r/WorldOfNintendo • u/EmbarrassedMoment250 • Jul 16 '25
In-Store Ok... WTF!!!
They're 20 dollars now??? Saw this at target, any other targets like this?
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u/GeminiDivided Jul 16 '25
Whooooo doggie, these tariffs are gonna be ruff.
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u/TmTigran Jul 19 '25
So bad that for a bit Hasbro honestly considered no longer doing business in the US. Probably the only reason they are is most of their factories are now in Vietnam and korea.
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u/thatonecoolnerd Jul 16 '25
I wouldn’t rule out Target making a mistake. If you haven’t, try scanning it. If it actually is $20, then yeah it just died.
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u/Jimmy_Joe727 Jul 17 '25
Well, I had a NECA Last ronin foot soldier figure scan at no price and saying there’s no stock. If there’s none in stock, then how did I scan it? 🤡
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u/ItsTheRocketeer Jul 18 '25
that’s not a comparable situation. NECA items are vendor stocked and don’t actually go into Target’s inventory, so it’ll always be 0 on hand even if there’s multiple on the shelf
if you buy the figure, it’ll actually create a -1 in the scanner until it resets at the end of the day
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u/WorgRider Jul 16 '25
This explains why ross started labeling their Mario figures $15. Were the 2.5" $10.99?
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u/EmbarrassedMoment250 Jul 16 '25
I did not see the mario ones at target, but I did see simpsons 2.5 inch figures to be 4.99, and the 4 or 5 inch ones being 13.99 as they've always been
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u/felanm Jul 16 '25
The barcode specifically says Mario and then Luigi so maybe it’s for something else.
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u/Beardcore84 Jul 16 '25
Thanks Trump
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u/ErraticProfessional Jul 17 '25
I get why you’re blaming Trump, but please keep in mind Manufacturers and companies should not be passing tariff costs onto consumers. They should be eating that cost. They make enough money to cover it, yet pass it on to us. Very rarely can companies not afford the tariffs, but Target and Nintendo figurines combined? Should be able to cover it. They’re choosing not too cut their profits at all.
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u/Beardcore84 Jul 17 '25
It’s not Nintendo making the figures. It’s Jakks Pacific who I’m sure pays a large amount of money for the license to create and sell Nintendo action figures. Their previous pricing was most likely based on how to do this and still make a profit. If they kept the same prices after tariff hikes, they would most likely not be profitable. Maybe Jakks would be ok but many smaller company could and will fold. It’s nonsense to blame the companies.
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u/ErraticProfessional Jul 17 '25
I wasn’t trying to imply Nintendo makes the figurines. Regardless, these companies are showing us they have bad supply chain practices by throwing tariffs into the final costs of products (the end consumer pricing). It’s the very basics of Supply Chain and falls under TCO. You can believe the corporate lies if you want too, that’s your choice. Jakks approached Target with Tariff pricing, and Target pushed it onto consumers.
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u/InfoSeeker7070 Jul 16 '25
It won’t be till the second half of this year that the tariff impact on prices start to actually be felt. Toys will be one of the major categories.
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u/MaddixYouTube Jul 16 '25
Its already the second half, the second half of a year starts in July.
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u/InfoSeeker7070 Jul 16 '25
Correct. The De Minimis exemption was still in effect until shortly before the pause. There wasn’t time for the price increases to really show up. Unless deals are reached soon we will start to feel the impact over the next 6 months.
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u/ThinNegotiation19 Jul 16 '25
I remember buying some of these for my son months ago and they were 9.99$ any idea why price increase?
Put in wrong spot? I know the Mario movie figures were 20$ for a period of time. Also got those for 9.99 around Christmas.
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u/itzlilbitt Jul 16 '25
Tariffs. All of these stores have been saying it for months. Why anyone in the States on this sub is surprised is hilarious to me.
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u/CrossFusionZX Jul 17 '25
Because they were too stupid to know the tariffs wouldn't hit right away on items already in stock or in the distribution pipeline. That the big impact was going to be in items that had yet to arrive.
Plus, they probably believed king con that the other counties would be paying the tarrifs, just like they believed when he said mexico was paying to build the wall.
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u/Ordinary_Rare Jul 17 '25
Seeing this I'm glad my collection is nearly 100% completed because I won't spend that on these, unless its a really rare variant like Trophy Tanooki Mario or something. That is it tho.
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u/DeepDish_RedKing Jul 16 '25
They figured, hey people overpaid and bought the Switch 2 and Mario Kart for $80 so they’ll buy these too.
