HI all, I don't have any beast wars in my collection (save for original trex megs I got when I was like 15) but an acquaintance of mine came to me offering his BW collection from when he was younger for sale. He said most are in pretty good condition, with little to no flaking on the transmetals and all have accessories. So what would be a "fair" amount to offer him (he doesn't really know the value) so that he doesn't get ripped off and I don't end up overpaying. Also, are there any stand-outs in the collection (i.e. rarer or hard to find guys)? The list: Optimal Optimus Transmetal Optimus "Bat" Optimus Red Dragon Megatron Transmetal Depth Charge Transmetal Rampage Tigerhawk Cybershark Transmetal Cheetor Transmetal 2 Cheetor Dinobot Airazor x2 Transmetal Airazor x2 Transmetal Rattrap Transmetal Rhinox Blackarachnia (Black Widow) Transmetal Terrorsaur Quickstrike (fusors scorpion/cobra) Rockbuster Insecticon Terragator Transmetals 2 Prowl
"all have accessories"? or they have all accessories? The "gem" in his collections aren't much but: Optimal Optimus Red Dragon Megatron Tigerhawk Are probably the ones that are worth anything. The others more or less has been their base price +/-10$.
If that Transmetal Rattrap has the tail, isn't fucked up on the chrome, has red on the wheel faces & has red eyes in robot mode, I'd be wanting it. (it's not that I care about the eye colour, but that's an easy way to tell it apart from the older releases) Rampage, Depthcharge, TM Optimus (the blue one), & Quickstrike can be fairly desirable too, and same with the Blackarachnia. I've already got the ones from there that I like, but in general they're cool. I like the Bat Optimus too, but he's not really that pricy.
Hm, maybe I confused you with my statement. Your friend said they all have their accessories, does it mean that they all have ALL their accessories? For example, Optimal Optimus, 6 blast shields (4 sides, 2 main), 4 translucent missile, 1 gun, electrics work? Depthcharge: 6 disc projectiles, 2 yellow missiles, 1 shark launcher, 1 sword? Hope you understand and make sure he has everything =)
To buy that list, loose and complete as a lot, I would offer $170-$200 to a friend. I'd offer $150-170 to anyone else.
Also for Depthcharge, the sword/tail is technically two pieces (one of which he can't really stand without), so keep that in mind. Best way to figure all of this out would be to look em up on the site's resource section & jot down all the stuff they came with. That way when you guys look at the figures, you won't have to assume anything.
