Don't worry..the one pound tat lives on!

And that international snack box thing...

I never thought an Ashens intro would hit me so hard

Lol

@@monochromemiku7983 It's sad in a funny way.

Make sure to place some 150-year-old olives next to them.

Classic

Hahaha... Starts out sympathetic, then turns to Hate lol.

Don't forget the 116 year old chocolate 😂

You do know that you're allowed to swear on the internet, right?

It's clear that we would all like high ticket items like this. unfortunately you can't give these away if you expect to run a successful business.

The clowns

I thought you were going to say inflatable sex dolls, lol

Go back to the chess club.

Wehiremonkeys Can’t expect to run a successful business if you spend several months of your operation giving your paying customers inflatable crowns either,

Forever doomed to the dusty corners of Pound World.

Not missed, but certainly remembered for a time, at least.

I know I'll remember that infinity gauntlet oven mitt that was not heat proof😅😂🤣

@@Xemnasty Mine works fine, been using it for years.

Wow, was it that long ago? Feels like only a couple of years ago.

Lootcrate belongs in tat hell!

Pretty sure giving people inflatable crowns earns you a seat in the ninth circle of hell.

They had good items but I don't think I ever saw a completely good crate. That's why I loved the Vault store. You could buy just single items. If the items were not so disappointing most of the times I think they wouldn't be in so much trouble now. At first they only had a theme for the month. After a while they started listing the franchises for each boxes. I though that was good but it can be soooo disappointing. I bough the crate the month Fallout 4 was coming out because they said it had a Fallout item. I though it would be something good since the game was just coming out. It was just a blind box tiny vinyl figure that they sell for 5$ at the counter of any game shop. When they made the Alien anniversary crate I bough it because now it would be ALL Alien items. There was a compilation of the comic book that was a good item. Everything else was very disappointing. When they made the Ghostbusters anniversary crate I didn't get fooled. I though it would mostly be junk from the 2016 movie and I was right in the end.

That was the issue wasn’t it, it was a lottery with no jackpot wins.

@@Lumibear. I never had an active subscription. The only time I ordered it was for 1 box hoping I would get 1 good item from a specific franchise. When I learned it was crap I only ever ordered when an item was revealed and I was willing to pay the price for that one item alone.

Tbf £18 may be worth it for some of the shirts and a figure, the other stuff is tat

Especially when you could buy any individual item you wanted off of eBay, Lootcrate's own Vault store or even freaking pound shops they sold overstock to

@bigevilworldwide1 This just made me realize that this was a real conversation someone in China must have had: Person A: "What's your job?" Person B: "I work in a factory making inflatable crowns" Person A: "...who buys that shit?!"

No. The tat was found at different stores for cheap fucking prices. Thank god loot crate died.

More like landfill owners mourn it's absence.

Off nee toch niet (thats dutch translate i guess)

I'm sure whenever one of those ends up in someone's bum, you're forgiven.

Well I guess we can accept your apology this time but you'd better watch yourself in the future...

That was a snappy apology!!

@@zeberto1986 I just couldn't live with myself anymore. I had to get it out.

Sassy The Sasquatch You know how (most) corporations are nowadays. They either underestimate or overestimate things, make tons of loans and make questionable decisions and then they’re in turmoil within due time. Fucking fantastic

Some of the individual collectibles have sold for as much as the entire monthly box is (20 a month), thus if you want a certain one, it's cheaper to get the whole crate.

@@rdizzy1 Some of the figures alone were worth more than entire Loot Crate in retail price.

Wasn't aware that the source of the Nile was a mystery. Obviously water from the Nile comes from a vase in the possession of one Tim Rowett.

@@ccggenius "heh..."

@@ccggenius no it comes from that one puddle top gear discovered

This is one of the best comments I’ve seen in a while, well done.

So 90's Marvel then?

@@Clay3613 Oof I remember my dad telling me while he was working for Marvel that he saw in the news that Marvel filed bankrupcty.

