Legit the same strategy unhealthy food companies push such as Pepsi saying to "Eat a balanced meal" while also pushing their toxic sugary cr*p. It all to save face, and has been going on for AGES. Hopefully with this new election more people will wake up to the bs
I commend Ollie’s for doing its part in trying to extract some use out of this plastic garbage and keep some of it from immediately going to a landfill. Disney on the other hand, I blame for creating the garbage and making it nearly unsellable.
Kid loves it, grows up on this cool little toy, makes up their own lore… then the poor little dudes and ladies eventually get to see the show for the first time and are so sorely disappointed lol
God willing that happens soon. The planet needs to heal. All of this is probably gonna head to a landfill if these stores go bankrupt. More damage than plastic straws.
I remember the cap guns that were extremely loud, now they are basically no noise and all smoke when I bought one for my younger cousin a few months back.
I just bought my little girl this giant helicopter, ATV, apc, artillery, and soldiers playset from Walmart for 20 bucks "giant military copter playset"
I work at Ollie’s, the only reason most of those toys sell is because parents and grandparents buy them for their children, even when they may not even want them.
Exactly!!! I'm sure most of us have better things to do than keep making ollies "grown man" collectables. Maybe go get a job, get out of ur parents basements!!!
Exactly. Ive seen it happen this past Christmas season. Grandparents with a basket of Star Wars and Star Trek toys. They have heard kids like that kind of stuff and the price is right. I havent had the heart to tell them the kid is never gonna play with those things.
When the 6" orange line BS figures first came out I thought these were really gonna be worth something one day but quickly it got out of hand and they made as many as they could possibly make of all the variations they could think of and within 5 years they killed the value of most of them.
@@thepurrfectionist365 When I think back on this. I was all for Disney getting Marvel. How ever I saw (Not) Star Wars The Force Awakens. I knew then. The All new All Different Marvel was on the horizon. The MCU films up to End game were Marvel. Carol Danvers Ms Marvel killed it there.
Hasbro don't have much choice. They have to make figures based on the new trash disney churns out. Hasbro can't just make figures of the characters they know sell well.
Yeah. They probably realized it years ago. But a contract is a contract. The other day, there was a local news station in Rhode Island (I think it was) covering an employee who worked at Hasbro for 20+ years. Despite doing great work, he was one of many being fired because of Disney’s ruination of Star Wars.
Took the kids to see if they wanted anything. They have never been picky when it comes to toys. Their reply was na we would rather have lincoln logs or tiddlywinks?
Not lack of enthusiasm on the people's side, but lack of quality on the Star Wars brand. Nobody with working brains likes it anymore, which obviously includes kids too. You know a failed franchise when not even kids wanna be scammed by said franchise.
As someone who had collected hundreds of Star wars toys and even marvel since childhood, the quality of today's figures doesn't compare to the ones before. The figures back then are very articulated when it comes to their joints and movement, which made them super fun to play with. Now figures today just lacked that flair. Also the materials that made up the figurines back then felt that it had more quality compared to the new toys today. I know they're just plastics, but as a collector there really is a degrade of quality. I don't really know how to explain it clearly, but yeah. It makes me sad that this is the state of Star Wars today😢
@@namelessxdread Exactly. I'm 47. I remember the original cast and a few of the "new" main characters. Most of them I remember because they were bad. I have no idea who a solid 85% of those toys are supposed to be or why they ever mattered to the incredible reach of a "plot".
I was hopefully when they finally opened a ROSS in my county. I go there and "This is it? What everyone was boasting about finding cheap stuff at?" Because of course it's going to be reseller and cheapskate collector picked-over hell, too.
@@beerasaurus Disney can't make a loss on these, it's a license deal with 3rd parties - the issue here is that toy companies pay Disney a fee for use of IP, expecting to make that back + profit in sales. Disney makes money even if the toys don't sell (depending on the Contract - they would make even more if they flew off the shelves, in repeat orders etc). Disney only risk is lower or lost revenue, not an actual operating loss
Absolutely gold star post there, my friend. I've been boycotting disney for years, my original beef with them was because of their treatment of their costume workers, but these days it's hard to find reasons to even consider spending a penny on them. Hit them where it hurts, refuse to buy things from them. BOYCOT!
Walmart and Target almost never have these in stock, I'm starting to think that the toy delivery trucks are simply changing their route destinations and dumping these all at Ollie's.
In 2005 I was ripped on all year at college for being a "star wars nerd" and now I don't know half of those crusty characters, Disney thought they were buying our allegiance, haven't watched the last 2 series, tried to but it was so crappy, all the Disney stuff is dog water.
The ONLY Disney Star Wars project I had ever, EVER cared for was Rogue One since I could watch THAT ONE back-to-back with the ORIGINAL 1977 RELEASE VERSION of the Original Star Wars.
Because the modern audience doesn’t exist. It is just an extreme minority that somehow managed to take over media and make it seem like they are the new consumers.
That 'Modern' audience didn't even watch the stuff that Disney and Hollywood made for them but still screamed when their stuff got cancelled, because regular people didn't want their shite.
You know what this endless heap of Star Wars/Marvel stuff reminds me of? That scene in Toy Story 2, where we see massive expansive isle with literally nothing but Buzz Lightyears spaning the entire isle. Even then, I don't think that example is as extreme as this.
There should be fines on over-production of absolutely non-essential goods. The only upside is that the expected profits didn't come about, but then creative accountiing will get them tax-breaks and the cycle repeats. This shit has to stop.
