Diamond Select Toys to Produce new Muppet figures and mini mates!

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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 long and continued delays, but I am excited that we still could have figures of Deadly, Pepe, Sweetums, Lips, and Lew Zealand by the end of the year. It sounded like the production issues that have caused delays for all of Diamond's figures are getting resolved, which I'm hoping means we'll get Sweetums and Robin this summer and Lips and Lew before the end of the year.

Zach said work hasn't started on the set they'll make after Lips and Lew because production is so backed up, but he did throw out some possibilities. Link and Strangepork seemed to be top of the list. It sounds like as a two-pack without Piggy. Then maybe Pops and Beauregard or the Newsman, Vets Hospital 3-pack, Christmas Carol variants with Michael Caine, and maybe Bobo and Walter eventually.

 

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Well, this doesn't look good for the company.

Diamond Comics Files for Bankruptcy

Diamond Comics Distributors have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. All of their properties, including Diamond Select Toys, Gentle Giant, AFA are now up for sale. Some UK assets already have a bid courtesy of Universal Distribution. Where that leaves Diamond Select Toys and Gentle Giant, which...

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It's still possible that product makes it out, but the future isn't too bright.

 

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Well, this doesn't look good for the company.

Diamond Comics Files for Bankruptcy

Diamond Comics Distributors have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. All of their properties, including Diamond Select Toys, Gentle Giant, AFA are now up for sale. Some UK assets already have a bid courtesy of Universal Distribution. Where that leaves Diamond Select Toys and Gentle Giant, which...

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It's still possible that product makes it out, but the future isn't too bright.

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 time being or if everything has halted. With the long delays for Pepe and Deadly, it seems like maybe production halted awhile ago. I feel so bad for Zach and the rest of the DST and Gentle Giant teams and wish them luck!