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Originally Posted by jtkv
I checked my notes...
The 2015 reissue was $130US @ NY
The 2017 reissue was $140US @ AE
That comes to CDN $200-$210 shipped...
...if you don't get hit by customs.
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The difference though is that this is a (big box) retail release. (I know store exclusive). So it should be priced more in line with that sort of market in mind. The closest example would be the last time TRU sold this mold in North America.
There is no accounting for such a drastic price increase in so few years outside of greed. The production costs can't have gone up very much at all since the mold already exists, and has been used so many times that it surely must be paid for long ago. Materials can't have gone up that much, especially since oil is so low (lower & for longer than the last time this mold was released here). The only remaining wildcard is fees, from Takara to Hasbro, then Hasbro to TRU.
Obviously I don't know where the cost/profit line is, but my belief is that the price increase is more about profit than it is about increased costs.