Originally Posted by imfallenangel
Many got it during the 20% sale, which brought it in the 80-90$ range, much more acceptable, but still, compared to a lot of similar sized figures from 10-15 years ago, it's easily a good 30-40% more. As such large figures used to be around the 60$ range, and taking for example the gigantic Power Ranger base that was 150$ but ended up on liquidation for 30$ last year, and is easily 3 to 4 times the size and mass of plastic, and I'm sure that they still made money on it.
That said, once you have him in hand, put it next to the combiners that were around the 150$ range per set, he actually is more massive, taller, and a much better plastic, so while I wish that he would be cheaper in price, he's actually far from being the worst scenario.
For me, it's the same as most of the Siege line, I do not regret getting them, but I regret that they costed more than I should have paid. I managed to get a few on sales, missed the sales for others, but for this figure and Omega, I'm very glad that I did manage to get them on that 20% sale.
I know that some members stated that they will hold off for the Black Friday sale, but as there's absolutely no way to ensure that you can get them, I'd rather get them now than risk and miss out as this Siege line has been the one line that managed to pull me in.
After a few more, there's going to be AstroTrain, but beyond that, I'm not sure what figures will come out with the ability to draw me in, I'll have to see, but I've never spent as much, gotten so many from a single line as Siege.
But for this figure, he is a very nice figure... not perfect as that would have been simply amazing, but good enough to be a must-have for me.
And note that if you were to go outside of the Transformer lines, such as Bandai, or even Takara's other lines, or even 3rd parties stuff, 120$ is in the very cheap lines/figures that are much smaller than this, heck I can't even think of anything that is this big in other lines, so I'd have to extrapolate that such a figure under another series, would probably be 400-600$ for something this big and massive. The only figure that comes to mind would be the various Omega Supreme and those are in the 500+$ range. Note that I'm NOT justifying the price here, just giving you some comparisons of why such toys are so freaking expensive now.
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