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Originally Posted by Nimrod

I was thinking that with the elimination of the plastic shell, which I've heard was expensive on Hasbro's part, and making the figs come in a cardboard box, that the price would go down, not up. What is Hasbro's justification for the price hikes if they knocked out the plastic shell? They didn't add extra hands or alternate heads, extra FX accessories? I've just got 3 figs pre-ordered for the rest of the yr so far, classic Sabertooth, US Agent & Walmart Ulik. I don't know how many more wave reveals we have yet to see, but 2022 might be my final yr collecting this line, especially if single normal sized figs are now gonna cost close to $30 with zero upgrades. Hasbro seems to not know that gas & food has gone up 50% in the past yr. I'm putting in an extra $200 a month in gas & almost that same amount in groceries, so that extra $400 I woulda had for my ML comic based figs budget, is now going to gas/food.

Because the price of cardboard also went up so it's mute, although the elimination of plastic shells wasn't going to make much a difference for rising production and shipping costs anyway.

To your other point, having to budget sucks, but most people are just going to have to buy less action figures. Especially anyone who was priced out already but didn't want to admit it, this is going to be a wake up call. And when you're out you're out, there's nothing Hasbro can do about it.