Tracking toy tariffs

Yeah, I was mentally prepared to deal with my hobby being hamstrung. I was not ready for Toilet Paper Wars 2.0 and I REALLY wasn't prepared for Supply Chain-opocalypse 2.0 for PPE either.
 
I do fully expect the tariffs to be short lived once all the effects have hit the regular people, but I also expect everything to do what it did after the pandemic and just subtly get more expensive across the board. Either way the disruption, even if prices return to normal, seems likely to last a month or three at minimum just for supply lines to click back on from all the stopped ordering and then rush restart that will definitely happen.
 
SalemCrow said:
I seriously doubt turtle Mitch could even pull a tissue out of a child's hands, let alone a toy. He MIGHT be able to muster the strength to grab a dollar bill if it was being held, because greed, but otherwise I doubt that creature has any kind of grip strength at it's age.

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On the import order front. I just had Mafex Superboy hit my private warehouse at HLJ, and the ONLY shipping option to me was ESL for $30 something.
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I figure the thought of a crying child to Mitch is like the One Ring to Gollum- no matter how old and wretched-looking he becomes, it's like a shot of adrenaline to him. He and his ilk would happily gnaw off a finger and plunge himself into a river of lava if it meant snatching the joy and power away from someone else one last time.

I hate that I feel that way too. I can pretty much track the progression of my own Gollum-like transformation over the last 10 years since that scumbag has been a political power. My depression/anxiety has launched a dozen arrows into the Boromir that is my hope and joy. I'm not even butter scraped over too much bread anymore, I'm wet mold hastily slapped onto a dusty rock.

Don't know why I have all these LOTR metaphors all of a sudden, but when it's right, it's right.

I find myself silently hoping that an uprising occurs somewhere, somehow. Pressure is rising, you can feel it. It's just a matter of when, where, and how it explodes.
 
Ugh. Recent polling and reports are saying that the Conservatives in Canada have strong support from young voters. I recently saw a quick hit news report (yeah I know not the best journalism), and it was showing groups of young people around the country who were supporting the Conservatives/Pierre Pollievre.

Now I'm a bit worried about this high voter turn out and that it could be another situation like you guys had in November where Liberals got too complacent and the hard right takes the government.

Oh and in regards to all the talk about the pandemic and PPE, etc. etc. Look who the common denominator is both times. But like you guys are saying, the second time around it is self-inflicted.

I'm also starting to wonder what is going to happen with even the big boys preorders (Hasbro, Mattel, etc). I mean if companies are refusing delivery of shipments, and the west coast ports are all but empty now, could we be stuck with little to no product for 2025? I sure as hell don't want a repeat of 2023(?) with Classified where we got slammed with a year's worth of product in less than 6 months.
 
If the supply chain is getting cut off like it appears to be then we're soon going to start seeing increased prices on already manufactured product to offset future losses. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see any big ticket items go up for sale between now and whenever this tariff nonsense is settled.
 
@canprime Oh, PP is almost guaranteed to win over Carney. Liberals are using the bullshit Democrat playbook of just try to be as centrist as possible to 'court' voters. It's fucking stupid as fuck and it's going to get us all killed because none of these idiots take any of this seriously. They still think the rulebook hasn't changed in 60 years.

The reality is that during the last election cycle (so the US, France, Germany, etc), incumbent governments have been punished by their citizens for the state of the world and the local economy. Period. Unless you can show that you are fixing things before elections, you ARE going to be voted out. Trump won on the price of fucking eggs, for fuck's sake. The Liberals in Canada have done NOTHING to help regular people and all they're doing is promising to maybe do something IF we elect them again. They're going to get stomped.

And it doesn't help that they picked the least charismatic fucking centrist Conservative-lite banker to be leader of the party. Liberals need the same thing that Democrats need; legitimate change. Right now if you are an incumbent government and you run a platform of 'same 'ol, same 'ol' - you're going to lose. And everyone seems to know it except the people running because their heads are so far up their asses that they don't even know what regular people think anymore.
 
I'm browsing yahoo news at work as I often do. Usually I just read the headlines and comments, but this time I read most of the article. It started with this guy in Florida who was an event organizer sourcing rubber ducks from China for a non profit. The price of rubber ducks went from $.29 to $.45. This guy (Trump voter's) business is supposedly down 70% from this time last year. They're hanging tough with the idea for a long term gain coming from these tariffs.
Rubber. F-ing. Ducks.
 
I don’t know if it’s tariff related but I just checked out the Spero Toys site and their figures are $10 more expensive than they were last month. It’s gotta be tariff related, yeah? I went a little overboard buying them direct from their site and felt guilty spending the money, but looks like I bought most of the figures I wanted before the price hike. I hope this stuff doesn’t push them out of business. They make such great figures.


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that looks exactly like my aliexpress cart, lol. Import charges higher than the item+shipping combined.
 
Aaron Rupar interviewing Bessent on if he's concerned about empty shelves: "Not at present. We have some great retailers. I assume they preordered."

I swear we need to round up all these Ivy League mba fin bros and put them on a raft and push them out to sea. Zero humanity.


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sephiroth61787 said:
None of them care.
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Yeah . . . not to be overly negative or actually creepy, but:
Nothing is going to get materially better until the billionaire class is straight-up afraid of what will happen to them if they don’t straighten the fuck up and start acknowledging the needs of the “lower” classes.

And when I say “afraid”, I mean “mortally afraid”. Appealing to their humanity won’t work. They need to fear for their lives.
 
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