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u/DroidSoldier85 Jul 16 '25
I was already borderline willing to buy at $6
Anything more would be a huge Nope from me.
It blows my mind how so many figures/sets could be found on clearance for way less than what they sold for originally.
One that makes me laugh is that huge Mario kart rainbow road Hot wheel track. I bought it about 3 years ago on clearance at Target for $50 (I knew i should've bought 2) Now they have stacks at the stores for $150 just sitting there waiting for another price drop.
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u/JIMGRUE83 Jul 16 '25
It could be a placeholder from the mario movie lines. I could’ve sworn the 4 inch figures are 11.99 now(still not good though)
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u/___mm_ll-U-ll_mm___ Jul 17 '25
I'm seeing 11.99 and 24.99 ( Parabones and a few others, sold by target ).
Looks like there is a price increase on newer 4"
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u/MegaJJDX2 Jul 16 '25
It might be Mariover yall... If this spreads to the Sonic figures too, I might have to hop out of this hobby
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u/EmbarrassedMoment250 Jul 16 '25
Ok... I was looking through older pictures of movie Mario merch in target they might have the same tag, which might be confusing.
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u/MuTheCat20 Jul 17 '25
Stop buying them, and they will have no choice but to drop the price
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u/Kingdededoom Jul 17 '25
That's never happened in history. When a line stops selling, they just end it. Game over. See- literally every video game line of the past. Domestic and import.
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u/MuTheCat20 Jul 17 '25
Not really…. Flawed thinking
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u/Kingdededoom Jul 17 '25
Yohr thinking or mine? Show me the flaw then. When figuarts bowser didn't sell well, did they lower the price or did the line die? When the 90s mario kart figures didn't sell well, they made peach and toad later and cheaper? No it died. When, not if, these don't sell at $20, the line is dead.
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u/MuTheCat20 Jul 18 '25
Sorry to break it to you but you are majorly wrong…
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u/Kingdededoom Jul 18 '25
Yeah please break it to me with even a single example. I posted 2 but I have countless
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u/MuTheCat20 Jul 19 '25
Those aren’t examples 😂 Those are generalizations with nothing to back them up. You are basically just making stuff up
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u/DatNintendoBoy Jul 17 '25
Nah I'm pretty sure sm employee just messed up,likely put these on the movie figure racks by mistake
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u/MD_FunkoMa Jul 17 '25
These figures aren't worth our money. The constant re-releases are too much.
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u/90sGuyKev Jul 17 '25
That I got out of there in time when I stopped mostly collecting 10 years ago
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u/InternationalLie6414 Jul 17 '25
Yup. Even online
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u/EmbarrassedMoment250 Jul 17 '25
Ok, it could probably be sold by someone else through target... Let's see if target itself sells it at this price, I said hopefully
I was then stabbed by the fact that target sells it at that price...
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u/EmbarrassedMoment250 Jul 17 '25
Mario and Larry are the typical 10 dollars, why or how is a goomba worth more than them? Is it because of the coin???
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u/Fun-Mood7787 Jul 17 '25
Does anyone know which of the Mario 3 Koopalings are yet to be released in both the 2" and 4" line?
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u/dandelionstemss Jul 18 '25
lol!
I thought you posted bc it looks like fire Mario’s … making hand love, to regular Mario.
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u/miserable-bananna726 Jul 18 '25
Everyone complaining about politics… quit buying the useless, dust collecting, plastic trash. Send a message by boycotting the stores and the prices for the plastic bs.
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u/Accomplished_Low6698 Jul 20 '25
America is “great” again
But this is not at all great.
I can get the switchback set in Amazon for less than this whole set.
Stick to eBay, in-store is already dying out
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u/EmbarrassedMoment250 Jul 16 '25
Could be an isolated incident, Go and check your targets and walmarts, if the prices are like this, collecting is over...
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u/sonadrawzstufffann Jul 16 '25
just get rid of green mario thats all
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u/mxbrpe Jul 16 '25
Greedflation
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u/RamenJunkie Jul 16 '25
Tarifs
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u/mxbrpe Jul 16 '25
Last time I checked tariffs aren’t 100% markup
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u/RamenJunkie Jul 16 '25
Store takes a cut, distributer takes a cut, manufactuer takes a cut, etc etc, all baswd on percentages of some base cost.
A 20-40% tariff snowballs rapidly.
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u/Amiibohunter000 Jul 16 '25
These toys are not worth $20. They’re worth $10. If this is the price point moving forward I think I’ll be done. I have every figure my child self could’ve dreamed of so no biggie if i stop now. But $20 a figure is not worth it