Transformers

[mollipen]

I just saw some of the 20th Prime yesterday for $50 at my local Wal-mart. The one I found mine at a while back had dropped them to $35 - I could always go check to see if they still have any at that price.

[Timber]

The wal-mart down the street from me has about a dozen of the 20th Primes in the clearance section. They were $50 a few days ago and today they were $70. I thought stuff on clearance was only supposed to go down in price, this is the first time I've seen something go up.

[FX]

Anybody who has Masterpiece Megatron, you'd better check his feet.

Gotta say, the wave 3 deluxes pretty much suck. Payload has several parts that keep popping off and he can only stay balanced by hunching over due to the giant rod coming out his back, and Longarm's ...er, arms have a very limited posing range (plus the right one won't stay on, at least on mine). Dropkick is pretty good though.

Fucking hell, my Meg's feet are rusting as well. I've got to get some clearcoat.

UPDATE: I managed to fix my problem. Taking a tip from another Transfan, I picked up some jewelry cleaner cloths from Wal-Mart for $5 and got rid of the tarnishing spots on Megs feet and spine as well as providing a protective coat. It looks just like new again.

[GohanX]

The wal-mart down the street from me has about a dozen of the 20th Primes in the clearance section. They were $50 a few days ago and today they were $70. I thought stuff on clearance was only supposed to go down in price, this is the first time I've seen something go up.

It looks to me that Walmart was tired of seeing the demand for TFs go up, while their shelves are empty. The local one has been getting in a lot of pre-movie overstock and selling it at full price. They have very little movie stuff, but they do have lots of Anniversary Primes, Primus and Metroplex (cybertron line?), and classics Jetfire and Prime.

I'm really tempted to buy all the Jetfires and ebay them, but there's a part of me that thinks that it's just wrong.

[FX]

Scalpers = Suck

That's proooobably why you feel wrong about it.

[Fe 26]

I saw one deluxe brawl today for 40. Anyone want it?

[Space Pirate Roberts]

You mean Leader Brawl, right? $40 for a Deluxe is just crazy. Especially a sucky one like Deluxe Brawl.

[Fe 26]

they had had two huge ultimate bumble bees too.

[kingoffighters]

Scalpers = Suck

That's proooobably why you feel wrong about it.

The Transformers collectors' market has gone to shit (probably like most other collectibles). I hardly see anything new in stores because scalpers would buy all the inventory. I refuse to pay more than MSRP for domestic releases. If I don't get it, I don't really care, there are tons of other figures to buy.

[FX]

Pretty much. That's why all the Bumblebees were gone. It's a popular figure (if not THE most popular) and scalpers follow the fansites like I do so they know where to find them. There are reports all the time of people coming upon people with all the figures from a particular brand in someone's shopping cart.

From now on, I'm not paying scalper prices on ebay....I cut that out a while back. Don't support them but sadly, there will always be that person that *HAS* to have a particular figure or say the parent who wants to get something that a child requested, like to reward them for good grades or even a B-day gift or something of the sort.