Disney actually did the impossible, they completely killed any interest in Star Wars in all 3 directions, past-present-future! Great job you must be so proud 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
It's weird that the 1% of the population they made these movies for haven't shown up to buy all these toys😂 I've picked up some good stuff at Ollie's though. Several GI Joe Classified Series figures for 5 bucks and 1/25th scale model car kits for cheap.
2024 young kids want outfits they can wear, action figures they can smash up, Lego. Older kids want console and games (Minecraft / Fortnight). Parents don't want piles of plastic to trip over in every part of the house. This isn't the 90's
Yeah especially with the rise of single parents. Women/moms tend to buy activity based toys not action/violence based ones. They also like using the screen as a babysitter so the kid sits still quietly rather than making noise and mess using their imagination playing with toys.
@@JurassicRod boys and girls are different for sure. But put them with a group of friends and iPads are not a thing - they need activity and to run around to burn energy (especially boys). The idea that children sit quietly and don't disturb parents has never been a thing - and shouldn't be, let them play
LOL...I'm a regular Ollie's shopper, mostly for cheap comics and coffee table book that retailed for $80 - $100, but sells at Ollie for $20. But, your view of the massive stock of unsold toys are right on. The stack of unsaleable Star Wars and Marvel toys is eye-opening. How the toy companies stay afloat is beyond me. There's not enough adult toy collectors to help them turn a profit. Thanks for the video.
It's strange thaose packages of 5 "random" comics or however many, have stuff that's decades old. They cannot be recent reprints. No one would reprint some NFL Marvel garbage.
"How the toy companies stay afloat is beyond me." They aren't, Hasbro is in SERIOUS trouble... WOTC (Magic cards + D&D) is keeping everything else alive, & THOSE brands also have their own issues with woke agenda pushing & customer alienation. But the thing is it takes a big corp a long time to actually die because of all the invested capital. See the state of General Motors a few decades ago before they bailed that firm out. "There's not enough adult toy collectors to help them turn a profit." The collectors also don't want a lot of this stuff, because surprisingly enough nostalgic adults aren't that inclined to buy new characters pushing new toxic politics. The real surprise if anything though is that the retro-bait doesn't sell that well... though I would hazard a guess that the 80s-90s replica toys just intrinsically don't have the same value as the original product from the 80s-90s.
Reva had to be not only poor character design but she was the worst actress in the Star Wars universe. She makes the Racist girl from the Acolyte look like a classical actress.
Disney should be required to buyback all the toys that don’t sell after sitting at places like Ollie’s for +2 years and either donate them or recycle the plastic.
Disney has more money than god, they could absolutely afford to take all this garbage, form it into a giant ball and launch it into space to get rid of it.
@@shawnd567 definitely. For instance, they had the SLU basketball goal for $4. I didn't even need another one but bought it anyway. If the figures were $5 I would buy way more for customs
They don't seem to discount toys as fast. When the MyPillow buyout they did wasn't selling, they discounted them to 2/$10 and then 3/$10. Still took a few months of slowly dwindling, then one week they were just all gone. So not sure if finally sold or got shipped off to somewheres else.
They should just pack up these crappy toys and send them over to third world countries where kids don’t have any toys at all. Even crappy toys based on movies and TV shows they’ve never seen wild still have a better chance of being appreciated……better than consigning them to a landfill for heavens sake!
on whos dime? ollies is going to lose their shirt, even paying pennies on the dollar for this trash. Are you volunteering to buy, box, and cover shipping cost? Taxpayers also shouldn't have to foot these losses, let alone, shipping more trash... somewhere else.
@@johndough8115 On Pissney´s dime. They should practise what they preach for once and help some underprivilleged kids while not destroying the environment with plastic waste at the same time.
The best part about Lego is that the builder is in control of how they’re used. They can have the wokest set in the world but you can still use those bricks for any other creation you want, dependent on your skill and imagination.
I love how the secondary piles of Riva's are hidden behind other single figures...like someone at the store is self conscious enough to want to hide them. 😆
In the documentary named something like George Lucas vs The People, it was stated that the Earth would eventually be covered with a thin layer of plastic from Star Wars product. It looks like Disney Star Wars is getting there faster.
Most kids don't play with action figures these days and adult collectors aren't going to buy woke garbage! Toy stores are ruining themselves at this point. When are they going to " wake up " and realize that enough is enough?
That’s true, kids they don’t play with the action figures quite like they should these days or like they used to. They always have their faces buried in their little damn cell phones playing those ridiculous games that frankly are confusing and a waste of time!
I've been to my local Ollie's and I can confirm, it's true at every location 100%! Racks full of unsold Star Wars action figures and piles of Shuri Copters and a few Iron Heart figures too, none of it sold for months and years. Even when there are little kids in the store, they show ZERO interest in the SW and Marvel stuff. Not one Eternals figure has sold since that movie came out, Ollie's is running out of room for that crap.
I found funny how the TF One & Tales of TMNT toys disappear as quickly as they arrive the stores, yet Eternals, Kenobi & Multiverse Of Madness Toys are still in the exact same spot acumulating dust after so mamy years😂
I used to spend $10k a year on star wars toys and experiences for me and my 3 sons. But since Star Wars collapsed we got into Pokemon and sports cards. We got into it because star wars failed. There is a correlation to the rise in sports card’s and Pokemon cards since lucasfilm collapsed. Then instead of fixing lucasfilm guess what Disney has gotten more into card sales. Disney launched a Pokémon style game and there brand new star wars and marvel cards. Ha ha. They probably don’t even know the reason cards became more popular is because of Disney’s terrible content. They just don’t get it?!?!
