voice of hoist wrote:People are complaining to Hasbro because they actually made figures that everyone wants... I don't understand.
It's really very simple. No matter how obsure/crap botcon figures are, a certain type of hardcore collector will always want them anyway because of their rarity/exclusivity. Meanwhile the casual collector just shakes his/her head and smiles and says "Let those oddball botcon types have their expensive fun. It's no skin off my nose. That armoured tank character repainted in pink and purple polka dots just wasn't for me anyway." This is how it should forever have been. Alas, Botcon 2007 has shattered this amiable state of affairs and set collector against collector by producing "figures that everyone wants".
Who knows, maybe this is how the war on cybertron began. I wonder what transformers collect? Sounds like an alternate tf mythology weird enough to accompany a botcon exclusive set...
Quoted for sheer awesomeness.
When I say I can't go to Botcon, I understand clearly I can purchase them from the Club, for $329 + whatever shipping cost is incurred. For the botcon collector, that's apparently no big deal.
If Botcon could sell the figures individually at $55-75 a piece, I bet a full 50% of the complaining would disappear immediately. Because even if it's 5 figures divided into $329, I simply don't care about the other two. So my perception is that I'm forced to pay $100+ per seeker, and the other two, however neat, have no place in my collection.
(and yeah, I'm anticipating the 'well just sell 'em' responses. thanks.)
For the serious collector, the $329 is an easy call. It's 5 bots, all with high value and quality, that will make fantastic additions to your collection. I get it, as an ex-member of the 4000+ figure club. For the casual guy, who really only wants, 3, 2, or maybe just 1 of these figures, being forced to spend an exorbitant mark-up, just for nostalgia, blows. I imagine there are a lot of guys, casual collectors I'm guessing, who always wanted a full seeker set, but could never justify spending $70-100 on one loose G1 off ebay. So Classics gives them half the dream, and then takes it away.
I'm certainly glad these figs are going to be in the marketplace. And I don't begrudge anybody who has paid for this set; I'm glad there are people who do it, because it means there's real market health in the hobby. But getting mad at people who can only afford to spend $20-$50 a month on their hobby seems a little over the top.
Of course, I read every post 
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. Well, nice looking figure anyway.
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