At least the dead prime only wasted a Hasbro instead of a Takara.
Anyone check the prices lately? Looks like now that the stock dried up pricing are going up a lot for the Masterpiece Primes.
I saw Swerve once, but the box was really beat up. When I was still buying them I found Tracks only once and then never again. I found Wheeljack a few weeks ago and picked him up. The only alternator I have now, just because I adore the Mustang and decided I liked Wheeljack's scheme better than Grimlock's. Sold all the others a few months ago. I usually have better luck at Target than anywhere else.
One of the big reasons why I stopped was 1) the declining sculpt quality from a lot of the newer ones, and 2) it's too annoying and hard to find the damn things. I don't want to have to hunt so much. There's too few in circulation. The problem has gotten steadily worse with each new batch, and then they go and pull the stunt they pulled with Decepticharge and Swerve and deliberately make even LESS then the pitiful number they already produce of the other ones. It was also takig up way too much space for me, and I've been scaling back my display collection some.