>>11208025Jada is only slightly better than MLs though and their price reflects that.
Not even shitting on Jada, just repeating the fact that western toy companies are giving you more value for your money. So i don't understand the criticism for other western lines, when they're all pretty good value for their price, albiet getting too high for our comfort.
>>11208030foreign countries are shit that can't produce anything of value, hence their reliance on America and Japan. You view point is worthless because of how fucked over your country is.
You're stuck paying $60 for budget children toys because your country wants to protect domestic goods, yet no one produces any domestic goods of value because you guys have no talent and everything is too costly to even produce shit.
And where are all the European action figure companies? Nowhere, because they also have worthless policies. Fucking South America has more action figure companies than all of the eastern hemisphere that isn't asia.
>>11208176Learn how to read.
It's $29 to US consumers who are paying with their mighty American dollar. To Japanese consumers, who are paid in their weak yen, they're paying ¥4400, which is roughly $40 . That is very expensive for them, and is a huge jump from where they were in the 10s (pic related).
I've been talking about how Japanese nerd companies fuck over their otaku because they learned they'll stretch their assholes with every new announcement for overpriced goods. They also noticed that nerds abroad will pay that price too, hence exporting their goods at near 1:1 conversion despite their yen being weak for 20 years. Obviously, they've had mixed results, with various lines bombing and losing support from major retailers. So they remain relatively niche, while western collector lines have gained more support
Also, i like how these figures were 100 yen cheaper from ones that came out a few months later. The Japanese economy is rough as fuck.
