The MASSIVE Pile Of Unsold JUNK Is Now Part of a LAWSUIT?

[@madams3110]

These are all Disney products. Disney Star Wars. Disney Marvel. This is as much a failure of Disney as it is Hasbro.

[@aaronlandry3934]

Yeah, I’m not seeing any non-Disney stuff. Thats because everything else sells because people want to buy them. Nobody wants new Disney junk

[@Collectingisfun24]

For sure Disney Marvel and Disney Star wars is the problem.

[@Benzinilinguine]

How was Marvel supposed to make Glub Shitto an interesting toy? Or Rey Palpatine a more interesting character? Its 90% Disney's fault for making infinite trash characters.

[@penguinjay]

yea sucks, bc disney store used to rule back in the 90s, and in a way you don't appreciate until later, like when their stuff is sterling silver and the paint lasted 30+ years of dishwashers. All Disney stuff is garbage now, and people just don't realize it yet

[@SuperBenathon]

Exactly, it’s not all Hasbros fault, it wouldn’t have all been unsellable if Disney had made profitable excerpts into their franchises.

[@fakshen1973]

The Island of Misfit toys put out a statement today that they are putting quotas on immigration from the land of Hasbro.

[@rocistone6570]

In a deeper, more troubling development today, the Island of Misfit Toys broke off diplomatic relations with Wakanda and declared their ambassador "Plastic Non-Grata." There is a persistent rumor in diplomatic circles that OPEC is furious over the waste of valuable Oil products tied to the overproduction of mountains of worthless plastic. Spokespeople at Has-Been Toys did not return requests for comment.

[@StickySyrupEverywhere]

They had no choice! Their social programs and infrastructure would be overwhelmed! Whoa! Deja' vu! Seems very familiar, somehow.

[@frankgrainger3610]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@monkeytennis7477]

🔥🔥🔥🔥😂

[@Hershewed]

This comment is fucking golden lmao

[@Krhys1]

A billion landfills scream in pain whenever Disney releases another show.

[@ahmataevo]

Big Iger likes filling big holes. Giggity.

[@Attmay]

They don't have time to scream because they are being stuffed with crap nobody wanted.

[@fajile5109]

They have no mouth and must scream.

[@niceoftheprincess3197]

It would be nice if the toys went to children in third world countries instead of waste

[@ahmataevo]

@@niceoftheprincess3197 - Why would they be happy with junk nobody else wants?

[@plumaDshinigami]

Black kids and Latinos didn't need Goku to look like them to love the character.

[@sebastianvergara9543]

Goku is life

[@thestorm99]

Coming soon: Brown and Black Goku™

[@clemhfandango.]

@@thestorm99 OMG! The Horror! Quick, close the factory doors before "DEI" comes in!!!!

[@Theranthrope]

What about Mr Popo? Goku has a universal appeal like Superman (had). There's so many black guys who go: "Goku's MY BOY!"

[@Ihavethetouch]

​@@TheranthropeDragon Ball Abridged has forever changed how I view Mr Popo

[@haveanicedave1551]

Make room Ollies. Jaguar will need room for their cars.

[@Kaesemesser0815]

The new Faguars come with pre-installed plugs in the seating.

[@chrish931]

Nah, the landfills are used to Jaguars, they have been spilling oil from their shit engines for well over 40 years prior to a bad marketing campaign.

[@dylives7667]

Corpo 101: Blame others but yourself for your incompetence.

[@aster4jaden]

This is completely it, it's astounding how they refuse to take responsibility for their own incompetence and just blame everyone else.

[@aaronbryan5095]

Especially when it's corporations from 1st world western countries

[@razorback9999able]

Complete selfishness, overbearingly egotistical, and sheer utter denial.

[@robertwentland1065]

Must be democrats. Just like the current administration blaming Trump for inflation, high gas prices grocery prices and utilities etc. Instead of pointing the finger, they should be pulling the thumb.

[@chrissedaka8141]

@@razorback9999able It's not selfishness; they're not acting in self-interest. They eschewed profit, for (((THE MESSAGE))). It was altruism, and appealing to 'representation' to try and force economic outcomes. They were not making lots of what sold; they were making lots of what they hoped social engineering would sell. Competition didn't kill their sales; customer indifference and antipathy did.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Wakanda forever! Didn’t know they meant sitting on the shelf, eh.

[@bettysteve322716]

I'm still STUNNED that players think the place is REAL!!!!!

[@JoeBManco]

The same is true for The Eternals. Eternally on the shelves of Ollie's.

[@gossamera4665]

Even the usual suspects won't steal them.

[@AudaciousBean]

*We wuz KANGZ*

[@odindarkll3706]

Good. This is what Disney gets for not recasting BP.

[@Larry]

The one thing Beanie Babies always did right was any unsold stock, they bought back and destroyed to keep demand and rariety up. Something Funko and Hasbo really need to heed, as all they've done now is admit their products are junk.

[@nendoroiddancing7361]

It’s too late for funko pop they are lost cause they never try anything new with the pops

[@kyotheman69]

other difference, BB's pretty cool when time of their hype, Funko were always ugly dolls, Hasbro just run by idiots

[@dylives7667]

@@Larry Funko Pops were a mistake. As for Hasbro, at best what they're responsible for, is the quality downgrades their products have faced over the years while pumping up their prices and, at least regarding SW Black Series and Marvel Legends, that awful era of plasticless packaging. Ironic how they did that for their high end collectible lines, but not for the stuff actually aimed for kids. You know, those who will be actually throwing the packages away.

[@ahmataevo]

But buybacks cost money, and who cares if retailers were suckers for so long?

