Thread 11600308

I can't believe no one saw this coming!

>>11600308 (OP)
Every trend has an end, and that end usually comes sooner than it should because of fucking scalpers pricing everyone else out too many times with stuff others wanted but gave up on. Oh well. They still made more than Hasbro and Mattel combined this year off of cheap-to-make stuff.

>>11600308 (OP)
I saw one of these coming-soon walls at the mall near me

I wonder if they'll bail on these spots, or if they are locked into giving-it-a-go-anyway

I thought the vending machines were genius. including the robotic indifference to the randomness of the boxes. that's the one you got. suck it.

personally I think anything over $10 for a random figure seems insane to me. no way I'm spending $200 on blind boxes to get the one I want eventually. good luck to them, but for those reasons, I'm out.

>>11600308 (OP)
Pop Mart fucked up by not doubling down on the Monsters fad and milk the fuck out of it. it may die down as a fad, but at least you made the most out of it.

Was this another retarde attempt by the CCP to push China’s soft power? Like pretending anyone gives a shit about ne zha 2?

the fad may die but it still is profitable. Look at TY Beanie Babies, the fad died, but TY kept making plushies that they sold, and beanie babies have made a comeback. The stupid ass video essays explaining how TY killed Beanie babies are fucking idiots. They knew it was a fad that would end, milked it all it could and extended it as long as it could, nothing with so much interest can remain like that forever. There are some fads were they dont' maximize profits to not "hurt" the fad and people just stop caring

>>11600495
It did cross my mind that the CCP had something to do with this somehow.

If anybody has any of these they want to trade for other toys hmu

>>11600503
There's a big difference between the brand still existing and it getting devoted store locations and themeparks, which is how Popmart was chosing to expand.

>>11600410
Pop marts are still popular even if labubu's on its way out. People love this cheap crap.

11 minutes to say the trend died because it only appealing to fickle sheep anyway

Fucking great. I bought a labubu with the intent of having it be a family heirloom. It was supposed to be my childrens' inheritance. You're telling me it's already over? It's worthless now?

>>11600512
That’s because you have maga brainrot, cuckservative.

>>11600835
go away

>>11600614
Pop Mart stuff is not cheap my dude.

>>11600840
Well you're clearly jobless and have no money.

>>11600308 (OP)
I didn't expect a crash. I just thought it go the way of fidget spinners

>>11600843
And you're obviously talking out your ass.

>>11600846
get a job, incel

>>11600847
Low quality bait.

>>11600308 (OP)
>no one saw coming
I said that the bubble was about to burst on this very board when the totally organic threads first started popping up.

>>11600308 (OP)
So did they actually lose 13 billion dollars, or was the "valuation" of inventory that they actually had far less money in? I hate it when people claim money was "lost" that never existed in the first place.

>>11600843
clearly.

Damn, I still want one.
Does this mean they'll be cheap now

>>11600964
You could find one at a flea market, but its a flea market so beware not washing it, you see a bit of funny stuff there if you’re lucky

>>11600835
Thanks for confirming the ccp had something to do with it

>>11600495
Probably. They're so desperate to look like a world super power that they have just been outright lying about shit. Does anyone actually believe that Ne Zha was actually popular? Only reason I even heard of it was because it was apparently the #1 selling animated film of all time. Same with Labubus. I legit don't know a single person in real life that cares about that shit yet apparently it's the hottest thing since Winnie the Pooh. I don't buy it. We really need to start holding Ch8na accountable for their lies. Especially the extremely petty ones like lying about box office numbers. Embarrassing.

The creator is from Hong Kong and they fucking hate Mainland China.

>>11600308 (OP)
Isn't this 13 billion down from the roughly 50 billion market cap they hit last I heard? No doubt it'll continue to drop, but that's still quite a lot.

>>11600308 (OP)
The bubble burst,
Only difference here is that the bubble burst way waaaay faster than normal due to scalpers and dealers grabbing up everything and ,massively overpricing everything to the point where no one else but another dealer was ever going to buy their shit.

