No way to know. But what's actually interesting here is now companies have to worry about people reverse-engineering their costs. The amount everything goes up, in theory, could tell us exactly what they value their products at. But I don't think anyone has yet come out with what the actual new prices would be for anything in the toy world.
No one knows exactly yet. It was supposed to have taken effect today, but none of their preorder items have applied it that I can see.
The shipping charge from Gundamit is so weird. Frankly, them offering free shipping on everything coming to the US was odd anyway. Seems like they must have been losing money shipping small items, ie single figures. A nominal shipping fee of ~$8 (what I happened to see on an item) is still low, and it's certainly not going to cover any tariff/customs fees. I'm just gonna avoid their store until the Chinese tariff situation settles down. Sucks too as some stuff I was maybe going to order has now sold out. But it's fine. Plenty of stuff to keep me occupied.
I've heard that whisper as well (not from NECA). I'm not sure how much of that was just ... angrily lamenting the way things are, and how much of it was accurate and reasoned assessment, to be fair. But in either case it's deeply concerning. I've heard from one person that there may be an idea to finish up some waves of product and then just pay to store it in warehouses inside China (and Vietnam, I believe) until something meaningful changes.
The craziest part is he doesn't even ACTUALLY have this power.
That plus the fact that there is nothing to fall back on. There is shockingly little movie-accurate Batman Returns figures out there. When does it come out? December? If I buy no figures all year and am sitting on a couple thousand extra dollars, that should lessen the sting. Again.....IF it even gets released.
I'd be surprised if Todd didn't release all his DC product. Unlike Hasbro, Mattel, and others, he can't just stash it in a warehouse. It's this year or bust.
I'm somewhat optimistic about the medium term (say January 2027 to January 2029) because of this. Bush bottomed out the economy right before a presidential election. Trump crashed the economy in 2020 but had House Democrats to save him with Keynesian stimulus checks. This time, there's no quick fix. (There's impeachment, but we know that won't happen.) There's not even another election for 18 months. Propagandized base or not, there won't be anywhere for Republicans to hide when the shelves are empty and prices have skyrocketed.
S02E08 of Andor is what is coming for the US. To put it in our nerdy toy terms.