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Re: Slight price increase at Wal mart

Postby Midnight_Fox » Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:33 pm

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nemesis-prime wrote:
wonder why hasbro is loosing money...
why is it that the star wars figures and vechiles are still the same scale?


Because they raised the prices on them earlier. The SW vehicles were $19.99 USD in the early 2000's, went to $24.99 in the mid-2000's and are now $29.99. In addition, the vehicles still need to fit and interact with the figures, so changing the size isn't as much of an option there.

That said, the figures these days are smaller(some shorter, but they're all less bulky) than the Power of the Force II figures that started the Star Wars toy resurrection, but are much more accurate to the person they're supposed to be and definitely more articulated.
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Re: Slight price increase at Wal mart

Postby STINGRAY749 » Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:26 pm

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Dang just got back from my local walmart and deluxes are $15.47. Voyagers are the same price that they have always been. But what sucks is that my local walmart is still putting out dotm deluxes at full price :BOOM: :BANG_HEAD:, and the haven't stocked anything for the whole month of July. And when they do restock they sellout instantly before I get to the store. Plus the shelf space is just awful. The deluxes have 2 pegs wide by 3 pegs tall. Were the botshots go is spiderman stuff. The voyagers were booted for those crappy quick tech batman stuff. The store hasn't once stocked the prime cyberverse stuff since wave one.

Sorry for the rant, I just had to vent my frustration. :-x
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Re: Slight price increase at Wal mart

Postby Breakdown 2099 » Sat Aug 04, 2012 2:20 am

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Midnight_Fox wrote:
nemesis-prime wrote:
wonder why hasbro is loosing money...
why is it that the star wars figures and vechiles are still the same scale?


Because they raised the prices on them earlier. The SW vehicles were $19.99 USD in the early 2000's, went to $24.99 in the mid-2000's and are now $29.99. In addition, the vehicles still need to fit and interact with the figures, so changing the size isn't as much of an option there.

That said, the figures these days are smaller(some shorter, but they're all less bulky) than the Power of the Force II figures that started the Star Wars toy resurrection, but are much more accurate to the person they're supposed to be and definitely more articulated.


I agree with your SW reply. I still own a 1st series POTF Luke Schwarzenegger.
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Re: Slight price increase at Wal mart

Postby PrymeStriker » Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:39 pm

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I went to Wal-Mart yesterday looking at a couple of Deluxes (as if they had anything passed Wave 2 :roll: ) and...

...almost 16 bucks for a goddamn Deluxe?! I knew that Wave 5 was going to increase the prices, but I thought that was just because of the CD. We're going to be charged Voyager prices for some Kups & Rumbles, aren't we? :sad:
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Re: Slight price increase at Wal mart

Postby Megatron000 » Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:04 am

Ya, I noticed the price increase as well. I find Target is generally cheaper than Walmart for the most part, but there are exceptions.
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