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Like TOO MUCH ENERGON! on Facebook · by **TOO MUCH ENERGON!** » Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:40 am

My guess is Voyager pricing for Scorponok. Or Hasbro will just say “**** it” and call him an Ultra Beast and price him as Leader Class. I mean, look at the Rattrap reissue…

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:18 pm

TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:My guess is Voyager pricing for Scorponok. Or Hasbro will just say “**** it” and call him an Ultra Beast and price him as Leader Class. I mean, look at the Rattrap reissue…

By today's standards, Rattrap is pretty much a deluxe.
Still, I have no idea what is the size of Scorponok. But if he comes in a box, it will be priced as a 45$CAN voyager like Tigatron at the bare minimum.

Like TOO MUCH ENERGON! on Facebook · by **TOO MUCH ENERGON!** » Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:50 pm

I do find it amusing that on the back packaging of the reissues they classify both Cheetor and Rattrap as “MEGA.” Bruh, I remember buying these toys when I was 11 in 1996 and neither Cheetor nor Rattrap were Mega Beasts, lawl.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:13 pm

Not MEGA sized, just MEGA priced for the modern age

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Nov 12, 2021 4:54 pm

o.supreme wrote:Not MEGA sized, just MEGA priced for the modern age

Indeed.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Fri Nov 12, 2021 5:35 pm

I was 20 when BW came out, but my overly-simplistic memory wants to say that Basics were $5 USD. Deluxe were $10, Mega were $15, and Ultra were $20, and it stayed that way from 1996 at least through 1999 (The last 2 I got were TM2 Megatron and Tigerhawk).

Optimal Optimus being the one "bigger" toy in that line costing $30 USD.

So 25 years later, Cheetor Doubling in Price is not surprising, but Rattrap going 4X is just highway robbery. The Ultra's could have been sold for double the original price at $40 (there's a LOT of empty space in that packaging), but I think they wanted to try to align it closer to Modern Generations leader Price Point of $50.

So, based on my memory of my original BW Collection I had:

1996 Tigatron (was gifted to me by a friend)
1997 Magnaboss & Tripredacus (Spent $40)
1998 TM Optimus and Megatron (Spent $30), Depth Charge and Rampage (Spent $40), and Optimal Optimus (Spent $30)
1999 TM 2 Megatron and Tigerhawk (Spent $40) TM2 Dinobot (spent $10) and

*Optimus Minor was gifted to me by some friends' kids'. I was indoctrinating them into TF's since I wasn't married yet or had kids of my own. Could they have picked a worse toy :lol:

. Of course I never said anything and gladly accepted it.

So basically all-in-all from 1996 to 1999 I spent just under $200 ($190) on my entire standard BW Collection! (I say standard because I was starting to go to Conventions and was heavily getting back into Original Transformers, I got some convention exclusives and was getting several BW II and Neo toys) Of course I was going to college part-time and had a job that paid less than $7 USD an hour, until 1999 until I Got into the banking industry and started making a whopping $11 dollars an hour.