Nearly every post I've made in this thread since the first fucking page has been about the various things I've been collecting lmao. Just because I don't see the quality to price ratio, the fact I openly despise the recent price hiking shit that's been happening, as well as scalpers pricing me out of my own hobbies, doesn't mean my posts come off as "not a collector of collectible items".
It reminds me of the impossible toys figures that did a similar thing with g1 bumblebee years back. They didn't sell super well or were overproduced for how niche of an item they were. Whatever the case, eventually some places were selling the whole set on discount for $30. I missed the sale on those before they sold out but they were pretty neat.
I would have gotten them for me and my son but they're close to $80cad each. I could get a few 3rd parties for that. If I see them on clearance I may get them.
It was a honestly a bit dumb to get it while still not being absolutely financially secure even when its $50 here, lol.
At least when I bought the Hot Wheels Optimus Prime it felt premium. These are just the original toys with additional articulation.
The hotwheels optimus is just a smaller version of g1 optimus prime. Both the missing link figures and the hotwheels optimus achieve what they seek to do pretty well in my opinion but I also agree the price is too high. However, g1 reissues the last few years ave for a few exceptions have been stupid expensive as well. The g1 optimus reissue from a few years back that lacked the trailer's MSRP was 50 dollars or some wacked out shit . I got both it and the hot shot on clearance for $13 and $7 or something like that and still haven't opened either because despite being in a g1 style box it lacks the actual resealable nature of g1 boxes due to it being held in by twist ties instead of a tray shaped to comfortably hold the figure. Missing link optimus follows the trend of the reissues with making buying it with the trailer over 100 dollars.Missing link otpimus is the only one of these reissues I see a "value" in the price due to the severe extent they took to make the figure look like the g1 toy. What I REALLY don't like is how at the price they charge for it the on-trailer version has to rely on stickers for paint details while the version with the trailer has really cool painted and sclulpted bits where there were stickers on the original figure.
Only if you're one of the people that thinks it being sealed=super infinite money. I've opened up pretty much everything I've gotten if it's new and not used. Sometimes also with stuff like transformers and other toylines actually staying in the box for too long can cause weird shit to happen to the plastic depending on what year the thing was produced so that's another vector to be aware of if you DO intend on keeping shit in box.
I rarely keep stuff in packaging unless it looks nice and has a window. Otherwise it takes up too much room. I'd rather my books and RPG materials take up that space. Old blister cards aren't bad to keep up though if they're small and the plastic shell hasn't yellowed. Some of my mini bots and Minicons are still sealed since I have doubles and old school g1 cards just look good. Same goes with a few MotU characters. I wasn't much of an TMNT guy but I have the main characters carded as they don't take up much space. I have a few military vehicles that are behind acrylic boxes so they'll never collect dust and some pieces of artwork I have framed from old comic artists I liked from the 70's and 80's before comic art started to look like shit. I also have some older collectable statues but they're dragons so some of them I use them for RPG's. others remind me of the old fantasy novels I read from the 70s and 80's. Like the Legendes Eternelles Dolmen le Dragon statue looks similar to how dragons were drawn back than.
Looking back, that seems to have been the case more often than not. Sometimes they get somebody competent in charge of the brand, but it never lasts.
A fellow farmer on here told me that they had plans to do a space pirates subplot and Breakdown join the Autobots. Such potential...I wish it got a proper number of seasons, or at least a proper/compatible sequel series.
I'm pretty sure G1, Animated, RID 2015, and Armada are good for kids. Prime is kind of on the fence, because that show does kill off people left and right. [RIP Cliffjumper, Skyquake, Dreadwing, and Silas]
I advised a family member not to show her kids TF:TM until they're much older.
Yeah, I'm talking regarding gender shit though. He dosen't blink at the one screen deaths. But I understand what you mean nontheless. (Though he cried a little when Optimus had his season 2 'death'. But he was at peace with Predacons Rising)
