have action feature versions. Mattel’s volume will be kids focused and the adult lines will be better curated.

>>11731149
Yeah well I dont include the kids line because that was spinmaster and I know nothing about it. Im comparing Todd's output to this, which would be the collector only stuff, so just 24

>>11731129
we all have jobs. these toys are not worth over say 25 bucks whether youre a millionaire or a poor person

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Seriously, just stop and be silent.
Trump is the operation, the existing, long-standing corruptions were the cancer. There IS going to be bandages. There IS going to be momentary pain. Just get a life and hug the MULTITUDE of toys you have until it's healed. Gawd.

>>11731199
>short term pain for long term pay goy
Fuck off

>>11731203
Nah. I'm right. You've just no common sense or mechanical reasoning.
We could not let a religion of kooks who on video say they want to kill us get a nuke.
They weren't nice people oppressing the Iranians.
If someone says they ARE going to kill you... and they have TRIED to kill your president while having already killed tons of your own people...
...believe them. They're not lying to you.
Then act upon them failing.
I mean this is common sense. Like how'd you even solve the posting Captcha?

>>11731210
https://x.com/blueatlgeorgia/status/2030690218118988060?s=46

>>11731210
You are insane.

>>11731210
NTA, but if you think they were remotely close to developing a nuke, I've got a vintage MIB U.S.S Flagg that I'm willing to sell you for $50. Just leave your credit card details in the Name field of your reply, and I'll ship it to you

>>11731210
What a fool you are anon, you've been huffing your own farts too long and hard.

>>11730266
The US, Venezuela, Alaska. Sounds like a Euro problem.

>>11731217
they really do have no thoughts of their own huh

>>11731217
What I find funny are the people that say the Leftoid news or the rightoid news is fake when they are all owned by the same company.

>>11731217
Didn't we get something that meant exactly this during the plandemic?

>>11731286

>>11731290
https://rumble.com/v27ilx8-covid-vaccine-safe-and-effective-compilation-video.html

>>11729219
>Israel turned me into their puppet JD. I'm Puppet Trump!

>>11730313
I haven't found anything good in Target the few times I bothered to stop by for years now anyway. Will suck if they keep getting exclusives though since those can be a bitch to get even online.

I'm more concerned about gas being $5 a gallon than I am of toys.

>>11731494
It’s going to $8

>>11731217
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

>>11731199
Goodness, you are a fool

>>11731494
The toys get more expensive too. And may not be able to ship our way.

>>11731219
>>11731261
>>11731447
>>11731232
>>11731199
meds. all of (you). now.

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>>11728931
Can't believe I got into toys right when everything is becoming expensive as hell. I'm not even American so I'm already paying twice what others are.

>>11733712
>I'm not even American
At least you’re white

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>>11729135
>>11729884

for these guys... Ali express.

>>11733712
Hey well we're all going to suffer together. Prices are already going up and now with boots on the ground we'll just...get perma fucked I guess. Tariffs were bad enough, but there's going to be so many ripple effects of fuel pricing going up and shipping going up and then prices being put on us...and people will stop buying because they can't afford everything else.

And, the industry will wither and rot and everything we found joyful in life will go away.

why can't Americans make anything? Mexico has factories

>>11735202
Maybe try not letting your "joy" hinge on constantly consuming plastic slop?

>>11735632
Then why are you on this board?

I do sometimes wonder why people make themselves slaves to huge collections of toys

Oil war this week will drive barrels to $200, back to another oil crisis and back to 3.75 - 4 inch only, say bye to anything else.

>>11738552
We’re about to get the Jewish prophecy apocalypse that they sale to normies as an alien god. It’s so fucking over. Imagine if the demons animate our figures to attack us.

>>11735205
We don't make good toys here retard.

>>11738552
Yeah, things are about to get super fucked. Shipping for things is probably going to collapse too.

So.

Things are getting pretty very bad. How we feeling about the future of toys in general? Cause it really does seem like things are not gonna continue.

>>11740945
This is just business as usual. Stop doomposting you swine.

>>11740945
Toys like balls and bats or things like that are unpredictable. But I take it you mean action figures, as that is the type of toy mostly discussed here.

As far as domestic action figures, it'll continue with ever more absurd prices and the rich collectors will buy, as the low and mid income collectors fall away. More gimmicks like "Elite Edition" and "Maximum" will continue to increase with ever more ludicrous reasons why they are the new must have figures.

For awhile, exclusives will increase even higher as a method of covering ever increasing costs.

Eventually stores will stop carrying most lines in physical stores (besides stuff like the kids toys people here largely ignore) as the collector priced stuff will be too expensive for a normal person to buy as just a toy.

Most will become online only.

An increase in made to order for typical domestics will happen as prices go ever higher and only fewer collectors will find the value worth it, mostly as usual tied with cherished nostalgic memories of characters.

Some lines may choose to go another way, like cut back in articulation for collector figures to try to appeal to wider audiences, but those will fail mostly, as typically people do not want to admit things are regressing and going backwards. Star Wars Black Series is a case where that is occurring and while the line is still afloat, it goes on sale far more than MLs I see.

What happens longer term? Eventually, the last generation who grew up on action figures in any wide spectrum will begin to die off, and that will spell the end of action figures as profitable. They will end. And there will only be a few younger adults whose parents raised them on MOTU Origins or other things like that--and who did not let go of the hobby later--to care.

That's how action figures end.

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should I ship the stuff in my private warehouse now before oil goes up more or wait for tariffs to maybe go away?

>>11758471
The tariffs will not go away until 2029 at the earliest, so if you want to wait until then for your figures on the off chance they do...