[@chaos.corner]

@@dylives7667 Possibly they thought they could get collectors to buy two. One for display, one for the unopened box.

[@HellsFallenAngel1]

disney is the reason starwars isn't selling. Iger and KK destroyed the brand by: 1) forcing unwanted agendas 2) attacking its fans 3) decannonizing the expanded universe 4) misleading customers 5) Smearing the Original Cast (Luke and Han specifically) 6) Kicking off the Sequel Trilogy without a complete story map. The list goes on.

[@chrisjenkins9978]

Hasbro’s only mistake is believing Disney’s lies about “the modern audience”. The only company responsible for this financial disaster is Disney.

[@The-House-Cat-777]

"MoDeRn AuDiEnCe"

[@chrisjenkins9978]

@ - LOL!!!

[@Mirthful_Midori]

Look at how things like dungeons and dragons are playing out. Hasbro is following the same path as Disney.

[@thardump859]

We all have our little fairy tales we believe in that don't and can't exist in the slightest. For Disney, it's the modern audience that loves wokeness and hates 2d animation.

[@AudaciousBean]

​@@thardump859they're wishing _reeeeally hard_ upon that gey star 😂

[@Evil0tto]

It's a good thing _Toy Story_ isn't real. Can you imagine being an Admiral Holdo action figure, cursed to rot on an Ollie's shelf and knowing that your fate is to be sent to a landfill and buried forever?

[@codename1176]

Really makes you sad

[@PapitasEnchiladas]

an army of Admiral Holdos, Rebas, riding shuri-copters

[@Jahn_Pah_Jonz]

​@@PapitasEnchiladas😆 ... Sigh... Thank you.

[@bsputnik]

Thank you, I won't be sleeping tonight 😂

[@outpost206]

For my Ollie's "Toy Story," I am imaging the army of Eternals, Shuris, Holdos, Shang Chis, and Everett Rosses living under the oppressive rule of the Ben10s and Young Justice Aqualads who have been at that particular Ollie's since 2011.

[@BubbaThaumaturge]

It's not Hasbro's fault. Disney is at fault.

[@MaverickhunterXZero]

Hasbro keeps the idiots ruining properties employed. Look at WotC.

[@kyotheman69]

true, but Hasbro shouldn't of made so many toys, they should of been destroying these things, Disney should of been helping out in that paying for unsold stuff they commissioned

[@bentonrp]

The problem with Disney Marvel is that it's just "Disney." The problem with Disney Star Wars is that it's just "Disney." The problem with Disney Indiana Jones is that it's just "Disney." The problem with Disney Muppets is that it's just "Disney."

[@death-king1834]

@@bentonrp The problem with Disney is ''modern-day Disney''.

[@StickySyrupEverywhere]

Hasbro should hurry and sue Disney, before everybody else does, and everybody currently doing so wins.

[@dreamcastfan]

I wonder if the contract Hasbro signed with Disney has some sort of minimum production requirement? It would certainly explain why Hasbro produces so many figures for TV shows and films that are obviously going to flop badly. You’d think for example they’d have learned by now not to overproduce anything that Kathleen Kennedy has touched.

[@chaos.corner]

I'd put money on it. Imagine you're Disney with a history of shitting gold. You wouldn't want to miss out by someone only producing 10,000 Luke Skywalkers from the original trilogy. (The whole Baby Yoda debacle was another thing entirely, of course.)

[@MAN-ON-THE-HORSE-MUSIC]

It's more likely due to economy of scale, if you produce 10,000 it will cost say 5.19 a unit, you make 100,000 units it will cost less than half that. They probably do have something in the contract saying if you want to make yoda figures you must also make the unpopular characters as well.

[@JoeBLOWFHB]

Yes, Hasbro has a production quota not only are there production quotas the retailers had purchased quotas. This is what helped put Toys R US out of business. They bought a ton of Toys R US "exclusive" Star Wars merch for the Mary Rey Skywaddler saga under contract and none of it sold.

[@leongay3190]

@@JoeBLOWFHB can't walmart for everything

[@a_world_made_of_cardboard]

I want to know who at Hasbro said, "Hey, let's make Marvel figures of guys in business suits! That will sell!"

[@GrymmJymm]

That goes as far as Professor X And Kingpin At best Nobody’d ever want anyone else in a business/casual suit besides those two.

[@ECARTMANN]

It worked for Fixit and Patch, what are you trying to say?

[@129jasper1]

@@GrymmJymm I'd say that action figure Trump in his suit could move plenty of units.

[@viscountrainbows2857]

I had a Chancellor Valorum(spelling?) figure from Episode 1. Yanno, the guy Palpatine voted no confidence on and was in like, 45 seconds of TPM? I HAD A FIGURE OF THAT GUY. My mom wasn't very knowledgeable so, I kinda got what I got unless it was a shopping trip I supervised. God bless her though I had fun for years on her indulging my nonsense whims. Why am I sperging about this over 20 years later? Because that random guy in a blue bathrobe with a stick would be a way more fun toy than Steve from Payroll. Hell at least I could pretend random Star Wars dude was a wizard. What is Suit guy gonna do? Brain me with his briefcase?

[@TheKetchupMan]

I had Valorum as well and I took his robe off and used him as a dark Jedi​@viscountrainbows2857

[@isuckatusernames4297]

>buy money printer of a franchise. >ends up ruining it by not making worthy material for it >ruin said franchise >ends up with piles of unsold merchandising.

[@Hlieyto]

Exactly this!

[@smittzero8463]

I can't even tell which franchise you're talking about anymore, because I can think of at least five that Hasbro are involved with...

