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Talk about about being judgemental and full of yourself.
You don't mean to offend anyone but then go on to say anyone that doesnt agree with the price are cheap and should shut up and go play with Hasbro's garbage.
I don't appreciate being called cheap after I just spent 1400.00 on a MISB Optimus Prime.
When was the last time you can say you spent that much on a figure?
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and the buttheads on here that get their self worth by bad mouthing those that are just expressing themselfs seem to make up to large a percentage of this site lately. (Hence why I rarely pay it any mind..)
"My opinion", is they should have left the size alone", and because they make them an half inch taller doesn't justify increasing the price 120%.
Thats my 2 cents... Take it or leave it, either way..
"Can't we all just get along??"

Rated X wrote:

TransformersEmporium wrote:

Flux Convoy wrote:

Rated X wrote:Oh horrors the price went up 14 bucks so now I cant afford them even though I take a plane to botcon every year and blow 500 on a hotel room.

Don't be a tool. These are nearly twice the price of the previous two figures. You can't debate that. I buy third party stuff pretty often too but the precedence was set by the previous figures. These are hardly marvels of engineering. So why the price hike? It can not possibly cost twice as much to produce these as before. That price is absurd.

Amen Brother!!

As far as the whole “felicitous person” argument, I think some people are trying to read between the lines of my statement because they got offended. I mean no disrespect to anyone, but people who complain about spending $34 are cheap in my opinion. As pointed out earlier, 30 bucks is the going rate for an upgrade set that consists of a head and 2 guns. So $34 is not a bad price for a nearly scout sized figure. What did many people pay for RTS Windcharger when it was scarce? $40-60, right? Third party collecting is an expensive part of this hobby, and those who legitimately can’t afford it should stick to buying Hasbro products and refrain from complaining about 3rd party prices. I’m not saying that all I-Gear items are fairly priced. But I do believe these are. Don’t get mad because Huffer and Seaspray were cheaper. We just got lucky with the first two. That’s the bottom line.

Wanting to get your money's worth isn't being cheap. And it's not like people are wrong in saying these are very expencive for what they are. People would be idiots if they just threw their money at something without taking a pause to consider if it's really worth the price. A little here and there really adds up in this hobby.

That said, I don't think these guys are overpriced. The Legends class figures were $15. Munitioner and Explorer (and their repaints that came without any accessories) were $49. I'm not going to break those guys out of my collection, but these guys seem to be somewhere in the middle of that size wise and price wise they fit in there too. But I won't disagree with someone that says these guys are pricey. Like most 3rd party products, they certainly are.

I said stop pointing fingers and arguing. Don't like the price? Move along.

Some of you are skirting on possible forum vacations and I am this close to pulling the trigger.

I factor other things into the price. Like the fact that the shipping is free (yes, I know it's free on nearly everything) so I grabbed a MGT-01 since it's the first item I found that didn't have free shipping and went to checkout with it. Shipping on that alone came to $18 to the States and she's not much bigger than the not-so-minibots are. $18 for her alone. If you factor in the shipping savings, the price is pretty damn good all of the sudden!

I still have to order mine but I'm waiting until I get a new job.

I am really looking forward to Hench.

Most of the arguments I've seen about the price are relatively fair (the ones I've read anyway). The price increase feels as if it has a tad unwarranted boost from previous figures, which were actually kinda cheap from a 3rd party standpoint. On the other hand, if you pay close enough attention, there's about twice as much plastic in these guys and clearly more engineering went in to them. Double the content, double the price.

Though admittedly I don't like dealing with iGear for numerous reasons. The one item I ordered from them (the Kup head set) had a flaw, and the replacement that was sent to me had a different problem. Not only that, but all the obvious issues that many have with the company, like the fact that they sell knockoff masterpiece figures. Oh and Hench's gun was stolen from Warbot Defendor. Keeping it classy iGear.

I would like a good classics Brawn though. I might consider it but I'll wait for BBTS to get it in, since they actually have customer service. If I'd ordered the Kup head from iGear directly I would have never gotten a replacement at all.

Shouldn't these guys be shipping soon?

warzon3 wrote:Shouldn't these guys be shipping soon?

weren't they advertised as being due sometime this year? if that's right, then you're about 18months too early in your shipping date expectations.

HA HA! I know your kidding, but July 15th is the date on their site.

I guess you just need to add 2 months to that then?

warzon3 wrote:HA HA! I know your kidding, but July 15th is the date on their site.

I guess you just need to add 2 months to that then?

I hate you for being right...

iGear just updated the release date for both to 8/20/12. Was really hoping these figures and PP-05M/PP-05W would ship at the same time, but there may still be "hope" for that, as those figures got pushed back to 7/30.

I'm gonna go rearrange my shelves while I'm waiting...