Tidalwavex wrote:BTW,It's extremly selfish to hate kotoys because they made ko toys out of exspensive tf toys that you own.
And yet I have repeatedly said, including in my post that my issue was that KO Toys were reproducing rare items right down to knocking off the packaging. I have no problem with KOS which are clearly distinguishable as KOs. However what KOToys were facilitating though were outright counterfeits.
Tidalwavex wrote:it's a selfish act because other fans deserve the right to buy these ko's TF toys for much cheaper prices.
not everyone wants to nor can afford the high secondary prices for the liscensed TF toys.
Really, I wasn't aware that being able to own every single toy in existence was on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or that Capitalist societies were forced to resort to Communist practices when it came to issues of supply with non-essential items.
I'd love a Learjet, a billion dollar mansion and a complete collection of cars (including a modified Contach 500s) replicating the 1984/5 cars. However I'm mature enough and realistic enough to realise that it may never happen, or if it does, it will be due to having been fortunate enough to happen.
That's the difference between being a mature adult in this hobby and an adult who mistakes the age recommendation of "Ages 5+" on what they collect, with the maturity level which is acceptable from them as an adult.
Tidalwavex wrote:who cares if tf fans with exspensive stuff get their stuff devalued because of reissues,ko's or re-releases.
You've screwed yourself over with your own argument here. Anyone spending even 30 seconds looking at the difference between the packaging of reissues and re-releases can tell that unlike these outright counterfeits which KOToys produced and facilitated; there's a clear effort by HasTak, even when in the case of Encores, the G1 style packaging has been emulated, to put clear writing and logos on the packaging which make it clear there's a reissue there.
Furthermore what tends to happen anyway is that the market for those who only want originals stays the same, while the market for those who just want the figure shrinks and then grows back once the re-issue has finished selling and demand for it grows too anyway.
Tidalwavex wrote:I don't care,i love it when this happens. THESE ARE TOYS THAT ARE MEANT TO BE ENJOYED BY AS MANY AS POSSIBLE. not by only a select few. These tf toys were never meant to make others jealous or to make others pay beyond high secondary prices.
So then let's take that argument to the fullest extreme. Your argument firstly is utterly fallacious, because under that line of thinking, toys should be enjoyed by
children alone.
Under that logic, this website should not exist, or should have a maximum age limit of 12 (which is the age ceiling of where toys have been traditionally marketed to) with the exception of a select few adult moderators.
Furthermore, conventions should not exist, and the fan club should be just a basic mail out with some cardbord playset or small figure which people pay for by buying several toys, cutting out a portion of their cards and then mailing off the required portion for each little toy, along with a certain money amount, either by cheque or money order.
So the very SG toyline people talk about here, would never exist to begin with, nor would most of the TFCC toys people here are complaining about access to. After all the SG line and other convention and club lines are specifically marketed as adult collectibles.
Furthermore any adult who actively went looking for toys would be instantly viewed as being mentally retarded with the mental age of a 5-12 year old or a pedophile looking for grooming implements by society.
So which way do you want it- adult collectibles existing and things like convention exclusives being listed, or the very act of collecting toys having a high risk of seeing you being put on a child sex offender list because some idiot out there has overreacted and seen your hobby as attempting to make yourself able to groom a child (which with our society as it is, in that scenario, would be a likely alternative)?