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I highly advise not doing any pre-orders at all during this time. They can say anything they want, but they can simply just refund your money for the original price and then list it for what it actually cost them. Not to mention that money could be literally tied up for years. Keep in mind that...

All US retailers are in a holding pattern for new releases currently. We are placing them with the manufacturers, and they are holding until the trade war is lifted. But I will tell you that I’m sure many of those retailers that choose to hold out and not cease operations, are making very...

Very low profit margin

We have no control over the Wix site and how it’s processed. It’s calculated on the current postal rates, we don’t set them, it’s all done through Wix and the current rates. So we suggest buying all your models at once to avoid a second shipment. My team processes very quickly, so once a label...

Everything that Gemini sells or distributes from North America is funneled through Las Vegas, so the entirety of North America is on pause right now, to include Canada

Just remember, US retailers will not be getting these releases unless the trade war resolves. You will have to get them outside of North America

You can already see where they have pivoted to. We have NG inbound right now for March releases. If they get hung up with tariffs they will not be accepted by us. They have taken all US titles out of the equation as they think the US market is effectively gone.

We will get NG next week as it is inbound. Be curious to see if it's caught up or not. I suspect next month, once everyone has been given direction(couriers) it might hit.

Our business model has never been just on new releases, the same with MTS. It was just a small slice of our business. But for most of the others it is, or has been. That will be their demise. Unfortunately, or fortunately for the very few of us who do deal with collections and retail a lot of...

Yes and going forward that will be the case with any and all pre-orders, if they do stay in place, and I don’t see how they won’t at this point. So for this I am glad we don’t do preorders as that will be a nightmare to handle and still stay customer service focused. I am also looking at just...

The true measure will be next month if the tariffs stick and both countries don’t back down. If the tariffs are truly at 125%, and those costs are passed on to retailers in the US, it will effectively kill off the hobby in the US. It would hypothetically price a new release from say $45 to over...

Squatchy’s of course will be there

We got our releases today from AK, a day late as I was out of the store on Friday, but we have them up on our site.

Dragon Wings/ Jet-X are now back on sale 30% off

Yeah he is something special alright…..