19:34 funny you say that because I work at Toys R Us and on Monday we got in a shipment of the Spider-Man 4 inch figure packs and by friday they were all sold out
I'm sure I post this on every video but there is no doubt in my mind that some DEI garbage forced them commit to producing ten times more female action figures than they knew they could possibly sell. Especially of the black characters. I guarantee some purple-haired ham-beast stood there in the meeting and demanded that they make just as many Holdo and Riva figures as they did of Han Solo and Darth Vader to help their precious ESG rating.
@@mellome83 It is defending Disney. And you forget: feminists like that commenter described actually have that sort of power in Disney and are a big part of its downfall due to terrible decision making.
Last anime toy I had bought was a Playmates 40th Anniversary Voltron for $200....it's not as nice looking as the Bandai versions, but for that price...
As someone who likes to build my own custom dolls and figures out of cheap knock off dollar store toys, this looks like a treasure trove to me! Man I wish I lived in America... I'd haul that load away for free! Edit: oooh who's the hawt shirtless guy in the Black Panther section?
Here's a funny thing. As you start showing the unsold Reva figures, a ad bar pops up in lower left of the video saying they are available at Wally World (aka Walmart) for a given price, as well as more Marvel and SW toy ads after that. YT and Walmart are trying hard to sell you this crap while watching a video on the unsold toys. How ironic.
I only buy toys from Salvation Army. I let my three year old play with the Star Wars crap. I’ll later hand down my collection from over the years. But while he’s learning to play, he’ll be destroying Reva and those other crappy ones. Ahhahahahaha. I’m saving the better ones for later on.
Back in the day, actually did have a couple of Street Shark figures. Those were fun times and kind of odd seeing them back again for what ever reason. Either way, I could bet you the Street Shark re-releases will likely sell better than most anything Disney Star Wars.
The Dungeons and Dragons movie was a lot of fun written by someone who was clearly a fan of the franchise but an issue is the casting seems identical to DEI requirements, the actors were good and there was no real wokeness in the movie but visually at least I had assumed there would be and skipped the movie while it was in theatres.
WOTC had also very much tarnished their brand with woke/progressive crap by the time of the movie. What should have been a core audience of dedicated fans has been turned into a dedicated group that will NEVER buy anything made by WOTC again.
I'm genuinely curious how a business like Ollie's makes money if their inventory seems to be 90% junk that the bigger stores couldn't sell, and what does Ollie's do when that junk just rots on their shelves for so long like the Shuri Copter.
I really feel bad for kids growing up after the 80s when it comes to toys! We had the absolute best cartoons, movies and the toys/merchandise made from them! Transformers, G.I. Joe, Voltron, Thundercats, He Man, GoBots, Silverhawks, Robotech, Macross, M.A.S.K, COPS, Dino Riders, Garbage pail kids, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the original Star Wars etc etc. Everything sucks for the kids these days!
COPS had a toy line? My bad. I thought it was that FOX reality TV show that ran for thirty some seasons.😁("Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Wat'cha Doooo....") Jokes aside, I fondly remember the Kenner Star Wars years.....I was one of those kids who never got an Imperial Heavy Walker for Christmas in 1981, but got one in a flea market years later and tried to keep the dust off of it while it sat on my dresser next to a 1975 Mickey Mouse bank full of loose change.
I love searching Ollie's, for the same stuff over and over again! All kidding aside, I do wish my local Ollie's had the Royal Guard and Toe Fighter Carbonized set. I'd get two.
The star wars stuff cracks me up. I worked in a Target in the toy department when the new movies came out and I remember getting boxes and boxes and boxes of these star wars black series figures and then they just didnt sell. And they went on sale and still didnt sell. And eventually we loaded an entire pallet up with these things and put them on a truck that took them away. Disney was so damn sure people would love these lol
Not gonna lie. For $4.99 I’d buy a Sheri copter or 2. Would be great to cut up and distress, throw on a thin bit of wood with some oval glue and sand. Quick respray and boom! Crashed spaceship wreckage for warhammer.
Hasbro has course corrected by dramatically scaling down order numbers and offloading toy licenses to other toy makers but it'll be a couple years before it reflects the state of ollies.
Do kids still play with toys? I thought parents just gave them iPads and stuck them on the couch? And that's why more adults buy toys for themselves than for kids.
Kids still do I work at a toy store and we have a ton of little kids come in every day, and Spider-Man and Darth Vader toys are some of our hottest christmas gifts this year (they sold out within a week, and the only other toy that sold out within a week this holiday season so far was a "mama suprise" toy bunny rabbit)
It's kind of funny. many kids i witnessed recently seem to be getting interested in toys/things that were popular ,back from when i was a kid. For example, the model railroading hobby. I went to a train show recently and i heard kids saying that building model railroad layouts are more fun because they keep occupied w/ building/making stuff for layouts ,all the while running their favorite trains. One kid even said it's better than sitting around a pc or a VR headset all day. I think this is a sign of an awakening for kids,lol.
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Never forget that companies like these are the ones telling YOU to save the environment at YOUR OWN EXPENSE.
Exactly. 👏🏻👏🏻
Legit the same strategy unhealthy food companies push such as Pepsi saying to "Eat a balanced meal" while also pushing their toxic sugary cr*p. It all to save face, and has been going on for AGES. Hopefully with this new election more people will wake up to the bs
We do need to save our environment, from companies. From consumerism.
Nailed it
Live in pods, eat bugs, own only merch from failed, ruined IPs and be happy.
Disney: "We care about the environment"
Also Disney: "Let us produce all of this plastic crap that will end up in a landfill!!!"
I feel sorry for the future archeologists: "Not another Shuri Copter!"- Throws it on the pile with hundreds more...
Just as they say they care about inclusivity, which they don’t.
