Masterpiece Beast Wars Megatron

[griffin]

MP-43 Beast Wars Megatron

35,000 Yen...

With shipping from most foreign sources, at the current exchange rate, that's going to be close to AU$500.



Maybe this is how they can risk/afford to do small-run toys that have little to no redeco potential.

[1AZRAEL1]

That's insane. Some of these MP are becoming a very niche market. Just look at the price of Cordon too, double what Sunstreaker was. I may have to really start to pick and choose

[griffin]

The annoying thing is that people on other fansites are justifying the price by saying that Dinobot was 30,000 yen and is smaller with less features... but just because the way-overpriced Dinobot was acceptable to some fans, it doesn't mean that it should be the new benchmark to allow toys that are barely Leader sized, be five times the price of Leaders (POTP Leaders are 6,800yen).
If we keep supporting these price-points by buying them, TakaraTomy and Hasbro will keep bumping up the prices, well beyond the standard revenue needed to cover the cost of creating and manufacturing these toys.

[DELTAprime]

The prices of MPs have gone from a steal in the days before Takara and Tomy merged. Too what I think was completely reasonable for many years. However now these prices feel completely unreasonable.

I was willing to buy Dinobot as a one off high priced MP at the $275 that TLTC has him. However now that it's clear TT are going to continue these insane prices I'm going to reevaluate if I'm even going to continue with the MP line at all. (I was already going to stop G1 MPs with the exception of characters like Jazz, Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge I have massive affinity for.)

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Thanks TT! Put in useless features like a voice chip on an already expensive figure!

You just get that feeling they're testing the waters to see if they can charge the same price (or more) for Prime V3.

[Jinto]

That price reveal is a real shame. I wasn't particularly expecting him to be affordable, but I can't imagine how many people at all can justify a price like that.
And that voice chip... wasteful. The first thing I do with any electronic figure is ditch the batteries. Get rid of it and drop the price by $50. Geez.