Announced this past weekend at Magiccon is an upcoming Magic series on Netflix, featuring Chandra and Ajari, and co-starring Jace, who appears right at the corner of the promo shot for the series.
The series will be helmed by Terry Matalas, who was co-showrunner on Season 2 of Picard and sole showrunner on season 3.
statement from Diamond Comics, who supplies most of our comics from Marvel, Boom, IDW, etc. regarding the delays in shipments over the past months:
DCD Customer Status Update for January 7 from Chris Powell, Chief Sales & Service Officer
I hope you've entered the new year safe and healthy, ready to tackle 2025. Over the holidays, our focus was on making as much improvement on the issue of timeliness as possible. Since there was no truly new information to share in that period, I was pleased to receive a status update from our Operations team yesterday and to learn of some forward momentum going into this new week.
This week, nearly all US retailers were scheduled to receive their product by Wednesday. That's particularly good news considering we lost a day each week due to the holidays. There are some pockets of disruption due to a winter storm, but the shipments leaving our warehouse were on a better pace than they had been in December.
This still does not meet our internal goals or retailers' expectations, but we continue to work with the Operations teams to identify changes that may allow us to ship products more consistently.
Our Distribution Process
Following the recent changes, many of you have had questions about why things haven't shipped from the distribution center as quickly as we or you need them to.
Periodicals that we don't receive directly from the various printers (periodicals from publishers who sell to us through other wholesalers) arrive to us over the weekend or as late as Monday for the following week's releases. We deal with a much wider selection of products, both print and non-print, than other distributors and that leads to delayed or misrouted deliveries that must be dealt with before the picking and packing of orders can begin.
Retailers who are furthest way from the center are picked first, then the next furthest, then the next, etc. As they are picked, they are packed and then handed off to trucking companies for delivery. Then the process begins again ...
This process is not working as it needs to, obviously, but modifying it takes time. Ideally, changes would have been planned and tested while we continued to operate as we had been at Plattsburgh. With that no longer an option, we must make changes and test them with live data and shipments while trying to minimize the impact on retailers.
We are considering many options, and they will almost certainly involve additional changes from the way we have operated in the past. I assure you, this is still the primary focus for our Operations, Purchasing, and Retailer Services teams and we will keep you in the loop as there are further developments.
Thank You
We appreciate how difficult these changes have been for our retailer partners, and wish very much that we did not have to go through this with you at the busiest time of year. Your patience and positive attitudes throughout this process are very much appreciated and I will continue to reach out as there are changes or progress to share with you.
A new edition of Catan releases later this year. From the press release, there is no fundamental change to gameplay but has new art and redesigned components and rulebook.
Good grief! Not sure who is handling the release schedule at WotC but good lord. Innistrad Remastered releases on January 24, the D&D 2024 Monster Manual releases through WPN stores on Feb. 4th and Aetherdrift pre-releases start on Feb. 7th. That is a lot of product to pump into the channel within a two week period. WotC may view Magic and D&D players as two different market segments but appears not to remember that most of them get their product from the same source.
For you dice goblins, we recently received a large shipment of dice and have both restocked the loose dice as well as the polyhedral and d6 sets. Loose dice are 75 cents for plain opaque, $1 or translucent and $1. for speckled/marbled.
Since we still have plenty of OTS Yu GI Oh packs, we will host one more Yu Gi Oh Can tournament on January 11 at 1 p.m. Your entry fee is 5 usable food items. Each round, the winner will collect a can from the loser. After 3 rounds, all players may turn in their cans for 2 OTS packs.
Innistrad Remastered Releases January 24. We will have boosters and singles available for the set that day and a draft on the 25 at 1 p.m.
