Disney In the past: Makes good/enjoyable movies and content that entertains and inspires and projects wholesome values Modern Disney in the 2020s: I WANT THE MONEY!
We are environmentally friendly, that’s why all our toys are made in Chinese sweatshops that belch filth into the atmosphere 24/7 and keeps killing the planet.
I heard when Frozen came out, the demand for merchandise was so massive yet the supply wasnt there to the point where Walmart and the like got angry at Disney. I think they've been overcompensating ever since.
I've always felt part of Disney's toy problem was oversaturation of the market. They can't just make one action figure of a character, they need 3 versions in 6 different sizes. Instead of one coloring book, lets make 10 plus 6 painting sets and 6 sticker books. I worked with collectables and saw this same problem when Disney teamed up with Precious Moments. What started with one Cinderella figurine soon became 5 different yet very similar figurines that no one wanted.
Not only different versions of the same character but very bad quality at that. That marvels titan heroes series is as cheap as they come. I get its supposed to be the cheaper alternative but even then its done badly that now its stuck in outlet hell
Yes! They just pump out too much! The only thing I’m kinda interested in is the Star Wars micro machines ships, like they had back in the late 90’s early 00’s
They probably never did any market research and just expect kid to like and buys these horrible figure. Like did they not play tested them beforehand to make sure at least 3 out 10 kid want to play with them? Also the figure is unimaginative at best, like as a kid i probably would not want to play with any of these figure since they focus too much on the character race and gender which then limit the market.
I can’t for the life of me understand why T’Challa isn’t selling? I guess Disney sabotaged the character when they decided to go all fem with the sequel
Karhleen Kennedy's pushing " the Message " into every plot and character..the storylines are a joke.. and worst of all it feels like they disrespect most of the original white male characters by either killing them off or showing them as inadequate.. like kylo Ren ,he's so full of Self- Doubt : " am I evil enough ?.. I don't know..lets smash my helmet because Im so SO AGGRO- EVIL.."( While I realize nobody lives forever, the way Disney disrespectfully killed off some of the old characters was very insulting to me ( someone who loved the original Star Wars movies)
Disney would be selling more Star Wars merch if they never released any movies or TV shows at all. Star Wars is deader now than I ever imagined it could be.
@@Jacobowitnesst’s definitely not 50/50. For example DuPont forced humanity to adopt vinyl chloride based plastics to save pennies compared to using cellulose. Any civilian that knows how deadly vinyl chloride would gladly pay the extra 1 cent for a plastic cup if they had the option but we dont even have the choice
I worked at a Kohl's when The Hunchback of Notre Dame came out and while I loved the film, I remember seeing the toy section full of unsold Quasimodo stuffed dolls, wondered who thought a kid would want to go to bed with a deformed man next to them, and that there would be warehouses full of unsold merchandise.
I went to a Salvation Army thrift store last week and the shelves were filled with Wakanda Forever merchandise. Not stuff that was played with but actual rows of packaged Attuma, Shuri and whatever the rest of their names are figures, masks, random other Wakanda Forever stuff and marked down to nothing and NO ONE was even looking at them. Despite this being new merchandise on the shelves, parents were buying old Imaginext stuff, bags of mixed Lego pieces and older toys that had play value. I know that, in a month when I go back, all of this crap will still be sitting there. Disney, that is how well-received your 'most important MCU movie ever' truly was.
The Reva toys really give away how much Disney thought they were making a new hit character. She might be a dead meme now, and the announcement of her Disney+ show to be made the week after Obi Wan ended may have been lit on fire and thrown into a toilet, but they can't hide the fact that they actually thought millions of children would want a Reva action figure and Reva lightsaber.
What’s pathetic is the way they try so hard to push a BLACK, FEMALE character onto us like we don’t know what they’re doing. If there’s one thing I hate, is when people use race/color/ethnicity etc. as a mechanism to bully people. “You don’t support Reva? You must be a racist and misogynistic piece of sh*t!”
@@imthegoat94 the lines she had was worse then the prequels her acting was terrible, she would have been killed instantly by vader in cannon, VAder will kill anyone that knows who he is if is allowd to. She is unlikeable, her actions make no sense. plus the obi wan show broke cannon in a 100 ways
@@imthegoat94 That sadly the standard these days. Make a good character, that people would love to buy toys of? Na. Just throw whatever at the wall, guilt trip anyone who dislikes it. If that fails, double down harder on guilt tripping everyone. For making a quality product people want, is to hard for them. Which is funny, given all the effort they put into guilt tripping people.
@@wobba4436 the funny thing is, as bad as the prequels acting and dialogue were, even the one off characters like Dex from the diner in Episode 2 is more likable and memorable than Reeva
I worked at the Disney toy warehouse distribution in Southern California During the time of she-hulk. Not only were toys gathering dust bur entire palettes full of she hulk black panther buzz lightyear star wars ect.. I found out that the toys that didn't sell went straight to the dumpster!
This doesn't just apply to Disney. LEGO released a disastrous theme a few years ago, called "Vidiyo." As the spelling implies, the theme was supposed to appeal to the younger demographic with hip characters, wacky colors, and digital app integration. My local department stores still haven't managed to clear those sets off the shelves.
Parents don't buy action figures for their kids anymore. The action figure market is pretty much for adult collectors now. Kids gave up on this stuff decades ago and are into video games and other electronics. A minority of children buy these action figures and playsets. Also, no matter what age you're speaking of, the consumers have to actually LIKE the movies and TV shows this merchandise is based on to spend extra money on REMINDERS of those TV shows and movies. Nobody wants reminders of shit!
As someone who doesn't live in the U.S. and instead lives in a country where toys, and plenty of stuff in general, is incredibly overpriced due to taxes and inflation, it always surprises me how many toys and merchandise is made, especially with all environmental concerns
That's why I like lego so much. If a set doesn't sell well it can always be sold at a massive discount just for parts packs. A well conditioned lego set is almost never truly useless to the point of needing to be thrown in a landfill because of that
@@clamcrewcarclub6017 I think lego is a useless dogshit company these days too but I will agree that even second hand there's an inherent value to just having a bunch of parts lying around. Way less likely to get thrown out than some lame Rey figure from almost a decade ago
Those Flash toys might become hot collector items someday if Ezra Miller ever faces social cancellation and/or serious criminal charges due to all his off-screen shenanigans involving random acts of crazy violence and the grooming of minors for dubious purposes.
The last hit Disney had was Encanto, and that was mostly in streaming, not in theaters. The funniest thing about that was that they screwed that up too. They leaned heavily on merchandising Isabela Madrigal, the most Disney Princess of the characters. Her figures collected dust while people complained there wasn't enough of Luisa Madrigal. The big, bulky girl that Disney wanted to trim down. Go figure.
I stock the shelves at my local Walmart and the shelves in my toy department- specifically the 'movie merchandise' aisle, and it's always a pain to try to stock the area because the warehouse is always sending us their excess they can't get rid of and we aren't *selling* anything off the shelves (well, we are, but not nearly enough). It's kind of hilarious to see stuff from ages ago still sitting on the shelves not being sold.
But from a toy collector's perspective, all that crap clogging the shelves means we never or hardly ever see the stuff we want, and yeah the internet exists but when Hasbro or another company signs an exclusive deal with a retailer and the customer never sees the product because the stores won't order it because old product is clogging the shelves, then we get less figures each time. Or have to pay ridiculous prices on the secondary market.
I would do Target runs to find a certain toy or food when there. I agree with this. Toy companies overflood the shelf with lesser popular characters, or dinosaurs. And it's on the shelves untouched for weeks
People like things that aren't FORCED upon them. That is all. Nothing else needs to be added to that equation. Also, kids are sadly tied to the phone, not toys.
