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Leonardo wrote:

Bonger wrote:Taking your examples of Devastator and Defensor as an exaple. Most of the bots in those can be had for 5 bucks each with another 20 for parts to complete them. And that is going by ebay prices. I know complete ones sell for in excess of 100, however, taking the time to buy the parts, one can assemble one for around 50-60.

Can one really find Devastator robots for such a cheap price? I have awful trouble finding a cheap Hook.

Bonger wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Bonger wrote:Taking your examples of Devastator and Defensor as an exaple. Most of the bots in those can be had for 5 bucks each with another 20 for parts to complete them. And that is going by ebay prices. I know complete ones sell for in excess of 100, however, taking the time to buy the parts, one can assemble one for around 50-60.

Can one really find Devastator robots for such a cheap price? I have awful trouble finding a cheap Hook.

I got my hook for 10 dollars. I also recently ebayed a lot of all 6 constructicons and it went for 30 bucks, so I would have to say yes.

My rule of thumb is 5 bucks for each limb and 10 for the body for the 5 piece gestalts. The only excpetion I would make is Vortex who can be a ittle hard to find.

Leonardo wrote:

Bonger wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Bonger wrote:Taking your examples of Devastator and Defensor as an exaple. Most of the bots in those can be had for 5 bucks each with another 20 for parts to complete them. And that is going by ebay prices. I know complete ones sell for in excess of 100, however, taking the time to buy the parts, one can assemble one for around 50-60.

Can one really find Devastator robots for such a cheap price? I have awful trouble finding a cheap Hook.

I got my hook for 10 dollars. I also recently ebayed a lot of all 6 constructicons and it went for 30 bucks, so I would have to say yes.

My rule of thumb is 5 bucks for each limb and 10 for the body for the 5 piece gestalts. The only excpetion I would make is Vortex who can be a ittle hard to find.

Interesting stuff. I can rarely find a Hook that isn't broken, let alone one so cheap! I'll have to look harder.

Bonger wrote:Well, I think some of us might be missing a key issue here.

That being, that as of right now, providing reissues for collectors is not Takara or Hasbro's core business, which is toys for kids, who probably have minimal interest in reissues of 80 toys. Hell, a lot of our younger collectors who are into BW and the unicron trilogies often scoff at G1 toys.

This could all be changing now as I have read that Takara is thinking o focussing more on the adult market. Then agan, that could just mean more MPs and not necesarily taking the time to remake lost/broken molds.

But yes, you are right on with the list of lost/broken molds.

Point to note here is that even if they have the molds, a lot of TFs will never get reissued as the original 80s versions are still pretty cheap to come by.

Taking your examples of Devastator and Defensor as an exaple. Most of the bots in those can be had for 5 bucks each with another 20 for parts to complete them. And that is going by ebay prices. I know complete ones sell for in excess of 100, however, taking the time to buy the parts, one can assemble one for around 50-60.

A reissue would be much more than that, and hence, does not make sense to buy, or make, atleast not the way I see it.

Predaking is an exception as the metal Predacons have always fetched top dollar.

In a nutshell, it comes down to demand. The reissues we will see are the ones with the most demand for them, and most of these will be the Series 1-4. Anything after that would seem highly unlikely to me.

microclone wrote:devastator is a toy that has so many parts that pretty much all need to be in good condition to form the gestalt that i can see a big market for a reissue set as its not like buying say a single toy and being done with it, it pretty much has to be complete and in good condition which can be tricky and take time to find.