【Avengers: Infinity War -1/6th scale Doctor Strange Collectible Figure】

[Jim Morrison]

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I wonder how much longer it will be available at Sideshow? Can anyone recall the quickest a figure has gone to waitlist?

 

[Hoody999]

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I wonder how much longer it will be available at Sideshow? Can anyone recall the quickest a figure has gone to waitlist?

My guess as long as the orders/day are strong they'll keep it open. Also given that the release date is a fair way away there should be some more time. HT will gather as many pre-orders as possible and dictate the close date according to their timing. There is one asian site which I occasionally use to order. They always have a pre-order cut off date. This is probably linked with the date when they need to inform HT (or whoever their distributor is) how many they will need.

P.S the pre-order cut off date on that asian site is 14th June. So if SS is anything roughy similar it should be close to that. Actually I might keep an eye on HT close date to see how this matches. However it is difficult to match, as SS may order say 20 extras for stragglers. So that would artificially extend the pre-order time.

 

[Berry sXe]

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Got my pre-order in at Collectibles Direct. Seems like this guy is selling out fast pretty much everywhere!

 

[Motuxmen]

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I wonder how much longer it will be available at Sideshow? Can anyone recall the quickest a figure has gone to waitlist?

Minutes. A few figures lasted under an hour at Sideshow. Those are usually special releases though.

 

[DasMuse]

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I wonder how much longer it will be available at Sideshow? Can anyone recall the quickest a figure has gone to waitlist?

It's been awhile since it's happened quickly... The movie promo and some event exclusive figures used to sell out in hours, but I don't think a quick wait-list has happened since Civil War with Marvel figures. I'm probably forgetting something. The only two I can think of off hand are AoS Ghost Rider and Road Worn Thor, but I think they were around for around a month or so. I usually order them early so I don't often notice when they sell out unless people make a big deal about it.

 

[melkorjunior]

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Yes, this one is going fast. I was going to buy it at PCZ & was checking daily for it to go up on their site. Their allotment sold out in less than a day & I missed it, so I quickly grabbed one at Alter Ego.

I was updating the BBTS site every five minutes once Hot Toys announced the figure. No way was I going to miss this guy again.

 

[Hoody999]

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Minutes. A few figures lasted under an hour at Sideshow. Those are usually special releases though.

Yeah, but that's a different kettle of fish to a standard pre-order where they haven't made the figures yet, or the number of figures is limited.

 

[zechs1125]

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I dont think Strange has a cap on the run like the special promos or toy fair exclusives have had. Then again, I dont see it staying open longer than end of june with the amount of people that are preordering it.

 

[Brett Banner]

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I wonder how much longer it will be available at Sideshow? Can anyone recall the quickest a figure has gone to waitlist?

Stormtrooper Finn was around 3-4 hours. That’s the only recent one I remember very clearly.


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[subzro]

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I wonder how much longer it will be available at Sideshow? Can anyone recall the quickest a figure has gone to waitlist?

Don't forget SSC puts a cap on how many Hot Toys 3rd part resellers can have. So it is limited for anyone but SS and it not being an exclusive or anything it should be up for PO at SS until it ships next year

 

[Motuxmen]

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Yeah, but that's a different kettle of fish to a standard pre-order where they haven't made the figures yet, or the number of figures is limited.

That’s true. But we never know how many of each they make in advance of them releasing, or relative to another.

 

[Hoody999]

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That’s true. But we never know how many of each they make in advance of them releasing, or relative to another.

?? Not sure what you mean here...

 

[Flintty]

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Got my pre-order in at Collectibles Direct. Seems like this guy is selling out fast pretty much everywhere!

I was waiting for it to go up there for a price comparison. It usually works out about equal but the benefit with SS is you get it sooner.

I had a tenner of RP with CDUK so went with them, I think by the time I paid delivery and customs I’d have been looking at £270ish from SS. I prefer CDUK wherever possible, I’ve used them before and they’re very good, great customer service.
Q3 2019 though... gonna be a loong wait :O

 

[Motuxmen]

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?? Not sure what you mean here...

Just mean that even though a figure is solicited as limited, like with a chocolate variant or movie promo, we don’t actually know if that figure is produced in substantially less numbers or not. So a figure like Sub Zero mk7 could be made with thousands less in numbers which would be a reason it sells fast, or it could just be slightly less and marketing and fomo is why it sells so fast. Same with any figure. We don’t know for sure how many Civil War Caps where made, and how that number compares with say Deadpool 2 or Doctor Strange.

 

[Hoody999]

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Just mean that even though a figure is solicited as limited, like with a chocolate variant or movie promo, we don’t actually know if that figure is produced in substantially less numbers or not. So a figure like Sub Zero mk7 could be made with thousands less in numbers which would be a reason it sells fast, or it could just be slightly less and marketing and fomo is why it sells so fast. Same with any figure. We don’t know for sure how many Civil War Caps where made, and how that number compares with say Deadpool 2 or Doctor Strange.

