INART’s $747 Black Myth: Wukong Great Sage Armor figure is now available on Walmart.com. The sixth-scale release sits in an official INART storefront alongside smaller figures priced from $40.
In a Facebook post, INART announced Walmart, TikTok Shop and eBay as places for US collectors to buy directly from the company. Its accounts are named INART on Walmart, INART Collectibles on TikTok Shop and INART_Official on eBay.
That puts a familiar retail name between collectors and some expensive figures. But before anyone heads to the nearest Walmart looking for an INART display, there’s a distinction worth making: the listings show INART selling through Walmart’s online Marketplace. A rollout onto Walmart shelves has not been announced.
An Official Storefront—But What Is Walmart’s Role?
The Great Sage Armor listing identifies INART as both the seller and shipper. Collectors can place an order on Walmart’s website, while INART is the merchant named on the sale.
That is how a third-party Marketplace storefront works. It does not establish that Walmart has bought INART inventory for its stores, signed an exclusive distribution agreement or become the company’s US distributor.
We searched Walmart’s corporate announcements for INART and Queen Studios and found no release describing such a deal. INART’s announcement promotes its new stores without explaining any separate agreement with Walmart.
For collectors, it means another place to buy directly from INART. Whether Walmart has anything bigger planned with the company is something neither side has explained yet.
Sixth Scale and Twelfth Scale Are Already Listed
The Walmart storefront displayed six figure and body listings at the time of our check:
- Great Sage Armor, 1/6 scale: $747
- Zhu Bajie, 1/6 scale: $441
- Stone Monkey, 1/12 scale: $125
- Zhu Bajie, 1/12 scale: $82
- The Destined One, 1/12 scale, Premium: $136
- Male Body β, 1/12 scale, white: $40
The figures listed are from Black Myth: Wukong. We haven’t seen any DC figures, including Batman, for sale yet.
Walmart’s name also doesn’t automatically mean a lower price. INART’s own store listed the in-stock Great Sage Armor figure at the same $747, with shipping and taxes included in that direct-store option. Walmart advertised free shipping; we did not complete checkout to compare the final tax-inclusive totals.
If those prices have you wondering what goes into a premium figure, our breakdown of why Hot Toys figures are so expensive looks at sculpting, paintwork, licensing and the other costs behind a sixth-scale release.
Will INART Figures Reach Walmart Shelves?
INART hasn’t announced plans to put these figures in Walmart stores. The Great Sage listing offered free shipping, advertised as “3+ days,” but pickup and local delivery were unavailable for the Los Angeles address we selected.
An actual store rollout would let collectors hold the figure’s box in their hands before buying it. That would be a welcome change from ordering an expensive figure based only on photos. But will it ever happen? We’ll have to wait for INART to tell us more.
Walmart already has dedicated collector displays, as the photo below shows. Their existence does not mean INART has secured space in them.
Will Walmart Orders Ship From China or America?
INART’s Walmart seller profile lists Cangqian, in Hangzhou’s Yuhang District, China. Its storefront also advertises free shipping with arrival in “3+ days.”
For the Los Angeles address we used to check shipping, the Great Sage listing estimated 10–14 days. That’s a longer wait than a quick glance at “3+ days” might suggest, although the plus sign leaves room for it. Your estimate may differ depending on the figure and where you live.
We traced the seller’s company name and public business telephone to INART’s Rakuten company disclosure. It lists Hangzhou Shouchuan Cultural and Creative Co., Ltd., at Room 103-D, Building 25, 1399 Liangmu Road. Japan’s corporate-number registry corroborates that full address.
The complex’s operator identifies buildings 23 and 25 as part of the Liangcang business incubator. We can connect the company’s registered address to this complex, but we haven’t confirmed which building it works from today or where it stores and ships figures.
The question for buyers is simple: will Walmart orders ship from China or America? If INART is shipping from America, where is its US fulfillment center? Neither the seller’s address nor the shipping estimate answers that. We’re waiting for INART to explain how these orders will be handled.
What About Licensing in the United States?
INART’s announcement says: “Now you have even more options when shopping directly with INART in the United States.” That raises a fair question: which figures is INART authorized to sell in America?
The Black Myth: Wukong figures currently listed on Walmart have corresponding pages on INART’s website naming Game Science as the licensor and stating worldwide availability. Based on those published territories, selling these figures to US collectors fits within the licensing information INART provides.
Other figures have different restrictions. INART’s licensed-region list for its 1/12-scale figures does not include the United States among its DC Comics direct-sales territories. The company explains that its permissions vary by region.
Opening a Walmart store doesn’t give INART permission to sell every figure it makes in America. Each figure still has to follow its own licensing agreement. For the Black Myth figures on sale, the published worldwide availability gives us no reason to claim Walmart is being used to get around those restrictions.
Does This Create a Problem for Sideshow & Hot Toys?
I don’t see this small Walmart storefront as a threat to Sideshow or Hot Toys. I’ve been to Sideshow—the warehouses are on the scale of a football field. Its website also draws approximately 3 million visits a month, according to Semrush’s traffic estimates. A six-listing INART store is a long way from challenging that operation.
In fact, Sideshow and Queen Studios already work together. Sideshow’s announced distribution partnership covers select Marvel life-size busts, and Queen Studios lists Sideshow among its North American authorized partners. That agreement isn’t evidence that Sideshow controls every INART sale in the United States.
As long as INART’s US sales stay within its licensing agreements, I wouldn’t expect this small storefront to cause a dispute.
Preorders and Returns: How Will They Work?
Walmart has the infrastructure for collectible preorders. Its Marketplace announcement described preorder support for sellers in its Collectibles shop, including action figures. INART has not announced whether it will offer its future preorders there.
For collectors comparing upcoming releases from Hot Toys, our Hot Toys preorders page brings together figure photos, edition comparisons and expected release windows.
Buying through Walmart does give collectors someone else to turn to if an order goes wrong. Under the Walmart Marketplace Promise, you contact the seller first. If an eligible problem remains unresolved, Walmart can step in. Its policy covers situations such as a missing order, the wrong figure arriving or a seller failing to refund a tracked return.
That is a good reason to consider buying through Walmart. You have a route to escalate the problem beyond the seller, which matters when you’re spending hundreds of dollars on a figure.
The Great Sage listing says 30 days after arrival for returns and marks the figure as returnable to a store. However, Walmart’s general collectible-return rules describe a shorter 14-day window and restrictions on opened packaging. Get Walmart to confirm which terms apply before opening the box; don’t assume a refund or exchange is automatic.
For now, collectors have an official INART storefront at Walmart, with both 1/6- and 1/12-scale figures available. The next announcement worth watching is what INART adds: more figures, preorders, clearer shipping information—or an actual place on Walmart’s shelves. Overall, we think this is a good thing for collectors.
We reached out to INART for comment but have not heard back.
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