IdeaOfEvil
Super Freak
Whelp... I'm out. I hope the Silverhawks don't go through this kind of gouging with their products =(
Thundercats Ultimates Thundertank will go up for preorder Feb 2nd to April 2nd, will cost $450. 27 inches long by 14 inches wide, and should fit 6 Thundercats inside.
Whelp... I'm out. I hope the Silverhawks don't go through this kind of gouging with their products =(
I don't see it as gouging. It's made to order, who knows how many they'll sell.
400 was going to be my cut off, but I can be flexible with 450. Not coming out for another year also helps.
I don't think they're going to sell that many unfortunately.
A lot of collectors have complained about the price and Brian Flynn responded with this explaining their reason for the price.
I don't know how complex the mechanism needs to be, but can't be more complex than a $40 Transformers can it?
If you say material cost i may agree coz it takes alot more plastic to make a vehicle of such scale, but still nothing compared to 1/6 Hot Toys or Blitz way vehicles. And since this is a toon vehicle, the requirement for accuracy is more flexible compared to an existing real life vehicle.
400 is crazy. even at 200 it's crazy. This ain't no 1/6 with fancy lights & SFX.
Comparing price to a transformer because a transformer is more functionally complex has very little to do with cost to produce. Also I would doubt there?s much in the way of gouging going on with a $450 price tag. Companies do not get rich of these sorts of things. There will probably dozens of injection molds to be produced at potentially tens of thousands per mold which then has to be monetized across the entire potential run, plus production costs including assembly, paint, packaging etc. Not to mention R&D, iterative improvements before production, licensing fees, etc. All this for probably a few thousand units, potentially less because it?s massive and costly. Transformers sell many thousands of units so it?s very easy to have enough volume to keep costs low.
Does any of this mean people shouldn?t be upset about the price or feel that it?s too much for them to spend? Certainly not! It?s expensive, but likely a very reasonable price given the factors.
With their figures priced at $45 each, the Tank will definitely be at least $400 or more.
People are going ape-**** crazy over the price announcement today on this thing... reading some
of the forum posts is making me laugh. They are comparing it to a mass-market retail batmobile
that only costs $50 from Mattel (and was produced in the hundreds of thousands quantity, most likely),
and saying that S7 is price-gouging and we are eating it up.
This is not that. Not even remotely the same thing. This is a made-to-order deluxe vehicle in what will
very likely be less than HALF of the amount of Sail Barges and Razor's Crest vehicles being made.
Engineering is crazy expensive right now, tooling is crazy expensive. Plastic is crazy expensive.
All of it drives the cost of a low-production thing of this size through the roof.
Super 7 is trying to deliver cool "probably shouldn't even exist" stuff to the fan base and is taking
**** for it. Don't like the price? Don't buy it. I for one am totally on-board for an amazing Thundertank
that will only be made once and will stay in my collection forever.
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