@@Fakecake34 wait, whaa

That was part of it but it was also a fad that died. Even other loot crates from other companies are hardly ever seen. Its also an issue of ppl not staying with the monthy subscription because after about 12 months you got a pile of tat with a few good shirts and books so there is no reason to keep getting it.Regardless of management it would have died just the same if not prolonged for an extra year or 2

This sounds like a trump tweet

Poundland.

FunkoBox.

the sad thing is, people actually buy them

They didnt have any Funko Pops in a while. That's a deluxe item they can't afford anymore.

@@chamoo232 Not true they got sued by FUNKO for using them to advertise the boxes.

*immature giggling*

And where will he put the ruler? 😂

eLJaybud He will lodge it firmly in his domain obviously

In fact, that book is really good and even hilarious in some places. I do recommend that you all look for the full, real books.

@@RocketRoosterFilms Oh, I don't doubt it. But seriously: "Dictator of Uranus"?!

Casual Kitty Canadian tire is an odd store sometimes

Plus about $20 million worth of boxes owed to the customers, too.

And shoelaces manufacturers too

I always suspected they bought the tat in bulk from various stories and manufacturers who couldn't, overwise, unload the stuff then resold it. If done right it can be a good model. I actually did much the same thing on eBay with DVD back in the pre-blu ray days. You just have to be careful which batch you get. That is probably what got them, in the end, they went for the cheaper packages that has the actual junk.

Well, looks like he won't be doing these anymore

He started from either the first or second one and went all the way to the last one. How many people can claim to have done that?

Boogie2988 does them too and released a video about the companies demise before Ashens.

@@Jamal_Tyrone did he laugh at their suffering the same way he did at his ex dying from cancer?

@@singingsunflower9000 most likely

Does that mean in the 2030s they’re gonna be revived as a nostalgia item? A dark vision of the future indeed.

BenCol Maybe early 2040s

Feels like the end of an era

Overpriced, cheaply made pop culture merchandise. Yeah, that sounds about right.

@@OnlyEpicEmber how is it different now?

Stuart puts actual thought into what he takes money from. Every sponsor has been something he genuinely finds useful

@@aoifebakunin1966 Exactly, and I respect that.

holy shit it's oswald mosley

Me too, RIP Lootcrate :(

Fite me at Cable Street, Mosely

Bad profile image, change it.

Kai no u

I was thinking the same!

Mpemba effect.

Now that needs a subscription box.

Wow. Now *there's* an idea!

OwO

I want to get in on the ground floor of this business. Hmu.

@@Ironman1o1 You have any idea how expensive that shit is?!

Excellent...didn't know that! So it's Rick Moranis :-)...

For being worshiped by the Sumerians his name doesn't sound very ancient.

NEEEEEEERD

This is Paul Gannon under a pseudonym, isn't it. You're fooling nobody, chief.

I unfortunately knew this as well.

$15

At least $3

Priceless

About tree fiddy.

That sounds like a question Mr. Beast would ask

Anything is a buttplug if you try hard enough...

Master of None what about a pillow 🤔

@@Xemnasty No-no, anything can be a dildo if you're brave enough.

If it isn't flared, don't stick it up your bum. It might not come out again.

@@ChlorideCull That's what A&E is for

Ironic, because is easy to assume that they wanted to make that logo to be a "medal of honor" and make it more desirable for collectors, gaining huge prices in the resale and auction markets. Alas...

Ironically it will probably become one after loot crates closure

Wouldn’t that give them more value?

@@helixxmusic Not with the reputation Loot Crate garners, and the fact that most "Loot Crate Exclusives" are just cheaply made and/or cut down versions of regular items. Its kind of like Promo Cards for Pokemon, in which the fact that they are unusable in tourney and also insanely easy to get compared to actually rare items are dirt cheap (with obvious exceptions).