I recall my X-wife buying up all these worthless Disney 'collectables' thinking it was going to be a good investment for her retirement. I kid you not. She had rented multiple storage units all over the local area to store this garbage in, thinking she was going to make a killing. Barbie Dolls and Beanie Babies were going to make her rich as well. Now you can find those same items she paid top dollar for at local garage sales going for 25¢ - 50¢.
Those executives had no choice to approve these toys… they would have been called misogynistic, homophobic, racist, etc… by the people in their own organization.
My question is how is Disney hiding all these non-selling toys from the books? They absolutely killed all the ATMs these franchises represented to their bottom line.
Disney isn't directly impacted by unsold toys, since they simply license the characters, names, properties, and franchises to third-party toy manufacturers. The toy manufacturers, in turn, aren't directly affected by unsold toys, since they were all bought by retailers. It's the retailers who eventually mark them as unsold and destroyed for the tax write-off. It isn't until retailers stop buying Disney-branded toys from the manufacturers that the manufacturers will stop licensing the IP from Disney, at which point Disney will finally get the hint that they need to tell better stories.
This is exactly how I feel about funko pops. I collect just the video game ones I want but I feel like they mass produce every character and never finish the series that you are chasing after. Prime example for me is persona 5. I've every character but Akechi, futaba, haru and now violet. Yet theres a ton of character that people dont care for on shelves everyday (now flooding into gamestops and dollar stores) because as you say "people dont want side characters." Its the same with star wars the black series. They give all these trashy people we dont want and then wonder why it doesnt sell
Imagine if, instead of making these plastic toys that nobody wants, they used the oil to make gasoline. And instead of jamming up the supply chain with plastic toys that nobody wants, those shipping containers and trucks could be used to move products and food that people do want.
Disney could give the merchandise to children in developing countries maybe with some charitable donations and a cheap way for the movies to be seen. I.e. find new markets. That is what the film companies did many years ago. Sent the films into developing countries with portable equipment. Think outside the box.
@@Heretowatchvideos123 Yeah! That's exactly what I was thinking too! They should donate the unsold toys to kids in other countries, maybe for refugee kids or kids in the Ukraine. That would be a good promotion for Toys for Tots and the merch wouldn't be taking up so much space on the shelves in stores.
I have more use for the plastic in these things than the actual toys. Hell, the plastic makes pretty decent floor tiles for shop purposes if you process it down and melt it into forms.
One 10 year old kid told me he would rather go to Floor and Decor looking at all the floor tiles and watch videos how to install them than go to watch a Star Wars or any Disney film. Way more productive. He has installed outdoor TV antennas,as to avoid paying for streaming with shows that don't interest him. Maybe if Lucasfilm or Disney started episodes of how machines work eg.The secret life of machines and/or DIY videos in a fun way. Eg. Anakin Skywalker becomes down to earth and uses the force to bring tools and equipment together. While at the same time uses the lightsaber to cut tiles to fit,or installing Outdoor TV antennas and how to buy the right one for your needs.
@@SwayRod836 He also dislikes the Icult now that Disney and Apple is a match when it comes to content. That Vision pro,$3500... Not buying it. This kid has a Motorola G Stylus Gen2 unlocked phone with using a prepaid SIM service from Target for around $300. Way better than Apple and works great for his needs. Everything a user wanted including that one can call the world because the prepaid plan includes $10 international call credit in addition to the unlimited calls to 69 countries Every month. Besides this kid has relatives overseas,that are rather good to him. It's always great to talk to relatives anytime. At least they are more trustworthy than Disney.
One thing I’ve noticed with modern Star Wars toys is a lot of them feel cheap and like a big step backwards from where they had been not long before the Disney buyout. I hung on to a decent amount of my childhood Star Wars figures that survived and for the like seven bucks they used to be and the size they look good and are pretty well made. Most have really detailed sculpts, nice paint application, like 14 plus points of articulation, and you had a crazy amount of variety not like less then ten characters copy pasted over and over. I remember my last bit of actually being into collecting the figures the vintage collection started with all these hyper detailed figures that looked so good. Now it’s all five points of articulation and solid one color unpainted lightsabers. I wouldn’t want that crap as a kid or a collector.
Yeah some of these toys do look like, someone held up a lighter to it and melted them slightly That or someone did a cheap paint job, that made the whole thing worst. If it doesn't look just plain unappealing. Like heck even if you somehow got me to care about Rey. I wouldn't buy her toys. Like one is just her wearing some sort of rain cloak. She doesn't look ready for action or above to make some sort of epic reveal she the big bad hero in town. More like she ate to much dinner last night and is lucky to not pass out from overeating. For a fair few of these toys, seem like they should of been thrown out, due to failing quality control. Rather than being the standard.
@@tacticianAlexandra search up 30th anniversary figures packages and you can see how much even the boxes run circles around the modern stuff. Even the most basic background characters have these nice art backings and really weathered looking backdrops and even the bubble usually put them in something other then a standing stiff pose.
I wish there was a Star Wars light saber where it's a 6-in-one gadget. Lightsaber,Bluetooth AUX speaker,HD AM/FM radio,Nightlight,and USB charger/Powerbank.
Are you actually stupid? They look the best they ever have, most detail and articulation ever. There's different 3.75" lines, some are cheaper and less articulated, but the Vintage Collection is super detailed, just like the 6" Black Series.
I wanted a droid (Star Wars) action figure for my desk at the office until I discovered it was almost $30. For one piece of plastic shaped like a robot. F that.
The whole message of "let the past die" when you make a movie that pigback from nostalgia from an old movie over 30 years old and the only reason why people watch it is because of its affection to that past is not a very good plan...
Disney's plan was to cash in on merchandise with all of these studio buy outs they have done the past decade. Hopefully they will realize that quantity is not better than quality.
I remember a time when these products were in such high demand they were sold to collectors for triple the store price. Now the only Disney figure worth triple is Cara Dune!
@@skyesyd221 Politics is downstream from culture*. It is in the best interest of political leaders to make their issues mainstream wherever they can in order to gain the hype, momentum, and mass-psychosis of the current zeitgeist or time era.
The problem is that Disney took the spaceballs joke and interpreted it as how to merchandise literally. Thus we’re left with tons of stuff that’s likely to be abandoned in South American warehouses abandoned rediscovered in about 25 years
I mean there is one upside to all of this. If Disney tanks Star Wars hard enough, maybe George Lucas will be able to buy it back for pennies on the dollar, having made billions upfront from the Disney sale, and no longer simply just the original Star Wars creator, but the hero who returned when he was needed most to rescue the franchise. I mean he still has the three sequel scripts he wrote up too, right? Should be pretty easy for a master like him to rework and update them so half the work of three new films would already be done. lol
Gotta wonder what happens to the toys on the discount stores' shelves when the next wave of Disney toys that don't sell arrives? Are there discount discount stores?
Also, I like the concept of them doing the Kenner throwback Star Wars figures. My issue is that they should've done that with characters people actually like. Like if they did a prequel line in that style I think it would've been a success.
Do a prequel line, a "legends" line of characters like Thrawn, Jodo Kast and the Yusshan Vong (or however you spell it), or almost anything other than what they did do!
They've barely made any of the characters fans wanted from the Original Trilogy to fill in the blanks. They made retro Tarkin, you had to buy a stupid retro board game to get him.
@@scockery That was because the original Tarkin figure was exclusive to the original version of that board game, they were deliberately recreating it the way it was to appeal to the OT fanatics.
