Vic Zanzibar wrote:I can afford it and I have a spot to store it... but the question of "WHY?" simply has no good answer for me. Dedicating $575 all at the same time to buying Transformers could be allocated towards buying pretty much every rare older Transformer that I even have a slight inkling of a desire to get. Or, I could get this single immensely impressive figure that is so huge, rare, and unwieldy, I'd probably only transform it once. Hell, it'd work better as an MISB investment for me since the aftermarket price will likely reach absolutely asinine levels in a few years. That's... actually kind of a compelling reason, but I'm not really one for selling figures, so still a no.

Older figures, no matter how expensive they are, will still be available at the same price in a few weeks or months.
That right now, it's your only shot at Unicron. And as you said, if you miss out, you don't want to see the Ebay price.