LA/Long Beach port truckers Strike who and what is affected?

[Aquatic Neon]

I have been reading up a little on the strike sounds like lots of companies are affected by this, and I know the Celestia Funko is delayed because of this, but I wonder are any of hasbros MLP or other pony products being delayed because of this as well. I bet that they are because the boats come from China and go to those ports, and if the majority of the workers are not working, could explain why ponies like Holly Dash isn't in stores as well. Lets discuss the strike here, also include any info you have? Anyones business affected by this, anyone out of work because of it?

Here are some comments I saw under one article.

"These people picked one hell of a time to pull this crap. They are costing the economy billions of dollars and forcing many small businesses that depend on this time of year to make a profit to go out of business. Their complaints do not justify what they are doing to hurt so many other people, this is truly despicable."

"'I've been out of work for 2 weeks cuz of this"

[Corona]

Wow, I'm in the LA area and I haven't heard about this at all. If I see anything on the news I'll chime in.

[Eily311]

Great topic I'm going to try to do some reading on the topic

[Aquatic Neon]

Great topic I'm going to try to do some reading on the topic

Thanks! Report back with any info you find!

Wow, I'm in the LA area and I haven't heard about this at all. If I see anything on the news I'll chime in.

Yea well I think it started around November 19th-21st? It's causing so many problems for lots of companies like Hot Topic.

[hathorcat]

I am going to pop this thread over to Off Topic

[kaoskat]

I haven't heard of it at all.....

[Aquatic Neon]

I haven't heard of it at all.....

Lots are saying that but I think they try to keep these kinds of things quiet, maybe thats why we haven't seen much on it.

[Rainbowrific Renia]

I definitely hadn't heard about it until this whole fiasco with the Funko figures.  That doesn't mean it isn't happening, although it's weird that it isn't something more well-known right now...

[Wardah]

That could be why we keep getting the tinsel Rainbow Powers and even the Masquerade ponies since the stores are scrambling to find any stock to put on the shelves even if it is a couple waves back.

[Kitzka]

I think there have been shipping delays with the docks since oct. Things may have come to a head around thanksgiving but I know we have had delays.

We print our 4 color items (picture books and cookbooks or coffee table books) in China. We usually receive our product a month ahead of release date. Luckily most of our product is relased before december. We don't have anything huge coming in December. But some of the cookbooks were suppose to arrive oct 28 but are still stuck on a freight storage container. They are still there. We were able to recover by finding a printer based in the US and we reprinted.

We have jan titles that are sitting in long beach waiting to come to our warehouse. Not sure when it will happen but we started printing our jan titles at the US company.

Not sure if other industries are impacted but I think anyone who produces items in China, sends them over by boat and doesn't have a long lead time may be in a similar situation to Funko or my company.


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[Sprinklecupcake]

That could be why we keep getting the tinsel Rainbow Powers and even the Masquerade ponies since the stores are scrambling to find any stock to put on the shelves even if it is a couple waves back.

I was thinking the same with the TAF G4s, and wht we havnt seen them hit stores yet! I personally havnt seen them or any new ponies around at least! Maybe they are like the Luna Funkos and just sitting in the dock?