The Energon Pub

by **Smoke Screen** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:25 am

Okay, since... oh.... last fall Ive been on the lookout for a good Fortress Maximus to add to my collection. Today I got one 100% complete MIB with all original documentation for $600.

Now that I am having a bit of buyer's remorse I want to know what everyone's opinion is: Mistake or Opportunity?

News Credits: 17 · by **JTKranix** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:29 am

Smoke Screen wrote:Okay, since... oh.... last fall Ive been on the lookout for a good Fortress Maximus to add to my collection. Today I got one 100% complete MIB with all original documentation for $600.

Now that I am having a bit of buyer's remorse I want to know what everyone's opinion is: Mistake or Opportunity?

If you have the cash laying around, why not?

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:33 am

JTKranix wrote:If you have the cash laying around, why not?

Seconded. Although, at that price, I'd probably never touch it.

by **Rijie** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:04 am

That's actually a great price for MIB. Very reasonable. A loose complete one would go for about $4-500 anyway, so why not get all of the paperwork and box for another buck?

Fort Max's price is only going to go up anyway. Due to child safety laws, they'll never make a piece that huge again. Enjoy.

by **Swerve** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:28 am

PorQPine wrote:That's actually a great price for MIB. Very reasonable. A loose complete one would go for about $4-500 anyway, so why not get all of the paperwork and box for another buck?

Fort Max's price is only going to go up anyway. Due to child safety laws, they'll never make a piece that huge again. Enjoy.

I've got to agree, I've seen incompletes go for $300-500 on ebay and when I say incomplete, I mean missing weapons and other things and not just the box and paperwork.

News Credits: 1 · by **Danish-Liokaiser** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:44 am

PorQPine wrote:That's actually a great price for MIB. Very reasonable. A loose complete one would go for about $4-500 anyway, so why not get all of the paperwork and box for another buck?

Fort Max's price is only going to go up anyway. Due to child safety laws, they'll never make a piece that huge again. Enjoy.

Bah Children's are useless

News Credits: 1 · by **pittsburg_22_m** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:05 pm

I never liked FM so it would be a mistake to me. But you can always say you have the biggest TFMR ever made!

Plus if you have the spare coin, why not?

I've spent like $1000 in the last month (my first month collecting them since I was a kid...haha). So I can't say yeah what a waste....lol.

by **Rijie** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:07 pm

GrimlockPlox wrote:
PorQPine wrote:That's actually a great price for MIB. Very reasonable. A loose complete one would go for about $4-500 anyway, so why not get all of the paperwork and box for another buck?

Fort Max's price is only going to go up anyway. Due to child safety laws, they'll never make a piece that huge again. Enjoy.

Bah Children's are useless

Indeed they are. :grin:

News Credits: 17 · by **JTKranix** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:09 pm

pittsburg_22_m wrote:I never liked FM so it would be a mistake to me. But you can always say you have the biggest TFMR ever made!

Plus if you have the spare coin, why not?

I've spent like $1000 in the last month (my first month collecting them since I was a kid...haha). So I can't say yeah what a waste....lol.

I was just like you when Classics came out. I started buying everything TF related that I missed out on (TFC re-issues, Hasbro re-issues, random Takara stuff, .etc).

My collection is freaking huge now compared to the almost nothing I had a year ago.

by **Smoke Screen** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:28 pm

Swerve wrote:
PorQPine wrote:That's actually a great price for MIB. Very reasonable. A loose complete one would go for about $4-500 anyway, so why not get all of the paperwork and box for another buck?

Fort Max's price is only going to go up anyway. Due to child safety laws, they'll never make a piece that huge again. Enjoy.

I've got to agree, I've seen incompletes go for $300-500 on ebay and when I say incomplete, I mean missing weapons and other things and not just the box and paperwork.

That's what I thought too. I just wanted to make sure that I wasnt smoking some strong doobage or anything. When I saw the BIN price I jumped on it only to look back and think 'Damn, that was just a lot of money!

Thanks for the FB!

by **Bonger** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:46 pm

I woulda done that in aheartbeat to had I seen it, and would be suffering the same buyers remore lol

by **Gutter Bunny** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:23 pm

im gonna go with oppurtunity seized...however if you read my post in CP's collector's thread, you'd realise i say that about everything :grin:

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:41 pm

Too me thats expensive for one item

Now if you had $600 worth of merchandise I would say that was cool

by **Emperor Primacron the 1st** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:18 pm

GrimlockPlox wrote:
PorQPine wrote:That's actually a great price for MIB. Very reasonable. A loose complete one would go for about $4-500 anyway, so why not get all of the paperwork and box for another buck?

Fort Max's price is only going to go up anyway. Due to child safety laws, they'll never make a piece that huge again. Enjoy.

Bah Children's are useless

I'll fix that. *Bashes a Fort Max over some dumb kid's head*
He passed the drop test :mrgreen:

And .....*pistol whips the kid with MP-05*

News Credits: 4 · by **SnapTrap** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:21 pm

Is this G1 FM or one of the reissues of him?

by **Dclone Soundwave** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:29 pm

I say you have just made a major bargain. I have been hunting for a complete cheap Fort Max for years, & I have never found one I could afford. I'm jealous of you now.........I expect to find one in the next few years for $700+...........dammit.................

by **Smoke Screen** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:28 am

Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:I say you have just made a major bargain. I have been hunting for a complete cheap Fort Max for years, & I have never found one I could afford. I'm jealous of you now.........I expect to find one in the next few years for $700+...........dammit.................

Don't be jealous Decepticlone... I will be glad to sell it to you at BotCon this year for around $700!

April Fools!!!

I know, I know a little too late. Thanks for all of the FB's. I can now approach my wife with confidence that I was not having a complete lapse of reason yesterday.