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[Sweet Rabbit]

Good question.

Answer is its not licensing fees that are driving the price up.

Very few factories having the skill to make high end collectibles so those that can do it, are raising prices. If company A isnt willing to pay their rate then company B will.

There is a particular company, not naming them, that have almost single-handedly cause ALL collectibles prices to go up because they are paying over-market to the factories for prime positioning.

There are also far too many companies making collectibles now so, as mentioned above, there is always someone thats willing to pay the factory a little higher than the last guy...that causes prices to keep going up.

 

[Decoyoctopus10]

Its honestly not a big deal, as others have said its still thick enough. Even if it was solid it would still have busted. Either way its a broken head sculpt so it doesn't matter if the head is semi-hollow or not.

Just speaking for myself, but I like my statues to be totally solid. There's no good reason for them to even be slightly hollow unless it's for engineering purposes, which in this case, there's no justification for having batgirl's head be hollow except to cut costs (which imo is unacceptable). If it was solid, it may have just chipped. I've taken a hammer to headsculpts in the past (sideshow made me do it) and the damage wasn't structurally severe as that crack.

 

[dan350zr]

Just speaking for myself, but I like my statues to be totally solid. There's no good reason for them to even be slightly hollow unless it's for engineering purposes, which in this case, there's no justification for having batgirl's head be hollow except to cut costs (which imo is unacceptable). If it was solid, it may have just chipped. I've taken a hammer to headsculpts in the past (sideshow made me do it) and the damage wasn't structurally severe as that crack.

Even XM statues are not 100% solid and they are really heavy...

 

[ironlake]

Thanks guys.

I left a message to Sideshow, and I'm waiting their reply.

If nothing, I'll contact fellow members as mentioned.

 

[Medusoid]

I'm dying to know which company is driving the prices up...

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I'm dying to know which company is driving the prices up...

Probably Prime 1

 

[Armymedic1980]

Prime 1 is the Cadillac of SS and buries all of them: XM, Bowen, Little Giant and any other competitor.

 

[HeubertMichael]

Answer is its not licensing fees that are driving the price up.

I kind of realized this just a few weeks ago when I saw the prices on Court of the Dead PFs, a property Sideshow owns. They're priced equally with most of SSC's licensed figures, and not all SSC licensed figures have significantly higher ES compared to their CotD line.

because they are paying over-market to the factories for prime positioning.

I won't think of this line as a subtle hint