When I was a kid, I swear I would be sad I couldn't get nearly everything off the Star Wars racks at stores because we were very far from rich. Nowadays I'd be lucky if I found anything I was willing to spend 5 bucks or more on. Last Star Wars related purchase I made was a Vader mask from Goodwill 2 years ago.
What boggles my mind is that the discount store is even bothering with that garbage. It’s taking up space on their shelves, space that they could use for stuff that actually gets bought. I don’t expect to see a lot of merchandise from “The Marvels” because I think even the toy manufacturers will avoid that IP. No one wants to lose money.
For months, all the rainbow merchandise from 2021 and 2022 was stacked to the ceilings in the back corners of the Disney outlets in Orlando. I saw a box filled with rainbow Mickey ears (with the embroidered hands making a heart) marked down to 25¢. The company couldn’t give them away, yet the product line gets bigger every year. Disney just doesn’t seem to understand what customers want anymore.
@@richardm3023 and they'll eat all the crap they've made yet. No one wants that crap, and certainly not to the abundance that they produced of this garbage. It's the most obnoxious in your face marketing they've ever done. It's just pushy, even people that might have bought some of that crap will be pushed away with how forceful they are with their terrible marketing.
Disney dug its own grave with the "inclusión" policy, they can't sell the rainbow merch but if they stopped producing it the lgbt community would lash out on them
Their overlords are trying to force the masses into "loving" all things gay. And it isnt morking. The Elite want lower populations and it is the main reason they are forcing gayness on everyone. No one breeds it they are putting their pee pee into someones butt.
Merchandise and theme parks are driven by pop culture excitement. When someone like KK is destroying a franchise like Star Wars the damage done to Disney is far greater than the movies and streaming shows failing.
I worked at a target's toy department and saw this stuff play out first hand. So many Disney property toys that just sat there rotting away. The only good thing about them was that when we ran out of other stuff we could fill then up with these things because my managers would throw a fit if there were empty shelves.
At my Goodwill store we used to get old stock from Target (we don't do it anymore because Target started sending us stuff that we couldnt sell). One time we got these cheap Incredibles 2 toys that was like those grapper toys, but instead of it grabbing anything it would have a plastic fist on it where when u pressed it u could pretend to punch something! Surprisingly they still wouldnt sell even when we put it half off, so one of our endcaps were just filled with them for awhile (we still had a whole area full of them in the toy aisle too). I still have a picture of it too.
I work at a behavior center specializing towards children and we do have those sticker books but they are mainly for the therapists and assistants to decorate their tablets or binders. The kids at that age like other activities that aren't really Disney apart from Spiderman.
It's a damn shame that all of the Billy Dee Williams action figures are peg warmer's. Lando Calrissian was one of my favorite Star Wars characters when I was a kid. Disney has really damaged the franchise when a core OT character is unwanted.
Also bringing him back in ROS was a disservice to Lando‘s character. BDW just wasn‘t in the condition to match up his old iconic portrayal of the character.
@@luna-hw9li his inclusion in that movie was because they stupidly killed off Han and Luke and the unfortunate passing of Carrie Fisher but Disney still wanted to include a legacy OT character to nostalgia bait fans and that's why we got Lando in that
The main problem was that Lando was packed 3 per box, compared to the other characters who were packed 2 or 1 per box. So every time the store opened a box, they had to put 3 Landos on the pegs. If Lando had been packed one or two per box, he wouldn't have warmed the pegs like he did.
I was a kid in 1999 and I remember getting so much Star Wars toys and merchandise I remember Star Wars fruit, snacks, and Star Wars kiddie pools and Star Wars coloring books and Lego pod racers and getting a lot of b1 battle droid figures because I thought they looked so cool, I even remember getting Star Wars stuff at Taco Bell, I remember when Taco Bell had kids toys.
There are plenty of items many people want including me but never seen to find (things like clone troopers or any trooper variant from star wars ) but are always bought out , funny how so many named characters sell less than the faceless ones
I remember as a kid a few years after the phantom menace the toys started showing up in discount shops and they were usually gone fast even jar jar lol so yeah they must be doing really bad
I thought Force Awakens was ok, TLJ and Rise Of Palpatine were mediocre/terrible, Mandalorian gave me a little bit of hope but after Boba Fett and Kenobi….
I work a lot of retail and I've had to come in and stare at an unsold T-shirt for The Last Jedi, a movie that completely broke me, for the past 6 years. Meanwhile we got a copy of Jedi Outcast II last week, one of my all time favorite Star Wars media, and it sold within minutes. Really goes to show the bar of Star Wars in 2023.
@breadandcircuses8127 Jedi Outcast at least offered a more hopeful universe that Luke Skywalker could create a successful academy, one that doesn't solely rely on established Star Wars icons or the First Order. I'd take Kyle Katarn or Dash Rendar over anything we've gotten from modern Star Wars.
I’ve never seen anyone, at a store, buy a Shang-Chi toy. I’m fairly convinced neither did the Chinese people (who are in the billions strong worldwide).
it seems to me that all of this would be a fantastic recycling opportunity. i felt sorry for qi'ra at 9:21.....she just looked so sad. put these poor figures out of their misery and give them new life in that great recycling bin in the sky!
There are some TV Disney cartoons [Amphibia, The Owl House, Gravity Falls] where fans were asking Disney for toys, especially plushies, from these shows and they got nothing. But there are always rows and rows of toys of characters nobody cares for on sale or destroyed. Disney needs to put their shit together and actually listen to the fans.
I get really emotional when it comes to Star Wars only because I seen the original Star Wars in theaters so I feel like I'm a part of that history , it breaks my heart to see what they did Star Wars.
@@haveanicedave1551 that’s awesome to hear, there is only a handful of writers that have gotten their books turned into movies that I can count on one hand unfortunately three of them are dead, tolkien, Jim Henson and Michael Creighton, thank goodness James Cameron and George Lucas still alive.
When I was young and poor I would get knock off transformers and give Joe's, etc, but now if you're a kid and poor, you get Marvel and Star Wars toys 😂
The amount of unsold Disney merchandise at Walmart is staggering. Even at 90% off clearance, Disney merchandise are still unsold and that’s most retailers.
The short Darth Vader figure looks like the Stewie character from Family Guy in disguise.Maybe if they would label it as Stewie,maybe it would make for better sales as long as the Stewie character's head would appear without the helmet on.
I know it's a newer film, but it looks like Across the Spider-Verse toys are selling while the MCU stuff from a movie that released back in November is still clogging up shelves. That's pretty damn funny, especially when you consider that Disney likely gets a much smaller cut from the merchandise for Spider-Man films they produce on their own.
It's a testament actually to Rebels being a much higher quality and well-liked series that there is ONLY one Ezra Bridger with speeder box set compared to dozens of Reys, Kylos, Wakanda this-and-that, Flash, etc., etc.
Yeah but only some liked Rebel because of the story for early episodes that don't quite good and lightsaber is too THIN. Well, I liked the Rebels because they consistently getting better
In latin america, the only Disney items that are selling well (since ever) are the classic stuff (everything before 1999). In the other hand we had entire shelves of new items that nobody looks at, for example the eternals toys, chang shi, starwars, nothing off that move.
Only a couple years ago that I learned that shows and movies are designed as advertisements to only sell toys to children. The life of that show/movie depended on the sales of the toys, which is why everything is so copy/paste
Usually when people say you couldn't give something away for free it's an exaggeration. In this case however it's literally true. People wouldn't take this stuff it it were totally free.
"The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) today reported earnings for its second quarter ended April 1, 2023. Revenues for the quarter and six months grew 13% and 10%, respectively."
