by mordhelm » Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:10 pm
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Not sure if this is the right place for this, or if it needs a new thread entirely, but I was looking into a bit of a consumer cost analysis on Titans Return vs Combiner Wars and it looks like, while it seems like CW was repaint city and had so much to collect it made your head spin, it looks like Hasbro has a sweet spot for what they think people are willing to pay to complete a line.
Both Combiner Wars and Titans Return came in at just a bit over $1600. How is that possible? Well it happened because, as we tend to forget, they introduced a new size class (Titan Masters) and had 2 Titan class figures instead of 1. A couple of patterns I noticed:
Not including the G2 boxsets (which basically were hasbro just wanting to squeeze every penny out of nostalgia, which I was okay with since I bought them), or the Titan Force (again, repaints released figures) the boxset/exclusive counts were remarkably similar:
Titans Return has 2 boxsets and 3 separate exclusives (Arcee, Clones, and Shreddicus). looking at around $300 for those exclusives.
Combiner Wars has 3 boxsest, Liokaiser, Computron, and Pyra Magna. Also $300.
Retail Voyagers were matched at 9 a piece, and Retail Leaders were matched at 6 as well.
Here it where I go into the theoretical aspect, the discussion portion if you will, feel free to skip if you don't want to read it.
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So, for those of us clamoring for certain figures, and disappointed by the abrupt ending of Titans Return (Slugslinger being the sole figure to end the line), we now have some insight into why. Hasbro appears to have met it's goal of what it feels individuals are willing to purchase within the line.
In terms of certain figures, here are the ones I have heard people wishing would have released:
Legends:
Frumble, Eject, Steeljaw, Ratbat, Cliffjumper, Freeway, Goldbug, Rollbar, Searchlight, Wideload
Deluxe:
Headmasters: Siren, Nightbeat, Hosehead, Fangry, Horri-Bull, Squeezeplay
Powermasters: Slapdash, Joyride
Targetmasters: Sureshot, Crosshairs, Pointblank, Spinister, Needlenose
Voyager:
Apeface, Snapdragon
So in order to fit these in, you would have to remove other figures... let's assume, that you take away Trypticon and the Titan Masters.
Trypticon could be worth 6 voyagers, 9-10 deluxes, or 15 legends
The titan masters could be valued at 2 per legends, 3 per deluxe, 5 per voyager
Theoretically, you could get all the Powermasters and Targetmasters, the Horrorcons, Frumble, Eject, Steeljaw, Ratbat, and Ramhorn as a Legends instead of Titan Master.
Personally, I definitely would have rather had Trypticon, and wait for the rest to trickle out eventually, versus waiting even longer for the Titans.
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Now what this means to me, moving forward, is that I expect Power of the Primes to maintain that $1600 collection number, and to keep approximately 9 voyagers and 6 leaders. We know the Titan already, and since this will be done before summer 2019, we expect the 2019 TItan to be included in the next Generations line. So I think we will see a decent number of figures in this line.
Obviously this post is from my perspective, but feel free to ask questions or put your own spin on it and share.
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