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I'd also add a hair dryer and a metal dental pick/scrapper to the list of essential items for toy collectors. Stuck joints and bent pieces (limbs, claws, bat ears, etc.) are common enough that everyone will need to fix them at some point. With a hair dryer, you can begin heating the plastic immediately and will often times have things fixed within 30 seconds to a minute. When a stuck joint is being difficult, I'll use a dental pick to slide into the joint in order to get the pieces to let go of each other. It's also really helpful when I have a peg or ball joint that doesn't want to pop loose. I can slip the dental pick into the socket so that I can get more leverage on the peg or ball joint.

In other news, CNBC posted an article saying that Hasbro's profits are up thanks to Avengers Endgame and that they are set to make millions in Phase 4. The article goes on to mention that Hasbro's deal with Disney expires at the end of 2020 but Hasbro has stated that they have every intention of renewing the deal. If you want to read the article, go here: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/23/hasb...e-4-slate.html