I commend Ollie’s for doing its part in trying to extract some use out of this plastic garbage and keep some of it from immediately going to a landfill. Disney on the other hand, I blame for creating the garbage and making it nearly unsellable.
theyl'l claim it's biodegradable or something...
It's no wonder they say Hasbro wants to stop making toys.
Rumor has it Ollies have the contract to build Trumps wall out of star wars toys.
Because no ones going to touch that stuff
Hahahahahahaha!
At least its... Reuse?
good one legit
😂🤣
Recycle ♻️
Reduce ♻️
Reuse ♻️
All that crap will eventually end up being donated to the “toys for tots” program…..and I feel bad for the tots that will get it.
Tots in Africa more like it...
Kid loves it, grows up on this cool little toy, makes up their own lore… then the poor little dudes and ladies eventually get to see the show for the first time and are so sorely disappointed lol
God willing that happens soon. The planet needs to heal. All of this is probably gonna head to a landfill if these stores go bankrupt. More damage than plastic straws.
Those kids already have one foot in the grave and now this?’
@@4g63t8exactly
When i was a kid, i had toy military equipment. Tanks, planes, soldiers, all of it. I don't even think that stuff is even marketed anymore.
Fr tho
I remember the cap guns that were extremely loud, now they are basically no noise and all smoke when I bought one for my younger cousin a few months back.
G.I. Joe!
I just bought my little girl this giant helicopter, ATV, apc, artillery, and soldiers playset from Walmart for 20 bucks "giant military copter playset"
"The RUclips guy is back! Quick, get those pallets of Star Wars crap out there!"
-- Ollie's Employees, 2024
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They create an alternate universe for WCB's "Worthless Kingdom" videos.
Naw they put those Pallets back in the loading area so he cant film them This is whats left
They got a special alarm set up that detects him coming a mile away. 😂
@@MasterCrash123I sense something, a presence i’ve not felt since…
This is proof that ESG gives zero shits about the E.
Exactly, all this plastic waste should in theory hurt the ESG score of Disney. But it doesn't for some reason...
@@SammEater weird
@@SammEatergotta help make it happen. Folks could get a lot done if they would just stand up and make a move.
For real. Environment Social Governance my ass. Extreme Socialist Government more like.
@@SammEater They can claim it's all for carbon sequestering. That's a net plus for carbon credits.
I work at Ollie’s, the only reason most of those toys sell is because parents and grandparents buy them for their children, even when they may not even want them.
Exactly!!! I'm sure most of us have better things to do than keep making ollies "grown man" collectables. Maybe go get a job, get out of ur parents basements!!!
@@krisrenaldi2602what? Are you self projecting?
Exactly. Ive seen it happen this past Christmas season. Grandparents with a basket of Star Wars and Star Trek toys. They have heard kids like that kind of stuff and the price is right.
I havent had the heart to tell them the kid is never gonna play with those things.
30 years ago this stuff would have flown off the shelves now they can’t give it away good job Disney.
Indeed
Ahh, the year Phantom Menace released, at a Kay Bee Toys looking at the POTF II line with everyone else… those were the days!
Who'd they expect to collect truck loads of these? College liberals? 😂
When the 6" orange line BS figures first came out I thought these were really gonna be worth something one day but quickly it got out of hand and they made as many as they could possibly make of all the variations they could think of and within 5 years they killed the value of most of them.
Hold up! Some company actually made *licensed* merchandise for Skibidi Toilet...?
We really are living in an idiocracy, aren't we?
We're just getting started. I'm waiting for starbucks to make its transition into adult entertainment. 🤣
Yes have been for years now
More popular with kids than Star Wars is now, can you blame a small company taking a gamble?
Welcome to costco I love you 😂
Oh boy did you know the micheal bay news?
That is just more poof that Disney killed Star Wars.
Also Marvel, Indiana Jones, and every other franchise under their belt.
@@thepurrfectionist365 When I think back on this. I was all for Disney getting Marvel. How ever I saw (Not) Star Wars The Force Awakens. I knew then. The All new All Different Marvel was on the horizon. The MCU films up to End game were Marvel. Carol Danvers Ms Marvel killed it there.
@@forgottenprime79 never let disney take over
Indeed. We’re all grown up now anyway.
Is it wrong to hope I get to see Disney fail so hard that their theme parks go under?
About the wicked dolls that you held: @ 16:13
The manuals and backcards for all those toys lead to an adult site.
They're even being recalled because of it.
These sell on ebay at good prices last time i checked
When will Hasbro realize that this shit doesn’t even sell?
2019
Hasbro don't have much choice. They have to make figures based on the new trash disney churns out. Hasbro can't just make figures of the characters they know sell well.
Yeah. They probably realized it years ago. But a contract is a contract.
The other day, there was a local news station in Rhode Island (I think it was) covering an employee who worked at Hasbro for 20+ years. Despite doing great work, he was one of many being fired because of Disney’s ruination of Star Wars.
But it did sell. They offloaded this crap to retailers. The retailers are the ones losing money, not Hasbro. That's what's messed up about all this.
Rose Tico have sold more figures than Reeva
1:20 Wow, that first shot with allll those Star Wars toys says a lot about the lack of enthusiasm. Especially with Christmas around the corner.
Took the kids to see if they wanted anything. They have never been picky when it comes to toys. Their reply was na we would rather have lincoln logs or tiddlywinks?
Not lack of enthusiasm on the people's side, but lack of quality on the Star Wars brand. Nobody with working brains likes it anymore, which obviously includes kids too. You know a failed franchise when not even kids wanna be scammed by said franchise.
