Putting it next to the Japanese black-and-white one will show that it is gray, just a very light shade.Rodimus Knight wrote:Am I the only person he remembers the toy for G1 astrotrain being Grey and Purple, not White and Purple?
Putting it next to the Japanese black-and-white one will show that it is gray, just a very light shade.Rodimus Knight wrote:Am I the only person he remembers the toy for G1 astrotrain being Grey and Purple, not White and Purple?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sledge wrote:Finally! Wheelie will get the credit he's due with a set of five Wheelies.
ScottyP wrote:Kid 1 "What did you get for Christmas?"
Kid 2 "Steve.........What did you get?"
Kid 1 "John Cena!"
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
Quantum Surge wrote:Not the price drop I was hoping, but it beats paying $50 for a reissue that small.
william-james88 wrote:Quantum Surge wrote:Not the price drop I was hoping, but it beats paying $50 for a reissue that small.
Any lower and it becomes cheaper than what it sold for in the 80s.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
william-james88 wrote:Quantum Surge wrote:Not the price drop I was hoping, but it beats paying $50 for a reissue that small.
Any lower and it becomes cheaper than what it sold for in the 80s.
Dr. Caelus wrote:william-james88 wrote:Quantum Surge wrote:Not the price drop I was hoping, but it beats paying $50 for a reissue that small.
Any lower and it becomes cheaper than what it sold for in the 80s.
Shouldn't it be? The engineering was done decades ago, so it has more than paid for itself. The parts count is small, the amount of plastic used is small, the assembly is simplistic, and the paint apps are absolutely minimal. This is a toy that was cheap and easy to put on shelves.
Generally speaking, G1 reissues should be priced more like Cyberverse figures than anything else on the shelves.
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
Lore Keeper wrote: Also, people are really exaggerating over how close this discount brings the toy to it's original price. A direct match would only be $28.66. So yes, they could discount it quite a bit more and still account for inflation.
hausjam wrote:I am no expert. But I don't think it's fair to simply take a toy price from 1985 and plug it into a CPI calculator. There are other factors. Plastics cost alot more back in the 80s than they do now. But design and engineering costs are much lower now. There is also the question of volume. Shipping costs. Distribution costs. Etc Etc. Many of these things cost more now, relative to then. Many of them cost far less.
CPI calculations are a measure of how much your money is worth now compared to any given point in the past. They are meaningless in determining how much something costs to make now vs then.
william-james88 wrote:But I was never talking about production cost, none of us know of it , all we know is the price. 2 different things. The inflation calculator confirms that this toy is priced similarly to how he was in the 80s. He's as expensive for us now as he was for our parents 30+ years ago.
hausjam wrote: Their MP line has doubled in both price and QC issues. Meanwhile, knockoffs have reached parity in quality at half the price.
Regardless of what parts of putting the toy on the shelf costs more or less than it did 35 years ago, the bottom line is that the selling price is practically the same. Assuming that Hasbro hasn't completely turned its business model upside down, they still produce product for profit, so they take into account all production costs when putting a price on a product and ensure that they make money. The CPI is not meaningless because it can be applied to the cost of production the same as to the selling price.hausjam wrote:I am no expert. But I don't think it's fair to simply take a toy price from 1985 and plug it into a CPI calculator. There are other factors. Plastics cost alot more back in the 80s than they do now. But design and engineering costs are much lower now. There is also the question of volume. Shipping costs. Distribution costs. Etc Etc. Many of these things cost more now, relative to then. Many of them cost far less.
CPI calculations are a measure of how much your money is worth now compared to any given point in the past. They are meaningless in determining how much something costs to make now vs then.
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