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Just gonna jump in and say i would love a bear mold reissue, i want that mold in some capacity

So while I was out and about yesterday I found one of my Walmarts with a decent selection of BW reissues: some Wolfgang, some Retrax, and some Terrorsaur. I noticed some things: like Rattrap from a year or two ago, Terrorsaur is on a smaller card back and has a separate UPC than the other reissues. This begs the question: why the hell are these Basic figures priced like deluxes? He is visibly smaller than the others near him. Is this Hasbro's greed or Walmart?

Also, I didn't notice at the time, but when I checked out, Wolfang came out to $28 before tax. That's $3 more than modern deluxes for a 25 year old toy with half the parts count. Looking back, the Cybershark I got a few months ago may have also been similarly overpriced, I remember thinking he was a lot but I don't remember how much.

Is this the standard price for them? Looking at my pictures, I don't have a photo of their shelf tag, only Terrorsaur's, which shows as $25 (which is still too much). I'm assuming "Tra Action Figure" is for something else, not the BW deluxes. I could go back and check.

Considering that small TF like Cliffjumper are priced as "deluxes", it's no wonder the "basics" are deluxes too. Plus consider that ironically, Rattrap was remade from scratch and is full of mechanical parts so that drive up the price.

As for why Wolfang is 35$ instead of 25$, it's the price increase hitting. Be thankful that US Walmarts (or at least yours) didn't retroactively applied that price increase on ALL the older toys too. Like they did in Canada, especially at Toys R Us.

Wolfang was $28, I moved some stuff around to get a picture of all 3 figures so only Terrorsaur is on the right spot. I thought Retrax and Wolfang were both on the 25 UPC but that may be for something else.

The Beast Wars reissues got bumped up from $25 to $28 sometime between Retrax and Wolfang shipping from Walmart.com and them showing up in stores. I definitely got Wolfang for $25 online. Both of those completely sold out in my area days after the displays showed up. I hope they restock a ton of them and they go to clearance because I'd like to get at least one Retrax to keep on card to go with my loose vintage one.

Emerje

If in US$, not too bad.
If in CAN$, That's an amazing deal!

I was able to get 2 vintage Optimus Primals at 9$ CAD each. Kept one MISB for my collection and gifted the other to a kids in need program. Hopefully I helped that 9 year old boy have a good christmas.

All the Wave 1 Vintage Beast Wars toys have been long gone from my Walmarts since the end of 2021.

They need to bring the price on Primal and Megatron down much more. They were $25 online at walmart.com a few months back. It is odd because not every store ordered these, but the ones that did, had a huge overstock. I dont know what it is about the vintage toys (original or BW), but their price by far exceeds inflation and cost of rise of materials. I know we've been through all the numbers before and projections but it dosen't add up.

Still, for the toys to sell at any decent rate, they basically have to come down to what their price was in 1996, which means someone is losing money, and its not a viable long term strategy, which is why I refrain form getting them . (Not that Hasbro ever intended to re release every OG BW toy, but their character selection since the first wave seems to be completely random) I still see deluxes (mostly Wolfang and Retrax)in the clearance aisle now, but still asking $28!!! That is crazy! $10 was the right price when they originally came out in the 90's, I wouldn't expect to may more than $20 for any BW deluxe TODAY. Plus making a "Basic" the same price as a deluxe is just insulting.

I think pricing them the same as Generations Deluxe figures was the right move for them. I know paying Deluxe prices for Basics isn't great, but with them having to remake the figures and add in the auto changing feature I think they did the best they could with the price. Why they bounced the price up to $28 I can't say, but I guess it's still cheaper than G1 reissue prices. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When my local Walmart took down the winter display around a week before Christmas didn't put what was left back in the toy aisle until a few weeks into January. Just one Retrax and three Wolfangs. They were hanging off the corner of the back endcap near the Transformers, now they're on the top shelf over the MotU figures.

Emerje