[cjflan32]

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Originally Posted by MTL79

They're probably looking at the secondary market, seeing the prices that are being charged and sales being closed and concluding that there is still demand for that figure, hence the re-release...

Re-release of what? I don't know if you know this (dukefett failed to mention it, surely it just slipped his mind) but those CW Anakin and Obi-Wan figures aren't re-releases. They're new versions of characters already released, not straight-up re-releases. And honestly, if I didn't already own Episode III Obi-Wan and Anakin I'd drop the money on them right now because those don't look that great.

If Hot Toys was really looking at the secondary market you would see re-releases of Bespin Luke, Mark 46, '89 Batman, '89 Joker, Bane, Joker 2.0, TDKR Batman, AOU Hulk, Gladiator Hulk, Hela, I could go on all day.

There are dozens of HT figures going for double their MSRP on the secondary market right now that HT are never revisiting again, therefore this argument regarding the secondary market makes no sense.

And again, I never said they WOULDN'T release them, I just said I'll wait until the preorder goes up to believe it. Fun fact that you're not gonna hear from dukefett: None of the prototypes currently listed on Sideshow's Web Site as "coming soon" were shown off at the preview booth today. Maybe there are special circumstances as to why but history-that being HT's long history of showing off prototypes and not issuing them for preorder-says otherwise.