I don’t recognize ANY of those characters. I don’t blame them.
As someone who had collected hundreds of Star wars toys and even marvel since childhood, the quality of today's figures doesn't compare to the ones before.
The figures back then are very articulated when it comes to their joints and movement, which made them super fun to play with. Now figures today just lacked that flair. Also the materials that made up the figurines back then felt that it had more quality compared to the new toys today. I know they're just plastics, but as a collector there really is a degrade of quality. I don't really know how to explain it clearly, but yeah. It makes me sad that this is the state of Star Wars today😢
@@namelessxdread Exactly. I'm 47. I remember the original cast and a few of the "new" main characters. Most of them I remember because they were bad. I have no idea who a solid 85% of those toys are supposed to be or why they ever mattered to the incredible reach of a "plot".
Wow... toys are so boring now. No wonder Toys R Us didn't make it. "You want Star Wars? Or Marvel? Or maybe Star Wars? Perhaps Marvel? How about..."
Garbage Disney owns both.
@briandprice81 pretty pricey if you want decent sized sets though
How about Bandai, Tamiya, Kyosho, and Tomica?
Do you have any Star Wars available?
@@fajaradi1223 they're much more hobby kind of thing since u don't play with it but need to craft it
Ollie's is opening a store in my town! I can't wait to visit Mt. Disneytrash.
Remember to NOT buy anything.
@xenomorphphantom8852 I will try to remember that.
I was hopefully when they finally opened a ROSS in my county. I go there and "This is it? What everyone was boasting about finding cheap stuff at?" Because of course it's going to be reseller and cheapskate collector picked-over hell, too.
@@xenomorphphantom8852Unless it's a rare gem like a character that still has dignity like classic Darth Vader.
The more money disney loses the better.
@@beerasaurus Disney can't make a loss on these, it's a license deal with 3rd parties - the issue here is that toy companies pay Disney a fee for use of IP, expecting to make that back + profit in sales. Disney makes money even if the toys don't sell (depending on the Contract - they would make even more if they flew off the shelves, in repeat orders etc). Disney only risk is lower or lost revenue, not an actual operating loss
Absolutely gold star post there, my friend. I've been boycotting disney for years, my original beef with them was because of their treatment of their costume workers, but these days it's hard to find reasons to even consider spending a penny on them. Hit them where it hurts, refuse to buy things from them. BOYCOT!
Disney used to represent America now let them weep from their greed and idiocy
In a few years there will be a Toy Story movie spinoff about Toys at Ollie's
That’s a good idea
Would make for a great Toy Story parody movie. 😆
*TOY WARS*
😂😂😂
the revas will enslave the others "for the empire"
Walmart and Target almost never have these in stock, I'm starting to think that the toy delivery trucks are simply changing their route destinations and dumping these all at Ollie's.
They're all items from the seasonal modules. The box displays on the ends of the aisle.
Perhaps they where the came from! Unsaleable returns from the big box stores.
"Shuri copter my old friend, I've walked into Ollie's again..." 🎶
In 15 years that wil be a classic and still relivent.. Unlike the Shuri Copter
I sang that aloud. Good stuff man.
Whoever know the lyrics? Sing along in the comments
Two things are certain in life:
1. Everybody dies one day
2. Shurichopters will always be at Ollies.
This is so funny. I can hear it lol
In 2005 I was ripped on all year at college for being a "star wars nerd" and now I don't know half of those crusty characters, Disney thought they were buying our allegiance, haven't watched the last 2 series, tried to but it was so crappy, all the Disney stuff is dog water.
Me too but it was 2003. I was reading the Young Jedi Knights books and got roasted by pretty much everyone. But those books are fucking awesome.
Andor was probally the only good Disney Star Wars media.
@@dragonace119 Rogue One?
The ONLY Disney Star Wars project I had ever, EVER cared for was Rogue One since I could watch THAT ONE back-to-back with the ORIGINAL 1977 RELEASE VERSION of the Original Star Wars.
@@matt_r.2510 Amen bro, I also love the Jedi Quest books, thi Yaddle's sacrifice on Mawan still hurts my chest 💔
Even the modern audience don't want them.
Well Unicorns, Lepricorns & Fairys have never been known to spend a lot in shops... And Santa loves kids and isnt a **** so make far better toys
I doubt that "modern audience" buy toys, or, watch movies, or play games...
Because the modern audience doesn’t exist. It is just an extreme minority that somehow managed to take over media and make it seem like they are the new consumers.
That 'Modern' audience didn't even watch the stuff that Disney and Hollywood made for them but still screamed when their stuff got cancelled, because regular people didn't want their shite.
Modern audience is few thousands idiots on x
The Skibidi Toilet section made me die a little inside
You and me both.
All these figures are so boring you can't even use them for customs
You know what this endless heap of Star Wars/Marvel stuff reminds me of? That scene in Toy Story 2, where we see massive expansive isle with literally nothing but Buzz Lightyears spaning the entire isle. Even then, I don't think that example is as extreme as this.
But hey, the normies are still feeding the monster by watching the movies mindlessly, or as I like to say, "marveling" at marvel, lol. 😂
There should be fines on over-production of absolutely non-essential goods. The only upside is that the expected profits didn't come about, but then creative accountiing will get them tax-breaks and the cycle repeats. This shit has to stop.
This is a physical metaphor that Disney has far, far more resources than appeal.
“Black Barbie in a Wheelchair” I can’t imagine why that didn’t sell out at Target and Walmart.
it's a total mystery
Little limpin Lakeisha gets a toy that looks just like her
@jedimindtrick8966 bro you made me spit out my water! 😂😂😂😂😂
@@jedimindtrick8966boooooooo
I just recently visited an Ollie's and I fought to repress a laugh the entire time because it was just like watching one of your videos.