But for a standard pre-order figure like Doctor Strange for example, Hot Toys doesn't have a meeting and say OK boys, how many should we make for this one ?

It's like anyone doing a custom run here. Everything is dictated by pre-orders. This comes primarily from their main distributors. These distributors (say SS) have sub-distributors who also put in their orders based on our (end customer) orders. Plus any additional orders the shops want to have to have in shop for stragglers or if they think it will be a good seller. SS of course may place limitations on the number these sub-sellers may order so they are not taken out of the market themselves.

Then in parallel to this HT looks at their timing to obtain materials, finish last changes, factory capacity etc etc for that given figure and for the given pre-order numbers and decide when their drop dead date is for final pre-orders. This means they are more or less making to order. This significantly reduces risk for them, and makes planning of everything far easier and streamlined.

They'd be crazy to make say 5,000 high end figures and think, "I hope we sell all of these".

Sure, for a one off limited promo run for SDCC or something that's different. But for a standard pre-order they would want to maximise the numbers made, but all based on pre-orders.

This is what I was told by a distributor. Makes sense to me, and how I would also do it.

 

[Motuxmen]

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I’m not sure any of that changes anything I said though. With say a chocolate exclusive the store fronts the cost (chocolate is a tee shirt store in Hong Kong) to an agreed upon amount. It’s just an individual purchaser doing upfront buying as opposed to adjusting based on distributors PO.

Hot toys only takes PO at Secret base and toy Sapiens and Shanghai for a set window, for set numbers. Not uncommon for a figure to “sell out” in a couple days. So we know based on that they do cap orders to some extent.

We also know that there is a maximum number of figures they can produce in a given time period. So that will play a part. Also to become a distributor for hot toys the places have to agree to purchase for sale a set number of every SKU. Action city (an Asian distributor) has discussed this some years ago. Hot toys has also produced hundreds of unique figures for decades and doesn’t need to wait on PO to guesstimate a production run for a figure.

So, my point was and is that we don’t know if movie promo cap or sub zero mk7 are produced in substantially less numbers or not.

If production run numbers where significantly based on PO numbers then figures like electro would not be sitting around for years.

 

[Hoody999]

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I’m not sure any of that changes anything I said though. With say a chocolate exclusive the store fronts the cost (chocolate is a tee shirt store in Hong Kong) to an agreed upon amount. It’s just an individual purchaser doing upfront buying as opposed to adjusting based on distributors PO.

Hot toys only takes PO at Secret base and toy Sapiens and Shanghai for a set window, for set numbers. Not uncommon for a figure to “sell out” in a couple days. So we know based on that they do cap orders to some extent.

We also know that there is a maximum number of figures they can produce in a given time period. So that will play a part. Also to become a distributor for hot toys the places have to agree to purchase for sale a set number of every SKU. Action city (an Asian distributor) has discussed this some years ago. Hot toys has also produced hundreds of unique figures for decades and doesn’t need to wait on PO to guesstimate a production run for a figure.

So, my point was and is that we don’t know if movie promo cap or sub zero mk7 are produced in substantially less numbers or not.

If production run numbers where significantly based on PO numbers then figures like electro would not be sitting around for years.

The original point was about SS, so this is what I'm talking about.

As far as Electro, this would be an extra figure which that particular store ordered for themselves, or a return, or a pre-order cancellation. HT isn't responsible for that sitting there in their shop.

This is what I mean. HT takes themselves out of the risk factor and hands it on to the distributors or shops themselves. Again all based on shop/end customer pre-orders.

 

[Sassafras]

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Guess I'm in the minority.....I think the 1st HS is better.

I like the first DS better as well - subjective opinion. Also the first DS is IMO good enough - fantastic release - for me there's nothing here to buy another DS. He's not a top fav character of mine but got him more as iconic to comics. And the first DS has accessories I think of as more iconic to the character like the background.

So some IMO minor changes in the fig/portrait and different accessories aren't enough to open the wallet for. There are other IW figs like Bucky, WM, outrider I need more.

But congrats to anyone picking this version up. Hot Toy's DS has been great on the shelf - pretty striking fig. Can't go wrong either way.

 

[Razorwing]

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[Motuxmen]

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The original point was about SS, so this is what I'm talking about.

As far as Electro, this would be an extra figure which that particular store ordered for themselves, or a return, or a pre-order cancellation. HT is responsible for that sitting there in their shop.

This is what I mean. HT takes themselves out of the risk factor and hands it on to the distributors or shops themselves. Again all based on shop/end customer pre-orders.

The original post asked what the fastest waitlist time was. I said under an hour. Is that not correct? For Sideshow. Then you made the comment about a movie promo having different numbers to a regular release. So I said, we don’t actually know that. Then you where confused by that. So I explained why they may not be so different. Not sure why that’s hard to follow.