shockblast2 wrote:
That is generally the way it goes in this hobby. Either you have a bunch of peg warmers that no one wants or the scalpers buy up the limited stuff and sell it on ebay. That is why I do not like limited figures. Not too many other toy lines do what Hasbro does with this line. It is remarkable how you can have a mold like Bumblebee's and it will shelf warm. But if Hasbro took the same mold, colored it any other color, gave it an name from some obscure G1 character, and put it out in the collectors club or retail with a jacked up price the fan boys will buy it up. It could be a $100 figure that has a counterpart that retails at $15 and it will sell out.
I keep my collection VERY modest. I used to have thousands of dollars worth of figures. I unloaded them at a profit and I now only collect the legends line.
I agree! Look at the Dinobots, they probably have horrible paint jobs for probably this reason. "Let's give these all odd paint jobs that only kids will appreciate! The older fans who want a more movie accurate paint job will probably pay top dollar for this!"
http://www.robotkingdom.com/a91850000.htmlhttp://www.allspark.com/content/2014/09 ... -dinobots/The top link is 129$... which would cost about 99-109$ (24.99 Grimlock, 12.99 for the 3 deluxes and 34.99-50$ for Slog whose price is all over the place) ...which actually isn't too far-fetched... but it's in Hong Kong so shipping will cost like 30-50$.
I'm waiting for the 2nd link, that looks really good but I hope it won't be TOO hard to get like Nemesis Prime or Nemesis Grimlock which go for about 200$... 10x the price of the normal retail shelf warmer.
Not sure if this is a rumor, but these sets might show up in Canadian ToysRus. Seems plausible that at least the smaller ones will, most of them show up here at some point. They're still ungodly expensive, but at least you can get them.
Good luck though, I know how it can be tough finding stuff on a tight budget.
I'd rather pay for a figure in Canada than in HK, at least that won't cost me 40$ to ship to the US! If only I had a higher paying job...