WCB’s authenticity confirmed!
For real, the track he uses as background music starts to play in my head as I enter one of those stores and I can't help but to laugh like the Joker.
@ The track he uses for his store visits makes the reviews that much more comical.
There's just something about being able to see these mountains of garbage in person.
Disney actually did the impossible, they completely killed any interest in Star Wars in all 3 directions, past-present-future! Great job you must be so proud 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Not that Disney has a clue, but Han Solo painted the Falcon black upon Chewie's death.
Ahh the Expended Universe. So much wasted potential.
In the Disney Universe, Chewie painted Han's wife white upon his death.
@@scockerylmao 😂
It's weird that the 1% of the population they made these movies for haven't shown up to buy all these toys😂
I've picked up some good stuff at Ollie's though. Several GI Joe Classified Series figures for 5 bucks and 1/25th scale model car kits for cheap.
Yeah thats interesting finding stuff at that price
Disney: We have everything you'll ever want for years
Japan: Sorry, we are sold-out real quick
Hasbro sucks, Mattel is worse. Plastic figures with no bubble are $30....ya, no thanks....
"Disney heaven...it's actually hell..." I was rolling at this point
2024 young kids want outfits they can wear, action figures they can smash up, Lego. Older kids want console and games (Minecraft / Fortnight). Parents don't want piles of plastic to trip over in every part of the house. This isn't the 90's
Yeah especially with the rise of single parents. Women/moms tend to buy activity based toys not action/violence based ones. They also like using the screen as a babysitter so the kid sits still quietly rather than making noise and mess using their imagination playing with toys.
@@JurassicRod boys and girls are different for sure. But put them with a group of friends and iPads are not a thing - they need activity and to run around to burn energy (especially boys). The idea that children sit quietly and don't disturb parents has never been a thing - and shouldn't be, let them play
@BradMaga-75 it's not fine. Children should not be allowed anywhere near that brain rot that is the Internet.
@@JurassicRod 100% true. My sister does this with her 2 kids and so does my sister in law.
But that's exactly what Lego is. Plastic landmines
LOL...I'm a regular Ollie's shopper, mostly for cheap comics and coffee table book that retailed for $80 - $100, but sells at Ollie for $20. But, your view of the massive stock of unsold toys are right on. The stack of unsaleable Star Wars and Marvel toys is eye-opening. How the toy companies stay afloat is beyond me. There's not enough adult toy collectors to help them turn a profit. Thanks for the video.
It's strange thaose packages of 5 "random" comics or however many, have stuff that's decades old. They cannot be recent reprints. No one would reprint some NFL Marvel garbage.
"How the toy companies stay afloat is beyond me."
They aren't, Hasbro is in SERIOUS trouble... WOTC (Magic cards + D&D) is keeping everything else alive, & THOSE brands also have their own issues with woke agenda pushing & customer alienation. But the thing is it takes a big corp a long time to actually die because of all the invested capital. See the state of General Motors a few decades ago before they bailed that firm out.
"There's not enough adult toy collectors to help them turn a profit."
The collectors also don't want a lot of this stuff, because surprisingly enough nostalgic adults aren't that inclined to buy new characters pushing new toxic politics. The real surprise if anything though is that the retro-bait doesn't sell that well... though I would hazard a guess that the 80s-90s replica toys just intrinsically don't have the same value as the original product from the 80s-90s.
These companies are bleeding out, but holy they have so much blood to bleed
Reva had to be not only poor character design but she was the worst actress in the Star Wars universe. She makes the Racist girl from the Acolyte look like a classical actress.
Your anti-Blackness is showing!
Mount Failure will have to have a sibling, Mount Star Was. Eyup.
Disney should be required to buyback all the toys that don’t sell after sitting at places like Ollie’s for +2 years and either donate them or recycle the plastic.
Those things are getting buried in the desert somewhere and unlike the ET cartridges, ain’t nobody gonna go looking for those
Disney has more money than god, they could absolutely afford to take all this garbage, form it into a giant ball and launch it into space to get rid of it.
Even Ollie's prices are too high for some of this crap ..
Totally agree. I would buy a lot of those 10 dollar figures for only 5 dollars
they should pay me to bring this junk to my house
Yeah honestly they should mark this stuff down to $1-2. Then you might actually move something. $5/10 is ridiculous for second hand, dated toys.
@@shawnd567 definitely. For instance, they had the SLU basketball goal for $4. I didn't even need another one but bought it anyway. If the figures were $5 I would buy way more for customs
They don't seem to discount toys as fast. When the MyPillow buyout they did wasn't selling, they discounted them to 2/$10 and then 3/$10. Still took a few months of slowly dwindling, then one week they were just all gone. So not sure if finally sold or got shipped off to somewheres else.
Plastic waste.
They should just pack up these crappy toys and send them over to third world countries where kids don’t have any toys at all. Even crappy toys based on movies and TV shows they’ve never seen wild still have a better chance of being appreciated……better than consigning them to a landfill for heavens sake!
on whos dime? ollies is going to lose their shirt, even paying pennies on the dollar for this trash. Are you volunteering to buy, box, and cover shipping cost? Taxpayers also shouldn't have to foot these losses, let alone, shipping more trash... somewhere else.
Starving kids in Africa could eat those toys
@@johndough8115 On Pissney´s dime. They should practise what they preach for once and help some underprivilleged kids while not destroying the environment with plastic waste at the same time.