I'm sure those D&D action figures sold better than anything else on the shelves, certainly Star Wars. Does Disney know Star Wars is a dead brand now? They're a trillion dollars in the hole, they'll never recoup these losses!
@@DeadholeProductions nothing to re-think. Mass production of Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose Tico and such but they didn't sell. Notice no toys of Rise of Skywalker. Hasbro told Disney they don't sell. Classic and Prequel stuff does sell. The guy I get my stuff from sold a Solo Millennium Falcon for $5 brand new in the box when it retailed for $100. If you are looking for Sequel stuff, go to Ollies.
Firstly, all three of the Disney mainline movies are in the top twenty of the highest-grossing movies of all time. As we learned from Michael Bay, artistic quality has precious little to do with revenues. Secondly, Disney does not make merch. For instance, the Black Panther stuff and the vintage Kenner figures are made by Hasbro. Hasbro pays Disney for the rights to use the characters for the merch. Disney makes money regardless of whether they get sold or rot on the shelf. Star Wars is only a dead franchise in the minds of the internet crowd. The average person doesn't care about lore, "the message", or any of that other crap that people around here think is so important. They just paid Disney a quarter-billion dollars to see the latest live action remake.
Their problem is that they don't understand that it doesn't matter if the character is cool, if the toy is not, they will not buy it. My little cousin never watched Aquaman, but the moment he saw the black manta toy figure, he wanted it, because he thought it looked cool.
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Disney: We are environmentally friendly.
Also Disney: Makes all of these plastic crap toys to fill the world’s landfills.
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Disney In the past: Makes good/enjoyable movies and content that entertains and inspires and projects wholesome values
Modern Disney in the 2020s: I WANT THE MONEY!
We are environmentally friendly, that’s why all our toys are made in Chinese sweatshops that belch filth into the atmosphere 24/7 and keeps killing the planet.
Bring back melting things with magnifying glasses
All the plastic crap is made in China, where they don't have to follow enviromenal laws, so it's all good
Plus using Chinese slaves to make their crap.
I heard when Frozen came out, the demand for merchandise was so massive yet the supply wasnt there to the point where Walmart and the like got angry at Disney. I think they've been overcompensating ever since.
Black people
Walmart and Disney must learn to let it go.
@@xRandomCityx What about them?
@@xRandomCityx an idiot that has to include race in everything
Kathleen Kennedy, GayGay Abrams ect, should all be "Lava-Boarded" for their deliberate destruction of franchises.
I've always felt part of Disney's toy problem was oversaturation of the market. They can't just make one action figure of a character, they need 3 versions in 6 different sizes. Instead of one coloring book, lets make 10 plus 6 painting sets and 6 sticker books. I worked with collectables and saw this same problem when Disney teamed up with Precious Moments. What started with one Cinderella figurine soon became 5 different yet very similar figurines that no one wanted.
Not only different versions of the same character but very bad quality at that. That marvels titan heroes series is as cheap as they come. I get its supposed to be the cheaper alternative but even then its done badly that now its stuck in outlet hell
@@alexbolt5 its almost like action figure quality has gone DOWN over the past 10 years...
Yes! They just pump out too much! The only thing I’m kinda interested in is the Star Wars micro machines ships, like they had back in the late 90’s early 00’s
They probably never did any market research and just expect kid to like and buys these horrible figure. Like did they not play tested them beforehand to make sure at least 3 out 10 kid want to play with them? Also the figure is unimaginative at best, like as a kid i probably would not want to play with any of these figure since they focus too much on the character race and gender which then limit the market.
It's not oversaturation, it's the bland or terrible movies or characters.
It’s frustrating because everyone knows what sells but Disney chooses not to give us that.
I can’t for the life of me understand why T’Challa isn’t selling? I guess Disney sabotaged the character when they decided to go all fem with the sequel
Marvel and Star Wars should’ve been an unlimited ATM for Disney. The way they cocked these franchises up in such a short time is unbelievable.
Karhleen Kennedy's pushing " the Message " into every plot and character..the storylines are a joke.. and worst of all it feels like they disrespect most of the original white male characters by either killing them off or showing them as inadequate.. like kylo Ren ,he's so full of Self- Doubt : " am I evil enough ?.. I don't know..lets smash my helmet because Im so SO AGGRO- EVIL.."(
While I realize nobody lives forever, the way Disney disrespectfully killed off some of the old characters was very insulting to me ( someone who loved the original Star Wars movies)
It wasn't about the money, rather destroying the old to pace way for the new. Just like Mao's cultural revolution.
Yup, took a golden goose and killed it.
I lost
My $200 investment in Star Wars toys
I'm out.😢
Disney would be selling more Star Wars merch if they never released any movies or TV shows at all. Star Wars is deader now than I ever imagined it could be.
But we're the ones punished for "polluting" the environment lol
For real
It’s a 50/50 thing 😂😂😂 us as humans are destined to destroy ourselves
@@Jacobowitness that’s a falsehood
truth...
@@Jacobowitnesst’s definitely not 50/50. For example DuPont forced humanity to adopt vinyl chloride based plastics to save pennies compared to using cellulose. Any civilian that knows how deadly vinyl chloride would gladly pay the extra 1 cent for a plastic cup if they had the option but we dont even have the choice
I worked at a Kohl's when The Hunchback of Notre Dame came out and while I loved the film, I remember seeing the toy section full of unsold Quasimodo stuffed dolls, wondered who thought a kid would want to go to bed with a deformed man next to them, and that there would be warehouses full of unsold merchandise.
I had a Burger King Quasimodo doll, from the time the promotion of it was on. I sold on Ebay for 150 bucks.
I was barely 2 when that movie came out, but as an adult I would love to have bought all those toys cuz I love the film and characters so much.
@@theunknowncommenter725what year was that? I was born in 1992, loves that movie as a kid.
@@TheWholeEntireCake I was born in July 94. Didn't discover Hunchback until 2006.
You can’t make the audience like a character - only good writing and clever film making can do that
And if the character is female, even that won't be enough.
I'm pretty sure that's not how that works
This , and also an appeal to both the male and female gaze.
Acting is crucial as well, along with writing, and direction.
@@DVincentW that's not even true nan
I went to a Salvation Army thrift store last week and the shelves were filled with Wakanda Forever merchandise. Not stuff that was played with but actual rows of packaged Attuma, Shuri and whatever the rest of their names are figures, masks, random other Wakanda Forever stuff and marked down to nothing and NO ONE was even looking at them. Despite this being new merchandise on the shelves, parents were buying old Imaginext stuff, bags of mixed Lego pieces and older toys that had play value. I know that, in a month when I go back, all of this crap will still be sitting there. Disney, that is how well-received your 'most important MCU movie ever' truly was.
Lego never gets old that stuff is great.
That's very good news.
Black peepole
@@xRandomCityx white people
I was born in 2007, you just brought back a wave of memories when you mentioned imaginext. Imagine t was the best growing up 😂
The Reva toys really give away how much Disney thought they were making a new hit character. She might be a dead meme now, and the announcement of her Disney+ show to be made the week after Obi Wan ended may have been lit on fire and thrown into a toilet, but they can't hide the fact that they actually thought millions of children would want a Reva action figure and Reva lightsaber.
They knew she was a garbage character, they thought they could cry bully people into buying her.
What’s pathetic is the way they try so hard to push a BLACK, FEMALE character onto us like we don’t know what they’re doing. If there’s one thing I hate, is when people use race/color/ethnicity etc. as a mechanism to bully people. “You don’t support Reva? You must be a racist and misogynistic piece of sh*t!”
