>>6634832To be fair these are exclusives, NOT planned for mass retail, they know the market for them is limited.
And from the looks of it they're ot totally stupid, remember that redeco of fortmax with the pretender, well we ain't getting that little pretender because he had less than 3000 orders but still being made, made to the number alone it seems.
The real loses takara is making lies in qc+prices, its getting progressively worse, considering hasbro versions often share similar fates (but more excused now because they're cheap enough to be ignored) I'm starting to think the production move to Vietnam was a bad idea with the dip in quality, and it didn't stop the mold theft now we have 2 fucking versions of ko mp36's in the market, but alas that's cost related and china is only going up.
As for the markup for japanese figures I don't understand what's going on price wise, at one point for me my currency was $1aud to 1000yen so the figures were basically the same but seems that gap is long gone and quality is on the decline.
I don't want takara to die because when they do right, its all takara, how much actual RnD does hasbro put into figures these days, from what I gather its partial at best and seems like hasbro just neuters takara's efforts (like removing scrappers elbows on devastator, ugly elbows mind you but better than stiff arms)
>>6634830My guess is they simply didn't design enough heads thus the TM packs as we currently have, hence the cancer redeco.
I can't see why hasbro can't make blind bag items of actual tf products rather than fuck around with spin offs (like the sd figures that flip modes) or the tlk blind bag figures, that was our closest we've come