Because human stupidity cannot be underestimated. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.

@@Chaos89P Most scams don't rely on tricking the exact same people over and over and over again in the exact same way; even the dumbest people will eventually realize what you're doing in that case.

Apple and they're worth billions

Human stupidity is infinite

Have you heard of the royal family?

I thought it was a trump plushie

@@AlbertoDSalas LOL I can see that

That's basically Loot Vault. They sell whatever they had left of boxes.

If they are able to salvage them selves that would be a great idea every once in awhile they had good stuff.

@Swedish Fuckery Well they were just bought out by a large company, so it's possible to pull out. I'm not. Bussiness major so take that with a Grain of salt.

@@Umbrella4me I think focusing on maybe more neish franchises and clothing would be the best option, personally. Plus books would be cool too.

There was a website called ThinkGeek which did that. They were recently bought out by Gamestop and now you can only get a small amount of their merch at the stores.

He also ended up playing the Klingon Commander in The Motion Picture.

@@USSMariner cool, that's news to me(I will admit I don't think I've watched TMP since I taped it onto vhs one Christmas and given I haven't had a vcr this century it's high time I rewatched) it's the trek movie i like the most i think, Wrath of Khan is objectively the better movie though i'm the guy that likes star trek V so my taste is not to be trusted :)

There is a humourous bit in the SFDebris review of that episode where he does the "I am your father" bit from TESB. Of course in the actual episode there's a bigoted human crew member who thinks Spock's actually working for the Romulans.

Not likely. Dream on.

Indeed. Have only ever seen one here and there in nerdy bedrooms, are there actual collecters?? How are they still around with a product so tatty.

@joe Funko does much more than the Pops, too.

Not while there is still petroleum left on Earth to make plastics with.

About two if you used wikipedia. seven hundred if you used TV Tropes.

@@Boltscrap What kind of person would want to pay for merchandise of something they've only read about on WIkipedia?

I thought he had died. If I'd seen him go past, I'd have waved.

I think the pop station takes that title

Of course a Romulan spy would know this information!

They are trash. Most of the time the one item you 'may get' that's decent could have been bought for less anyway...

The only ones that seemed worth it were the food and snack crates that had exotic stuff, otherwise who wants crappy merch upsold for x4 of what it's worth?

mould a willy kit?

@uwu グーチ owo fucking weeb

@owo グーチmoshi No anime in my Christian household!

Yeah, you can't expect them to buy high quality statutes and action figures now. Those are too expensive to afford with good boy points.

It's a sad day for the home bargains and B&M managers no longer will 3 quid dr strange figures rule the shelves

Yes, we will put them in a poundland trolley and push it down the isle while on fire

I need the high fps videos to make sure that I don't miss a moment of glorious tat.

If you only noticed it now, then is it really worth it?

@@Mick_92 yep

They don't

I agree. It was " a Thing" thats all it was.

Eh not all sub boxes are bad. I have a bratbox subscription and don't regret it; Enamel pins get expensive. Of course this kind of box is only really worthwhile if you collect such things I suppose.

It would probably go really dark and sinister in the middle out of nowhere, like Bill Bailey's version of Magic Roundabout. :D

If he narrated books, I would pay.

Yep and we all remembered we could go browse at Forbidden Planet or Amazon for tat we actually want to buy.

I think the ones with consumable items seem to still be doing pretty well. The makeup ones like Ipsy and Boxycharm are huge in the beauty community, the snack ones seem to be doing okay, and I used to work for a quilting fabric/supply one (Cotton Cuts) that's doing fine. With consumables, you don't get a massive pile of useless junk you don't need/want since the makeup gets worn, the snacks get eaten, the fabric gets sewn into quilts, etc.

and yet some people are still so daft they spend money on digital gambling for things they will never own, incuding the game they roll for said items on.

KRIBZ 45 true story

that's what killed them. He bought them and made the videos, so "you don't have to".