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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

No offense, but what does Eternia have to do with Hasbro? That's from Mattel and a Mattel created property. They aren't paying licensing costs.

Secondly, I find the fact that Mattel is charging $550 and then ANOTHER $50 for shipping to be insane. The cost of shipping should just be included in the price of the item. Make it $600 shipped.

That's like those ebay sellers who will sell an auction for like $1000 but then still want to charge a shipping cost. No, at that price include it in the asking price.

Finally, I don't give a crap about Eternia because I don't collect He-Man. And honestly, even if I did, $600 is way overpriced for a playset.



Never going to deny that, as you are right.



My issue is not thinking it is overpriced, it is the sheer arrogance of people like Anthony's Customs that think they know Hasbro's own inner workings better than the people that are employed there.

None of us know what it exactly costs to make the car. Hell, even at $350 Hasbro could still be taking a loss, which is why they needed 9,000 to go ahead with it. That could be their breaking even point. Or maybe it could be that 5,000 is their breaking even point so they needed almost double that to justify the cost of production.

The fact that some random Youtuber thinks he knows better is laughable and this is coming from another Youtuber.

I’m not trying to sound like a dick here my guy, truly I’m not, but you’re still not getting my point, I’m probably not just being clear enough, I’m not trying to compare this to Eternia, i mention Eternia as a rebuttal to your comment ‘if people won’t pay $350 for this they sure won’t pay X amount for a Blackbird’ (not an exact quote), which seems to imply you think people aren’t willing to part with that amount of cash for a toy, which obviously isn’t true, they just aren’t willing to part with it for this car, or at least not enough people are.

I completely agree Eternia is overpriced, and they really should have just made it $600 and had ‘free shipping’ so to speak, I live in the U.K. and if I wanted it, I’d be paying £800, now that’s a joke.

Im not going to pretend to know the inner workings of Hasbro, or how much the production on this thing would be, but my gut tells me it’s overpriced, maybe not if it reached all tiers, but tiers are supposed to be bonuses and not reflect the initial cost.

The only ‘toy’ YouTuber I currently watch is ‘Mad Hatter Review’, pretty funny guy and he isn’t getting stuff sent to him for free, so his reviews are fairly honest.

No hard feelings hey, I’m not trying to make enemies on here, I just wanna talk about toys with like minded souls.