Analysts predict 10% increase in cost of toys next year

WHAT!?!? Its bad enough that most stores jack the prices already but now this? This is frakin bullshit man. Hasbro has enough damn money. Maybe they should cut us some slack for a change and pay for it them selves. It could be like them saying "sorry for not shipping enough products out. Because we screwed you we'll pay for this". Thats what should happen.

Megatron_Wolf wrote: This is frakin bullshit man. Hasbro has enough damn money. Maybe they should cut us some slack for a change and pay for it them selves. It could be like them saying "sorry for not shipping enough products out. Because we screwed you we'll pay for this". Thats what should happen.

You wanna know what REAL bullshit is? Botcon exclusives!!! If the fandom doesn't mind paying $300.00 for a Botcon Thundercracker, a figure that's only worth $9.99, then this won't phase them in the least.

Noisemaze wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote: This is frakin bullshit man. Hasbro has enough damn money. Maybe they should cut us some slack for a change and pay for it them selves. It could be like them saying "sorry for not shipping enough products out. Because we screwed you we'll pay for this". Thats what should happen.

You wanna know what REAL bullshit is? Botcon exclusives!!! If the fandom doesn't mind paying $300.00 for a Botcon Thundercracker, a figure that's only worth $9.99, then this won't phase them in the least.

I didn't pay $300 for one figure. I paid for six. Plus getting to see friends I made the year before, plus attending the panels, plus the ridiculous good time I had both years straight. Then, there's meeting Cullen, joking with the Hasbro folks, haggling and making jokes with vendors in the dealer room. You really open a heated debate by bringing in the Botcon argument. Especially where it doesn't have any bearing on this subject.

Its the end of tacky plastic crap toys, and the Transformers will be dragged down with it.

Noisemaze wrote:

Flux Convoy wrote:

Noisemaze wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote: This is frakin bullshit man. Hasbro has enough damn money. Maybe they should cut us some slack for a change and pay for it them selves. It could be like them saying "sorry for not shipping enough products out. Because we screwed you we'll pay for this". Thats what should happen.

You wanna know what REAL bullshit is? Botcon exclusives!!! If the fandom doesn't mind paying $300.00 for a Botcon Thundercracker, a figure that's only worth $9.99, then this won't phase them in the least.

I didn't pay $300 for one figure. I paid for six. Plus getting to see friends I made the year before, plus attending the panels, plus the ridiculous good time I had both years straight. Then, there's meeting Cullen, joking with the Hasbro folks, haggling and making jokes with vendors in the dealer room. You really open a heated debate by bringing in the Botcon argument. Especially where it doesn't have any bearing on this subject.

I didn't say the convention is bullshit, I said the exclusives are complete bullshit! Idiots are paying $200 - $300 for Thundercracker alone on Ebay. If the fans have no problem paying that much for 1 deluxe figure then a 10% price increase won't phase them at all.

Well, these are well worth it if compared to other exclusives that demand a similar price.

But, that is off topic.

You make a good point. If Deluxes become 11 or 12 bucks, it won't stop any of us from buying them.

Oi... so much whinning it's making me sick.

First off--we use a country with a cheap labor force to make these toys. We know it, you know it, etc. China labor is cheap because they don't have as many government restrictions.

Look at the scandal that came out recently about the contaminated cat & dog food that poisoned a large population of the world's furry friends. Where did this come from? China.

We have a love/hate relationship with them. But we can't stop using them, either. If company "a" decides not to use cheap labor, and instead uses, say, an American labor force, they will get beat out by company "b" that doesn't have the same ethics.

And so now we're having to pay a "little" for the inconvenience of making sure that our toys won't give us cancer or some silly stuff. Boo f-ing hoo. If the toys were actually being produced by a well paid working force instead of unregulated sweat shops, they'd be a lot more.

So what if a $40 toy will suddenly be $42. Is that going to kill you? Nope. Will get poisioned by said toy kill you? Well... I think you can answer that yourself.

Liege Evilmus wrote:Outside of the basic scout class, and the elimination of the $15 bots. TFs haven't realy gone up in price in a very long time.

My Beast Wars deluxe figures, off a TRU shelf $9.99.

My Movie Deluxes off that same shelf $9.99.

Hell, I even remeber paying close to that for KickBack WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY back in the day!

Price hikes are bound to happen eventualy, but we haven't had it so bad. Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about it, and it is yet another reason to avoid the Animated line, but these things happen.

That's all well and good for those of you in the USA.

We've had near constant prices rises here in Australia, mainly on the Deluxe line. Deluxes used to be around $22, but they had edged their way up to $28 by the end of Classics/Movie. Thats with the Australian Dollar getting stronger against the US Dollar.

Hm.. since TFs are almost precisely twice as expensive where I live (Germany), I'm afraid that it will lead to a domestic price increase by 20%.

Dead Metal wrote:Hey we in Europe oredy pay duble from what you in the US have to pay, now they want even more?!
F that!

Now that is INSANE!!! I can't believe it costs that much for you guys. Or for Australians. Ridiculous.

Bullshit.