with the Capcom 2pks, what kind of figures are people expecting. I can’t see Hasbro making all-new sculpts for them, except for Shuma. I imagine they’ll just be repaints. But would they have some kind of cell shading or pixel deco?
I hoping they won't have cell shading or pixel deco, I want this to fit in with my X-men 97/comics/Spider-man animated figures. That said I think they should put Psylocke on the new articulated female buck.
with the Capcom 2pks, what kind of figures are people expecting. I can’t see Hasbro making all-new sculpts for them, except for Shuma. I imagine they’ll just be repaints. But would they have some kind of cell shading or pixel deco?
There are a few that could use a new body at the least. Psylocke especially; her last figure in the iconic Jim Lee look was 2018, right? Some new accessories like a shoulder cannon for War Machine might also be in the cards.
@enigmaticclarity That was kind of my point, although I don't have that data to share it. I appreciate it and share your logic, I probably will worry....just a little bit. But would just as soon forget. You can't have a better economy by doubling prices on things people enjoy.
The tariffs would all but doom this hobby.
I'm not saying they'll happen, but the idea that Trump won't enact any of the outrageous things he proposed is what got us into this mess in the first place. It's magical thinking. It's no different than saying Business Daddy will come in, wave his magic Economic Wand, and lower the price of eggs.
Other than prosecuting his political enemies, the only constant messages of Trump's campaign were mass deportations and tariffs. They will attempt or one both. Some of the wall was built. Mexico sure as shit didn't pay for it, but it's there.
The leaked list sounds super fun! I want most of it! Hope tariffs don’t destroy everything.
Pssh. Some of you wimps act like you’re too afraid to start robbing ATM machines to fund your hobbies like I do.
And then others are too afraid to start performing ATM to fund the hobby.
The tariffs would all but doom this hobby.
I'm not saying they'll happen, but the idea that Trump won't enact any of the outrageous things he proposed is what got us into this mess in the first place. It's magical thinking. It's no different than saying Business Daddy will come in, wave his magic Economic Wand, and lower the price of eggs.
Other than prosecuting his political enemies, the only constant messages of Trump's campaign were mass deportations and tariffs. They will attempt or one both. Some of the wall was built. Mexico sure as shit didn't pay for it, but it's there.
Oh Lord, if the deportations happen to any significant degree, the tariffs are going to be such back page news. Florida's already finding out what happens when you start deporting your labor base, just massive worker shortages in every industry they rely on. We're at something like 90% or more of construction firms saying they're having staffing issues. Imagining that nationwide combined with the insane cost of enacting it plus the shortage of the money that labor is paying into the system...we might as well start using MLs for currency at that point. (Ollie's will be the richest company we have!)
I'm trying not to think of the human cost if that happens, but I'm already horrified.
I've been debating if I want to downsize my collection - specifically GI Joe Classified, which I love, but have less affinity for than Marvel. When considering selling off the unopened HISS, Vamp, Dragonfly, etc I'm sitting on I decided to hold off for a few months. If broad, punishing tariffs do get enacted, the secondary market is likely to get pretty hot and/or my own collecting might slow to a crawl and I'll wish I held on to some stuff to ride out the turmoil. Really don't look forward to what these proposed policies might do to our hobby.
Who knows what gets tariffed this time. so let's not worry about it until it happens, shall we?
Not worrying about it until it happens is kind of how we got here as a country. I dont see a world where the next administration doesn’t have a strained relationship with China, and the result of that relationship being strained is more likely than not going to be some big brain at Heritage suggesting we get punitive with our trade policy.
At a minimum expect some figures to start getting made in Vietnamese factories within the next two years. Companies wont wait until the crisis occurs to start finding alternatives when aspects of their supply chain are at risk, especially given this particular one has precedent.
How am I coping? I’m planning on having a smaller number of purchases.
I'm not saying they'll happen, but the idea that Trump won't enact any of the outrageous things he proposed is what got us into this mess in the first place. It's magical thinking. It's no different than saying Business Daddy will come in, wave his magic Economic Wand, and lower the price of eggs.
Other than prosecuting his political enemies, the only constant messages of Trump's campaign were mass deportations and tariffs. They will attempt or one both. Some of the wall was built. Mexico sure as shit didn't pay for it, but it's there.
Yep. And he DID have a plan for having Mexico pay for the wall, and I'm not at all sure why he didn't enact it:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-explains-how-he-would-force-mexico-to-pay-for-border-wall/
The plan was to halt wire transfers of money from the US to Mexico unless they paid the US $10 billion. The thinking was that many if not most illegal immigrants send a portion of their US earnings back to their families in Mexico. That would have had the additional benefit of discouraging them from coming in the first place for those whose primary motivation was to work in the US to support their families back home.
My guess was economists convinced him that there were more cons than pros, but I'm not at all sure of it. I can think of a number of reasons it may have hurt the US more than Mexico to stop money transfers there, but I don't know how likely any of them actually are. Just the fact that he didn't go through with his plan is one of many reasons to believe he isn't as impulsive as he usually seems.
This is a giant aside, but the point related to the thread is don't worry about the tariffs at all until they happen. I'd bet at least an X-Men '97 Sentinel that he'll never implement any high tariffs on ALL goods from China, and even if he does there's no WAY it'd be 60%. I'd probably bet two or three Sentinels on the specific idea that he'd never do any as high as 60% or more.
Who knows what gets tariffed this time. so let's not worry about it until it happens, shall we?
Not worrying about it until it happens is kind of how we got here as a country.
Well if we're going that broad then I'll qualify it--if you work professionally on US economic policy then yes, by all means worry about it greatly. But otherwise ignore it. He's not going to tariff everything 60% and tank the US economy just to tank China's because they're WAY more than willing to suffer than we are. They don't want tariffs, but they know our losses would be far greater than theirs if it happened so they know they have the upper hand in any all-out trade war. Xi knows it's all bluster.
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