[@youtubasoarus]

That's the most insane thing too. These franchises were PRINTING MONEY. All they had to do was make the content they made and sell more of it. But nope. Ruined it instead.

[@_addogg]

star wars was at such a low point in 2011 they were hoping a fucking angry birds collab would save it. the series has been doomed before the aquisition. its 50 years old now, nobody cares

[@maxHeadroom325rayxerin]

Power Rangers

[@matthewcaughey8898]

Maybe they’ll bury this stuff in the desert somewhere and forget about it for 30 plus years. Funny how those dug up ET cartridges ended up being worth something

[@Ihavethetouch]

Gonna be a tight fit with all Concord boxes there

[@JS-rz5gx]

​@@Ihavethetouch😂

[@juggalo4life247]

as a kid I actually found an old semi trailer that had hundreds of E.T. cartridges.all of the boxes and manuals were water damaged,but most of the carts still worked.this was way before I heard a rumor about buried Atari games.

[@robertwentland1065]

​@@juggalo4life247So like where did you find this? An old abandoned semi-trailer in the boonies? Junkyard? You were able to get into it and took whatever you wanted??? 🤔🙄

[@Zenoff64]

@@robertwentland1065 This isn't actually all that unusual. A lot of times when places get overstocked with stuff that doesn't sell, they rent storage trailers to be kept outside until room becomes available or they sell off the inventory. If the company goes out of business or otherwise doesn't care about the stock, its just left wherever its left until someone discovers it.

[@tljscrewjob6397]

0:18 ‘The numbers don’t lie and they spell disaster for Hasbro at the toy aisle!’

[@Chayliss]

Shoutout steiner math

[@SammEater]

They forgot to add Kurt Angle to the equation. Lol

[@MaverickhunterXZero]

Diseny and Hasbro helped kill Toys-R-Us with unsellable garbage like Rey Palpatine.

[@charlesstein2880]

As a young adult, I'd shop for certain Items at Toys-R-Us, to buy for myself or others. I noticed the quality of some items suddenly crashed. Then I found out why, they were made by other companies, cheaply made replicas, origin , ChYna! Then their policy change made many toys, no longer sold there. It became a dumping ground for ChYna made useless crap, the last time I went to one.

[@bettysteve322716]

@@charlesstein2880 Bunnings Astraya, a "hardware" store, "Chiynah" selling shit in Astraya that the yanks won't buy, (product dumping), how can you tell? imperial sizes in a metric country (sack truck wheels made for a 1/2 inch axle, and you can't buy a 12.7mm shaft or a 1/2 inch one, resulting in the bearings crashing faster).

[@goldenbear-hv5yu]

@ yep, it was Mickey Mouse, not Amazon that slayed Geoffrey the Giraffe.

[@MaverickhunterXZero]

@@GremmPaltakin You're omitting the 2 movies before it.

[@MaverickhunterXZero]

@@goldenbear-hv5yu I sad "Helped". Not was the defacto reason.

[@Chugbug01]

Honestly, this lawsuit is likely the last straw behind Hasbro stopping funding transformers movies. Just pulling money from other properties for the Disney Behemoth.

[@outpost206]

That would probably be the smartest thing Hasbro has done in a long time. The last couple Transformers movies lost them and the studios a bundle (to put it mildly). The Last Knight lost over $100 million, Bumblebee _might_ have been profitable but not massively so, Rise of the Beasts either lost money or barely broke even (but I highly doubt the the latter), and Transformers: One was a bomb and a half.

[@SlashTheWeasel]

Actually Transformers One was the most successful and popular of the all those movies. The rest, Outpost206, I will agree on. Despite the bad box office return, TF One is seriously good. Critic score 89%, viewer score 98%. I love TF One. It left itself open to so much like rise of the Decepticons and war with Quints so we finally got really good storyline that made my husband want to go out and buy TFs the day we saw it in theatre. Sadly all there is on shelf is JUNK! I'm not buying JUNK. We want same quality as Studio Series/Legacy but Hasbro was lazy and released junk and expected to sell?

[@outpost206]

@@SlashTheWeasel I was only referring to the box office performance. I'm sure the movie is quite good, I have no idea. But even on the LOW end of Transformer One's estimated budget ($75 million), it didn't even gross TWICE that. That is tens of millions short of just "break even" territory. If the budget was on the higher end like others have speculated ($147 million), then the film may very well lose the studios $160+ million when the dust settles. 😬

[@grog3514]

I don't get it. Why would they keep over producing their inventory?

[@outpost206]

​@@grog3514short-sightedness and inability to see long-term damage to their brand image (I am sure this sounds familiar). Companies like Hasbro make most of their money on their product by selling them wholesale to different stores and distributors (Walmart, Target, etc). That's why Toys R Us going under was such a big blow for toy companies like Hasbro because they would put in the biggest orders compared to their other retail partners. Overproducing probably costs them less or the same due to the economics of scale and the MOQs that the factories actually making the products overseas demand.

[@jboyler1]

Hasbro is stuck following a problem Hollywood created. The entertainment industry wants every single movie to be the next billion dollar “Star Wars,” and it is just not possible. You can make a billion dollars on one massive blockbuster movie, but you can’t have ten massive blockbusters every year. The market just isn’t that big. People bought every single Star Wars character back in the day because we had to wait sixteen years for a new Star Wars. They devalued their brand by churning out half assed series every few months. And they still expect audiences to react as if “The Acolyte” was as big a deal as “The Phantom Menace.” But we don’t have to wait sixteen years for the next Star Wars. We probably won’t have to wait sixteen weeks before they shit out the next dumb thing.

[@sycodog]

If this fact isn't spot on, I don't know what is!

