I don't want to be caught with my pants down if HT DOES improve the product. It's already $250... I can imagine how high the price will be once the pre-orders start to sell out.
Pre-orders won't sell out everywhere.
This is the life of a popular figure,
1. Figure is announced (people get excited).
2. Figure specs/pics are released (people get excited, critique and hype up the release).
3. Figure is available for preorder almost immediately.
4. Wait a few months, sometimes less.
5. Figure officially hits Asia
6. Price increase
7. Figure is in full production mode,
everywhere.
8.
Figure price decreases as demand is meant.
9. Secondary market saturates, the figure has hit full force.
10. Prices eventually soar and sky rocket over the next months/years.
End of figure life other than on the collectors shelf or those who did not obtain yet.
The BEST time to get something is during 8. There is absolutely no reason to pre-order a Hot Toys figure. I used to think that maybe the deals were better pre-ordering, but they're not. This applies to all customers also, world wide unless it's something like the Tokyo convention exclusives but I'm talking the regular MMS DX and Movie Masterpiece figures.
With ebay, gohastings, redfordfilms, second shipments, restocks, sideshow classifieds, a slew of online stores and the like, there is no reason to preorder.
Some of the most popular figures ever, Terminators, Iron Man, Batman, Joker could all be had for less, much less than the initial MSRP preorder. Only now are most of those figures highly valuable and sought after.
Indiana Jones is going no where for the next couple of months. The best thing to do is sit tight, wait for more information, wait, then shop around. It's not like a Sideshow item where it sells out and you get put on a wait or backorder list.
This will be distributed through Hot Toys, Sideshow, online shops etc. It's also a LFL officially licensed product, a DX and Hot Toys' first Indiana Jones figure. It's not going anywhere and I bet they make a ton of them.