Lego are pretty much only toys that are worth your time and money
The best part about Lego is that the builder is in control of how they’re used. They can have the wokest set in the world but you can still use those bricks for any other creation you want, dependent on your skill and imagination.
Lego the sky is the limit for creating things
That along with transformers, though only the ones with great design and transformations
@@UNEDeathGuard What does woke even mean? How do you put woke and lego in a single sentance?
@@pivomanslovensko It's nearing the end of 2024 and you claim to not know what Woke means.
A Toy Story movie made in this place would be a nightmarish tragedy.
The Disney graveyard.
I love how the secondary piles of Riva's are hidden behind other single figures...like someone at the store is self conscious enough to want to hide them. 😆
there is so much shit in these stores it reminds me of that toy story scene where a bunch of buzz lightyear toys were on shelves
Shouldn't Disney lose ESG points because of all that plastic waste?
Their E rating should be in the negative numbers.
In the documentary named something like George Lucas vs The People, it was stated that the Earth would eventually be covered with a thin layer of plastic from Star Wars product. It looks like Disney Star Wars is getting there faster.
Young Jedi Yahtzee ? Who in the hell ever thought anybody would want these? 😂
5:14 it bothers me you let a toy drop and didn't put it back
Typical youtube trash
Most kids don't play with action figures these days and adult collectors aren't going to buy woke garbage! Toy stores are ruining themselves at this point. When are they going to " wake up " and realize that enough is enough?
Proof?
People aren’t buy the figures, it’s obvious.
@@radeltathe full shelves of unsold toys isn’t proof enough?
@@radelta hit play.
That’s true, kids they don’t play with the action figures quite like they should these days or like they used to. They always have their faces buried in their little damn cell phones playing those ridiculous games that frankly are confusing and a waste of time!
I've been to my local Ollie's and I can confirm, it's true at every location 100%! Racks full of unsold Star Wars action figures and piles of Shuri Copters and a few Iron Heart figures too, none of it sold for months and years. Even when there are little kids in the store, they show ZERO interest in the SW and Marvel stuff. Not one Eternals figure has sold since that movie came out, Ollie's is running out of room for that crap.
I love Stan Lee but I'm glad he isn't around to see what's become of Marvel and the comic industry. It really kind of died with him.
I can't believe we've gone from Stripperella to this.
@@VeylonWe Need A Stripperella Movie
I found funny how the TF One & Tales of TMNT toys disappear as quickly as they arrive the stores, yet Eternals, Kenobi & Multiverse Of Madness Toys are still in the exact same spot acumulating dust after so mamy years😂
I used to spend $10k a year on star wars toys and experiences for me and my 3 sons. But since Star Wars collapsed we got into Pokemon and sports cards. We got into it because star wars failed. There is a correlation to the rise in sports card’s and Pokemon cards since lucasfilm collapsed. Then instead of fixing lucasfilm guess what Disney has gotten more into card sales. Disney launched a Pokémon style game and there brand new star wars and marvel cards. Ha ha. They probably don’t even know the reason cards became more popular is because of Disney’s terrible content. They just don’t get it?!?!
But...but...The 64 year old marketing analyst they pay 500k a year to consult with said this is what the kids are clamoring for!
You get a Reva, you get a Reva, you get a Reva, & you get a Reva, (and repeat).
Must be a popular character, there's so many of them! Definitely going to be a hot seller.... oh wait
...and everyone tosses it in the trashcan as they leave the studio.
It's almost as if girl action figures don't sell as well in boys action figure toy lines.
Shocker 🤗
Chun li is kool but yeah pretty much
Only characters like Hinata from Naruto, Wonder Woman and Spider-Gwen sell well, and that's because people actually like those characters
19:34 funny you say that because I work at Toys R Us and on Monday we got in a shipment of the Spider-Man 4 inch figure packs and by friday they were all sold out
A lifetime on a dying shelf watching every other toy be sold
I just wish Rings Of Power had action figures. I would LOVE to see them pilled up at Ollies too 😂😂😂
Even $3.99 is too much for these action figures..
The stupidity of producing a line of "kiddie" star wars figures, Star Wars is already for kids.
This reads like a future bankruptcy auction.
Hey, can somebody explain how there is so much of this shit? Who thought making so much was a good idea? How did they get these numbers?
They bought trash at a discount, they’re trying to sell trash at a discount.
I'm sure I post this on every video but there is no doubt in my mind that some DEI garbage forced them commit to producing ten times more female action figures than they knew they could possibly sell. Especially of the black characters.
I guarantee some purple-haired ham-beast stood there in the meeting and demanded that they make just as many Holdo and Riva figures as they did of Han Solo and Darth Vader to help their precious ESG rating.
@@mellome83 Defending Disney? Really?
@@mellome83 It is defending Disney. And you forget: feminists like that commenter described actually have that sort of power in Disney and are a big part of its downfall due to terrible decision making.
We need more anime toys...
I know I'm being bs but, We also want transformers toys. Ones from bayverse, WFC and FOC
Last anime toy I had bought was a Playmates 40th Anniversary Voltron for $200....it's not as nice looking as the Bandai versions, but for that price...
As someone who likes to build my own custom dolls and figures out of cheap knock off dollar store toys, this looks like a treasure trove to me!
Man I wish I lived in America... I'd haul that load away for free!
Edit: oooh who's the hawt shirtless guy in the Black Panther section?
Namor
These ollie's employees gotta be wondering why some dude just keeps wandering in and filming all the star wars toys. 😂
Here's a funny thing. As you start showing the unsold Reva figures, a ad bar pops up in lower left of the video saying they are available at Wally World (aka Walmart) for a given price, as well as more Marvel and SW toy ads after that. YT and Walmart are trying hard to sell you this crap while watching a video on the unsold toys. How ironic.
