Monday, January 17, 2022

Sonic Mugs - Reorganizing Update

 An update all about mugs?
Actually yes. Housewares / Sonic home decor was getting to be 'more mugs than other things' in a lot of the pages, so it was time to reorganize Gear. It was the same way with Socks where they were just taking over the 'accessories' pages category so they had to be split off.
Why not have them originally that way?
Because when the site was new in the 90s, there wasn't that much of each thing to warrant such specific categories right away. 
Why only mugs this week?
Because there was something like 5 new ones all at once, and to reorganize take a TON of time and is very labor intensive to do. So all the time allotted to the update (and more...) gets used up in having to re sort and re organize the regular Housewares pages (yes all 18 of them) to fit nicely and look good with no mugs at all. (So, copying all mugs and descriptions on to the 4 new mug based pages created) 

I think it was Housewares 12 or 13 or something that's now empty (whoops)
So, it will get filled in with new stuff as it gets found. The mugs area also needs a title card which I did not do yet/so probably next week. While it has a lot of hard work to set up something like a whole new category, it ends up making things easier in the future so it's fine and worth it to do.

Next week's update:
It'll have housewares for sure, to try and fill in the gaps on the pages that had too many mugs. Kohls is also keeping on going with more stuff, so probably that too, as well as some new fakery that's getting into Amazon. (Is Amazon lazy? Is Sega lazy? Who ought to be stopping these obvious ripoffs?)

What else is out?
Well, Jakks let out the EOmega action figure but as usual they're spotty for actually being able to find it. Then Japan has something "Rockin'-Sonic" or something like that...not sure what that's about but there is promo stuff. It seems like with 'DJ Sonic' or whatever they had last year and now this...they seem to be feeling around on his branding a little bit. Not real sure why or if any of it was a success or a not. 

Better deals at 5 Below!
5 Below, a discount retailer in the USA (it has been adding more stores to more states) has started carrying the JP small line figures but WITH accessories from the larger 5 inch line......for 5 dollars! So, this is way better than Target small line where it's 5 and comes with nothing. These will be posted about on the upcoming week too. Hopefully this catches on because it's a much better deal. Also 5B doesn't seem to run out of everything right away like Target does. It's really a good surprise to find this. (Shadow, Classic Sonic, Modern Tails, modern Knuckles)

Update regularity:
With this one and the last one more on time, hopefully update regularity is back on track also.

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