Super 7 TMNT figures

PantherCult said:
Sorry... I'm a moron apparently.
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No need to be sorry for trying to be helpful. I appreciate you offering something so quickly. It's surprising to hear that the market for Donatello is so limited while Michelangelo and Rocksteady are priced above retail. I wonder if it's more of a supply or demand issue. Was wave 3 produced in lower numbers than the other waves?
 
Who else was in wave 3? I do think Rocksteady was a great figure.
 
Metalhead was available for like 20 bucks Canadian on Amazon for MONTHS.
 
Wave 3 was probably produced in the biggest numbers as far as a single order goes, it's just that it was only one order. The post release demand for wave 1 sent Super7 back to the factory to reissue it and wave 2 while wave 3 was still in production. They did reissue the turtles with the party wagon, but I don't know how big of an order that was. Like everything Super7, there was a time when wave 3 was cheap, but retailers have successfully liquidated it so there's demand on the secondary market.
 
Kind of seems like the Super7 bubble has finally fully collapsed.
 
Damien said:
Kind of seems like the Super7 bubble has finally fully collapsed.
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I'd think that if Super7 themselves were liquidating their stock, but many retailers like BBTS and Chubzzy Wubzzy in NJ supported these lines, and realized they couldn't get rid of it. BBTS been sitting on this stock for years, with multiple, similar sales.
 
NORM said:
BBTS been sitting on this stock for years, with multiple, similar sales.
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My point.

I'm not saying Super7 themselves are going out of business. I think consumer confidence in Super7, and consumer interest, has finally hit that all-time low where it's going to be really hard to come back from it short of just the usual Super7 plan of 'have licenses no one else has.' I'm just not sure that's going to work with the amount of smaller companies making cool nostalgia stuff these days, in addition to the big companies making nostalgia product.
But also.. maybe Super7 -is- in a lot of trouble right now because it doesn't feel like they're doing very much, they bullshitted through some 'faster delivery times, fewer long pre-order windows' garbage that has not resulted in any new pre-orders OR new 'quick releases.' And they let go of most of the people there who were responsible for actually making action figures. So.....
 
I picked up the Ray/Krang/Samurai Leo/Leatherhead wave for $44 to fill out a spot at my vendor table over the weekend. I put $20 on each of them and figured I'd both make $9 profit and perhaps make someone happy.

I came home with all 4 lol I do believe @Damien is correct, the bubble has well and truly burst. I mean, Leatherhead is a LOT of plastic for $20...I'm sure not everyone knew about the BBTS sale.
 
Kinda sucks Super 7 might take down the best chance at a good 2003 line with them. It doesn't feel like NECA is in a place where they'd take that on and I can't see Mattel wanting to do them over their own take or a vintage style line or classic toon.
 
NORM said:
I have to imagine that by now, anyone who wants these has them already.
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I think you're right.

Super7 is that one company that almost always gets me until I remember their quality at the last minute. I'll see a figure like the undercover Raph for cheap and think I need that, because it's trench coat Raph! I always need a trenchcoat Raph! But then I think about it, truly think, and it always turns out the same. I don't really need a trenchcoat Raph lol Even at that price.
 
NORM said:
I have to imagine that by now, anyone who wants these has them already.
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One of the big rules for any toy company - and you can hear them talk about it all the time - there's always new customers. There's always people that fell in love with something recently, or didn't know your line existed, or didn't collect toys, or just got out of jail, or finally divorced that chick that wouldn't let them buy toys, or WHATEVER.

If you basically cannot sell even popular characters at rock bottom prices (comparatively), there's only a few reasons that can be true. The big one is that your company name has become toxic. The other stuff is things like other companies are doing it better or, to be entirely fair, economic uncertainty. But for that last thing to be true we'd need to see a major downswing in overall toy sales, which we're really not - so far as I can tell.
 
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