Quote Originally Posted by heroic_decepticon View Post
hmmm... that's an odd situation. I'm not understanding why Ironhide is rare since there were really plenty around when it was released and many were even shelf warming. Since I "completed" my Henkeis, I no longer look out and don't know what the prices are. For me, the hardest pieces to get were Henkei versions of Ratchet, Red Alert, Cyclonus and Smokescreen.
I only started collecting at the beginning of 2010- I got most of Henkei at close to retail prices from RK- that was based on the stock they had available at the time. Henkei Ratchet was available for a while which I got 1 for about 30ish. But there was no ironhide. At the time I did not value henkei ironhide as I do now...

As for rarity of henkei figs in general- I think they all shot up in value towards latter half of last year as:
-regular retailers dried up in stock,
-the demand increased as generations/united was announced/released
-Prevalence of 3rd party releases last year compared to previous.

Now if you found one whilst hunting in hk... id be interested