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Pretty cool custom G1 Insecticons
http://cgi.ebay.com/Custom-Transform...07000900889928
and another take on MP Defensor. Other than the inability to separate each of the gestalts into individual bots + the small feet, I still reckon he looks pretty badass
http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-G1-...06520939470616
I don't know if this is in-hand factory theft, or straight out scamming, but... anyone want a Botcon 2010 Spark (Pyro)?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...E:B:SS:US:1123
Ever wanted an instant army?
Shame he doesn't ship OS :rolleyes:
Yeah i've never seen someone so adamant about not shipping overseas.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
Some apparent Botcon stuff from an ebay seller in the UK:
Cyclonus 2002
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BOTCON-CYCLON...ht_3074wt_1165
Shadow Striker and Roulette
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BOTCON-SHADOW...ht_2045wt_1165
Sideswipe 2003
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BOTCON-SIDESW...ht_2818wt_1165
Sunstreaker 2003?
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BOTCON-SUNSTR...ht_2045wt_1165
I'm looking at the RM E-Hobby Victory Saber so mitts off :D
Didn't someone here need a Universe Roadbuster?
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/TRANSFORMERS-...f#ht_500wt_956
Deceptic Optics does. Erm Playidia, is this the same seller who made it in our :"bad sellers" list?Quote:
Originally Posted by kup
you can pick him up brand new in the 2 pack at TRU for only 50AUD.Quote:
Originally Posted by kup
you can also get it for $30US from robotkingdom.Quote:
Originally Posted by bruticus
So let's see what those rare JP Gen1 toys ended up selling for...
Stepper - US$0 (no bids - that's a big surprise. The reissues may have killed the novelty 'rare' value of wanting a Stepper, but this was an original Stepper, and there is still value in having an original of any toy over a reissue.)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140400757767
Soundblaster - US$120 (This one was reissued, but still managed to get over a dozen bids, so why no love for an original Stepper. 10-15 years ago, before reissues, these two toys would have raked in about $500 each.)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140400758405
Twincast - US$421
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400767879
Trizer - US$208
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400776159
Lione - US$203
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400775979
Shuffler - US$1125 (I bid $632, which was well above what I thought it would go for, and would have easily won any of the other five.)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400779391
Kirk - US$200
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400773630
Rodney - US$147
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400773908
Loafer - US$143 (now why couldn't Shuffler go that cheaply? Even the other two 'beast' Heads that are just as rare as Shuffler, barely passed $200 - why the heck is the only one I want, the most expensive one?)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400772725
Dairu - US$1691 (again, one has double/triple the sale price of the others, but all four are just as rare as each other...)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400780633
Noizu - US$510
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400780114
Gurafi - US$788
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400779940
Zauru - US$648
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140400780287
That's over US$6200 (about AU$6700) for those 13 listings in just one week!
I was actually expecting all the Cassettes to each go close to $1000, and the Heads to each get at least $500, as their values had been trending up in that direction in previous listings.
Maybe the demand in these rare JP toys is finally levelling off or even dropping off, as the fans who were around long enough to know these toys enough, to want them as toys and not as investments, are now more rapidly shrinking in number. After all, these were toys from 23 years ago, which would make the common age of those most interested in toys of this era to be 33-40 years old now. Plus, these were all toys few in the Hasbro/Western market even knew about before the internet, so the nostalgia element is probably only to fans of its closest 'degree of separation' (US Gen1), for those that are predomenatly 'Gen1 fans'. In other words, fans since (like BW fans or Movie fans) may through association buy other Western TFs like US Gen1, but it would take a second 'degree of separation' to start looking at JP Gen1 and want to start collecting them as well.
Since I've noticed that the proportion of 30+ year old fans at BotCons in recent years is noticeably shrinking - even though these old toys are getting rarer on secondary markets like ebay, so are the people who still want them.
One thing I never seem to hear about is if a significant gen1-nostalgic fan community still exists in Japan. I never see any JP fan presence on the 'Hasbro/Western' fansites. And various fan-targetted toys from TT seem to make a bigger impression in Nth America, UK and South East Asia (or at least end up sold off to other countries). Have their original Gen1 fans all grown up as well?