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Re: The Transformers VENTING Thread
I agree with the price issues and sizes being absurd. I look at SS Jazz and Bee (volkswagon) and they are small bots at a not so small price tag. I love Jazz but seriously he's more adorably small than a Deluxe figure. Bee is likely not that much bigger.
Then you have those small Primemasters, and I feel like I get a better deal from a Kinder Egg even without giving a crap about the toy inside. On top of that the Cyberverse line is expensive considering how little they are, how little they do (ie: not even transform) and hollow they are. They look like how Power Rangers has looked like for awhile, cheap Dollar Store knockoffs.
Lastly, we are paying a lot more for the figures and getting a lot less in quality control. Loose joints, parts popping off all the time. It just feels like the value of the figures how gone down the drain, for some anyway.
Another thing I don't get is again at a HEFTY price tag, why does a figure like Predaking, that i've always known having a sword, not have sword?. Or am I missing something because I no see a sword with mine.
I mean this is a great time for 3P companies to make a quick buck by selling in filler parts, extra weapons and enhancements but for what we pay for the figures in the first place, shouldn't Hasbro have done that to begin with?! And yes, on occasion I do buy those kits because they really do improve on a figure that should have been already at its best to begin with.
All I know is that right now I am avoiding Cyberverse and Bumblebee movie figures, though I did buy the SS deluxe which, SHOCKER, the arm gun needs to be taken apart and re-glued because it WILL NOT stay on the peg on Bee and his bot head pops off easily, hip ball joints are loose and his one bumper already broke, but glue can fix it. Again, at 30.00 a pop there really shouldn't be so many issues. He's on my return list. I just have to remember where the receipt is.
Anyway, that's my venting/complaints. Gonna only buy the figures that interest me for the Seige for Cybertron toyline, like that Shockwave.
As for MP figures, I really don't buy many of them. BW Dinobot was my most recent and while expensive AF, I absolutely LOVE the figure. So from my point of view, while pricey, the value I got I can justify...which makes me SUPER excited for Megatron.
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