asgardianboy
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Yeah, there's no doubt that Sideshow got greedy on pricing. I mean yeah China got much more expensive, and the most recent outfits/heads were definitely (for the most part, not in all cases) big steps up on the outfits/heads they did in the 2006-2010 era, and the bodies did improve (not as far as they should have) but Sideshow really had little to justify tripling to quadrupling of prices over the course of roughly ten years.
The $240 for the X-Wing Luke and $270 for Luke Snowspeeder were 100% gouging - no doubt about it, especially given the X-Wing is probably 5 years ago now and the Snowspeeder Luke maybe 3 years ago. These are prices that are pretty high even now many years later, and that's saying something in 1/6 where prices seem to be always rising.
And yeah, while I'd argue that both of those fig heads are HT quality with helmets on, there is no excuse for the lackluster apps on the no-helmet versions of the heads, which to me were on the verge of not being usable without fairly significant modding.
That being said, I've always been the one to say that the Luke Snowspeeder is one of the five best SW 1/6 figures ever made - and I have 100+ SW figs. The cut-sew on the snow jacket and vest is spot-on. But I essentially have three Luke Snowpseeder variations (two with HT heads...) so it's obvious I love the outfit.
An interesting note on how times have changed: when the Luke X came out, I was hit with TWO rounds of negative reputation by a mod simply for criticizing the Luke X head, and now here we are - no more "Sideshow" in "Freaks."
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