@@imthegoat94 the lines she had was worse then the prequels her acting was terrible, she would have been killed instantly by vader in cannon, VAder will kill anyone that knows who he is if is allowd to. She is unlikeable, her actions make no sense. plus the obi wan show broke cannon in a 100 ways
@@imthegoat94 That sadly the standard these days. Make a good character, that people would love to buy toys of? Na. Just throw whatever at the wall, guilt trip anyone who dislikes it. If that fails, double down harder on guilt tripping everyone. For making a quality product people want, is to hard for them. Which is funny, given all the effort they put into guilt tripping people.
@@wobba4436 the funny thing is, as bad as the prequels acting and dialogue were, even the one off characters like Dex from the diner in Episode 2 is more likable and memorable than Reeva
I worked at the Disney toy warehouse distribution in Southern California During the time of she-hulk.
Not only were toys gathering dust bur entire palettes full of she hulk black panther buzz lightyear star wars ect.. I found out that the toys that didn't sell went straight to the dumpster!
This doesn't just apply to Disney. LEGO released a disastrous theme a few years ago, called "Vidiyo." As the spelling implies, the theme was supposed to appeal to the younger demographic with hip characters, wacky colors, and digital app integration. My local department stores still haven't managed to clear those sets off the shelves.
Seriously? Wasn't that a 4chan term for video games
as an AFOL, those sets were pretty cool (app gimmicks aside), the problem is just lego is so fucking expensive
Hm
It warms my heart to see the shelves so full of Disney merchandises. We atleast know there are good parents in the States.
Parents don't buy action figures for their kids anymore.
The action figure market is pretty much for adult collectors now. Kids gave up on this stuff decades ago and are into video games and other electronics.
A minority of children buy these action figures and playsets.
Also, no matter what age you're speaking of, the consumers have to actually LIKE the movies and TV shows this merchandise is based on to spend extra money on REMINDERS of those TV shows and movies. Nobody wants reminders of shit!
Most of these products are literally a waste of money.
with kids who don't want crap toys
@@whitebeardskydaddy6756 THIS^ There are toy reviews by KIDS who said modern toys are crap.
Parents buy what the kids want. The kids are who don't want this stuff not the adults.
As someone who doesn't live in the U.S. and instead lives in a country where toys, and plenty of stuff in general, is incredibly overpriced due to taxes and inflation, it always surprises me how many toys and merchandise is made, especially with all environmental concerns
Well, American corporations don’t care to try to make toys regardless of environmental issues
That's why I like lego so much. If a set doesn't sell well it can always be sold at a massive discount just for parts packs. A well conditioned lego set is almost never truly useless to the point of needing to be thrown in a landfill because of that
@@Redshirtgaming96 I mean it sucks to pollute but if we had the opportunity to make a bunch of movie by just creating some toys we would
@@GameprojordanLego’s are just too damn expensive now
@@clamcrewcarclub6017 I think lego is a useless dogshit company these days too but I will agree that even second hand there's an inherent value to just having a bunch of parts lying around. Way less likely to get thrown out than some lame Rey figure from almost a decade ago
Those Flash toys might become hot collector items someday if Ezra Miller ever faces social cancellation and/or serious criminal charges due to all his off-screen shenanigans involving random acts of crazy violence and the grooming of minors for dubious purposes.
I'm thinking the same thing. Miller has seemingly infinite money though, so I doubt he'll be cancelled.
The last hit Disney had was Encanto, and that was mostly in streaming, not in theaters. The funniest thing about that was that they screwed that up too. They leaned heavily on merchandising Isabela Madrigal, the most Disney Princess of the characters. Her figures collected dust while people complained there wasn't enough of Luisa Madrigal. The big, bulky girl that Disney wanted to trim down. Go figure.
I knew the toys were not being sold but toys that are just under a decade old still sitting on shelves is hilarious.
That's what's shelf-warming.
@@redneckranger2144 When my local Toys R Us went out of business, they brought out Spider-Man 2 stuff they still had sitting in the back.
Holy shit... Battle Network merch? That old? Geez... Seems there's always something from some brand that always shelfwarms.
Echos of the 70s and early 80s.
Partly this is caused by our high inflation.
@@redneckranger2144damn I need to go there
I stock the shelves at my local Walmart and the shelves in my toy department- specifically the 'movie merchandise' aisle, and it's always a pain to try to stock the area because the warehouse is always sending us their excess they can't get rid of and we aren't *selling* anything off the shelves (well, we are, but not nearly enough). It's kind of hilarious to see stuff from ages ago still sitting on the shelves not being sold.
But from a toy collector's perspective, all that crap clogging the shelves means we never or hardly ever see the stuff we want, and yeah the internet exists but when Hasbro or another company signs an exclusive deal with a retailer and the customer never sees the product because the stores won't order it because old product is clogging the shelves, then we get less figures each time. Or have to pay ridiculous prices on the secondary market.
Yet somehow it always winds up on the "Clearance Aisle", until it disappears from there...
I would do Target runs to find a certain toy or food when there.
I agree with this. Toy companies overflood the shelf with lesser popular characters, or dinosaurs. And it's on the shelves untouched for weeks
People like things that aren't FORCED upon them.
That is all. Nothing else needs to be added to that equation.
Also, kids are sadly tied to the phone, not toys.
I recall my X-wife buying up all these worthless Disney 'collectables' thinking it was going to be a good investment for her retirement. I kid you not. She had rented multiple storage units all over the local area to store this garbage in, thinking she was going to make a killing. Barbie Dolls and Beanie Babies were going to make her rich as well. Now you can find those same items she paid top dollar for at local garage sales going for 25¢ - 50¢.
Imagine Hasbro thought a bunch of grown men would crowd fund a Reeeeva lightsaber. Talk about not being in touch with your customers.
It was funny the first time Doomcock said Reeeeva. Now it’s just annoying
Those executives had no choice to approve these toys… they would have been called misogynistic, homophobic, racist, etc… by the people in their own organization.
If it wasn’t linked to a character then I would have backed it because I really like the those lightsabers but now I’m stuck with my cheap plastic one
If only they had enough common sense to do Vaders or Obis or even Lukes. They didnt miss the mark, they are in a different dimension from the mark 😂
This is what happens when you start to think that the customers are always wrong.
I wish I could give you more than one thumbs up.
No, but a lot of them are whiners.
@@dhenderson1810exactly... Like, just say you don't read comics. Kind of embarrassing to let people know they don't read
My question is how is Disney hiding all these non-selling toys from the books? They absolutely killed all the ATMs these franchises represented to their bottom line.
Disney isn't directly impacted by unsold toys, since they simply license the characters, names, properties, and franchises to third-party toy manufacturers. The toy manufacturers, in turn, aren't directly affected by unsold toys, since they were all bought by retailers. It's the retailers who eventually mark them as unsold and destroyed for the tax write-off. It isn't until retailers stop buying Disney-branded toys from the manufacturers that the manufacturers will stop licensing the IP from Disney, at which point Disney will finally get the hint that they need to tell better stories.
This is exactly how I feel about funko pops. I collect just the video game ones I want but I feel like they mass produce every character and never finish the series that you are chasing after. Prime example for me is persona 5. I've every character but Akechi, futaba, haru and now violet. Yet theres a ton of character that people dont care for on shelves everyday (now flooding into gamestops and dollar stores) because as you say "people dont want side characters." Its the same with star wars the black series. They give all these trashy people we dont want and then wonder why it doesnt sell
Imagine if, instead of making these plastic toys that nobody wants, they used the oil to make gasoline. And instead of jamming up the supply chain with plastic toys that nobody wants, those shipping containers and trucks could be used to move products and food that people do want.
