the price of figures

[largo]

I was trolling around ebay looking to blow some cash on a little geek wear and I searched for guyver and I found a lot of cool max factory figures. The thing that bothered me most is the freak'n price. 100+ for even stupidest ones were they always this expensive or is this a recent thing.

[Sully]

Depends which one you are after, but they are sold out quite often.

[largo]

I was actually gunning for an Aptom team five version.

[McAvoy]

I don't have any figures but from what I understand this no worse than other series, Japanese or American.

Though I guess if I did have a few Guyver figures, it would definitely make drawing Guyvers easier....

[Matt Bellamy]

Paying $100+ for the figures nowadays is very very common.

There is a few points to be aware of:

1. These started getting released around the time the new TV series was being aired. Some figures are already 5 years or more old.

2. Max Factory figures are already more expensive than other companies. The price range of the figures as they were released was something like $70-150 depending on the size of the figure.

3. They were limited production. Not in the terms of individually numbered figures, but once a figure was done being made, they stopped making them. The only 2 figures that had more made, were Guyver 3 ( glow in the dark blade gone, new materials) and the Guyver 1 1.5 version, with the extra head and hand to do the open mask pose.

Trying to buy the figures now, means that they are no longer in production, and very limited. Thus, you are lucky if you can just find them. Worrying about the price comes later, after you figure out how badly you want them, or not.