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PrymeStriker wrote:

Grimlock Shakur wrote:I'm just glad I'm not a completist, now that's hardcore!

I'm glad and sad I'm a completist.

it's all good, that's your thing!

This is exactly the reason I'm selling a huge chunk of my collection. The quality and availability just isnt there anymore. As if the price at walmart werent bad enough the stores in my area arent even carrying the deluxes or voyagers anymore for Prime. All you find are the FOC toys and i'm not too impressed with them. Kmart and TRU can't move their product thus they never get restocked with newer toys. I remember when deluxes were 9.99 you had to rush to the store so no one else would get the one you needed.

It Is Him wrote:Also, the likelihood of me paying $17 at retail is extremely low. Just because I can quantify where the number is coming, doesn't mean I have to go along with it.

This has been one of the most frustrating things I've seen in the fandom since the 07 movie, this crazy idea that because a thing can somehow be 'justified' or explained, it is by default acceptable.
Don't like Bayformers? Well, YOU'RE wrong because get with the times.
Don't like obviously smaller toys at the same price? Well, YOU'RE wrong because of part counts and plastic weights.
Don't like what a figure looks like? Well, YOU'RE wrong because Hasbro doesn't care about fans, only 10% of sales, piss piss piss.
Don't want to pay $17 bucks for an obviously small deluxe? Well,....

You are ABSOLUTELY correct. It does not matter to me in the slightest bit if the price increase is due to oil or transportation costs or whatever. People can choose to justify it in any way they wish. It doesn't matter. The ultimate thing comes down to whether or not I'm going to pay for it, be it these tiny deluxes or movieverse figures or Botshots or whatever. IF I don't want to pay for it, no amount of explaining why is going to make any difference.
That goes whether it's retailers or Hasbro or whoever is behind this price hike.

All that aside, things like this make me both happy that I'm only on the hunt for a few TFs from any of the recent lines, and makes me reconsider whether or not I'm actually interested in any of them at these prices. I'd really like a set of combaticons, but based on all the bad stuff I've heard about them I'm not sure I'm willing to take the 17$ a piece gamble.

The price wouldn't be a major issue for me if the quality of the toys was still good. You take a ROTF toy (regardless of the style, many of them were very well-made) and put it next too one of the flimsy TP deluxes and you get sad fast.

I didn't mind paying $35 for a first-edition cliffjumper, because he ended up being awesome.

You have to be more selective, yes, but I guess what I'm saying is... I'd rather have one very good toy instead of three crappy ones... but what I really really want is the characters I like from the show to be cool toys. Not what you get with Knock Out or Airachnid.

Evil_the_Nub wrote:I just got back from Wal Mart and they were still at the $15 price. It doesn't really matter anyway, I STILL haven't seen a figure I want in 2 months.

On the plus side it's been 15 pages and no one has blamed this on Michael Bay yet.

It's all Michael Bay's fault for not putting Cliffjumper in the movie. Then they kill him off in Prime. This has caused the crucial but small Cliffjumper fan base to stop collecting.

Seriously though I kinda wonder if the price hike is artificial just to see how much people are willing to pay for the toys. Although I know the real reason is the price of plastic and oil has increased thus toy prices increase.

I wonder if they relaxed on the plastic in the packaging, maybe just put them in a cardboard box a la G1, or blister card with bubble no vacuum formed insert, G1 would that offset the prices?

Cliff Jumper wrote:

Evil_the_Nub wrote:I just got back from Wal Mart and they were still at the $15 price. It doesn't really matter anyway, I STILL haven't seen a figure I want in 2 months.

On the plus side it's been 15 pages and no one has blamed this on Michael Bay yet.

It's all Michael Bay's fault for not putting Cliffjumper in the movie. Then they kill him off in Prime. This has caused the crucial but small Cliffjumper fan base to stop collecting.

Seriously though I kinda wonder if the price hike is artificial just to see how much people are willing to pay for the toys. Although I know the real reason is the price of plastic and oil has increased thus toy prices increase.

I wonder if they relaxed on the plastic in the packaging, maybe just put them in a cardboard box a la G1, or blister card with bubble no vacuum formed insert, G1 would that offset the prices?

Putting them in baggies in a cardboard box, kind of like the Arms Micron line (except with translucent window ala-G1) would make me happy. It would cause less stress with the twistie-ties, that have become cheap paper ones now.

I know, I'm that lazy.

exactly PrymeStriker.

I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't some idiotic "safety" regulation that prevents them from doing anything cheaper with the packaging.

Optimum Supreme wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't some idiotic "safety" regulation that prevents them from doing anything cheaper with the packaging.

I would think it or theft problems.

Cliff Jumper wrote:

Optimum Supreme wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't some idiotic "safety" regulation that prevents them from doing anything cheaper with the packaging.

I would think it or theft problems.

But what about security cameras?