Actually, I'm inclined to agree with theshape here. Post G1 toys won't appreciate nearly as well as G1 even after the same amount of time. I think the reason for this is that in the 1980s and early 90s, almost everyone collecting Transformers were children... and I didn't know _anyone_ who kept their toys sealed as a kid! The fact that the core appeal of a Transformer is in its transformation and marvelling at how it changes between modes, it meant that way less people were likely to keep these toys sealed unlike say vintage Star Wars figures.
When Beast Wars came along, those of us who grew up with G1 were in our late teens and twenties; high schoolers and uni students. So first of all, it meant that we had more money than we did as children in the 80s - many of us were working part time student jobs or even full time apprenticeships and trades, and by time RiD, Armadaverse and other lines came along, the children of the 80s had already well and truly joined the workforce. So increased levels of disposable income meant that we were able to buy the toys that we wanted, so we don't really have these "holes" in our post-G1 collections.
The other thing is, as the children of the 80s entered adulthood after G1/G2, there would have been an increasing number of people becoming sealed collectors. For me, in 1997 - as a university student - I bought my first spare set of Transformers to keep sealed. It was CD ROM Convobat Vs Megalligator. That toy was an absolute beeotch to find... hard enough to find one for myself, let alone for other collectors outside Japan that I was running around and buying Transformers for!And after I'd bought all the CD ROM vs sets that people had asked me to buy... I remember finding another one, so I quickly bought it and till this day it remains sealed. I would never have done that as a kid.
I reckon post G1 TFs would have lower demand but increased supply on the secondary market compared to G1 TFs. But who knows... kids who grew up w/ Beast Wars would be in their early 20s now, so a lot of them would be TAFE/uni students or just starting in the workforce... basically, where we were when Beast Wars came out. So maybe this it the time for Hasbro to tap into this market as they're now starting to have more disposable income - more so than us because they're young enough not to be burdened with other financial responsibilities like mortgages and families. Seriously... I think Takara was really smart in unleashing so many G1 reissues in the 00s, because that's when we had that spending power to just buy them! If Hasbro wants to tap into the kids who grew up with BW, I think now is the time to strike while the iron's getting hot.Earlier this year I brought BW Inferno with me to Smash!, and a young 19 year old Canadian came up to me and got all excited (in the same way that people of our age would when seeing a G1 TF - made me feel old
). I talked to him about how the Canadian BW franchise, like how it was called Beasties instead of Beast Wars, and he was like, "That's right!" and I see him being hit by a "Nostalgia Tsunami"
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Originally Posted by 5FDP
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Tell him he's dreaming!