[@Mereologist]

It's not the wait... it's the fact that it's not WORTH waiting for. Even 'Force Awakens' was a cheap, bland knock-off. It was only the wait that created the ILLUSION of value. And now that people have had time to reflect, they've come to their senses. There was ten times as much merch for the original trilogy, but it all sold because everyone legitimately loved the original trilogy.

[@kahnwolfe9548]

This is one of the most well thought out, and accurate statements I have seen in regards to what is wrong with this right now.

[@williammchugh4361]

I might add, even those Phantom Menace toys Are Not Worth what they would resell for a year after that film came out. That’s over saturation. On top of that, think about it, what interesting stuff have they made? All this crap is the same. Back in the day a manufacturer would have engineers trying to make something interesting about the toy, Pulsar, the Six Million Dollar Man, the original Tie Fighter or the Star Wars Deathstar are examples. Now, these toys all look the same. There’s nothing unique about them. The last toy I thought was really cool was the Batman electronic Tumbler.

[@blaker18]

I find it hard to blame hasbro 100% for all of this when it’s the brands and characters that are failing

[@cartoonfan959]

hasbro is at fault for licensing this crap

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

Maybe not 100% but my knowledge of Hasbro goes back nearly 60 years and I've been able to experience some of their stupidity. I am still angry over their acquiring of Avalon Hill games and then never releasing the vast majority of the games they bought. Why buy a saleable product if you don't intend to sell it?

[@ThaKoalaKing]

Hasbro has one to blame but themselves for getting themselves into a contract where they had to overproduce Reva figures no one wanted.

[@goblincomic4522]

Their fall for not do a public research

[@Adam-je2cp]

@@wwiiinplastic4712 to shelf it, cvs bought target pharmacy and the target pharmacy pill bottle and shelfed it

[@aster4jaden]

It's hilarious how no matter how much money they lose on these crappy toys they simply refuse to learn.

[@chaos.corner]

Think about it from Hasbro's point of view tho. Disney puts out a shitty movie. That stings but you're selling plastic shapes so you can ride it out until the next one. But they release another shitty movie. And another. And another. Now you're hurting bad. The sensible thing to do would be to decrease production of stuff based on Disney IPs but they're your cash cow. Doing so would be an admission of problems to your shareholders and maybe there are also deals with Disney that make it hard to do so, potentially threatening profitable areas of the business. Obviously, bad decisions have been made at Hasbro but you can maybe see what lead them there and that was incredibly bad management from their partner, Disney.

[@philfedora495]

I think Ollies should pay you something for basically making them world famous. I want an Ollies in my country now!!!

[@xboxgamerJ16]

Seriously. Dude goes in every day to rant about corportate at a discount overstock store. Betcha everyone that works there knows him by name.

[@Ihavethetouch]

95% of these toys never make it to my country, some of those figures are at least decent

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

The problem is once you get what you want, it is a long time before they get something you haven't seen yet. I get model kits there when they pick up overstock but they usually only do that twice a year, so I have to wait quite a while to see if the kits are different or more of the same. Books too; they get tons of junk titles. Distribution issues also means you may need to hit all the locations in your area to find everything they bought up. I see stuff in WCBS's videos that I have never seen in the stores in NW Georgia. But then again maybe part of the fun is traveling around to see what you find?

[@Aex3f4]

Don't worry. You could probably build a bridge over the ocean with all of the Disney toys that nobody wants.

[@The-House-Cat-777]

someday you'll get to see a cartoon picture of an old balding white man with white hair having a dog pull his swim trunks down showing his butt. like the old commercial... can't remember for what tho..

[@marcothommen2484]

"Last christmas, you got hasbro crap, and the very next day, you threw it way / this year, to safe you from tears, i take it directly to Ollies....."

[@antoniocruz5596]

Good on yer mate! 😂

[@kryoboy3.0]

😂😂 I can't unhear this now👍

[@whitetipvelociraptor5759]

Beautiful!😂🤣

[@chrissedaka8141]

**direct to Ollie's (better matches the song's flow)

[@marcothommen2484]

@@chrissedaka8141 thank you :)

[@seanthompson8071]

I would think the corporations would destroy the unsold merch rather than leave it languishing on shelves, devaluing their brand. 😕

[@justajawausingwifi4642]

That would require effort and acknowledging they fucked up without doubling down

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

Would be better if they could recycle them.

[@justajawausingwifi4642]

@@jediknightjairinaiki560 also effort and admitting they fucked up. Truthfully Hasbro has fucked up all its properties in recent years. The corporate board is as bad as the rest of them and out of touch with reality

[@chrisjenkins9978]

They do but, I think they can’t get all of it. I think there was a video, on KZbin, of these toys being ground up in a shredder secretly shot by an employee.

[@Mouse_Metal]

No. Let them practise what they preach and stick to the E in D.E.I.

[@shinobipizza]

Maybe Hasbro would make a profit if they marketed Transformers One properly.

[@pacmancdi]

I guess it's doing well on paramount plus so hopefully they still make a sequel

[@shinobipizza]

@pacmancdi It's on Paramount Plus!? Oh shit, I gotta watch it again!

[@lolendme]

I doubt that would have saved them. In any case, Hasbro has announced they'll no longer be co-funding movies so the chances of another film are pretty much zero

[@cujoedaman]

No one asked for a lame Transformers prequel. It's yet another example of Hollywood not understanding the current culture. I think it would have done better as a series.

[@johnrazvaliaeff]

@@cujoedaman the problem was the marketing. I've always wanted a prequel of the story and I doubt I'm the only one. The audience score is 98% on rotton tomatoes so that says a lot. I haven't read any bad reviews of the movie yet.

