>>6572200>? I'm surprised Transformers are getting better, they could just go back to direct G1 for simplicity and low parts counthonestly, if not for late G2 and Beast Wars opening up a pandora's box where it'd be too hard to go back. And they probably tried. Armada was basically an attempt to undo 8 years of engineering and go back to G1, probably something corporate wanted, but on the engineering and fandom side of things, something that wasn't wanted. If not for the whole late G2-RiD era, Transformers would probably be like Sentai where the toys get progressively simpler and gimmickyer.
>The collectors DON'T pay this. The collectors want authentic originals. Doesn't matter if the reissue is 98% the same or maybe even better somehow, correcting small molding flaws. They want the authentic toy, not a copy. So they won't touch them, kids don't bother because the prices are jacked, they fucked the system on reissues of old toys hard.Not entirely true. A lot of people like having a replica that's new, not touched before. For a lot of people, they just want to experience the original toy. There's a huge market for G1 Transformer KOs in authentic looking boxes, because people want the feeling of opening up an original g1 figure for cheap.