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drathe wrote:It is true that eBay stores specialising in HeroQuest will often purchase other sets for cheap, jack up the price and turn a huge profit. They also pick up bits and pieces to form complete sets to sell at high prices. The biggest problem is that people are willing enough to pay these exorbitant prices, which is why they stay high. Also, some people become desperate to get what they want in the heat of the moment as the clock ticks down. The average price for the North American Witch Lord pack went from $60 sealed to $130 sealed in a week after a few desperate bidders went crazy. Shortly after, all the "buy it nows" that were $100 jumped to $150 and the prices for everything else followed. It's like gas prices. They jack up the prices until people are used to it being the norm, then they do it again.
Hasbro is sitting on a gold mine right now and they don't even know it. Sure there's the problem of the name being taken after a lapse in Copyright, and the whole collaboration with one Games Workshop, but they could easily choose another name, make their own new sculpts etc. and remake it. But big companies don't often recognise the value in their IPs unless they've been around for fifty years.
el_flesh wrote:For some reason all these dweebs think that once it's been done; it's old and stale and should never be done again.
G.I. Joe got rereleased by hasbro - but not the original materials that were sold in the 60's and 70's.
While some things are truly dated and can be done much better with today's manufacture processes, they totally miss that there are some classix that don't need retooling/sculpting/engineering AT ALL.
It makes me wonder if they don't destroy their molds when the production run is done.
el_flesh wrote:For some reason all these dweebs think that once it's been done; it's old and stale and should never be done again.
G.I. Joe got rereleased by hasbro - but not the original materials that were sold in the 60's and 70's.
While some things are truly dated and can be done much better with today's manufacture processes, they totally miss that there are some classix that don't need retooling/sculpting/engineering AT ALL.
It makes me wonder if they don't destroy their molds when the production run is done.
drathe wrote:el_flesh wrote:For some reason all these dweebs think that once it's been done; it's old and stale and should never be done again.
G.I. Joe got rereleased by hasbro - but not the original materials that were sold in the 60's and 70's.
While some things are truly dated and can be done much better with today's manufacture processes, they totally miss that there are some classix that don't need retooling/sculpting/engineering AT ALL.
It makes me wonder if they don't destroy their molds when the production run is done.
Hasbro sold their original GI Joe casts to Lanard, who used them to make a GI Joe knock-off lines called The Corps and Star Force. It's likely that Hasbro has make similar transactions with other toy lines they thought were outdated and would no longer be produced. This explains how Skyknight at Old Scratch's got a hold of the 4-ups for the Frozen Horror, Mage of the Mirror and supposedly, what ever 4-ups were made for the Dwarf Pack that was being prototyped.
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