Great tally of the cost of keeping up with TT's Animated Exclusives:
http://www.collecticon.org/2010/09/a...ed-exclusives/
Spoiler alert: USD 1870!
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Great tally of the cost of keeping up with TT's Animated Exclusives:
http://www.collecticon.org/2010/09/a...ed-exclusives/
Spoiler alert: USD 1870!
Soon there will be more exclusives than normal figures. The weird world we live in!
Its looking to go that way. If you give each fig a 'Super Mode' and then add the bajillion versions of the SS mold, the possible exclusives will surpass the normal stuff.
Don't worry they'll reciprocate.Quote:
Boy those TT Animated Exclusives are getting expensive
Is the easier option to just not get any? Or just one or two?
Is there a difference between completist (just getting the regularly released figures) and being ultra-completist (getting absolutely everything)
What's funny is that it seemed like Takara would never release Animated figures... now they've got more figures than Hasbro ever did.
Patience! Space it out and you'll get through it. ;) So far I've knocked eight off that list, and I've got another on pre-order.
I'm not up to date with the regular releases either, but if they sell out it's not like they won't be on ebay at some point.
I would just like TT to release repaints of characters that Hasbro didnt release
Thundercracker (voyager) (did he ever make it)
Ramjet (voyager)
Dirge (voyager)
Thrust (voyager)
Wasp (deluxe)
Cliffjumper (deluxe)
I'd buy these exclusives
They all sound and look like rather forgettable repaints, except for Activator Ramjet - which I would pay AU$30 for, but not US$30. And why are there price estimates on LUCKY DRAW prize toys?? Those toys aren't meant to have RRPs or meant to be even available for retail sale... aren't they supposed to be given away free as ... ya know... lucky draw prizes?!?
I'm delighted to receive lucky draw toys if I win them, but I'd never pay for one. Kinda defeats the whole point of it IMHO
That extra A$0.86 is a deal breaker, eh?
Because that's the estimated cost for a collector to collect them.
Refusing to pay aftermarket prices for any item (regardless of whether the seller acquired it for free or as a prize), seems to me to defeat the whole point of collecting. I understand your own choice to not want, but to insinuate that it "defeats the whole point of it" bewilders me greatly. Would that also mean that:
- Importing toys to Australia that are meant for the Japanese market defeats the whole point of it?
- Buying G1 Reflector with money instead of robot points defeats the whole point of it?
- Buying toys in 2010 made to be sold in 1984 defeats the whole point of it?
It seems to be a very basic tenet of collecting anything that people will buy things they want, regardless of its original purpose and price, without defeating the point of anything. :confused:
Damn straight. For an extra 14c I can go to the Dollar store buy myself somefing.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaydisc
Yeah already, I got pwned there. :p
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...higa_pwned.jpg
I've replied to the rest of your post here :)