The government doesn't want that though, they need people poor and desperate so they can manipulate them ...
Or they can make it into styrene and make meth for their crazed CEOs
Your the first one to make me actually LOL today!! You sir have won the internet. Well for me anyway!!
@@cade83642
Gay
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No wonder Hasbro is going broke, Disney made the movies but didn't lose money on the toys, that was Hasbro.
The only sector of Hasbro that makes any money is Wizards of the Coast, and even they're going down.
Bring me back to the 80s! Toys r us, stocked shelves with cool toys we all wanted. Quality was way better!
You were a child then, so of course you wanted toys.
You don't want today's toys because you probably grew out of toys.
@Dale Henderson that makes sense...
You are 100% correct. Liberals don't believe in facts.
@@dhenderson1810maybe I grew out of them but I would love to see my little ones playing with the A10 warthog from Terminator Salvation
Hmm
Disney could give the merchandise to children in developing countries maybe with some charitable donations and a cheap way for the movies to be seen. I.e. find new markets. That is what the film companies did many years ago. Sent the films into developing countries with portable equipment. Think outside the box.
Actually a great idea
@@Heretowatchvideos123 Yeah! That's exactly what I was thinking too! They should donate the unsold toys to kids in other countries, maybe for refugee kids or kids in the Ukraine. That would be a good promotion for Toys for Tots and the merch wouldn't be taking up so much space on the shelves in stores.
I have more use for the plastic in these things than the actual toys. Hell, the plastic makes pretty decent floor tiles for shop purposes if you process it down and melt it into forms.
Lol... "What's the melt value on Enchampto?"
"Not much.. it has gay in it which contaminates the vat.."
One 10 year old kid told me he would rather go to Floor and Decor looking at all the floor tiles and watch videos how to install them than go to watch a Star Wars or any Disney film. Way more productive. He has installed outdoor TV antennas,as to avoid paying for streaming with shows that don't interest him. Maybe if Lucasfilm or Disney started episodes of how machines work eg.The secret life of machines and/or DIY videos in a fun way. Eg. Anakin Skywalker becomes down to earth and uses the force to bring tools and equipment together. While at the same time uses the lightsaber to cut tiles to fit,or installing Outdoor TV antennas and how to buy the right one for your needs.
@@ryanhuang8498 This kid is based and must be protected.
@@SwayRod836 He also dislikes the Icult now that Disney and Apple is a match when it comes to content. That Vision pro,$3500... Not buying it. This kid has a Motorola G Stylus Gen2 unlocked phone with using a prepaid SIM service from Target for around $300. Way better than Apple and works great for his needs. Everything a user wanted including that one can call the world because the prepaid plan includes $10 international call credit in addition to the unlimited calls to 69 countries Every month. Besides this kid has relatives overseas,that are rather good to him. It's always great to talk to relatives anytime. At least they are more trustworthy than Disney.
@@ryanhuang8498your lies are insane. I'm surprised you didn't give your character a 401(k) and early onset male pattern baldness.
One thing I’ve noticed with modern Star Wars toys is a lot of them feel cheap and like a big step backwards from where they had been not long before the Disney buyout. I hung on to a decent amount of my childhood Star Wars figures that survived and for the like seven bucks they used to be and the size they look good and are pretty well made. Most have really detailed sculpts, nice paint application, like 14 plus points of articulation, and you had a crazy amount of variety not like less then ten characters copy pasted over and over.
I remember my last bit of actually being into collecting the figures the vintage collection started with all these hyper detailed figures that looked so good. Now it’s all five points of articulation and solid one color unpainted lightsabers. I wouldn’t want that crap as a kid or a collector.
Yeah some of these toys do look like, someone held up a lighter to it and melted them slightly That or someone did a cheap paint job, that made the whole thing worst. If it doesn't look just plain unappealing. Like heck even if you somehow got me to care about Rey. I wouldn't buy her toys. Like one is just her wearing some sort of rain cloak. She doesn't look ready for action or above to make some sort of epic reveal she the big bad hero in town. More like she ate to much dinner last night and is lucky to not pass out from overeating.
For a fair few of these toys, seem like they should of been thrown out, due to failing quality control. Rather than being the standard.
@@tacticianAlexandra search up 30th anniversary figures packages and you can see how much even the boxes run circles around the modern stuff. Even the most basic background characters have these nice art backings and really weathered looking backdrops and even the bubble usually put them in something other then a standing stiff pose.
I recently started building Gunpla model kits and seeing the quality of these compared to the stuff Hasbro/Disney put out is pretty funny.
I wish there was a Star Wars light saber where it's a 6-in-one gadget. Lightsaber,Bluetooth AUX speaker,HD AM/FM radio,Nightlight,and USB charger/Powerbank.
Are you actually stupid? They look the best they ever have, most detail and articulation ever. There's different 3.75" lines, some are cheaper and less articulated, but the Vintage Collection is super detailed, just like the 6" Black Series.
I wanted a droid (Star Wars) action figure for my desk at the office until I discovered it was almost $30.
For one piece of plastic shaped like a robot.
F that.
Target has let themselves go by letting their toys go unorganized 😂😂
His or they just refuse to even attempt to stock anything ! Haha
@@pikapi7429wut
Modern Disney just keeps losing and it’s just hilarious/entertaining at this point
It's the only entertainment they are putting out these days.
@@t.c.v.t. 👍🔥
yeah..as their annual revenue increases year after year...GOT IT!
It’s more entertaining than their actual content
its also cathartic too.
Wakanda forever on the shelves.
Hahahaahaahahaha!
Those toys are ugly 😂
The whole message of "let the past die" when you make a movie that pigback from nostalgia from an old movie over 30 years old and the only reason why people watch it is because of its affection to that past is not a very good plan...
Disney's plan was to cash in on merchandise with all of these studio buy outs they have done the past decade. Hopefully they will realize that quantity is not better than quality.
“Merchandising. Merchandising. Merchandising. Where the real money for the movie is made.” - Yogurt
I remember a time when these products were in such high demand they were sold to collectors for triple the store price. Now the only Disney figure worth triple is Cara Dune!
People who say they don't make their hobbies political... will have politics that force them to choose sides.
Ironic
@@bentonrpwut
@@skyesyd221 Politics is downstream from culture*. It is in the best interest of political leaders to make their issues mainstream wherever they can in order to gain the hype, momentum, and mass-psychosis of the current zeitgeist or time era.
It's pleasing to know they did this to themselves
This is the epitome of Disney's fall from grace and it's never ending with each new series and movies, the downward spiral is seemingly endless!!
Never thought in my lifetime that kids that watch Spaceballs for the first time will not get the Merchandising joke. 😂
Spaceballs is closer to canon than Disney Star Wars.
The problem is that Disney took the spaceballs joke and interpreted it as how to merchandise literally. Thus we’re left with tons of stuff that’s likely to be abandoned in South American warehouses abandoned rediscovered in about 25 years
Hmm
Even if disney tried to give these toys away for free most likely they'd remain there.
Maybe the homeless could burn them for warmth.
@@WizelBalan Recycle them into Ink Cartridges instead.
And remain there, but not as a shrine to worship; But a radioactive fallout to be avoided! 😂
@@bentonrpwut
@@skyesyd221 *Plastic has trace lead in it and is acutely toxic.
I mean there is one upside to all of this. If Disney tanks Star Wars hard enough, maybe George Lucas will be able to buy it back for pennies on the dollar, having made billions upfront from the Disney sale, and no longer simply just the original Star Wars creator, but the hero who returned when he was needed most to rescue the franchise. I mean he still has the three sequel scripts he wrote up too, right? Should be pretty easy for a master like him to rework and update them so half the work of three new films would already be done. lol
And he could make most of the Disney shit non canon too.
