Due mostly to the cost of plastic (oil) rising toy prices are set to increase. Also because of wages in China.
Looks to be a big topic of conversation this week at Toy Fair.

Not that we haven't seen this coming.

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/02/15/toy-prices.html

 

Looks like I'll be cutting my collecting down quite a bit.

 

Just collect more G1.

 

F--- Y--, oil companies!!

 

Agreed on many levels. Still, I don't mind the prices of toys going higher for wage increases in China or anywhere else. Oil companys have the highest prophet increases ever- even with inflation and all other unforseen events taken into consideration, and keep it up by making everyone else pay more, not only to cover new cost, but to line their wallets even more then the 300 mile lining they already have. But, to ease working class peoples problems in China or really any other country, I'd happily pay more.

 

So in a Transformer sense in the US, we're talking $11 deluxes, $22 Voyagers, $44 Leaders? Not much of an increase.

 

Get ready for £15 deluxes, £30 Voyagers and so on over here.  

Yippee, I'll be able to cut down.

 

*ouch*

 

I've noticed a few walmarts here already doing these prices. And then there's TRU with their $13 deluxes....

 

Werd.

 

Those arent the actual figures, it was an attempt at humour. Which went badly wrong.

 

I'm thinking Walmart and Target will quickly turn into the ONLY places to buy any toys at all, since everyone else already has markup... Increase in price won't help everyone else at all.