i'm not hanging the blame on Zing/EB, I think the price in japan and on hasbro Pulse is also insane. there is no difference between these and any other team of combiners that hasbro have made in the last few years. If they were really cutting edge transformations i'd be more willing to accept an increase in price but these are going to be the same combiner wars designs, even most of the development cost would have been covered in the earlier designs.