(If I were George, I'd keep Mando, Rogue One, and the final season of Clone Wars)
Micheal Keaton's batmobile is the best But the 1960s tv show one still rocks !
Gotta wonder what happens to the toys on the discount stores' shelves when the next wave of Disney toys that don't sell arrives? Are there discount discount stores?
Dollar Stores
@@jorugarushia9167 I had no idea, WCB should do a video in one of these dollar stores.
I believe they get melted down
@@StraightOtohGunga Oh I thought they got donated to Romanian orphanages before the melting down stage.
@@earlofdoncaster5018 I think it would be too expensive to do anything other than throw them away
Also, I like the concept of them doing the Kenner throwback Star Wars figures. My issue is that they should've done that with characters people actually like. Like if they did a prequel line in that style I think it would've been a success.
Do a prequel line, a "legends" line of characters like Thrawn, Jodo Kast and the Yusshan Vong (or however you spell it), or almost anything other than what they did do!
Please Disney give us some more of your failed woke agenda😂
They've barely made any of the characters fans wanted from the Original Trilogy to fill in the blanks. They made retro Tarkin, you had to buy a stupid retro board game to get him.
@@scockery That was because the original Tarkin figure was exclusive to the original version of that board game, they were deliberately recreating it the way it was to appeal to the OT fanatics.
They did old and new, don't be ignorant.
When I was a kid, I swear I would be sad I couldn't get nearly everything off the Star Wars racks at stores because we were very far from rich. Nowadays I'd be lucky if I found anything I was willing to spend 5 bucks or more on. Last Star Wars related purchase I made was a Vader mask from Goodwill 2 years ago.
What boggles my mind is that the discount store is even bothering with that garbage. It’s taking up space on their shelves, space that they could use for stuff that actually gets bought.
I don’t expect to see a lot of merchandise from “The Marvels” because I think even the toy manufacturers will avoid that IP. No one wants to lose money.
Hey those Malaysian kids worked really hard to make those toys!
They shall be punished for their failure.
Actually Malaysia makes quite decent products.I love their Curry noodles. Great flavour.
For months, all the rainbow merchandise from 2021 and 2022 was stacked to the ceilings in the back corners of the Disney outlets in Orlando. I saw a box filled with rainbow Mickey ears (with the embroidered hands making a heart) marked down to 25¢. The company couldn’t give them away, yet the product line gets bigger every year. Disney just doesn’t seem to understand what customers want anymore.
Disney is run by Woke activists.
These people don't comprehend reality!
Disney knows what's best for everyone. They'll decide what people want.
@@richardm3023 and they'll eat all the crap they've made yet. No one wants that crap, and certainly not to the abundance that they produced of this garbage.
It's the most obnoxious in your face marketing they've ever done. It's just pushy, even people that might have bought some of that crap will be pushed away with how forceful they are with their terrible marketing.
Disney dug its own grave with the "inclusión" policy, they can't sell the rainbow merch but if they stopped producing it the lgbt community would lash out on them
Their overlords are trying to force the masses into "loving" all things gay. And it isnt morking. The Elite want lower populations and it is the main reason they are forcing gayness on everyone. No one breeds it they are putting their pee pee into someones butt.
Merchandise and theme parks are driven by pop culture excitement. When someone like KK is destroying a franchise like Star Wars the damage done to Disney is far greater than the movies and streaming shows failing.
I worked at a target's toy department and saw this stuff play out first hand. So many Disney property toys that just sat there rotting away. The only good thing about them was that when we ran out of other stuff we could fill then up with these things because my managers would throw a fit if there were empty shelves.
The discount store is the best reflection of product failures. That Walmart is well stocked just means they're well stocked.
Disney got its money for licensing these crappy toys, it's the toy company that gets screwed because they can't sell them.
At my Goodwill store we used to get old stock from Target (we don't do it anymore because Target started sending us stuff that we couldnt sell). One time we got these cheap Incredibles 2 toys that was like those grapper toys, but instead of it grabbing anything it would have a plastic fist on it where when u pressed it u could pretend to punch something! Surprisingly they still wouldnt sell even when we put it half off, so one of our endcaps were just filled with them for awhile (we still had a whole area full of them in the toy aisle too). I still have a picture of it too.
I work at a behavior center specializing towards children and we do have those sticker books but they are mainly for the therapists and assistants to decorate their tablets or binders. The kids at that age like other activities that aren't really Disney apart from Spiderman.
😂 and Disney doesn't even own Spiderman. They have to rent him for movies and split profits and I think Sony makes most of the money from merch.
It's a damn shame that all of the Billy Dee Williams action figures are peg warmer's. Lando Calrissian was one of my favorite Star Wars characters when I was a kid. Disney has really damaged the franchise when a core OT character is unwanted.
Also bringing him back in ROS was a disservice to Lando‘s character. BDW just wasn‘t in the condition to match up his old iconic portrayal of the character.
the damage to the brand is done and will be very difficult to reverse, people have been done with disney star wars for years at this point
his character is damaged by solo soystory, he is symbol of panseggsualism now
@@luna-hw9li his inclusion in that movie was because they stupidly killed off Han and Luke and the unfortunate passing of Carrie Fisher but Disney still wanted to include a legacy OT character to nostalgia bait fans and that's why we got Lando in that
The main problem was that Lando was packed 3 per box, compared to the other characters who were packed 2 or 1 per box. So every time the store opened a box, they had to put 3 Landos on the pegs. If Lando had been packed one or two per box, he wouldn't have warmed the pegs like he did.
I was a kid in 1999 and I remember getting so much Star Wars toys and merchandise I remember Star Wars fruit, snacks, and Star Wars kiddie pools and Star Wars coloring books and Lego pod racers and getting a lot of b1 battle droid figures because I thought they looked so cool, I even remember getting Star Wars stuff at Taco Bell, I remember when Taco Bell had kids toys.
1999 was certainly one of the best years for Star Wars merchandise.
There are plenty of items many people want including me but never seen to find (things like clone troopers or any trooper variant from star wars ) but are always bought out , funny how so many named characters sell less than the faceless ones
I remember as a kid a few years after the phantom menace the toys started showing up in discount shops and they were usually gone fast even jar jar lol so yeah they must be doing really bad
Disney Star Wars is rotten and now there’s rotting store wares.
I thought Force Awakens was ok, TLJ and Rise Of Palpatine were mediocre/terrible, Mandalorian gave me a little bit of hope but after Boba Fett and Kenobi….
Lucas Star Wars was better
Impressive. Most impressive.
@@chasehedges6775 Force Awakens was trash too. They all suck.
@@chasehedges6775Funny, people said the opposite after the prequels.
I work a lot of retail and I've had to come in and stare at an unsold T-shirt for The Last Jedi, a movie that completely broke me, for the past 6 years. Meanwhile we got a copy of Jedi Outcast II last week, one of my all time favorite Star Wars media, and it sold within minutes. Really goes to show the bar of Star Wars in 2023.
@breadandcircuses8127 Jedi Outcast at least offered a more hopeful universe that Luke Skywalker could create a successful academy, one that doesn't solely rely on established Star Wars icons or the First Order. I'd take Kyle Katarn or Dash Rendar over anything we've gotten from modern Star Wars.
Do these get sent back to Hasbro to melt down and recycle or just end up in landfill? I'd really like to know.
Possibly end up in rubbish incinerators in some areas.
Love seeing the consequences of their actions that they can’t hide. Everyone can see how much of Disney branded stuff is not selling.
