General Marvel Legends

The MCU evergreen figures ARE the Marvel evergreen figures. Amazing Spider-Man is a red and blue Spidey, Iron Man 3 is red and gold Iron Man. Cap is Chris Evans but Chris Evans is Cap so...

They may be movie but they are available - and currently IM is $17.99 pretty much across the board, which is a fantastic price in general, especially these days and for a really nice upgrade. If these take up any more peg space we'd lose a wave.
 
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Misfit said:
My guess at the lack of something as obvious as an evergreen Spider-Man is they assume people are less likely to buy one of the many Spider-Man variants inserted into a given wave if they can just always get the one they want most.
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This is probably very, very close to the truth.
 
The Timely/Atlas Wish List Just For Fun thread will be the to get a poll, if we get a few more votes. We are just a few shy of 15 votes.
Please get your votes in by this Sunday evening 3-8-26.
 
The unmasked Gamerverse Iron Man head just screamed Immortus to me when I got that so I've had it sitting around always with the intent of finding a good donor body or mix of parts and calling it job done, but a Rama Tut would definitely be one I'd want.
 
Dunno if this is the right thread for this, but haven't seen it discussed on the board yet and figured people would have thoughts: https://www.startribune.com/north-s...ost-delightful-experience-in-retail/601592670

Key takeaway is Target is pivoting away from being an "everything store" (department store, Target. The phrase you are looking for is department store), and leaning further into groceries. They identified toys as a key area for downsizing, with plans being to carry somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty percent less.

If this is the case, it would seem to me we'll see Marvel Legends and other collector lines pivot even further into online/ specialty retail.
 
"We've collapsed in Black and Latino areas because caving on DEI led to a forever boycott in these key expansion markets, so now we're hoping to hell there's enough of a white middle class left that will pay extra for groceries because the store's less grungy than ALDI and the boxes are cuter than at Walmart. Sorry, Spider-Man."

EDIT: I'm just going to add a couple of non-figure thoughts here, because reading this article actually was a delightful experience in retail.

- Losing Ulta is roughhhhhh. Like, during a peak of youth makeup sales? That's the kind of what-now-God timing that the Book of Job operates on.

- Turning your women's clothes section into agile, constantly-changing capsule displays to keep up with fast-fashion trends is the kind of thing that sounds appealing to executives, but as someone who served their time on the Target front during college, I'm genuinely excited to see the results when that theory is applied to the reality of retail stocking and merchandising at a store that size. You can pull that off at, like, Zara or Uniqlo because that's all those stores do. Constantly pulling people from housewares because they just got an overnight message from corporate saying they need a western wear display up TODAY is going to be amazing.
 
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Ultra Seven said:
Hmm ... what else can we pivot to? Baby products! It isn't as if the birth rate is taking a nose dive or anything.
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"Alright, you got us, we're a store for young, upwardly mobile white women. Yes, we lost Ulta, but I'm sure they'll love Target Beauty Studio just as much. No, we will not stop supporting the misogynists behind Project 2025, I don't see how that's relevant here."
 
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Ultra Seven said:
Key takeaway is Target is pivoting away from being an "everything store" (department store, Target. The phrase you are looking for is department store), and leaning further into groceries. They identified toys as a key area for downsizing, with plans being to carry somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty percent less
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I stop at 2 Targets exactly once per week each and absolutely the ONLY thing that I've bought from there in years is... you've got it - toys.

They're way too expensive for groceries or household items. I'd have to be desperate to buy anything else there. I go there generally trying to see what action figures they've marked to 70% off and put on a clearance endcap.
 
I still go to my Target weekly for that NECA Ambassador program. It's mostly a good excuse to get out of the house when I'm working from home and they have a better selection of cat food than my grocery store. I've noticed the toy section has really struggled to bounce back from the holidays so downsizing does not surprise me. They seem to be out on The Simpsons toy line and I haven't seen anything new from McFarlane in awhile, though I know their DC Multiverse stuff is winding down and could have as much to do with it as anything. Same for Playmates TMNT which is down to just a handful of figures plus some of those remastered sets. The collector section has been a bit stagnant too. If they drop toys though then that will suck. There really are so few options for parents to go buy toys at anymore, I guess I should be glad my kids are out of that stage.
 
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