amptor Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 (edited) I haven't seen this since the dot com bubble (well a lot of people here probably have though). Anyway I see 4 of them up for auction now and no hint of a reissue in sight. Interesting. I remember back in the late dotcom days when I worked for a company that was about to tank (because they put together their web site at the END OF THE DOTCOM LOL!!! no wonder right?), I would see these used valks go for up to I don't know something like a couple grand on ebay. With Yamato out of the picture (though yeah I know some other company took them over), and Bandai releasing more valks I wonder if they will ever come out with the three movie edition 1/55's that we all want. Two big problems I see with it are: they will have to create new molds for those valks as surely the original molds either have deteriorated or ended up in some other company's hands. Also we saw what happened with the reissues where they over saturated the market with them and toy stores in Japan were flooded with them up til the Max/Millia variants which we all do prize. Those saw a limited production because Bandai is pretty good with logistics and saw the decline in sales due to the market saturation. If Bandai does more reissues in the future I will buy, depending on how appealing they are. I skipped the last ones with the ugly box arts because they were, for the most part, the same old stuff. Just a higher price tag. I'm sure that if Bandai reissues the Elint, Strike, Super O, and possibly comes out with a VF-1D trainer, the prices are going to be pretty high now due to the economic state of the world and the times we live in. If we had a big bump in the economy, we probably would be seeing more stuff coming from Toynami and more in Bandai form who knows. But I will wait and see and keep checking this forum to see if some good stuff comes out. Edited January 26, 2014 by amptor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoBe-Patt Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 You wanna provide a link to those auctions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvmacross Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Check the Auctions of Great Absurdity thread! Seriously....several of them have been posted there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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