>>6324009>massive price increases imports were in the 2000-3000 yen territory.Back at McFarlane's high point, Figmas, Revoltechs, and Figuarts were already in the $30 and 40 range.
Revoltechs and Figmas were in the sub-$30 range before the Reach figures came out. Only way you were paying less is if you were buying them on sale. You could buy Reach shit on sale too for 20-30% off regularly. $10 was MSRP and the only fair way to compare toys since using sales means anything. I've seen people here try to compare clearanced toys to full priced toys just to pretend that the producer/toyline being wasn't costly
> If that engineering requires more individual parts or more advanced assembly then it costs more to produce at a factory level too. You are talking out your ass, just stopYou're the only one talking out his ass. You flat out ignore the prices and you're seriously pretending that McFarlane wasn't using barbell joints and revoltech-type joints almost everywhere? It's little different from Revoltechs or Figuarts. Feature per feature, McFarlane included just as much or nearly as much and they had way more paint apps too.
>>6324339There's nothing reasonable about some guy lying and changing his point to deny a line was comparable to a Japanese line.
No one said anything negative about a Japanese line, but i guess it must be an insult for a western line to do things better or as good as a Japenese line while not costing $30+, huh?
BTW, just so you guys know, I have only been doing a direct conversion based on prices back then (like on HLJ or amiami). If we actually go into the buying power of the Japanese person, they're getting less for their money than someone in the US is. Their wages are less, so it costs much more for them to afford a $30 toy than it is for an American to buy the same $30 toy. When it was actually better for them... inflation and printing more yen. Hence ¥ increases across the board you see today, to retain that same level of profit.
