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jaguar · 08-04-2011, 02:24 AM

I would not worry at all. The stock you are seeing right now online is teaser cases put out to stir up a feeding frenzy. It's working. Companies like Bandai and Hasbro often dump teaser cases to stir up a frenzy.

The main release date is in August, despite that ridiculous PR from Bandai. It's just marketing folks don't buy into it. All the cases and revision cases for the foreseeable future have the same characters just different quantities of each. This goes for 8", 6", 4" basic, 4" deluxe, playsets and vehicles. Basically all the main characters so don't worry. In a couple of months you'll be able to buy these on sale and come the holidays....

This is exactly how ben10 figs started off. Never had a hard time finding any of them eventually but now no one cares. Bandai is really, really good about keeping the main characters always accessible to all. American toy companies can learn a thing or two from them about that and paint app/quality control. Their paint/qc quality is pretty good so finding a decent set is not going to be hard.

These scalpers are not really bright people. They hop on boards like this to see what we are gushing over and used that to aid them. They probably figured buying up all Thundercats merch they can will be a huge profit for them on name alone but this is going to come crashing down on them so fast that they will be returning this stuff super fast. Lots of times they buy stuff thinking they will make a profit on it by just roaming the isles. They have no clue. They set prices based on what some trust fund idiot is willing to pay. Manipulating ebay prices is pretty easy but requires patience, discipline and common sense and not giving in to those prices and the temptation.

Don't get sucked up into the hype and for God sake practice some sense and don't indulge these money grabbing aholes on ebay. Every mass market store and most online stores will be selling these and all the cases and revisions are the same characters for a while. So just be patient, don't loose sleep over it or go nuts stalking stores. Since the inital stock did really well online, you can bet mass retail will be ordering a crap load of these for the retail stores . This was their test marketing.

08-04-2011, 02:24 AM	#124
jaguar ThunderKat Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1	I would not worry at all. The stock you are seeing right now online is teaser cases put out to stir up a feeding frenzy. It's working. Companies like Bandai and Hasbro often dump teaser cases to stir up a frenzy. The main release date is in August, despite that ridiculous PR from Bandai. It's just marketing folks don't buy into it. All the cases and revision cases for the foreseeable future have the same characters just different quantities of each. This goes for 8", 6", 4" basic, 4" deluxe, playsets and vehicles. Basically all the main characters so don't worry. In a couple of months you'll be able to buy these on sale and come the holidays.... This is exactly how ben10 figs started off. Never had a hard time finding any of them eventually but now no one cares. Bandai is really, really good about keeping the main characters always accessible to all. American toy companies can learn a thing or two from them about that and paint app/quality control. Their paint/qc quality is pretty good so finding a decent set is not going to be hard. These scalpers are not really bright people. They hop on boards like this to see what we are gushing over and used that to aid them. They probably figured buying up all Thundercats merch they can will be a huge profit for them on name alone but this is going to come crashing down on them so fast that they will be returning this stuff super fast. Lots of times they buy stuff thinking they will make a profit on it by just roaming the isles. They have no clue. They set prices based on what some trust fund idiot is willing to pay. Manipulating ebay prices is pretty easy but requires patience, discipline and common sense and not giving in to those prices and the temptation. Don't get sucked up into the hype and for God sake practice some sense and don't indulge these money grabbing aholes on ebay. Every mass market store and most online stores will be selling these and all the cases and revisions are the same characters for a while. So just be patient, don't loose sleep over it or go nuts stalking stores. Since the inital stock did really well online, you can bet mass retail will be ordering a crap load of these for the retail stores . This was their test marketing. Last edited by jaguar; 08-04-2011 at 02:27 AM..