Comments on: Resistance is $99.

By: ververvore

ververvore — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:07:52 +0000

Yikes, 180 is a bit steep price to payfor this set from most scalpers. I still don’t think these are not worth this amount for a bunch of rare repaints from the Fan Club no matter how cool the line or spin Hasbro puts on it.

By: Abrogate

Abrogate — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:35:25 +0000

Just realized I meant Junkheap here

By: Carl Sagen

Carl Sagen — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:52:16 +0000

No there isn’t, and I doubt there will be. 1.) There’ too few sets to make it worth while for Repro to design them and 2.) No one’s going to ruin the investment (which is what it becomes) by applying 3rd market stickers to the product. I have no problem doing it to a 10 dollar Generations figure, but there’s no way in hell I’m putting anything on my Botcon guys.

By: Derik

Derik — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:50:00 +0000

Stickers! Screw the paintaps, provide buyer-applicable stickers to make them more individualized!
(…I bet there are already reprolabel sets for this, aren’t there?)

By: David Willis

David Willis — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:41:58 +0000

Possibly. Though the 3-pack price has been rising pretty steadily in price over the years, in quicker proportion than the other souvenir sets. Let’s see.

2009: $49 (oops, misremembered)
2010: $59
2011: $89
2012: $99

So it was just $10 more than last year, but twice as much as they were four years ago. I guess between ’10 and ’11 they realized we’d buy ‘em no matter what.

By: Abrogate

Abrogate — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:28:37 +0000

yeah I figured that was also a factor in them all being the same color. I wonder if the fact that they also had different heads bumped it up? (sure, the heads were already produced, but more labor to assemble them all separately?)

By: David Willis

David Willis — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:44:04 +0000

With BotCon troopbuilders, they generally have to all be the same color. That’s what makes them possible, because they are all the same toy, produced many many times. In previous years, that’s why they were so relatively inexpensive. The three 2009 Sweeps were $59, which was amazing, because the run of 1000 of them was actually 3000 of them, which was a large enough production number to make them less expensive to produce.

Of course, this year, the Junkions were $99, which wasn’t really much of a savings at all. Presumably they’re that much because it was discovered, through incremental increases since 2009, that we will be more than willing to pay whatever, and the discount-through-bulk-pricing was not necessary.

By: Abrogate

Abrogate — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:34:16 +0000

I actually kind of want Scrap Iron just to give his eyepiece to Scrapheap, so he’ll have the mold he was intended to have. The yellow wouldn’t really clash with his existing color scheme. Probably not really worth it though

By: Abrogate

Abrogate — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:29:04 +0000

normally, I can ignore the SG canon and just shunt the figures I like into my existing collection. However, I knew I was going to be disappointed in the rumored Insecticon-colored Junkions because their colors aren’t all rusty, which means I can’t just supplant them onto my normal Junkions.

But even that wouldn’t have been a bad thing if they didn’t just use the same deco for all 3 of them. I understand that they’re Wreck-Gars hive and it makes sense in-fiction, but it’s so comparatively boring.

Though I do like their role in the fiction (not the part about them assimilating the Action Masters, but the part about Ultra Magnus recruiting dangerous criminal replicants… the idea that if he can actually influence them not to immediately assimilate him, then it makes his own character more impressive), I’m just not satisfied with the toys

By: KevinSig

KevinSig — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:10:39 +0000

You can pretend one of them is the Ancient Decepticon warrior, from Five Faces of Darkness, part 4 (I think).

At least, I think that’s the episode he comes from, when they show the Decepticons gaining the ability to transform.

(Not sure what to do with the other two.)