returnofplex wrote:Someone looked up the SKU and the Wal Mart system had this at $49.99. I bought an extremely high quality(as good or better than the Hasbro reissues over the years), complete KO, in a G1 box for less than $40.00 SHIPPED from China to my door. I could see them praying on our nostalgia by doing it complete with trailer at $59.99, but this is ridiculous.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, it's the norm for reissues to be collectorflated at their starting price.
LoreKeeper, that $150 Primus wasn't just Hasbro. That was also TRU f***ery
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, it's the norm for reissues to be collectorflated at their starting price.
LoreKeeper, that $150 Primus wasn't just Hasbro. That was also TRU f***ery
Because Takara does no wrong and is premiumwilliam-james88 wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, it's the norm for reissues to be collectorflated at their starting price.
LoreKeeper, that $150 Primus wasn't just Hasbro. That was also TRU f***ery
It was not, it was 100% Hasbro. The cost per unit on TRU exclusives was really high, so TRU had to sell it at MSRP. Takara is doing the same thing with their Unicron of Light over in Japan and yet no one is batting an eye for some reason.
carytheone wrote:Because Takara does no wrong and is premiumwilliam-james88 wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, it's the norm for reissues to be collectorflated at their starting price.
LoreKeeper, that $150 Primus wasn't just Hasbro. That was also TRU f***ery
It was not, it was 100% Hasbro. The cost per unit on TRU exclusives was really high, so TRU had to sell it at MSRP. Takara is doing the same thing with their Unicron of Light over in Japan and yet no one is batting an eye for some reason.
DecepticonFinishline wrote:I'm sure this has been answered before, but I missed out on it. Do these reissues have the same diecast as the original releases?
-Kanrabat- wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:I'm sure this has been answered before, but I missed out on it. Do these reissues have the same diecast as the original releases?
If the original have diecast parts, the reissue should have the same die-cast parts.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:I'm sure this has been answered before, but I missed out on it. Do these reissues have the same diecast as the original releases?
If the original have diecast parts, the reissue should have the same die-cast parts.
The same goes for most releases that originally had die cast, but switched to plastic later, like Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod. So far, the Scramble City combiners like Bruticus are exempt.
-Kanrabat- wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:I'm sure this has been answered before, but I missed out on it. Do these reissues have the same diecast as the original releases?
If the original have diecast parts, the reissue should have the same die-cast parts.
The same goes for most releases that originally had die cast, but switched to plastic later, like Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod. So far, the Scramble City combiners like Bruticus are exempt.
Yeah, forgot to mention that when a thing get reissued, only the latest edition get reissued. Hotrod with metal feet was only for the first wave or so before that got changed to plastic. So of course we will never see a Hotrod with metal feet ever again. However, Optimus never lost his metal so he will still be full metal reissued.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:I'm sure this has been answered before, but I missed out on it. Do these reissues have the same diecast as the original releases?
If the original have diecast parts, the reissue should have the same die-cast parts.
The same goes for most releases that originally had die cast, but switched to plastic later, like Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod. So far, the Scramble City combiners like Bruticus are exempt.
Yeah, forgot to mention that when a thing get reissued, only the latest edition get reissued. Hotrod with metal feet was only for the first wave or so before that got changed to plastic. So of course we will never see a Hotrod with metal feet ever again. However, Optimus never lost his metal so he will still be full metal reissued.
Hot Rod got the metal feet, and Ultra Magnus the metal cab when they got reissued.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:I'm sure this has been answered before, but I missed out on it. Do these reissues have the same diecast as the original releases?
If the original have diecast parts, the reissue should have the same die-cast parts.
The same goes for most releases that originally had die cast, but switched to plastic later, like Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod. So far, the Scramble City combiners like Bruticus are exempt.
Yeah, forgot to mention that when a thing get reissued, only the latest edition get reissued. Hotrod with metal feet was only for the first wave or so before that got changed to plastic. So of course we will never see a Hotrod with metal feet ever again. However, Optimus never lost his metal so he will still be full metal reissued.
Hot Rod got the metal feet, and Ultra Magnus the metal cab when they got reissued.
-Kanrabat- wrote:UM have the "Optimus Prime" cab. Which was NEVER full plastics to begin with. Not counting the ever changing smokestacks.
-Kanrabat- wrote:But which Hotrod reissue got the metal feet?
Looking...
Eh. Twice. The first one, Takara's C-78, and Hasbro's white-box Commemorative. Suck that Walmart's only get the plastic feet.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:UM have the "Optimus Prime" cab. Which was NEVER full plastics to begin with. Not counting the ever changing smokestacks.
Oops, my bad. The rubber tires were replaced with plastic ones, and the windows of the cab were removed. Both were reinstated for the reissues.
-Kanrabat- wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:UM have the "Optimus Prime" cab. Which was NEVER full plastics to begin with. Not counting the ever changing smokestacks.
Oops, my bad. The rubber tires were replaced with plastic ones, and the windows of the cab were removed. Both were reinstated for the reissues.
Plastic tires. Windows removed. What kind of blasphemous trashy reissue are we talking about here?
Not even Chinese knock-off "reissues" would dare do such a thing!
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Read again. The reissues had the windows and the rubber tires, whereas the last releases in G1 had no windows and plastic tires.
-Kanrabat- wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Read again. The reissues had the windows and the rubber tires, whereas the last releases in G1 had no windows and plastic tires.
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING?!
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Read again. The reissues had the windows and the rubber tires, whereas the last releases in G1 had no windows and plastic tires.
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING?!
Cost saving.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:I'm sure this has been answered before, but I missed out on it. Do these reissues have the same diecast as the original releases?
If the original have diecast parts, the reissue should have the same die-cast parts.
The same goes for most releases that originally had die cast, but switched to plastic later, like Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod. So far, the Scramble City combiners like Bruticus are exempt.
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