It would be nice to think a permanent store would do well in the UK or EU BUT from my experience in the toy retail sector for 25 years, Pokemon merch is often jobbed out and on sale pretty much weeks after release. I've been to Japan many times and the centres the quality is far far better and they keep it changing and very inventive to keep demand there.
So unless the quality of plushies, figures etc available in Europe vastly improves it wont work as a permanent store. The demand is there but not for what we get here and its only popular as a Pop Up as selling exclusive stuff and some other better quality stuff. I see the detective stuff is in the Pop up for full price you can get these in Tesco for £3.52! And that proves my point really it's all hype. Tomy stuff was bad enough and discounted heavily all the time. This new company taken on the license is really quite shocking compared to what Japan has and they are totally out of touch with who there main market really is. It's not kids and we dont want a load of rubbish at silly prices.
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Re: Pokémon Center London Goes From Bad To Worse, Products Could Sell Out Before Closure
It would be nice to think a permanent store would do well in the UK or EU BUT from my experience in the toy retail sector for 25 years, Pokemon merch is often jobbed out and on sale pretty much weeks after release. I've been to Japan many times and the centres the quality is far far better and they keep it changing and very inventive to keep demand there.
So unless the quality of plushies, figures etc available in Europe vastly improves it wont work as a permanent store. The demand is there but not for what we get here and its only popular as a Pop Up as selling exclusive stuff and some other better quality stuff. I see the detective stuff is in the Pop up for full price you can get these in Tesco for £3.52! And that proves my point really it's all hype. Tomy stuff was bad enough and discounted heavily all the time. This new company taken on the license is really quite shocking compared to what Japan has and they are totally out of touch with who there main market really is. It's not kids and we dont want a load of rubbish at silly prices.