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When did the price boom for Masterpiece really kick in?

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When did the price boom for Masterpiece really kick in?

Postby Spirit of '86 » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:47 am

It seems to have happened with MP Hound when the price of a carbot practically doubled from what it had been previously., :-?
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Re: When did the price boom for Masterpiece really kick in?

Postby william-james88 » Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:07 am

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I would say Dinobot. It's the first time we wrote an article about how high the price was.
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Re: When did the price boom for Masterpiece really kick in?

Postby Spirit of '86 » Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:23 am

Yes, I forgot about him. Interesting read, thanks!
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Re: When did the price boom for Masterpiece really kick in?

Postby RK_Striker_JK_5 » Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:13 pm

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william-james88 wrote:I would say Dinobot. It's the first time we wrote an article about how high the price was.
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... led/39964/

Yeah, that seems about right to me, too. Good article, there. After him I started getting quite a bit choosier about my MP purchases.
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Re: When did the price boom for Masterpiece really kick in?

Postby MadProject » Wed Sep 30, 2020 6:21 pm

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problem is, that since a while now MP are starting to care a lot about the accuracy of both modes, and are using a lot more panels and pieces compared to older ones, that wanted "simply" to be the best rendition of the character.
Compare, for example, how much more complex the MP-44 (Optimus V3) is compared to MP-10 (Optimus v2).
You get, in the 44, a realistic truck that turns into a robot mode that looks like he came out from the settei, but uses almost no piece from the truck mode, with a lot of folding out and flip-over panels.
The MP-10, instead, has a more realistic look in the robot mode as well, and it's more a reinterpretation of Optimus' look, that uses the actual parts of the truck for the robot mode.
Even the two trailers are a lot different, with the MP-44 one being more complex and with a lot of features more compared to MP-10's one.

With that starting to be the standard for MP figures, it's not so weird to see the price going up. It's simply a lot more complex figure.
It's like being surprised that a leader class figure costs more than a voyager one, while being a lot more complex.

Also, it's not exactly that they're going up for no reasons, but it looks like they're stil proportioned to the other pricing.
When MP-44 came out, people were complaining about the price, but I noticed that the price tag was mostly due the trailer, and I was theorizing that a version without it would cost about the same as MP-36 (Megatron V2). That was in fact what happened when they announced the black version of it, that was without the trailer.
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