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Originally Posted by ssjgoku22
This is awesome and I'm glad I backed it. I just feel like all of the tier unlocks were pointless. Everything that was "unlocked" felt like they should have been included if this was a general release figure. Look at the amount of stuff Commander Class Rodimus came with and all at $125 retail.
I'm not trying to be overly picky, but I feel like they could have given us better unlocks for the price and the fact that they reached over 27,000 backers.
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True, but Rodimus would have a larger production run, and lower ancillary costs to get to retail. All of which allows Hasbro to offer it at a lower price for retailers to sell.
Victory Saber is a lower production run, and Hasbro takes on all the costs of getting it to the consumer (shipping to each country, and logistics to get them shipped out within country through local partners). Thus a higher cost to Hasbro specificially. Especially since they offer free shipping in the US, and only $30 for Canada. Which with current postal/shipping rates is a money loser for the larger items. I mean I just received my Sentinel yesterday, and there is no way Canada Post, or FedEx in this case, would have shipped this for less than $40 (Cdn) even with whatever discount they give Hasbro.
Now of course all of that is factored into the price, but again that contributes to the final price.
Anyway, I agree that the price might be a bit higher than I would have liked, but I also get why these projects are so much higher.
