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Mandarake had one last night for ¥50,000. Looks like it's already been sold though.
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Calibre Wings 1/72 Prometheus Elevator Diorama Display Set
Sanity is Optional replied to sh9000's topic in Toys
Mine shipped out as well. Alongside the ocean diorama base.- 88 replies
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Based on Arcadia's statements, it actually is what they cost, plus what is likely a larger percentage share for the vendor to justify them carrying something that sells slower/ is a higher risk to stock. The curse of being a smaller business: Smaller volume means higher per-unit production costs Smaller company means less bargaining power with stores, less marketing. Lower consumer demand, no "premium" branding due to less well known company All of the above means that vendors want higher profit margins. As a (rectally extracted) example, say a figure sells from Bandai to HLJ at ¥10,000 and HLJ charges ¥12,000, HLJ has a profit margin on the sale of 20%. Being a Bandai toy, it will likely sell well, and HLJ anticipates it won't cost them much in time/storage to make that 20%. A similar toy might cost Arcadia ¥12,000 to make. To get the same profit margin the MSRP would have to be ¥14,400. However, if HLJ expects that it will take 2x as long to sell, and is more of a risk for them to stock, they'll likely want a higher profit margin, say 40% which puts the MSRP at ¥16,800. So the Arcadia one ends up being way more expensive.
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Saw Yoasobi in San Fransisco, they killed it. Great show, hope they come back!
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Bubblegum Crisis Toys
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Cool, but going to be stupidly expensive and fixed pose. Always sad to see something I wanted as a figure coming instead as a stature.- 877 replies
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Looks like a dark chrome (metallic coating, rather than high-gloss black), matte chrome, and smoke clear to my eye. Also some bare metal. Definitely looks better in Battroid, but not biting here either. If it was all the dark chrome I'd go for it.
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The Macross purchases thread is in the Macross toys subforum. The non-Macross purchases thread is in the "Anime or Science Fiction" subforum, where all the non-macross stuff goes. The old thread is closed and archived. Seems pretty straightforwards to me. The links are just a shortcut to the relevant sections of the forum.
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https://hasbro.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hasbro-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2022-financial I suppose more accurate to say the most profitable and only part of the company that's growing is Wizards. More profitable than the "consumer products" division overall, despite only having a third of the net revenue.
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Literally the only profitable part of the company is Wizards of the Coast, which makes D&D and Magic:The Gathering. The Toy and Board Games divisions are just anchors right now.
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Is it just me, or does this look super weird with the combination of clear, metallic plastic, and metal coating parts?
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It depends how "at capacity" their lines are. It could mean just producing less of other things, or could mean adding a 3rd shift, or it could mean shifting some things to different manufacturing lines entirely (like outsourcing the moulding and assembly, which I highly suspect they already do for DX figures given the inconsistency). In the long run, if the business is sustainable, I suspect they will just buy/build new lines to manage the additional production, but we all know Japanese companies are immensely risk averse and I doubt they'd invest the money to do so up front.
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Woo! Thanks for separating out Macross from non-macross! Other shinies are nice and all, but entire pages of non-macross stuff was a bit much.
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Overall I agree, except for the fact that increasing production tends to *lower* costs, not raise them. I suspect it's partially that they just decided for MSRP ¥100=$1 (as it was close for quite a while), and partially they're using the extra profit to fund the US distribution specifically. Salaries, US events, advertising, etc.
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Max Q-Rau is up on HLJ: https://www.hlj.com/1-72-scale-quadran-law-max-movie-version-hsg65886 But not the YF-19 yet.