Target Circle (which is free) members have a 25% off one toy or book coupon that expires on the 15th. Knocked the price down to 43.49 for me. (Before shipping and taxes)
It's close enough to the price increase that the goodwill boost from dropping prices back down and getting people buying again might outweigh the additional revenue brought in from the higher prices.
Someone at Hasbro would have to make that case though.
I'll say this about Stranger Things: it's a horror series. It's not necessarily scary, but it is not afraid of burtalizing innocent people.
As for repaints/remolds
Ectotron is the only one who got a redeco I think, and that was just for and older, dirtier version of teh Ecto-1 and a new head...
Anyone clamoring for another Stranger Things crossover? No.
Well too bad, here's Freakwency (A news van), his rubber chicken gun, and his pal In-trax (8-track cartridge)
https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/11/04/transformers-collaborative-stranger-things-freakwency-8-trax-first-look-550937
At some point I'm going to do the research and see when all the price increases happened since Beast Wars and put them on a chart and compare them to inflation and the cost of oil.
...I feel like they could accomplish this on thier own by just checking ebay and seeing what figures have the biggest price differential.
Or hell, actionfigure411 will do it for you.
No, you got the long and short of it.
From what I understand, those comics can't be reprinted because the creators were never compensated and it puts them into a legal limbo. You're absolutely right that someone could pay them off, and I'm sure the creators would be more than happy to get the...
Interesting going back to work with a guy who used your license to steal a bunch of money from the people making your content, to the point that some of your content might not even be reprintable due to legal issues.
Eh, ain't my first time. I got back in for RiD '01 but bailed on Energon. Came back to collecting for Classics and the first film, bailed again shortly aftewards (I wish I had collected Animated at least) and when Animated got canceled I was entirely out of the game, until I think the popularity...
I'll stick around for the next year, but I'm getting pretty close to a complete S1-3 set (side from the titans), Beast Wars is nearly complete for me, and I'm in for the 13 primes. But after that, uhhhhh... might be time to withdraw back to just being a media fan.
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