Tsutsukakushi wrote:If every TF fan world wide was willing to spend over $4000 trying to get perfect 3rd party versions of TF combiners. Then the volume units per combiner team would be getting made in the hundreds of thousands. Not the barely 3000 volume units they are being made in per combiner team.
Clearly most worldwide fans are not that hard core on combiners toys and are willing to spend much less. Because they could care less about buying the more inferior flawed HasTak versions.
If every fan was willing to buy third party combiners, they'd probably cost less because the third party companies would feel more comfortable making them in greater numbers, thus spreading out the production costs.
If every fan was willing to spend $4,000.00 (A rather outrageous number, may I ask how you came by it? I've not seen any third party product yet break one thousand, never mind four.) then we wouldn't need third parties, as I have no doubt Hasbro would not mind tapping into that kind of income, and even be willing to produce more complex designs of the sort that have to be marketed purely at adults. Thus, Hasbro would no longer be "inferior" or "flawed" except to people determined to see them that way, no matter what the quality of their finished product might be.