[@goufr3540]

Its bad enough to produce characters and so no one cares about, its a whole different level to overproduce to that you have pallets worth of what nobody wants. I could probably bet you that even Ollie's is tired of the Hasbro waste, especially since its far more than unsold overstock.

[@easternshore8367]

They probably would rather be selling toys people really want or at least have more of a variety than all this waste that’s plagued there shelves for years.

[@aaronlandry3934]

He mentioned it in one of his previous videos, but I don’t think any children are wanting to/asking for unwanted Star Wars toys. Adults are definitely the only people buying them now. Do kids really play with toys anymore?

[@norbertszekeres867]

Generaly yes , but it's parent dependent ​@@aaronlandry3934

[@Godzillahistoryfan34]

This is truly the lawsuit of all time

[@richardm3023]

They're opening an Ollie's in my town!!! Now I can go to visit Mount Disneytrash too!

[@arthurballs9632]

In the Disneytrash Mountains of Ollie's, Virginia

[@pacmancdi]

They gotta do something with all the empty Kmart's and Toys r us stores that litter America I guess.

[@richardm3023]

@pacmancdi yes. Mine was a Big Lots that was a Kmart in olden tymes.

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

@@pacmancdi Our TRU was turned into a gym so they put the Ollie's in a former Circuit City. Our Kmart was taken over by a local overstock/salvage store; sort of an Ollie's for stuff that didn't burn up (completely in some cases) in a store fire or get submerged in a flood.

[@ooklathemok2941]

At this point, they need to open more stores just to contain the massive Hasbro/Disney trash!

[@alastairdick8651]

Back in my day. There was one line for Transformers, star Wars or M.A.S.K. etc. Now hasbro has 11 different transfomer lines alone. No one wants 30 different bumblebees

[@frostydelusions3066]

Maybe their plan is the classic "flood the shelves" strategy to prevent any competition from having shelf space, maybe losing money now doesn't bother them as long as any new competition gets squeezed out.

[@piscinaiv7937]

palettes of wasted paper and petroleum products bound for a landfill :(

[@Knox-Sox]

No kid wants a toy of the people they see being a nuisance in public on a daily basis.

[@collinkeyser6827]

What About The Toys For Tots Or Sick Kids?

[@DanielGuzman-mm8ti]

Remember when Hasbro's My Little Pony G4 Friendship is Magic and even Equestria Girls had tons of adult MALE fans called bronies that watch the show and collected the toys, probably because they were well liked and developed female characters, well at least more developed than Disney Star Wars and Marvel now.

[@Blazecfc]

Not everything needs a toy. This overconsumption is a disgrace. We as people need to sue these companies for ruining our future.

[@FroggyGeezer]

WTF??? How exactly are “these” companies ruining your future?

[@psyrolz1626]

Imagine if all these videos are presented as Hasbro's defense as evidence: "My client can not sell nor storage so much unwanted crap, your honor! Its a toy company, not a sewage management one...!"

[@sirfunkalot1291]

materialistic, evil, short sighted, a waste of resources. All this plastic polluting the environment

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Indeed. It’s all about production not what will sell. They have to make so much product.

[@outpost206]

I wish plastic recycling wasn't a meme. It would be great if all the unsold Shang Chi, Eternals, and Wakanda Forever plastic garbage could be melted down and turned into park benches or playground equipment or something. But I get it. Most types of plastic can't really be recycled, it's cheaper to just make new plastic, etc.

[@nicholasdickens2801]

@@outpost206 It’s not that’s it cheaper to make it’s just you can’t really meaningfully recycle plastic.

[@Mouse_Metal]

They deservre negative ESG score for ignoring the E completely.

[@robertwentland1065]

"It's the end of the world as we know it" -R.E.M. More like Bill Gates and his chemtrails to try and block out the sun and his "depopulation" mentality.

[@danielmedela8725]

This morning, I heard that Hasbro was going to stop co-financing movies with Paramount. And now this. The overproduction is their fault, but the shitty characters are not.

[@ahmataevo]

Same ideology though, so it IS their fault too.

[@chaos.corner]

The overproduction *May* be their fault but I can easily imagine that their contract with Disney specifies minimum production runs. Was it their fault for signing a contract that didn't account for Disney going to shit? Arguably.

[@danielmedela8725]

@@ahmataevo Nah, the ideology is in the MTG and DnD departments, which are not at fault for the toys issue...

[@danielmedela8725]

@@chaos.corner Hasbro execs didn´t know Disney was going to shit, they were just seeing zeroes in bank accounts. Which didn´t account for what was about to happen with both Covid and Disney.

[@damianyaxchilan8503]

Just noticed that in my town, they started removing unsellable toys from most retail stores. Seriously, who thought that mass producing figures from a character nobody wants was a good idea and what's worse, from a show plagued with the Disney agenda.

[@Thekulprit92]

100%, all the toys are of the worst characters 😅

[@gigachar3039]

Looks like the "modern audiences" don't buy toys either! oh right, they don't even have kids

[@a.resymartin2601]

Kids play video games now, not toys

[@gigachar3039]

@@a.resymartin2601 na, who do you think is the target audience for those skibidi toilet toys? Roblox and minecraft toys always sell too

[@judesheckelberg5135]

TBH, I think Disney is the real culprit. If they were making engaging characters in their new stories, they'd fly off the shelves. Hasbro's quality is good enough, but the IPs they're working with are circling the drain.

[@judesheckelberg5135]

This is not a defense of Hasbro as a company, only of their toy quality. Hasbro as a company is horrible.

