[muffinhunter]

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Originally Posted by metalalchemist

For the first part, apologies, not much of a reader, so NO I wasn´t aware of the no skull thingy.
And as far a a "reward", forget it!!! How can someone throw that price to their "valuable" fans and call it a reward?
I do understand the mold/tooling value, but sorry, we are talking about Neca here, not some small third party company doing 1000 pieces. This limited run they are calling it, sounds more like a market strategy to charge whatever they want for this and attract "willingly/innocent" collectors to buy it.
At least I already have good pictures to make my own reproduction. The skulls, I already have them.

I think it is a limited run for all the reasons you've already said you aren't going to buy one: no sense in over-producing something that not every fan is going to have a use for. In that sense, it IS a reward, to me: the options were either not produce it because of how few they were likely to sell, or do a one-time run and give those who want one a chance to get one. They said for months that they were trying to keep it under $50, but it's ultimately up to the retailer to charge what they think they need for a markup.

Some additional points: no big retailer like TRU is carrying it, according to Twitter. The thing weighs eight pounds. These are more factors that make the price go up.