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These look absolutely phenomenal! 


   
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So, what is everyone thinking about the pricing? I am reading a lot of comments on youtube etc that the pricing is too steep.

I tend to agree, if I am being totally honest. Rhino Rig at 99.99$  is rough. And that's not even going to be the "end-consumer" price, at least not internationally. My guess is we will be looking at closer to 149.99€ in  the EU. For a little truck, that's pretty pricey. 

 

That said, I do understand their thinking behind this. I am sure they had trouble gauging the actual interest, so they may have calculated for a smaller production run. And all the tooling must have been quite expensive, especially since most of it won't see any reuse. My hope is that they will at least make enough product to not cause shortages. Would suck to have waited 40 years for a "revival" only to be left out in the rain 😀

 

 


   
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Actually, to expand on that - and I did not do that work myself, but someone on the Youtubes was nice enough to look this up (re original price adjusted for inflation):

A catalogue from 1986 lists Thunderhawk at $15, Switchblade at $20 and Rhino at $33. Putting all these prices into the USD inflation calculator extrapolates them to around $43, $64 and $95 in today's money. Then factor in the licence fee from traditionally greedy Hasbro and I absolutely do not think that TLS's pricing is unreasonable. On the contrary, actually.


   
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It has been reported that Ramen Toys and its relabeled brand "Makina Toys" have recently been thinking about bigger replicas of their figures. I'd love to see such a project come to fruition, if not for the vehicles, then at least for the characters and thus much more detail on each mask.


   
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I'm not a fan of the prices, but someone pointed out that getting complete vintage ones in good condition would be much more expensive. 

I'm hoping they do Shark. Getting to Split Seconds would be cool, too. 


   
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Getting a re-released Boulder Hill would be a bit of wet dream... but I would settle for getting at least the series 1+2 (out of4) vehicles and T-bob&Scott.


   
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Posted by: @onlyoneskeletor

It has been reported that Ramen Toys and its relabeled brand "Makina Toys" have recently been thinking about bigger replicas of their figures. I'd love to see such a project come to fruition, if not for the vehicles, then at least for the characters and thus much more detail on each mask.

 

I reckon there is definitely a market for that. However... seeing the interest in the MASK reveals at NYTF, Hasbro would be borderline stupid not to roll something like that into their GI Joe line. There is so much tooling already done that they can probably re-use to get a few MASK tribute figures out of the door, at a reasonable price point. No need for Ramen Toys to do that at triple the cost.

 


   
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I wouldn't mind seeing 6-inch versions of the MASK characters in Classified style.


   
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I am still trying to find information about the scale of the roll out of the LTS MASK toys. The only comments so far referred to US retailers (BBTS starting pre-orders in June/July?). But nothing at all about other international markets. Would be a little annoying to have to order from the US. 

If there is any more information out there, I'd be interested in seeing it. 

 


   
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