FinalGwen
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Post by FinalGwen on May 27, 2023 14:21:23 GMT -5
The most baffling choice in the Doctor Who figure range, the 'destroyed' frame a character was contained in, these things cluttered up toy stores and Woolworths for years.
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Post by chrom on May 27, 2023 14:22:01 GMT -5
Who would want that?
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 27, 2023 15:11:07 GMT -5
Glover on the N64, they made twice as many copies as the standard n64 game sold. The modern publishing industry's dirt open secret is some books are artificially made best sellers, ordering copies in bulk to up the numbers to gibe the author bragging rights, with the bulk copies given away or dumped. Charity shops tend to have a lot of questionable books for a reason. Nintendo was thinking Glover was gonna be a big hit. There's a theory that The Master Hand is actually Glover trying to get revenge on other gaming characters who are more popular than it. It wasn't Nintendo, it was an employee at Hasbro. I swear, the Atari brand and IP is cursed as every company that owns them makes mistakes like that.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on May 27, 2023 15:24:45 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure there are still copies of the Dr. Death and Jacqueline WrestleMania XV figures on dollar store shelves to this day. I hadn't thought of the Dr. Death one in about twenty years, but now that I've been reminded I can see it clearly. The gear it had made him look like a man on the way to the beach or water park rather than a fearsome wrestler.
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Post by BorneAgain on May 27, 2023 15:40:29 GMT -5
Something that's worth noting is that while ET was the most famous example, the entire market at the time was flooded with excess games. For a while retailers couldn't get as many copies of titles as they wanted because production wasn't fast enough. Near the end of 1981/early 1982 many stores doubled their orders figuring that they'd likely get half (and thus the quantity they wanted). What they didn't realize as that production had finally caught up, and getting that doubled order in combination with the likes of Atari having no control of the numerous independent sales people getting third party games into stores? Supply so outstripped demand that 2600 (and even Colecovision and Intellivision) games littered bargain bins for years. Retail stores distrusting video games for years afterwards and all the various small third parties going out of business can essentially be traced back to the loads of Atari cartridges that were sent back en masse or slashed to absurdly low prices because of bloated stock.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 28, 2023 13:13:33 GMT -5
That first MGM dvd of Return of the Living Dead.
Huge demand for the film on DVD before it comes out. With in a year every used store I went to was full of copies. Gamestop ,they did used dvds back then,had still sealed copies "Free with any used dvd purchase"
Turok #1 from Valiant. For years and years every comic shop cheap bin would have 8 to 9 inches of Turok #1.
Buddy that went around 15 years ago buying up the stock from closing comic shops still throws in copies of Turok #1 as an free extra on any comic order he ships out.
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Post by wildojinx on May 28, 2023 14:21:11 GMT -5
Turok #1 from Valiant. For years and years every comic shop cheap bin would have 8 to 9 inches of Turok #1. Buddy that went around 15 years ago buying up the stock from closing comic shops still throws in copies of Turok #1 as an free extra on any comic order he ships out. Ditto almost any 1992-93 Image title.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 28, 2023 14:32:10 GMT -5
Power of the Force/Phantom menace figures. They sold like hotcakes on the back of speculators hoping MOC examples would be a retirement fund, but they went to clearance as they were overproduced and carded stuff never really piled on in value in the way vintage figures did because of the glut of toys and people buying in bulk.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 28, 2023 15:07:50 GMT -5
Turok #1 from Valiant. For years and years every comic shop cheap bin would have 8 to 9 inches of Turok #1. Buddy that went around 15 years ago buying up the stock from closing comic shops still throws in copies of Turok #1 as an free extra on any comic order he ships out. Ditto almost any 1992-93 Image title. Those early Image titles ahd huge print runs. Like the shop I worked at got in close to 500 copies of Spawn #1. Sure there was a pile of local collectors that ordered 50 copies each.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2023 9:23:39 GMT -5
Fidget Spinners. I work for a nonprofit that ordered a ton of them as promotional giveaways for when we set up info tables, and we quite literally can’t give them away.
