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Originally Posted by 79transam
Elitism. The elephant in the room.
In many cases the people who relish in having the most inflated price collectibles, find a sense of joy in being able to have more than others.
And that's fine. But making long winded videos to try to skirt around that fact is a HUGE facade'.
BS makes some valid points too, but it's often what ISN'T spoken that has the most gravity.
All to each their own but when your initials are BS and your self imposed catch phrase is TRUTH.... it still smells like BS
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Yup...
Many forget that it comes down these are TOYS, that are meant for parents to buy for children, even if some are targeting the adults a bit more...
How does it feel to tell an adult that "sorry you're not rich enough, don't make enough, to be able to afford children toys!".. cause I've seen some act like this on here lately with the whole price debate.
Note that a few cannot wrap their heads that it's a complete other thing when we talk about the actual collectibles, which most aren't meant to be handled... just posed and displayed, which for me, goes against what I want. If I can't "play" with it, it's not getting purchased. Heck, the Macross planes, gorgeous, but when it takes 1/2 an hour to transform, one bad move and it breaks, and at 200-300$ ++++ no way I'd go there. And when you see a few Transformers or other that are 10-20$, and have a great transformation, won't break easily, it's a fact... it can be done (decent toy) for an affordable price, but companies just want to cash in as fast and as much.
For me, the most laughable falsity/lie I see is "plastic is expensive" arguments and according to the white knights it warrants the jump of 50% or so in prices... plastic is cheap as heck people... it you can buy items that are 20x larger than transformers made of same or similar plastics for a few dollars, you're fooling yourselves. Assembly, workmanship I'd agree that it would add to the price, but not the 1$'s worth of plastic... heck, anyone that wants to argue this... I'd say; go melt your figure in a lump and go ask how much that lump of plastic is worth... Heck, I had someone argue that the Diaclone pilots were so pricy (Bandai ones are about 60-70$ for just one tiny armour suit) was because of the price of the magnets in their feet... a magnet the size of a pencil lead, when you can buy a quality of magnets for 20$ that would be enough to make several thousands of these figures.
Anyways.... Remember G1, where the full set came out and stayed out for a few years in stores, permitting most kids to get a chance to get them... now, you miss a 3-4 month window of release, and the odds of finding a figure disappears rather quickly. Sometimes they pop up at Winners/Canadian Tire or such a year later, but it's a gamble.
And that makes collectors jump a lot more than ever... So yup Siege is the very first series that has ever pulled me in like this and I didn't want to risk missing any so while hoping for a sale, I just got them as I saw them... I hate that I feel like that, I hate to feed the machine, and I won't after this series, I will get some more when they come out with something great, I'm sure, but after Siege, I'll be back to they'll have to seriously impress me for me to take my wallet out again... (unless liquidation or massive sales at that point).