>>11601116

Thats funny because hong kong is china. Just like taiwan.

>>11601287
They wouldn't have to take it by force if it was china would they

>>11600308 (OP)
>chinese propaganda is a bubble
wow, big surprise

i don't even hate on the little guy
he's cute enough

but this really shouldn't have come to anyone as a surprise
they even bought expensive as hell stores in my european city right next to an even bigger and more expensive building Zeekr cars just across the street
almost has to have been bought with CCCP trustfunds

>>11600956
It’s just their stock valuation. People were investing in it like a shitcoin. It was inevitable it’d collapse, someone had to get left holding the bag.

>>11601289
Taking it back, westerners took it by force and proclaimed them to be independent nations...only to maintain a military presence in the region.

>>11601223
>due to scalpers and dealers grabbing up everything and ,massively overpricing
I wish reporting about trends like this would start IDing this shit earlier. Labubu was reported on the same way as Stanley cups, with all the blame placed on "psycho fans" that must have the newest hot collectible thing. But it's become obvious that the people rushing stores and throwing cases and cases of shit into carts are resellers. The ugly behavior starts with them and then any regular fans who try to compete with them end up looking bad too. For sure there are cases of regular fans acting like this over something hard to get but lately it's been resellers pushing things to 100 at in person events/sales and regular fans just trying to keep up and avoid having to pay an inflated price for the thing from the guy ahead of them in line.

>>11601520
Like with all the insane fandoms that are talked about, the ones the general public see snatching up armloads of collectable figures, Magic cards, and pokemon is the sweaty fat creepy looking guy that falls right into the old fashioned dork stereotype. So people see weird nerd shoving little kids over to grab the pokemon cards out of their hands and running off with them at Target do not really see that they are dealers looking to stick that pack on ebay for resale. They just see some nerd snatching up everything like a psycho.

>>11601523
>They just see some nerd snatching up everything like a psycho.
Which is what the majority of toy collectors are

>>11600308 (OP)
It's a good thing zoomers dont get married

>>11601540
There were a LOT of normies in Labubu fandom, every sighting I had in the wild was on a hot girl's bag. Pokemon cards, you're right, but not every big trend that hits the news cycle is like that. The Labubu resellers were really obvious compared to the normal fans when you watched the crowd control videos.

>>11601116
>The creator is from Hong Kong and they fucking hate Mainland China.
Real HKers do so no surprise. Im more surprised at how the CCP props up his shit without censoring his disdain.

>>11600495
>>11601068

>Like pretending anyone gives a shit about ne zha 2?
>Does anyone actually believe that Ne Zha was actually popular?

2 hours of action. Not hard to understand its appeal.

>>11601545
I'd marry a zoomer as long as it says in our prenup that she doesn't get my GI Joes or retro video games if we divorce.

>>11602113
Yeah but there's nothing organic about it. No fandom, not famous scenes or quotes or memes about the movie. It's the avatar of animated movies

>>11600495
Ne Zha is really popular in China. Rest of the world though couldn't give less a shit. Transformers started to struggle in China, so they had to partner with Ne Zha to get a boost.

Just goes to show that Chinese have a huge population, and lots of money to the point they don't need their movies to succeed overseas.

>>11602333
Exactly. If shit like Anpanman can be a $60 billion franchise rivaling Star Wars with JUST Japan alone generating all that revenue then Ne Zha easily can be even bigger in China, a country that has 11 times of Japan's population backed by a younger average demographic than Japan's aging population dominated by old people who don't spend money on IPs like these.

>>11602326
>No fandom, not famous scenes or quotes or memes about the movie

that's because you keep searching in english and on english social media sites. chinese fandom is a huge. there were other fans from surrounding countries on twitter too in other languages back when the movie was releasing

>>11602326
>No fandom
How have you not come across the massive amount of fujos that were there since the 2019 movie released?

>>11602877
Don't know what kinda candy ass you got there anon but if it ain't American it ain't worth shit