It was considered incredible luck when we were able to get them, too. NOBODY had them in stock, and they had might as well have been made of gold.
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Post by DSR on May 29, 2023 12:51:57 GMT -5
Fidget Spinners. I work for a nonprofit that ordered a ton of them as promotional giveaways for when we set up info tables, and we quite literally can’t give them away. It was considered incredible luck when we were able to get them, too. NOBODY had them in stock, and they had might as well have been made of gold. I was working in a retail store a few years back. There was one weekend where practically every minute we were open, a kid came up to the counter and asked if we had fidget spinners. We had none. A week later we got in hundreds of the damn things, and nobody bought them. They went from "must have" to "couldn't give them away" that fast.
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Post by Vampiro138 on May 29, 2023 15:28:11 GMT -5
I still run into sealed copies of the Peter Criss KISS solo albums at record stores. The gimmick with the KISS solo albums were "shipped platinum" so outside of Ace's solo album, the others really did not sell well with Peter being the one who sold the least out of the 4, so you will still run across still sealed copies of that one in the wild and usually for still a cheap price.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on May 29, 2023 17:36:13 GMT -5
I worked at a 99 cent store in the early aughts,and still remember having these things in stock in 2002-2003
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Post by Hit Girl on May 29, 2023 22:09:22 GMT -5
SW sequel action figures.
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Post by chrom on May 29, 2023 22:15:39 GMT -5
SW sequel action figures. They were building Star Destroyers out of all the unsold Rose and Holdo figures.
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Post by floundertime on May 30, 2023 7:30:52 GMT -5
How about trading cards in the early 90s. They made cards for everything and flooded the market. Got all of them still at my parents house somewhere. Oddly enough the cards I really want are nowhere to be found.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 30, 2023 13:42:01 GMT -5
How about trading cards in the early 90s. They made cards for everything and flooded the market. Got all of them still at my parents house somewhere. Oddly enough the cards I really want are nowhere to be found. For a bit I was buying unopened wax boxes of various 90s comic trading cards and busting the packs on video. Stuff like Deathwatch 2000 from Classic and Tribe from PressPass I think. Also got 3 wax boxes of Plasm from Rivers media group. Usually paid 5 for the box and 5 for shipping. Would build one full base set. Put aside the insert cards. Then the extras from the base set get used as book marks. Sure there is a few of those 90s glut comic card sets worth some money. But the junk stuff nope cheap cheap cheap.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 11, 2024 14:19:15 GMT -5
Since it’s on the physical media front and also ties in directly to OP I wanted to mention this…
Umbrella Entertainment, an Australian Blu-ray boutique label, recently released a 4K version of Super Mario Bros. (1993). Resellers are now selling it on eBay for $100+ with the version that includes ALL the bells and whistles selling for north of $700.
Although with eBay people can sell things for any price. But even if you look for items sold someone actually bought one with a best offer for a $599.99 listing (exact amount sold for unknown).
If you just wanted to watch Super Mario Bros. (1993) on disc at the time of my OP you could have done it for literally less than 1 percent of that $599.99 listing. But if you want the 4K version, collectible slipcover, book, etc., yeah that’s going to cost you!
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Mar 11, 2024 14:33:26 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure there are still copies of the Dr. Death and Jacqueline WrestleMania XV figures on dollar store shelves to this day. I saw a Jakks Classic Fabolous Moolah figure on a Walmart shelf for seventy-nine cents. ....in 2022.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 11, 2024 14:34:55 GMT -5
Glover on the N64, they made twice as many copies as the standard n64 game sold. The modern publishing industry's dirt open secret is some books are artificially made best sellers, ordering copies in bulk to up the numbers to gibe the author bragging rights, with the bulk copies given away or dumped. Charity shops tend to have a lot of questionable books for a reason. That is VERY common in political circles, especially, or otherwise someone where books are not their main source of income, anyway, and it's sheer vanity.
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