If you buy this stuff for your kids for Christmas someone should call DCFS.
Planning on checking my Ollies tomorrow. My local CVS has turned into a mini Ollies--for just Wish toys.
I just LOVE that mountain of 2+ year old garbage toys. It's so great to look at where we've come to.
Ollie's need to rebrand has Disney's Dumpland
Wicked will be all over like this in a few months. There is no way they can sell the amount of wicked crap they have out there
Well Some Collectors May Scoop Up The Dolls Because Of The Controversy.
Poor Ollys. They dont deserve the shame that Disney does. I got new flooring for my cabin half cost at Ollys. I only got groomed by Disney..
I only buy toys from Salvation Army. I let my three year old play with the Star Wars crap. I’ll later hand down my collection from over the years. But while he’s learning to play, he’ll be destroying Reva and those other crappy ones. Ahhahahahaha. I’m saving the better ones for later on.
The videogame crash of 1983, except it's not just videogames, but everything in the world.
So True. The only things that seems to be good are Books and Board games.
I would take advantage of cheap star wars vintage collection and black series. The figures I want anyways. And a lot of the retro collection
Thats the fun part you might find classic characters if you are into (if we had Olies here in 🇨🇦 id watch for gi joe star wars Motu Transformers Lego
Back in the day, actually did have a couple of Street Shark figures. Those were fun times and kind of odd seeing them back again for what ever reason. Either way, I could bet you the Street Shark re-releases will likely sell better than most anything Disney Star Wars.
Only way to make something good with this comes from melting the plastic for lawn chairs.
The Dungeons and Dragons movie was a lot of fun written by someone who was clearly a fan of the franchise but an issue is the casting seems identical to DEI requirements, the actors were good and there was no real wokeness in the movie but visually at least I had assumed there would be and skipped the movie while it was in theatres.
WOTC had also very much tarnished their brand with woke/progressive crap by the time of the movie. What should have been a core audience of dedicated fans has been turned into a dedicated group that will NEVER buy anything made by WOTC again.
The Shuri Copter is the unofficial mascot of WCBS.
And in a couple weeks, the mall near my hometown gets its own unsellable toy mound. Oh joy.
Let me guess. It's getting an Ollie's shop? Or are you talking Macy's making another toy section for Christmas?
@Code7Unltd Ollie's
I'm genuinely curious how a business like Ollie's makes money if their inventory seems to be 90% junk that the bigger stores couldn't sell, and what does Ollie's do when that junk just rots on their shelves for so long like the Shuri Copter.
A local discounter in my area went out of business after 50 years. They don't even have a quarter of Ollie's merch and they still went under.
Lol where are all the modern audiences to save their business?
I really feel bad for kids growing up after the 80s when it comes to toys! We had the absolute best cartoons, movies and the toys/merchandise made from them! Transformers, G.I. Joe, Voltron, Thundercats, He Man, GoBots, Silverhawks, Robotech, Macross, M.A.S.K, COPS, Dino Riders, Garbage pail kids, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the original Star Wars etc etc. Everything sucks for the kids these days!
COPS had a toy line? My bad. I thought it was that FOX reality TV show that ran for thirty some seasons.😁("Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Wat'cha Doooo....")
Jokes aside, I fondly remember the Kenner Star Wars years.....I was one of those kids who never got an Imperial Heavy Walker for Christmas in 1981, but got one in a flea market years later and tried to keep the dust off of it while it sat on my dresser next to a 1975 Mickey Mouse bank full of loose change.
I would never want someone to give me something from Black Panther Wakanda forever. I'd rather a barbie and an optimus prime
I love searching Ollie's, for the same stuff over and over again! All kidding aside, I do wish my local Ollie's had the Royal Guard and Toe Fighter Carbonized set. I'd get two.
The star wars stuff cracks me up. I worked in a Target in the toy department when the new movies came out and I remember getting boxes and boxes and boxes of these star wars black series figures and then they just didnt sell. And they went on sale and still didnt sell. And eventually we loaded an entire pallet up with these things and put them on a truck that took them away. Disney was so damn sure people would love these lol
Not gonna lie. For $4.99 I’d buy a Sheri copter or 2. Would be great to cut up and distress, throw on a thin bit of wood with some oval glue and sand. Quick respray and boom! Crashed spaceship wreckage for warhammer.
Hasbro has course corrected by dramatically scaling down order numbers and offloading toy licenses to other toy makers but it'll be a couple years before it reflects the state of ollies.
Seeing Beast Wars in stores takes me back to Caldor when I was little!
I liked Street Sharks!
"You'll never runout, Ollie's will never run out but your kids will run out if you buy it"- chef's kiss
Do kids still play with toys? I thought parents just gave them iPads and stuck them on the couch? And that's why more adults buy toys for themselves than for kids.
Kids still do
I work at a toy store and we have a ton of little kids come in every day, and Spider-Man and Darth Vader toys are some of our hottest christmas gifts this year (they sold out within a week, and the only other toy that sold out within a week this holiday season so far was a "mama suprise" toy bunny rabbit)
You know something is not selling when Ollie's puts it on clearance.
Well, if SW keeps calling us all racists?
It's kind of funny. many kids i witnessed recently seem to be getting interested in toys/things that were popular ,back from when i was a kid. For example, the model railroading hobby. I went to a train show recently and i heard kids saying that building model railroad layouts are more fun because they keep occupied w/ building/making stuff for layouts ,all the while running their favorite trains. One kid even said it's better than sitting around a pc or a VR headset all day. I think this is a sign of an awakening for kids,lol.