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Good questions, Count. The Count figure is also available on Big Bad Toy Store for $42 and $4 shipping. With taxes, that's still closer to $50. I agree, these prices are making it tough to collect the line...

Now that I have a Count figure, and he is becoming available at more places, I'm starting to get eager for the next figure. Will it be Herry Monster? I think the NECA folks said he was further along than Big Bird and Oscar. Whichever figure it is, I hope it goes up for pre-order soon. Maybe it...

I feel terrible for Zach Oat and all the former DST employees who lost their job. I hope they're all able to find new work quickly. Diamondselecttoys.com now shows a message about DST being on pause as they prepare to show new offers and keep checking back. I'm not sure if this means lines will...

If this purchase goes through (fingers crossed!), I wonder how the Disney license will work. I don't think it was included in the Alliance purchase. Maybe it will need to be renegotiated. Having DST continue their Muppets line, including the figures already solicited, plus NECA making updated...

DST, along with several other Diamond Comic companies, was just purchased by Alliance Entertainment in Diamond's bankruptcy auction. I think this means the solicited figures will actually get made, plus hopefully more. I think the line definitely needs some steady releases to build back up some...

Diamond Select's Lips and Lew Zealand went up for pre-order this morning. They're available at the dst website or online retailers, like entertainmentearth.com or bigbadtoystore.com. They're supposed to be available January 2026. I guess that depends on how the bankruptcy auction that's...

https://www.toyark.com/2025/03/02/nytf25-diamond-select-toys-and-gentle-giant-disney-and-muppets-557771 Here are some additional photos of the new Lips and Lew figures. Overall, I really like them both. I like the Palisades head sculpt for Lew a little more than this one, mostly for how the...

https://www.youtube.com/live/-3i-CqeExE8?si=zCMAeJzKttmM8QgV Around the 55 min mark in the video, DSTZach says that Lips and Lew Zealand are about to be solicited for pre-order. I assume that means they'll go up for pre-order in March. Around the 70 min mark, he says that Lips and Lew will be on...

Unfortunately, Diamond Select also filed ch. 11 bankruptcy, in addition to Diamond Comic Distributors, though the filings are being handled under the same case. DST's filing indicated they have higher liability than assets. I'm hoping a large portion of the liability is obligation, like sculpts...

I was reading a little about the closure of Palisades to see if it could provide any indication of what is likely to happen with DST. It seems like Palisades didn't file for ch. 11 bankruptcy but was still trying to sell off assets before eventually closing what remained of the company. I guess...

That is bad news. For the sake of the employees and the dozen of additional Muppet figures I want them to make, I hope this bankruptcy and potential acquisition process goes smoothly and quickly. I'm not sure if those folks will continue working and products will continue being produced for the...

https://www.youtube.com/live/uLUFnN9CQ7g?si=vrNog7-GxjgS9hdv In this recent YouTube, Zach talks a lot about their Muppets figures. It sounds like Deadly and Pepe are now supposed to ship in February, and Lips and Lew Zealand will go up for pre-order in March or April. I'm not excited about the...

Thanks for putting together this list of potential figures. I think my guess about Beauregard and Pops being next is likely incorrect. I made that guess because Zach Oat mentioned those two characters during a couple of YouTube interviews, which made me think they were next. More recently over...

A lot of exciting info and discussion in the interview. It's good to know the NECA team are paying close attention to the details of the puppets to make the figures as accurate as possible. Trevor mentioned that the original line up included several blue furry characters in a row in wave 2 or...

In case you haven't already heard, be careful moving the joints on these figures. They are fragile. I suggest soaking them in really hot water for a few minutes before trying to move them. I agree Gobo's eyes are a little too big. As long as I'm not comparing the figure directly with an image of...