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Yeah, I was always a little skittish on posting what I have simply due to how political (and politically motivated) the tariffs are. That’s why I’ve not posted every half assed rumor about how the tariffs MIGHT change every other day. I’ve kept it to more substantive news, and I appreciate the...

I think his Hasbro estimates are probably pretty close on the low end, but I don't see Hasbro kicking up the prices THAT much on the upper end for Transformers. Not after revamping Titans to be smaller (with a smaller price). Especially with Transformers largely made in Vietnam, I see the...

Bail Organa is still a senior Senator, and still wielded a LOT of influence, despite the state of the politics. It doesn't make sense for MULTIPLE senior senators to drop off (and there was still another in the "rebel cadre" still in the Senate as well). If nothing else, given how clamped down...

I don't know why that happened unless nobody reads and wait for CNBC interviews or what. Mattel made their statements DAYS ago when they released results. And it's not like Hasbro and others haven't already made statements to the effect of tariff impact on revenues or price increases. Can't...

Many stations have "Movie Clubs" where they'll air what are generally deemed to be "classic" or "important" feature films of Americana. Here's the link for the Oklahoma PBS station's Movie Club. I've seen them run Batman 89 before, and apparently they ran Galaxy Quest last February...

I posted elsewhere, but Hasbro and BBTS have reported that prices will increase after May 9. Hasbro will honor preorder pricing placed before that date, but after? Prices are going to go up.

According to WSJ, Mattel has suspending any future outlooking statements, citing consumer uncertainty with the tariff situation. Hasbro will honor preorder pricing until May 9th, though Mattel nor any retailer have made any similar announcements about Mattel's product slate aside from "US...

Playmates has released images of their initial offerings for Power Rangers, due in retailers this summer https://toynewsi.com/216-57783

https://toynewsi.com/278-57791 A notice appeared this weekend on Hasbro Pulse, indicating "Lock in Preorder Pricing by May 9". According to BBTS, as well as notices from makers Mondo and Funko, price increases are coming. The ToyNewsI reported (speaking with BBTS) has indicated that after May...

For that matter, what about the arcade sequel, Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder? Something that could have thrived on the 32x or Saturn (instead of The Duel), was basically left in the arcades until it got put onto the Astrocade thing Sega did some years back. But it’s still easier to pirate...

Microsoft has mentioned recently that Game Pass is becoming a viable “thing” on its own. For a lot of smaller developers and publishers, many have cited that being on Game Pass brought their game a level of exposure that probably would not have been able to get otherwise. But in Nintendo’s...

Oh lord, he’s going after the animes! https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-announces-100-tariff-movies-produced-outside-us-2025-05-04/ tl;dr: Hollywood is “dying” (despite steady recovery since the pandemic and over $30 BILLION in revenue last year), and to save it, Trump has...

Just another thing to prove to me that our country is doomed: I have a coworker that works in the ER. He randomly brought up politics with a stupid racial joke: “Trump said he’s going to deport all the Mexicans, Juan by Juan”. :rolleyes: This guy is a self professed Republican and…he’s OF...

Duke Nukem is tied with Gearbox, Capcom is probably trying to get people to buy the Cloud version of Resident Evil 2 Remake (or a native Switch 2 version), WB barely acknowledges their own game library. Conkers is one I’m surprised hasn’t shown up, given how well Microsoft and Nintendo have...

Japanese tech icon, Pioneer, has announced it will be exiting the optical drive business, which includes CD, DVD and BluRay. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Pioneer-reportedly-pulls-out-of-Blu-ray-drive-business.1009797.0.html It has transferred shares of the division to Chinese firm Shanxi...

Yes *gestures to the adult collector market*

Not sure where to put this, but since it is all related to tariffs anyway... Microsoft just instituted a 20-30% price increase across ALL of its Xbox hardware. Most accessories are seeing a price increase in the $5-10 range, while Microsoft confirmed some of its bigger titles this holiday...

https://toybook.com/president-trump-dolls-statement-news/ Such a bullcrap "rich person" answer, even before you start to math the how much a product would have to increase in cost to go from "30" of something to 2.

For those of a certain age...this is going to hit right in the nostalgia balls. Back when game companies still had personality

Backwards compatibility are a slightly mixed bag. A VAST MAJORITY of Switch titles are going to run and run fine. Nintendo has posted a compatibility chart detailing some games with issues. The biggest issue is the fact that the new JoyCons are lacking some of the functionality of the old...