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I have decided NOT to back the HasLab. Why? It's literally Hasbro's fault for 3 reasons:
1) They are not continuing the line. That YouTube interview where they were evasive as Hell tipped it off among other things. If there were more to follow, especially ghosts from GB1 & 2, then yeah I'd dive in and get one.
2) Mondo. We all know Mondo had to raise their prices due to Hasbro. They announced their RGB and stated the 2-packs would be $80-90, then finally settled on $202. You could LITERALLY buy a HasLab deluxe version for the added markup on the Mondos. Quite literally, fuck you Hasbro. I was still willing to get both but you really pissed me off here.
3) Cost. We've all known this was overpriced to start with. I just measured the 1/18 version that was $60 to go with the 3.75" O-ring figures, it was 14" long, compared to the HasLab at 22.5" long, a 62.2% increase in size. That price at a 62.2% increase comes out to just under $100. Sure, nothing is linear especially when adding in figures, BUT that's a 541% increase for the basic package on cost. Fucking blow me, you're massively price gouging, Hasbro.
Bottom line, and I'm sure this goes for others, as soon as I had to start weighing costs of paying $808 +tax for the 4 Mondo RGB 2packs, it had me really looking at whether or not I needed the HasLab Ecto-1. Add in that the line is DEAD after this HasLab if the team's comments are anything to go by, then why bother? I have the Ecto-1 and 1A in scales such as 1/64, 1/32, 1/24, 1/18, so why do I need to pay their price for lights and sounds? Nah, Hasbro convinced me to save my cash instead. I'm still buying the Mondos though. Sorry guys, I hope those of you who want one get yours. But Hasbro made way too many mistakes here.
1) They are not continuing the line. That YouTube interview where they were evasive as Hell tipped it off among other things. If there were more to follow, especially ghosts from GB1 & 2, then yeah I'd dive in and get one.
2) Mondo. We all know Mondo had to raise their prices due to Hasbro. They announced their RGB and stated the 2-packs would be $80-90, then finally settled on $202. You could LITERALLY buy a HasLab deluxe version for the added markup on the Mondos. Quite literally, fuck you Hasbro. I was still willing to get both but you really pissed me off here.
3) Cost. We've all known this was overpriced to start with. I just measured the 1/18 version that was $60 to go with the 3.75" O-ring figures, it was 14" long, compared to the HasLab at 22.5" long, a 62.2% increase in size. That price at a 62.2% increase comes out to just under $100. Sure, nothing is linear especially when adding in figures, BUT that's a 541% increase for the basic package on cost. Fucking blow me, you're massively price gouging, Hasbro.
Bottom line, and I'm sure this goes for others, as soon as I had to start weighing costs of paying $808 +tax for the 4 Mondo RGB 2packs, it had me really looking at whether or not I needed the HasLab Ecto-1. Add in that the line is DEAD after this HasLab if the team's comments are anything to go by, then why bother? I have the Ecto-1 and 1A in scales such as 1/64, 1/32, 1/24, 1/18, so why do I need to pay their price for lights and sounds? Nah, Hasbro convinced me to save my cash instead. I'm still buying the Mondos though. Sorry guys, I hope those of you who want one get yours. But Hasbro made way too many mistakes here.
