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Collecting News, Site News

Five Below Finds Continue

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These figures may not be to everyone’s liking, but last year’s second wave of Movie Heroes had some really nicely sculpted figures with very acceptable articulation and they are showing up at Five Below locations, for the wonderful price of $5.00 per figure.

Personal Note:  I can’t help but wonder if 2012 would have shaken out different if Hasbro had put this sort of effort into the Movie Heroes line at the 2012 launch; and supplemented the line with better figures for repacks rather than the direction they took.  If Hasbro had put more effort into the kid line for 2012, and Movie Heroes had not crashed and burned, would we even be seeing 5POA figures at all? 

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Discount Stores Clearancing Hasbro Product

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TJMaxx and Marshalls stores are marking down the smaller scale vehicles – down from $14.99 to $10.00 (and even $7.00 in some cases).

You know the market isn’t accepting Hasbro’s lineup when discount stores, who already have their prices lower than standard retail, are clearancing Hasbro’s product. 

Personal suggestion for Hasbro – Stop making smaller vehicles like these.  The lower pricepoint doesn’t matter if everyone already has better versions of these toys.  Instead, focus on making new items that haven’t been made before, or improving your product. 

And it’s a collective punch in the gut to a large portion of your loyal fanbase to refuse to make dioramas/playsets, yet continue down this failed path with this line of vehicles.  It’s bad business too.  Just ask the retailers who are unable to move this type of product for a profit.

Artwork, Contests/Giveaways, Customizing

Yakfinities #50 – The Original Trilogy

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Our first customizing challenge here at Yakface began as a bit of an experiment back in August of 2006 – and here we are now, seven years later, and have hit a bit of a milestone – the 50th Yakfinities Customizing Challenge has begun!

The rules are simple… create any sort of new custom that is inspired by the Original Trilogy… it can be that certain cantina alien that Hasbro just won’t pull the trigger on, an ultimate Luke Skywalker,  something “off screen,” or whatever – the choice is yours.

But this time, rather than the usual random winners, we will also be selecting a Grand Prize winner… which will receive the upcoming Amazon exclusive Droid Factory wave of figures.

Head on over to the forums for all the details after the jump!

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Customizer Mega Spotlight

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This weekend we spotlight more of the great customizing work being done by Star Wars fans in our forum community.

Leading this off, we have Stocos28, who shines as always with a Twi’lek Jedi, and more which can be seen here.

Next up, we have a great tribute to the vintage bootleg Uzay Headman and several other customs, courtesy of Tonphanan.

After that, try to keep your socks on when you see the Pong Krell custom by Darth Daddy (we are all still wondering why Hasbro hasn’t made this guy yet).

Last by not least, darth naes shows off a killer battle damaged Darth Vader custom from the Dark Horse comics series in his customizing thread.

Collecting News, Site News

Infinite Supply of Movie Heroes Merchandise

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Hasbro’s disaster line from 2012 continues to show up at discount stores like TJ Maxx and Marshalls – as just today, I saw more of this stuff that wasn’t there just a couple days ago. 

One has to wonder just how much of this stuff Hasbro produced… and it’s hard to not feel that Hasbro’s poor decisions with this line are the prime reason for the change in Hasbro’s business model to switch to cheaper, 5POA figures rather than their official reasoning of “changes in kids’ play habits.”