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Well in 1988-ish they were $10, now they're ~2.5x the cost. I estimate in 20 years time, yes, $50 deluxes, but with engineering/electronic gimmicks out the wahzoo, and just a couple of crude brush strokes of paint to represent some colour.Originally Posted by Dylbot
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How much were the Armada/Energon/Cybertron deluxes? Can't seem to remember!Well in 1988-ish they were $10, now they're ~2.5x the cost. I estimate in 20 years time, yes, $50 deluxes, but with engineering/electronic gimmicks out the wahzoo, and just a couple of crude brush strokes of paint to represent some colour.
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Well cybertron was roughly:
Scout $14
Deluxe $23
Voyager $35-45
Ultra $45-55
Leader $65-80
Supreme $100-120
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I remember Armada being about the same. If only less but $1 or so
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Sounds about right, thanks guys.
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With the lower prices at Big W and Kmart, and the higher ones at Toyworld...now Toyworld is about the same as Kmart.
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Just saw the Universe G1 Optimus Prime at kmart for what seems to be the standard price of $39.
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Pretty sure Kmart has reduced their deluxe price to $25.
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Took note of as many prices as I could at the ten stores I checked out on the weekend, but lack of stock at most meant no shelf-tags or stock of a number of size classes. As the stores start to get in the new NEST toys, I'll try to fill the gaps (and update the toy-price comparisson post in the AUS news section).
(note - if a price is within 10 cents of the next dollar, I round it up)
Ones noted so far though:
Target - just about everything is still priced EXACTLY the same as mid last year, except:
Leader Class - $99 (was $100)
Star Wars TFs - $35 (was $30)
(Animated Leaders are obviously a lot cheaper at $20, but is likely to be just clearance stock from Hasbro)
Kmart - a number of changes, and each is cheaper than before.
Legends Class - $5 (was $9)
Scout Class - $15.75 (was $16)
Deluxe Class - $25 (was $29, as noted in the post above)
Robot Heroes - $9.75 (was $10)
RPMs Minivehicles single pack - $8 (was $10)
BigW - some minor reductions, but very hard to find stock to get price details.
Scout class - $15.64 (was $15.88)
Leader Class - $87.66 (was $88.73)
Star Wars TFs - $31.88 (was $34)
RPMs Minivehicles single pack - $9 (was $9.88)
Toys R Us - was able to check just about every size class, but only found 2 price changes.
FABs - $28 (was $30)
Robot Heroes - $10 (was $12)
Myer and DavidJones still had all the same prices.
Toyworld is a franchise chain that can vary prices between stores, but still found most of the Classes still priced the same as in the Price Comparisson listing. Exceptions at the store I checked on the weekend:
StarWars TFs - $30 (was $35 on the list)
RPMs Minivehicles 2-pack - $18 (was $19 on the list)
(Each of those could still be the old price at other stores though)
Back with more if I find them, as I'm filling the gaps.
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