[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by englishw

That is inaccurate. Standard Marvel figures (like this yellow DD) are $80. Standard DC figures are $75. Hannah Barbara, Universal Monsters, and Star Trek are $70. The price difference is mainly in the license. They started with older/less sought-after licenses that cost them less.

Sure, this deluxe Punisher is more, but he's coming with SO MUCH. Their con exclusives were a little high, but those are limited and either had cool features (light-up eyes and metal pieces for armored Batman) or special packaging (round shield tin).

Personally, I'd rather spend $130 on a deluxe version of a character instead of buying 2-3 different variations of that character at $70-80 each. I'm praying that they give this deluxe treatment to Green Lantern when they do him! Can you imagine all the construct/effect pieces they could do? Just go look at Space Ghost and imagine them doing Green Lantern. Oh, man!

As for shipping, order from Entertainment Earth. They have almost all of Mezco's figures and most have free shipping.

The wildly inconsistent pricing is one of my biggest issues with these. The rising cost of these are going to start getting into the realm of 1/6 scale prices. For a 6" figure, I could never justify $80, let alone $130. As it is, 90% of all accessories I get with figures end up in a baggie, packed away. And that's with $18 - $25 figures. I don't need a bunch of accessories that simply drive the price up, just for the sake of driving the price up.

Do they look good? For the most part, yeah. Am I going to spend 4-6x the price of a normal 6" to 7" scale figure? No, no I'm not. Especially now with likes of DC Collectibles producing non-clothed DC Movie figures that look impressive enough at the $40 - $50 range.