>>5698460MLs would be over priced at $22, but they are $20 in my area, and that does seem ot be the standard pricing for the average 6" figure.
>which are far below quality of an importspend about 10 bucks more on production and you'd definitely get a Figuarts quality figure from mass production or even collectors line figure.
So that's roughly $30.
The MK figure though? i don't see anything special about it. It could be a Mezco or DC Direct figure.
>a case of inflationno.
Inflation is only really considered by the year to year price/cost. So all things being equal, such as these toys being made in China, the prices just have to do with how greedy the company is.
Inflation would be more like comparing Toy Biz's gloriuous collector quality figures made out of a billion pieces only costing about $10 vs the cheaply redecoed/retooled as fuck $20 MLs are at today. Of course, inflation only accounts for about $2 of that increase in price. The rest is rising costs of production in China, raw materials costing more, shipping costing more, and Hasbro needing to make investors happy (greed).