william-james88 wrote:I don't really see how it's about believing something or not. What I wrote can be verified by anyone. It's just fact.
Okay, but if it's such an irrefutable true statement then where is the proof of it? I feel like you must just know something I don't at this point, because all of my interactions/observations with/of other people who buy TFs come from the Internet in some way, be that here, Youtubers, or me lurking on other sites, and I've not seen a single person actually say that ER Arcee is a figure they wanted and didn't get (which would therefore make them happy about a repack). The few people who ignored it being a bad figure already got it, and most of them then posted on the Haul thread or in other places arount the Internet about regretting it because the figure is bad and barely transforms. There was basically universal groans when the Arcee repack showed up for the first time in the Kingdom leaks. If anything, I've seen more proof that there isn't demand for that Arcee than I've seen proof that there is, which is why I can't see repacking that figure as anything other than a terrible decision made solely because it's the 86 Movie anniversary and she was in it.
william-james88 wrote:And I agree, the toy sucks.
Glad we can agree on that, at least.
william-james88 wrote:By the same token, Elita 1 also sucks but it's selling for even more. I don't think a toy sucking is really related to demand. It's wanting that character in one's collection. The ebay prices for Thunderblast for the past 10 years have taught us that.
Elita and Thunderblast are more unique situations though, I feel like, since Thunderblast has no other figure period and has an unusual/rare alt mode for a TF (we need more boats/aquatic TFs, honestly), and Elita is a Walmart store exclusive (which immediately lends itself to scalpers with Walmart especially, given the Gigawatt debacle) who has only one other retail figure that a lot of people skipped for having the "wrong" alt mode and being a weird combiner mold. Arcee has had other figures before, even if most of them weren't specifically G1 Arcees, and most of them were and/or are considered to be better figures than the most recent attempt, plus said most recent attempt released alongside a Masterpiece and a Cyberverse Deluxe. It feels to me like demand for TFs seems to be directly based on a combination of the character's popularity, the character's prior availability, and the quality of the figure (and probably like 4 other factors I'm forgetting), barring factors that can't exactly be easily represented like people only buying characters from specific continuities/series/parts of the brand. There's way more quality options available for Arcee and the figure is bad, therefore the demand should be lower.
Also, to make sure I'm not completely derailing the thread, apparently a CD Red Alert from ER Doubledealer is somehow a crazy thought? I was confident after the Selects Hot Shot came and then ER Doubledealer was revealed that we'd get that repaint, as well as a Stalker to oppose Selects Rotorstorm, but Hasbro decided that ER Prime was the only ER Leader mold that they were going to reuse/repaint for some reason, and I am baffled. It's not like Leader Class Selects don't sell, Galactic Man sold out on Pulse I think within a day if not two and never came back, and we already know from leaks that a Selects Galvatron is coming with his toy colors.
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