[@Christopher_Vose]

I wish I could wait for Ollie's. The closest one is around 1,700 miles away.

[@unlimitedrabbit]

Not to rub it in but these videos have inspired me to look for one. I just searched online and there's one within walking distance of my home. Looking forward to seeing if they have Eric and Presto from the Dungeons and Dragons animated series line.

[@sanchezs7614]

That's a cake walk

[@straker454]

I was surprised to find one not too far from me in my state. I went there and it's not as stacked with trash as the stores in other states. Still had a lot of useless crap figures though.

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

​@@unlimitedrabbitLet me know if they have them. I've only seen Hank, Bobby and Diana in stores in Colorado. We don't have an Ollie's here.

[@StarryKitsuKat]

​@@unlimitedrabbit Yes, me and my friend don't really follow this channel but ever since we got hooked on these videos. Now they are a Saturday morning staple and we yell "there it is! The Shuri Copteeerr!" when we first spot it 😂 And now it's inspired me to go find an Ollie's which will come true soon as I'm visiting a friend who has one close by! I'm hoping to find something good tho (I collect LPS so hoping to find some old stock tho it's rare since they sell well). But honestly, it is sad how much wasted material I see in these videos. Hopefully, the majority can be recycled for new stuff.

[@aaronlandry3934]

Wish they’d stop making all this Landfill Fodder

[@judesheckelberg5135]

A billion Shuricopters. Endless Eternals. Wakandans Forever. Nowhere near enough VAMPs. Well done, Hasbro...well done.

[@JimFlanagan4206]

Kids don't hardly give a crap about toys anymore. Adults are the main people collecting action figures. Unfortunately, Disney doesn't make anything worth watching anymore so nobody collects figures or merchandise from it. Disney's woke nonsense is like an anchor around Hasbro's neck. I wouldn't be surprised if Hasbro let the Star Wars and Marvel licenses go to someone else.

[@StephenCole1916]

Another thing to consider is the inflation situation, people are less likely to buy merchandise as they can't afford it.

[@williammchugh4361]

There’s not much there worth buying. It’s all garbage you’ve seen before.

[@neospiderman2165]

The fact that they no longer financing movies on their ip and how they handled tmnt, power rangers, n transformers is a vid in itself

[@thestorm99]

Remember, tho... the Phantom Menace figures and other items sat in clearance isles for years and years, too. So did the Power of The Force 2 line. I remember seeing entire isles of those green carded Star Wars figures at Toys R Us and KB Toys for years, marked down to 2 for 1. So, it's not just Disney Star Wars, it's Star Wars in general and, specifically, Hasbro.

[@slipher1000]

Canada is completely finished. You can't afford to raise a family here, you can't afford to own a house here, hell you can't even afford to have a hobby here!

[@sci-fi.tsunami]

Same with America.

[@rennmaxbeta]

Same with the U.K. and Australia..

[@clarkkent7973]

100% what happens when you have socialism. Sadly, kids are not taught the history anymore.

[@Articulo-Mortis]

Hallo saar

[@istandwithrussia8254]

It’s all those immigrants be they legal or illegal they’re making everything more expensive

[@Sinic818]

Who knew making a boys brand into a girls brand would fail?

[@liquididentity101]

Meanwhile in Canada, I'd be over the moon to have these things at those prices. Instead we're stuck with online and physical retailers who refuse to discount more than 25% three or 4 times a year. If I walked into the Ollie's, I'd drop 1 or 2 hundos on Star Wars figs that just aren't available here.

[@dieseldragon6756]

Don't you have the ability to just drive over the border and visit an Ollie's in the US? They're a lot more accessible to you than the Non-EU border controls we Brits have to go through, at least!

[@dwood78part23]

WCBS's videos of his trips to Ollie's can be used as evidence by those sueing Hasbro. I'm still SMH seeing all this unsold merch just collecting dust at these stores- for years!

[@powermasterjazz]

I've been bitching about the overproduction of Star Wars toys vs the underproduction of Transformers toys ever since Toys R Us was still in business. I actually blame the death of TRU on Star Wars toys.

[@Stuart267]

*Hasbro should sue Disney. They overestimated how popular their Star Wars characters were, hell my brother who's been a Star Wars fan since before I was born wouldn't collect them.*

[@tomtravis3077]

Because for Star Wars collectors, there is only one time period that matters. 1977-1985. The rest is just soulless junk. Hasbro does sell a few sets. The Vintage and Retro collections still have very active collectors. There are still independent manufacturers that make Kenner style figures compatible with the 1977-1985 characters. Star Wars collectors DON'T collect anything after '85. Or characters after '85. Even Baby Yoda is not as popular. Star Wars collecting is an adult market now. Hasbro/Haslab has some good stuff. But this stuff for kids will remain unsold.

[@katarn848]

@@tomtravis3077 Do Star Wars collectors like the new Star Wars Kenner line Like Luke with Baby Yoda in bag pack, Mando ?

[@tomtravis3077]

@katarn848 I am sure there are some. However, I would say most are not interested in anything other than the first three films. Hasbro does make some decent playsets. They do the Vintage and Retro collections. I do see very active collecting communities for those issues. Haslab makes some extremely detailed playsets. Honestly, though, fanmade creations are the best stuff in the collecting community. The vast majority of that is made for the first three movies. Nothing Disney and no prequels.

