Masterpiece Beast Wars Dinobot

[Verno]

Ok, working with the current unofficial scale chart, and assuming that anyone larger than Primal will come with electronics and anyone smaller will not, we can guesstimate the prices for the rest of the line-up based on the Yen per cm prices of Primal and Cheetor.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

RK has their listing up -- US$200 with an RRP of 28,000 yen:

http://www.robotkingdom.com/tftrmp41.html

They're usually very reliable with RRPs, so I think that's it.

[drifand]

I find it hard to believe that this is the price we are looking at for a beast wars character? Really?

[BigTransformerTrev]

RK has their listing up -- US$200 with an RRP of 28,000 yen:

http://www.robotkingdom.com/tftrmp41.html

They're usually very reliable with RRPs, so I think that's it.

Tell’em they’re dreamin’

[UltraMarginal]

there would have been a lot of design time spent on this guy, incorporating electronics, Designing around the insane transformation requirements.
Size isn't really a factor in the cost of a toy, yes, more plastic costs more, but it's pretty cheap stuff.

The real costs are in parts count, individual mould size, Engineering time, prototyping, inspection and assembly.

this guy looks like he's going to be very complex, so costs would probably be driven by parts count, which leads to bigger moulds (requiring bigger, higher pressure injection machinery). Assembly time will also be longer with so many parts and the complexity of adding in the electronic features.

I still think the price is a bitter pill to swallow, especially when they should be expecting to sell a lot of these. I can't help but feel that Takara are banking on the characters popularity, with a fairly large profit margin.

I like beast wars, the only beast wars toys I have are the recent Generations Waspinator and Rhinox and the first MP releases of each existing character. I would like to have an MP Beast wars shelf but man this is a big pill.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Maybe the Golden Disk is made from real gold.

[DELTAprime]

Maybe the Golden Disk is made from real gold.

If it was real gold I'd rather a cheaper version with it made from plastic.

My MMPR Dragon Dagger has 24kt gold plating and that is about a $80 to $100 USD prop/toy with most of the body made from diecast.

[spiderken17]

I am not a Beast Wars collector so don't know much about this guys popularity but that price seems ridiculous to me. I cannot imagine them selling heaps of these to start with (compared with G1 MP's) so they could scare away people on the fence with a massive RRP.