1/6 Mars Toys MAT014 Joker (Jack Nicholson)

[Asta]

Meiling Jin
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Hey guys!... I just asked again, they said in the next week.
(god so many releases next week maybe I'll have to camp in the warehouse

...)

38 m

 

[Wor-Gar]

who's warehouse next week?

 

[Asta]

who's warehouse next week?

Giantoy.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Hopefully Kit's as well.

 

[Asta]

Hopefully Kit's as well.

I think they usually receive their stock at the same time, give or take a day or so.

 

[davejames]

I’m definitely addicted. I think hookers and drug’s would be cheaper at this point. I have 15 hot toys I plan to buy this year and I don’t really need most of them. But, my sick brain needs them. I have a bunch of figures still sealed in the shipper and I’m completely out of room, but yeah, order a Dewback for $700. I need an intervention.

Ha I'm right there with you. And it's not only figures for me but statues and models and 3D printed kits too. There's just SO much great stuff being made these days that the little kid in me just can't seem to say no to.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Ha I'm right there with you. And it's not only figures for me but statues and models and 3D printed kits too. There's just SO much great stuff being made these days that the little kid in me just can't seem to say no to.

Whoa... what? 3D kits? Like old garage kits, resin "statues" that you paint?

 

[davejames]

Whoa... what? 3D kits? Like old garage kits, resin "statues" that you paint?

Yeah like studio scale X-wing models and stuff like that. I don’t have a printer myself yet but you can still buy 3D printed kits others have made.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Need to find someone to build and print a Joker hat for this Nicholson.

 

[dukefett]

Giantoy.

My last few orders with Giantoy I had gotten payment requests like 3 weeks before they were supposed to get the figures in hand, I haven't gotten anything yet from them.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I always wonder, when a company makes you (and many) pay weeks early for a PO, is it because they are short on cash to actually pay for their order? Maybe I'm pessimistic. I usually note the 'pay remainder upon arrival' or such as meaning they have received their order (whether they have sorted it or not is something else).

I've noticed with Sideshow they seem to make you pay upon the ship's arrival at Long Beach port... even though it could take days or sometimes weeks for them to get that boat in and unload it.

 

[Nick D]

With Sideshow I usually opt for their payment plans to allow me to either pay it all off or push a few back, perhaps cancel, time to decide really, play around with it. I’ve never been one to be in a hurry to receive it, until they charge me that is. They’re so all over the place with charging sometimes, make you pay for multiple items in full, weeks before a shipping notification isn’t ideal, even though UPS usually always delivers a day earlier than projected.

 

[Captain Clown]

The sooner I can pay something off the better. I’m not a fan of looming payments. If a site offers an option to pay something off in full from the beginning, I go with that.

I’m glad I learned Kit offers the ability to pay preorders off completely regardless of how far out they may be.

 

[Nick D]

Yep, I pay things off quickly if it’s something that’s a must buy or pretty expensive. If I don’t pay it off entirely, I make sure to be a couple months ahead on payments. I’ve been around 2 months ahead on the Jazzinc 89 Batmobile since I ordered it in November, about half way paid off on it. I like having funds for things that don’t involve a preorder, I also purchase a good bit of clothes. From August to now has been the most expensive couple of months for me ever in my time in the hobby.

 

[joeyoky]

You see and they say you only get one chance to make a first impression

 

[parrasmaniac]

Sorry in advance for my poor skills with photo editting.

I tried to see how a repainted headsculpt would look!

 

[Oxymoron]

it's an impressive sculpt, much better than DX08

 

[parrasmaniac]

I agree.

 

[Rondesmo]

Yep, I pay things off quickly if it’s something that’s a must buy or pretty expensive. If I don’t pay it off entirely, I make sure to be a couple months ahead on payments. I’ve been around 2 months ahead on the Jazzinc 89 Batmobile since I ordered it in November, about half way paid off on it. I like having funds for things that don’t involve a preorder, I also purchase a good bit of clothes. From August to now has been the most expensive couple of months for me ever in my time in the hobby.

I think the preorder concept will not last.
look what happened with Oniri. I heard from guys who had lost up to the equivalent of €7,000...
stores which now have cash gaps worth €80,000...
I can assure you that these same people will never pre-order again and will even definitively leave the world of collecting and some shops which do not have strong enough backs will go bankrupt...
At the same time this hobby is going through a pretty weird period. People are having more and more difficulty making ends meet and products are becoming increasingly expensive.
Afterwards we are not going to lie to each other but the manufacturers have understood that the market is now in Asia where the prices shock no one and a little in the US where it still works well.
We Europeans are considered the bums of this business and the manufacturers have absolutely nothing to do with us anymore.
Here in France, there aren't many people who can put $3500 into a 1/3 JND, there will be even fewer who can put $1000 into a 1/6 doll...
This hobby was fun and recreative when you could afford good figurines between $150 and $250 but seriously $1000 for 1/6... It's crazy.

 

[Nick D]

I agree the market is for the US & Asia, but it always has been. They have a hand in hand relationship, the films and media have been sourced from us here in the US, save for a bit of anime that your Asian markets love, and will pay top dollar for physical representations of.

Asia comes to us for the big likeness rights and studios contracts, Europe was never really apart of that conversation, plus with all of the import fees, VAT, taxes, conversion rates, that goes on in Europe it’s not a very good place to do business, the collector community is also very minuscule there.

Currently a $1k- $2k 1:6 figure isn’t an issue, you don’t have to buy it, those that complain about it are the equivalent to those who complain about luxury vehicles, watches, clothes. It’s out of your willpower what someone makes, and another feels is worth buying, it’s an open market where things will get made, and things will get purchased. We’re dealing with massive inflation everywhere we turn, every 1:6 figure is going up, I just forked out almost $3k for Moducases with a heavy $700 shipping fee attached, that’s ridiculous to me for something not made from glass, but it’s the best looking and convenient option we have.

My suggestion is for people to just stay picky on what lines they want and have quality boundaries, if a figure isn’t top quality, or can’t be customized into top quality, then allocate funds elsewhere and don’t look back. I have six DF120s on order and will not fill them to the brim to where they’re completely cluttered like Justin’s collection. If I want something new after I collect things in my current plans, something old has to go.