[@katarn848]

@@tomtravis3077 I was asking specifically about the kenner made up stuff like stuff. Like monopoly tarkin kenner and the like. But I get what your saying. I hate the paint jobs on the kenner-like stuff ( Note: Vintage is 100% not kenner-like and Retro is also not kenner like I think )

[@tomtravis3077]

@katarn848 I get what you are saying. I actually have the Escape the Death Star Tarkin🤣🤣 Also a Hasbro Mon Mothma is strangely 'allowed' in most Kenner sets. There are exceptions. I know retro and vintage are not Kenner like(retro is), but they are the same characters from the movies. The new characters are not endearing to people. Grogu or Mando, perhaps. But nobody collects from the Rey movies.🤣 If you are not familiar with them, check out Stan Solo Creations or the Next 17. There are so many cool fan made customs from the first three movies. If Hasbro had the right creative and marketing people, they could have monetized all these ideas.

[@paulnicholson5997]

This all started as soon as Disney bought Star Wars. I remember going into Toys R US and seeing a huge glut of cheap "big" Stormtroopers, unnecessary weird toy lines, like the princesse girls dolls, yoda, Chewey and other "stuffies", etc.

[@QCJSiteB]

Holy….15% of their employee workforce is 1000 people? There’s THAT many people there making this unsellable crap?

[@zillauniverse7208]

I wouldn’t be surprised if this finally convinces Hasbro to finally drop the Star Wars license all together and become a lot more stingy on the marvel license.

[@bullvine123]

Well, a lot of Americans are boycotting Disney in silence and the way they treat the fans who would want to buy their stuff

[@andythedarkone1982]

To be honest, demand for 'traditional' toys has been dying for years, children these days have little interest in action figures, they have better toys such as Switch consoles and smart phones. Times have changed and Hasbro are not adapting quickly enough.

[@ChaosGetter1989]

As I suspected, the Beast Wars toys are all Terrorsaur. There's no point in having such a blatant Starscream knockoff when half the predacons are also scheming.

[@GIBBO4182]

Cray just how many there is, what a waste

[@RichardGraham-y7k]

The 6 inch figures would move at $5 easily. It's still greed keeping them cluttering shelves.

[@brianb815]

This, I 'flinched' at the Migs Mayfield Juggernaut driver/army builder, but not at $10.

[@nyfinest017]

If Hasbro was smart, they would also drag Disney to the courtroom and have them explain their part in this lawsuit. Hell, put that on pay-per-view or a paid membership on KZbin to watch how Bob Iger, Kathleen and Kevin Feige sweat in front of angry investment firms.

[@tljscrewjob6397]

8:39 Somehow, the Shuri Captor returned to Ollie’s…

[@Shane-fd5es]

It is wild they double down on crap nobody wants but starve customers of desired figures

[@rachelcody3355]

there is likely some contract obligations when getting the license to make these toys. I don't think a toy maker is intentionally over making toys knowing it will not sell for some kind of investor scam. They are contracted to make so many units under the license. Also, kids do not want action figures like they did back in the day. Back then the kids would get the toy to play out the movie scene and role play. With computers and video games, they don't do that anymore. Board games are also suffering. All toys are suffering unless it's a ride on toy. Kids just want to be entertained. They don't want some cheap plastic doll when they can go on the computer and get a total sensory overload. Just no competing. The toy collectors is a niche group. Maybe 1 to 3% are collectors. Many collectors are very picky about what they collect too. As you pointed out with the original line. For the kids today, action figures are a fading throwback to mom and dad's generation. Much like the toys of the past.

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Looking at my much younger cousins, Lego mini-figures replaces action figures for essentially the same role

[@G.S.Holland]

Nobody forced Ollies to buy this mountain of unsellable garbage.

[@johnduval760]

Exactly! 😂

[@katarn848]

That been big tactic error of Ollies. They should have bought less. There would have been weird shortage, but Ollies would have no dead stock money tied up. So they could have ordered stuff with that money from other manufactures. Those manufactures would probably even cold call Ollies. If there was a hint of a toy crisis in the USA. I see some very old Star Wars stuff here in The Netherlands, but the Toystore went to Lego I think after 8th of 3rd trilogy movie was playing. Also the last chain in The Netherlands went bankrupt and is now owned by a Belgium family firm. That like 18 Million and 15 Million population region served mainly by one toy store group . That like 12th the size of the USA.

[@JWooden271]

Even after Shang-Chi, Ollies keeps buying. So, they must be getting an incredible price from Hasbro. If they're paying $1 per unit (a wild guess based on Shang Chi markdowns), selling 1 toy pays for the whole case plus profit.

[@ESB82413]

Literally just left Ollie's w some Marvel figures that were at Walmart for full price.

[@crazyman8472]

“We’re Hasbro and WOTC, out of touch with greed…” 🤑

[@r.thomaslee8417]

If I was a business major, I would find this video/information useful. Thanks for your insights

[@Three60Mafia]

i have 2 newphews under 6 yo and they couldnt give two shits about any figures period. Its video games and hot wheels at best. All these figurines are symptoms of bygone era

[@AlbertScoot]

If I was someone who played tabletop, I'd get a bunch of the smaller, cheapest figures for kitbashing.

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Talking of Star Wars alone why do Hasbro who are concerned with saving the planet they say is that they keep making deluxe figures, they just take a standard figure and out it on a larger card back and bigger bubble it justify its higher price. Nothing extra apart from more card and plastic.

[@comstarknight]

I saw a 1/1000th reliant. That will sell better than marvel / Star Wars toys.

[@davidsault9698]

It's also part of what I call the "complexity collapse" that is evolving in all things. Who knows who all these characters are and what these things are except extreme nerds? If they keep adding characters to the story, they will completely overwhelm their customer base. Perhaps they already have.

[@bigdude8180]

Hasbro needs to start making this stuff on a limited basis like many indie companies are forced to do like Four Horsemen. They make so many figures based on pre-order numbers and thats it.

