Siege stock - is it scalpers or just limited supply from Hasbro?

[snaketales]

Basically, from my perspective, unless you're really careless with your Transformer toys and break them/or lose parts, why would anyone need more then one of each character?

In the Transformers lore one character can often represent many eg Sharkticons


And some toys can be easily turned into others , which is why I bought three PotP Starscreams (but I can see how this can be considered as something different).

[GoktimusPrime]

What I personally do - and I must stress that this is just what I do and I'm not prescribing this for anyone else - is that when I army build I try to collect variants (which means also getting them from different sources) rather than just buying out loads of the same toy from the one store. Having said that, I find that small and cheap figures like the Legends Class Sharkticon works well for army building because smaller toys are usually produced in much larger quantities. The bigger and dearer the toy then the fewer they make. I remember a lot of people struggling to find even one Generations Scourge to own because other people were army-building Sweeps. I have 2 Sharkticons - one TR and the other is LG.

As mentioned before, what I also sometimes do is just wait a few weeks and if the toy that I want to buy another one of is still in stock then I'll grab it. I'll grab one first then give time for others to grab one. I don't mind if people want to collect multiples but I think that it wouldn't hurt if there were some consideration for our fellow fans.

Example of army building with variants:

No two of these Vehicons are the same toy. They are all different - either as a different mould or variant of the same mould.

Something else that I do is some is just use MS Paint and digitally multiply the number of troops in a shot to create the illusion of an army

In reality it's just the same toy rephotographed in various positions then composited into the same shot

[Tilarta]

@Krayt

See this photo:

The foot module above the instruction sheet is the one that came with my toy.
Now compare it to every other picture in the photo and you'll see it's the wrong one.

Whatever the instructions were asking me to do cannot be done with this module.