JP GEN Selects Volcanicus set for 2021

[Bidoofdude]

I'm just not feeling the minor redecos enough to spend a significant amount of money for these.
I don't know what they were thinking, charging so much more for such insignificant redecos of toys that they just had released in Japan 2 years ago.

This set really should have come out when the mould were new. I would not have bought the PotP versions had Takara put out their own release for Unite Warriors at the time. I absolutely love the decos, but it’s a little too late, especially with new voyager ones coming potentially very soon anyway.

[Krayt]

Welp....

Zing just listed this... for $500

https://www.zingpopculture.com.au/pr...canicus-figure

[Sinnertwin]

Welp....

Zing just listed this... for $500

https://www.zingpopculture.com.au/pr...canicus-figure

Hahahahahahahaha

[SharkyMcShark]

For that price you're like 80-90% of the way to a Third Party combiner anyway lol

[BruiseLee]

Welp....

Zing just listed this... for $500

https://www.zingpopculture.com.au/pr...canicus-figure

Ouch...so US$200 = AU$500 now?

[reillyd]

It may be even worse than that. Robot kingdom has it prices for US $159, so even if you double it with the exchange rate it should come out around 318. $400 would be extravagant. I don?t know what price they were offered the set, but it really seems overly expensive. I get that its a TakaraTomyMall exclusive, but still.

[Sinnertwin]

It may be even worse than that. Robot kingdom has it prices for US $159, so even if you double it with the exchange rate it should come out around 318. $400 would be extravagant. I don?t know what price they were offered the set, but it really seems overly expensive. I get that its a TakaraTomyMall exclusive, but still.

If OMP with a single retail outlet can get them in for $210 + post & still turn a profit, & EBGames/Zing with multiple stores across Australia charges $499, there is something seriously wrong with this equation.

I could buy 20 myself, put a $100 margin on top and still come out $150 cheaper each than EB.

[Tha_Phantom]

If OMP with a single retail outlet can get them in for $210 + post & still turn a profit, & EBGames/Zing with multiple stores across Australia charges $499, there is something seriously wrong with this equation.

Agreed. It also hurts the Transformers brand as well, as many people think $500 is the actual price for the set full stop and won't go looking anywhere else.

[Bidoofdude]

Agreed. It also hurts the Transformers brand as well, as many people think $500 is the actual price for the set full stop and won't go looking anywhere else.

Besides the usual EB markup, I do think a lot of products like this at retailers like EB are very much preying upon people who recognise Transformers from their childhood but have no in depth grasp on general prices or products. Its status as a collector item as well will probably convince a disproportionate amount of people, given that many collectables in such stores are in a similar price range for genres with a lot of overlap such as superhero prop replicas, lightsabers, statues and figurines, etc.

I think the logic is quite similar for the pretty needlessly expensive reissues. Most who recognise them at a glance as toys from their childhood have no idea what price range to look for.

[griffin]

The rest of the comparison photos by TakaraTomy, of Snarl and the combined mode.