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Recent hasbro price increases.
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01-13-2015, 12:07 PM
AlleyViperEXE
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Snakeeyesisposh
GI Joe
pre-2009: Less than 8? 6? (ironically I can't find the price)
They were $5 or $6, before 2009.
The only reason I got back into GI Joes in 2007 (or there abouts) was because 25th Anni was a really nice update to the vintage figures, and because I could get them at Walmart for about $5 each. I think there was one Walmart around that even sold them for $4.88 for the first couple waves.
But then it seemed like they started to go up by about $1 every year, after 2008/2009. Considering the fact that the only reason I really got back into Joes was because they were so cheap. $10 per figure was too much, and the breaking point was when Hasbro fudged up by not only charging us $10, but also taking away accessories, stands, and articulation at the start of the Retaliation line.
Now, that whole conversation has taken place many times on this forum, but what it boils down to is that they were taking things away that they had always given us, all while charging us more. Granted, yes, later waves had many of these things returned, and the 50th Anni figures were nice (I guess) but frankly, it was a whirlwind of things surrounding Hasbro's ineptness that made me personally drop GI Joe.
I did the same thing for Transformers. I started back into TFs in maybe 2006/2007, off of the Classics line and the line for the first movie. Deluxes were $10 for a while, which I thought was fine for that scale and size. Then they too started creeping up by about $1 per figure every 8 months~1 year. Most Deluxes are about $16~$17 now, and about 2/3 the size they used to be, with simplified transformations. I actually dropped TFs back in 2011 or 2012, and I feel like they've gotten more expensive, and even worse quality-wise since then.
Look, I get that toys didn't really increase in price for a long time, but decades worth of price increases coming within just a few years made it very easy to drop certain lines. Sadly, most of these lines were from Hasbro, so I felt like they were really the worst offenders of too much of an increase in too short of a tie.
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