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I just received my ORIGINAL 1986 Six Shot. For around 93$ shipped from USA to Canada.
It's very tight, very clean, the labels are all there and in perfect condition. Sure, the thing is a brick, but a very awesome brick.

If you want to pay 50% more for a shiny reissue, go ahead. Either way, this is a must have for any Transformers fan.

Not sure why people fall head over heels for current Takara transformers that just have metallic paint and pay 3 times the price while they scorn metallic Sixshot which is cheaper than 3 times the price of a vintage or what a regular reissue (Takara) would cost.

LOST Cybertronian wrote:Not sure why people fall head over heels for current Takara transformers that just have metallic paint and pay 3 times the price while they scorn metallic Sixshot which is cheaper than 3 times the price of a vintage or what a regular reissue (Takara) would cost.

What I scorn is that the shiny reisue is WAY more expensive than a perfect condition vintage original!
I mean, isn't supposed to be the other way around?

@ Lost cybertronian

A little bling is nice. I'm even willing to pay additional for extra paint apps but in 6shot's case, too high the price. They could have easily packed him in the retro box sans the chrome( well keep the original chrome apps from the vintage) and he would still sell like hotcakes. Encore Devastar and Bruticus more than proves my statement.

Anyway, counting myself one of the fortunate ones to have got him cheap........good luck to todays takers.

fenrir72 wrote:@ Lost cybertronian

A little bling is nice. I'm even willing to pay additional for extra paint apps but in 6shot's case, to high the price. They could have easily packed him in the retro box sans the chrome( well keep the original chrome apps from the vintage) and he would still sell like hotcakes. Encore Devastar and Bruticus more than proves my statement.

Anyway, counting myself one of the fortunate ones to have got him cheap........good luck to todays takers.

Sure, but he's already been reissued like that so why do it again? Obviously a vintage one is not that hard to get ahold of so if that's what a person wants, then get it. Personally I like reissues that have are not just the same figures reissued again and again. I applaud Takara for doing something different like they did with the recent reissue of Predaking using the gold instead of boring yellow.

I have an original and also this one which I wouldn't have bought if it was the same old thing.

Burn wrote:I've never understood people's fascination/obsession with owning this figure.

It's usually because, for the time, it represented a high point in transformation capability. And as the toyline is all about that particular gimmick, for a very long time it was kind of seen as the Transformers' Transformer.

Quickswitch didn't garner the same fan following, partially because it was seen as a clunkier toy with no real advantages (except perhaps compactness and elbow articulation). There were no further challenges until RiD Megatron, and that was a very different aesthetic - the very curved surfaces were more of an alternative to the G1 brick design than a quantum improvement, even if it had significantly better articulation. Adding additional modes didn't change people's opinions much. And there hasn't been a challenger since then.

Compared to modern toy designs, Sixshot is indeed showing its age. However, there's nothing really about its transformations and altmodes which couldn't be brought up to spec with some more posing joints and perhaps an additional panel here and there. You could even scale it back a size class or two, stick C-joints on it, rework the rifles to form a wolf tail, and even create remolds using different animal altmodes, wheels, colors, weapons, and slightly different surface detailing. It's massively tweakable - the wings could be tinkered with more than the Seeker molds, there's plenty of room for different types of heads, you name it.

I must say even that he is expensive, he's pretty worth it, besides if you still looking for the vintage, you'll pay much more then that, and I chosen him to buy because, the vintage one isn't cheap, and I never had the chance to get a Sixshot anyway, so for me, it was the right time in the right place.

Jazz813 wrote:I must say even that he is expensive, he's pretty worth it, besides if you still looking for the vintage, you'll pay much more then that, and I chosen him to buy because, the vintage one isn't cheap, and I never had the chance to get a Sixshot anyway, so for me, it was the right time in the right place.

If you are talking about BRAND NEW, of course the vintage one will be way too expensive. But I think the purpose is to play with the thing so the box become irrelevant.
So, a loose but perfect condition Six Shot is worth LESS than 100$ SHIPPED. That's the price I paid mine.

If I know my basic mathematics, less than 100$ for a vintage is CHEAPER than a 130-150$ reissue PLUS shipping.

You know...

Ah ok, no I'm no MISB Collector, but I really don't like collect Loose Transformers so normally I can wait until they'll be reissued again like Fortress Maximus.