Thread 11616124

BBTS emailed yesterday saying they've removed ALL DST pre-orders. Many had been previously left up because there were still hopes some merch would come in. Over on Fwoosh a year ago DST Zach had stated that the Muppets Uncle Deadly / Pepe 2-pack had already been "on the boats" and should have been in the warehouses last year, however they simply never materialized despite the company rep saying they had indeed been manufactured.

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. I was really enjoying their LOTR line among others.

>>11616124 (OP)
Did the X-Men Inferno mini figure box set ship at least to stores?

>>11616124 (OP)
Yep.
I've had a pre-order for almost 12 months now, for the Metallic version of the Iron Giant that just got cancelled - but this by Entertainment Earth.

>>11616168
>ship at least to stores
Which annoys the fuck out of me, because I know some metallic IGs were made and sold, I just missed out by relying on an on-line pre-order.

>>11616124 (OP)
I know the new owners are selling some of the Diamond Select stuff that was announced at SDCC, you can even order for it on-line, but it's a different e-commerce site that the regular Diamond site.

>>11616124 (OP)
If only they stopped making those shittymates, they'd've been around longer. Good riddance

>>11616691
Diamond's problem was NOT with their toys and collectibles. Those did reasonably well and they seemed to manage production, and even re-issues, well, unlike other similar companies with the same kinds of production 'runs.'

They went bankrupt because DC took their business away and then eventually, the rest of the comic book market - which was already fucked up in a lot of ways, was badly hurt during lock down and they weren't prepared or able to recover without stiffing and screwing over a lot of smaller businesses, including some toy companies.

>>11616124 (OP)
>>11616168
>>11616484
Americans can't do anything right, especially with woke comic book crap no one reads
>fwoosh
Cringe
>>11616696
Guess they deserve to go out of business if they can't change with the times and fail to cater to modern audiences that want things like Labubu

>>11616706
Get a new gimmick.

>>11616711
that's why dst failed, couldn't innovate and make new gimmicks for the same boomer crap
>NO NO NO NO DST WAS WHOLESOME IT WAS KINO
real glad it failed and you faggots will continue to make threads about their failure

>>11616715
Yawn.

>>11616717
>NOOOOO DC STOLE THEIR BUSINESS NOOOOOO TODDY MCFARTY KILLED DST

kek, comic book fags are retarded

>>11616719
Isn’t being a weed-smoking homosexual illegial in your country? If so why are you still here?

>>11616720
damn you Americans still believe some monkey posts here no wonder Trumpy won :)

>>11616722
Boring.

>>11616696
And thank fucking God. If anyth8ng Diamond was one of the major contributing factors to why comics are as dead as they are. Back before Diamond, you could buy comics at your local grocery store, in fact it's how many children discovered comics back in the day. But then in comes Diamond who regulates comics to specialty stores only, specialty stores run by possibly the most inept, under trained, and poorly managed individuals on the fucking planet. You wanna know why LCS' are dead. Look no farther than their greedy piece of shit owners.

When the big two walked away it was a blessing. You can actually buy comics again at regular stores. Not that it matters now that they cost fuckin six goddamn dollars. No one's spending that for a 22 page poorly written and badly drawn book these days. But yeah, fuck Diamond, they pretty much killed the comics industry.

>>11616768
I don't disagree with you. I'll skim a floppy but they are a waste of time. I'd rather read a trade and that's most consumers.

Graphic novels/sequential art is as popular as it was when Action Comics was selling in the millions of copies but monthly floppies only sell decently, for a 'popular culture' medium, when speculators and shit like excessive variant sales create a false boost.

That said, I regret that this means DST is also going under, considering they made some neat affordable things and had some good licenses.

>>11616774
>Graphic novels/sequential art is as popular as it was when Action Comics was selling in the millions of copies
Only if you're counting Manga. Unfortunately western comics, even on TPB form, just don't sell like they used to. Compare the western comic section to the manga one at any Barnes and Nobel. Western comics take up like a third the space the manga wall does.

>>11616124 (OP)
Damn so no Sweetums?

>>11616776
Scholastic still sells better than nearly all manga in North America, son.

>>11616867
I don't think we're counting comic books and children's books in the same category. So your argument doesn't really make sense.

>>11616792
Nope.

>>11616768
>e. Back before Diamond, you could buy comics at your local grocery store, in fact it's how many children discovered comics back in the day. But then in comes Diamond who regulates comics to specialty stores only, specialty stores run by possibly the most inept, under trained, and poorly managed individuals on the fucking planet.
Newstand distribution had been having issues for decades by then too, it's part of the reason why comic shops sprung up in the first place. Newstand purchases were limited and irregular so a lot of areas that month to month you wouldn't be guaranteed successive issues or even the same titles. Many non-superhero focused publishers ended up dying in part of that, Gold Key being a peak example.
Newsstands could still purchase comics even in the Diamond domination era, most just chose not to because comics just don't sell that well. Especially with their rising prices.

>>11616768
>If anyth8ng Diamond was one of the major contributing factors to why comics are as dead as they are.
>DEY KILT DA COMIXS!!!
>IT ONLY TOOK DEM DECADES MAN, DECAAAADEEES!!!
>BUT ITS DEY FAULT!!!!!
Do you make it a habit to go sperging against the wrong party just to have something to sperg out about? Newsstands weren't buying comics stupid, and by the end of the era that they were they were MASSIVELY defrauding the distributors by tearing off the covers to get money back and selling the coverless books out the back door. Holy Uninformed Retard Batman!

>>11616946
>>11616962
>>11616975
Why is everyone hyped for Chainsawman and anime has no problem faithfully adapting the source material? Yet comic books need to make everything woke and ugly.

>>11616980
Why the FUCK are you @'ing me with your completely unrelated retarded comment? What the FUCK is wrong with you, you insipid retard???

>>11616987
Are you new? It's a bot. Just ignore it.

>>11616991
Are you sad? Comic books are dead and will never be popular like chainsaman

>>11617005
>>11616980
Boring.

>>11616946
dang

>>11616975
>>11616962
News stands still work in Japan and foreign countries, which is why manga is big there, in part. Why they failed here, other than maybe car culture, people no longer reading newspapers, magazines, etc. (which has also fallen way more in the USA than in other countries), who knows.
But the other thing to remember is that news stands would rip the comic cover off and not send them back, they would just get pulped (or re-sold for less illegally by some sellers), which fucked the publishers over.
DIamond partially created the whole 'not returnable' aspect of floppies which was also part of the death knell of the Local Comic Shoppe

>>11617388
we get it Americans are poor and have to pay all their taxes for Israel it's not the world's fault you need to pay so much money for a fake nation

>>11617397
Yawn.

>>11616719
He did it for nothing it's almost over. Todd's diaper crotch articulation figures suck. I wish he would have stuck with making more swivel cut statues as he originally planned because we got worse.

>>11616706
>Labubu
>>11616715
>new gimmicks
>>11616719
>NOOOOOO TODDY MCFARTY KILLED

>>11617628
Why did they think a rockman in boxers would outsell some of the other potential choices they didn't make from the jusrice gang?

>>11617890
Because he's charming