What a waste of energy and plastic
Just because wakanda forever and over run star wars toys don't sell, doesn't mean Disney doesn't sell.
@@hoopty388 they can't even. Make entertaining movies anymore
@Ricky J the mouse has always has peaks and valleys.... just like every movie company.
@@hoopty388 never made any effort to make entertaining movies even when I was younger
Does anybody know even ONE person who ever bought a Shang-Chi action figure? I'm convinced that not one person bought a Shang-Chi toy.
I don’t even know anyone who saw the movie.
I’ve never seen anyone, at a store, buy a Shang-Chi toy. I’m fairly convinced neither did the Chinese people (who are in the billions strong worldwide).
i saw it on disney + its fine but dont care about that character
They are sitting on clearance at my local TRU. When did that movie come out?
No one in my area bought them, at least.
My local Walmart has a ton of post-Endgame marvel toys on clearance. A lot of newer Star Wars characters I don’t recognize too.
it seems to me that all of this would be a fantastic recycling opportunity. i felt sorry for qi'ra at 9:21.....she just looked so sad. put these poor figures out of their misery and give them new life in that great recycling bin in the sky!
This actually is a good idea
Last time I went to my local bargain store I've noticed some Little Mermaid toys. One or two OG Ariels left and ROWS of the new Ariel dolls.
That's literally not possible. The new Little Mermaid stuff is just being set up in stores now. Don't be that guy.
so ironic with star wars in particular considering that is what actually made Lucas so rich. Hence the joke in "Space Balls"
"There could be an Etenals toy for every kid in America" best quote ever!
There are some TV Disney cartoons [Amphibia, The Owl House, Gravity Falls] where fans were asking Disney for toys, especially plushies, from these shows and they got nothing. But there are always rows and rows of toys of characters nobody cares for on sale or destroyed. Disney needs to put their shit together and actually listen to the fans.
When you can’t sell Star Wars or Marvel action figures and toys you’ve really failed
"Angry old man yells at plastic toys"
Here in the uk we have a store called mattalan , the last jedi and rouge one figures are on the shelves for £1.79.
That's crazy how there's STILL TLJ toys from 2017 keeping pegs warm in these discount stores.
Soon to be joined by Little Mermaid and Dial Of Destiny merch. Even now the levels of incompetence are mind boggling.
I remember even in the 80's there was alot of unsold ROTJ merchandise in stores with figures marked down to .99.
I get really emotional when it comes to Star Wars only because I seen the original Star Wars in theaters so I feel like I'm a part of that history , it breaks my heart to see what they did Star Wars.
I saw Star Wars too in the theater. It was October 1978 on an afternoon weekend. My cousin's birthday. The movie was still playing in 1980.
@@haveanicedave1551 that’s awesome to hear, there is only a handful of writers that have gotten their books turned into movies that I can count on one hand unfortunately three of them are dead, tolkien, Jim Henson and Michael Creighton, thank goodness James Cameron and George Lucas still alive.
@@iliveinthe80s38 I'm not a Star Wars fan and have only see the original. Tolkien sounds like the Hobbit writer?
Good lord, that Flash figure isn't a toy...it's a torture device.
When I was young and poor I would get knock off transformers and give Joe's, etc, but now if you're a kid and poor, you get Marvel and Star Wars toys 😂
The amount of unsold Disney merchandise at Walmart is staggering. Even at 90% off clearance, Disney merchandise are still unsold and that’s most retailers.
The short Darth Vader figure looks like the Stewie character from Family Guy in disguise.Maybe if they would label it as Stewie,maybe it would make for better sales as long as the Stewie character's head would appear without the helmet on.
Me envisioning Jeff getting sued because he left a Ezra Miller action figure on the floor and an old lady slipped. 😂
That’s not really how lawsuits work
I know it's a newer film, but it looks like Across the Spider-Verse toys are selling while the MCU stuff from a movie that released back in November is still clogging up shelves.
That's pretty damn funny, especially when you consider that Disney likely gets a much smaller cut from the merchandise for Spider-Man films they produce on their own.
Two things are certain in life:
1.That one day we are all gonna die.
2.That no one will ever buy a ShuriCopter.
Toys peaked in 1984 and then sharply died before the 90s even started. they did it to themselves, Ill never understand why.
I work at a local supermarket. We have a clearance aisle dedicated to Disney trash.
It's a testament actually to Rebels being a much higher quality and well-liked series that there is ONLY one Ezra Bridger with speeder box set compared to dozens of Reys, Kylos, Wakanda this-and-that, Flash, etc., etc.
Yeah but only some liked Rebel because of the story for early episodes that don't quite good and lightsaber is too THIN. Well, I liked the Rebels because they consistently getting better
Rebels was garbage and is considered very bad
In latin america, the only Disney items that are selling well (since ever) are the classic stuff (everything before 1999). In the other hand we had entire shelves of new items that nobody looks at, for example the eternals toys, chang shi, starwars, nothing off that move.
Only a couple years ago that I learned that shows and movies are designed as advertisements to only sell toys to children. The life of that show/movie depended on the sales of the toys, which is why everything is so copy/paste
Usually when people say you couldn't give something away for free it's an exaggeration. In this case however it's literally true. People wouldn't take this stuff it it were totally free.
I started watching your channel around the time of the Solo debacle, but I love your vid's about failing toys lines.
I can't believe this dude come to wallmart to bully unsold toys
"The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) today reported earnings for its second quarter ended April 1, 2023. Revenues for the quarter and six months grew 13% and 10%, respectively."
I'm sure those D&D action figures sold better than anything else on the shelves, certainly Star Wars. Does Disney know Star Wars is a dead brand now? They're a trillion dollars in the hole, they'll never recoup these losses!
I bought myself 3D prints of the Kids, Venger, Uni and DM
@@Aenarion28 Nice!
So that's why I can't ever find the Star Wars figures I'm looking for? Because they aren't selling? Wow, I gotta re-think this...
@@DeadholeProductions nothing to re-think.
Mass production of Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose Tico and such but they didn't sell. Notice no toys of Rise of Skywalker.
Hasbro told Disney they don't sell. Classic and Prequel stuff does sell.
The guy I get my stuff from sold a Solo Millennium Falcon for $5 brand new in the box when it retailed for $100.
If you are looking for Sequel stuff, go to Ollies.
Firstly, all three of the Disney mainline movies are in the top twenty of the highest-grossing movies of all time. As we learned from Michael Bay, artistic quality has precious little to do with revenues.
Secondly, Disney does not make merch. For instance, the Black Panther stuff and the vintage Kenner figures are made by Hasbro. Hasbro pays Disney for the rights to use the characters for the merch. Disney makes money regardless of whether they get sold or rot on the shelf.
Star Wars is only a dead franchise in the minds of the internet crowd. The average person doesn't care about lore, "the message", or any of that other crap that people around here think is so important. They just paid Disney a quarter-billion dollars to see the latest live action remake.
Does the Flash action figure come with real grooming action? Maybe a harem of brainwashed 12 year olds?
They could sell an Ezra Creeper action figure.😅
Their problem is that they don't understand that it doesn't matter if the character is cool, if the toy is not, they will not buy it.
My little cousin never watched Aquaman, but the moment he saw the black manta toy figure, he wanted it, because he thought it looked cool.
Meanwhile Cars merchandise on the other aisle: 😎kachow😎
Star wars only has 1 small shelf and it used to have a full to half an aisle 😂😂😂😂😂 RIP Lucasfilm 2012
That wasn't Darth Vader it was Rick Moranis from Spaceballs.
Is it sad that I have far more interest in buying a Dark Helmet figure than literally all the Disney shit shown in this video combined