[@smittzero8463]

They've got some limited stuff on Hasbro Pulse but those tend to be less 'let us know how much demand there is for this action figure' and more 'the average fan of this brand doesn't have deep enough pockets for this to be successful at retail'

[@justan324]

i do hope lot of these investors have seen your videos and used them as evidance to the incompdance of hasbro

[@troysmith159]

In 25 years they are gonna find a warehouse stacked to the ceiling with new in box Shuricopters

[@davidl7605]

I found a Joe Fixit single figure for $15.00. I couldn't turn that one down! You can find cool figures at Ollie's or ROSS every once in a while.

[@eazybe1]

Crap movies/streaming shows lead to low toy sales. Also, I do not want a character that is forced down my throat most of the time at the expense of a better, more deserving character.

[@superzilla784]

Clone Wars toys? I'd empty those shelves along with my wallet for the 501st Legion, Delta Squad, and the CIS. Last Jedi's Holdo? she can gather dust.

[@BilSande4]

In turn Hasbro should file a lawsuit against Disney for ruining the Star Wars and Marvel brands by prioritizing activism over anything else and alienating a once massive and loyal fanbase.

[@kungfew1396]

I credit action figures as a great gift for my childhood imagination. I had awesome movie sets, my favorite heroes, I could do cross universe before that was a thing, I was writer, director, it was my movie and with the cars, boats, and helicopters, etc, no video game made me that creative and immersed, and believe me, I love video games, but good action figures will always be great for kids in my opinion.

[@DSBOY33]

I'm surprised the inventory haven't found themselves in Dollar tree yet😂

[@duckpwnd]

One of my favorite rituals is brewing a fresh cup of coffee watching a WorldClassBullshitters video of these mountains of plastic trash. It just somehow fills me with this mix of joy, sadness, apathy, and contentment that I just enjoy for whatever reason.

[@danielabade4855]

They could start giving these toys away for free, and people still wouldn't want them.

[@1FastKawboy]

If they made stuff I want, I would buy it. But if the film suck, I'm out. Go woke, go broke. I refuse to finance the distraction of our society.

[@KyanosOnslaught]

This is something Namco Bandai actually got right, as despicable as that company can be. A character has to be received well before it receives an overabundance of merch. Whether the reception is through surveys, video game sales, or even word of mouth, Dragon Ball characters are typically a huge money maker for the company due to this.

[@A-G-F-]

As much as everyone dislikes Namco, they know how to make money

[@SirAzur3]

If the store wants to get rid of it they should mark everything down to one dollar.

[@outpost206]

Yeah the $9.99 Marvel Legends from 2-3+ years ago are just going to sit there until they do.

[@NatYourAverageNerd]

Honestly, I still wouldn't buy any of it for $1. I was never a big superhero, Star Wars, or robots fan to begin with, but after all the crap Hasbro and Disney have done with those franchises, I don't even have friends or family who would still want it.

[@mccallosone4903]

its not just the brands, kids barely play with toys anymore. they just stare at tablets and phones

[@SuperFigures-ql2dv]

IDK man kids still play with toys I work at a Toys R Us and almost every day there are little kids that come into my store and buy toys and are excited to get home and open them

[@sci-fi.tsunami]

*TRANSFORMERS & GI JOE SELL!* Why? *NO DISNEY!* "Never pay full price for Hasbro merchandise." Yeah, that doesn't really work for Transformers Generations or Studio Series. If you don't buy it immediately at full retail price, you'll be paying 4x more in no time.

[@coolcats4summer82]

This is all Disney’s fault. If they made quality characters, movies and shows, then the toys would sell themselves. That being said, Hasbro should definitely cut back on production.

[@A-G-F-]

Half their cast of heros and villians is boring nowadays. I dunno who tought making a gorillion toys of those one-dimensional characters was a good idea.

[@williamszewski4055]

Wouldnt Disney have mandated this level of production too?! Plus put out SHITE IP fucking stories. Its not just Hasbro, maybe even in the suit it can be discovered how effed Disney made em haul on this garbage too?

[@PWingert1966]

OMG! Original Dungeons and Dragons cartoon figures! No Way! I would buy the entire line top relive my childhood! I didn't know these existed. Thank you! Unfortunately, I am in Canada and would need some assistance to acquire them. I hope they have Tiamet and Dungeon Master! and I see Bobby and Uni!🤩

[@goldenbear-hv5yu]

They definitely deserve that. Disney and Hasbro over producing merch that doesn’t sell killed Toys R Us during their bankruptcy plus debt and competition. Amazon may have played a role of shutting down TRU, but it was really Mickey Mouse who slayed Geoffrey the Giraffe!

[@JuanEnriqueBernalLeal]

Personally my only gripe with Hasbro is that they overproduce things that no one wants and underproduce things I'm actually looking for, Power Rangers, since recently I became a fan again after years of not watching the show, but I can't find any figures or anything, not even from the most recent series Cosmic Fury, and that came out less than a year ago

[@shimtest]

turns out defrauding investors is a serious crime 🤔

[@Optimusj1975]

The only viable exit for that shit is charity buying them for poor kids that never saw the shows and movies and can do headcanons for the toys. Perhaps poor kids at 3rd world countries is a safer bet.

[@AgentOroko]

Disney should be sued as well! Disney devalued both IPs and the investors lost money. Why isn't Disney getting sued also?

[@MIkeKDBA]

"The timeline makes sense 2022 is when the world started opening up more broadly and people were eager to get out of their homes." What also makes sense is that 2022 is when inflation peaked at 9% per month, so households had to cut non-essential purchases.