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Quote from: Zapper on January 15, 2014, 09:40:22 AMYeah, that's what I thought.In the first year of FiM there were several Europe exclusive ponies and not just variants, exclusive characters. Even in Europe their prices skyrocketed!I don't think a lot of Europe actually got them or got them widely, so that's why they're so expensive. At least US exclusives are fairly abundant so they re-sell for about retail if you don't buy them from scalpers. The UK never saw the Europe exclusives (I believe some showed up in a random store that gets leftover stock but I don't count that as a release) and my friends in Germany and the Netherlands were unable to find them in stores, either If you're gonna make something exclusive to a place, do it all together or not at all (I do reserve my right to be bitter about the mountain of exclusive characters NA has had whilst we've had nothing )
Yeah, that's what I thought.In the first year of FiM there were several Europe exclusive ponies and not just variants, exclusive characters. Even in Europe their prices skyrocketed!
In the spa set, I can't believe how they missed the chance to make the spa sisters Aloe and Lotus the set is really cute, but what ge got instead?ANOTHER Pinkie Pie and this one is giving a bath to Fluttershy that doesn't even have sence.That set was almost like an entire year in shelves until it was at 70% they were sold.
Do you mean G3 collapsed in on itself because of the core characters? So a lot of collectors fell a little out of love with the line? Financially the line was reasonably consistent throughout all years so it came more to a natural end than a self destructive one.
I know some people say Hasbro went with the Core 7 and their current business model because it must be good business, but you have to remember this is the same company that thought killing off Optimus Prime was a good business move.
Quote from: Al-1701 on January 16, 2014, 06:30:18 AMI know some people say Hasbro went with the Core 7 and their current business model because it must be good business, but you have to remember this is the same company that thought killing off Optimus Prime was a good business move.Haha! Well, at least they learned from that and now Optimus is the least changed character throughout the franchise, dies every time but always comes back to life in the end. Even when not voiced by Peter Cullen the character has to die at some point and you just know he'll come back Jesus style and have three or four updated modes with wings and you can buy them all.Their fault turned out to be their most used plot device.
Quote from: Sapphire-Light on January 10, 2014, 04:48:31 AMIn the spa set, I can't believe how they missed the chance to make the spa sisters Aloe and Lotus the set is really cute, but what ge got instead?ANOTHER Pinkie Pie and this one is giving a bath to Fluttershy that doesn't even have sence.That set was almost like an entire year in shelves until it was at 70% they were sold.That REALLY bothered me, too. How could they make a spa set and NOT include Aloe and Lotus Blossom? They've even got pink in their designs. What's the problem, Hasbro??