I had one secured at BBTS but got one through Agabyss who I prefer to buy from this afternoon. I just cancelled the BBTS order and someone else here grabbed it.

 

I can confirm that since I'm the one that grabbed it, always nice to have a fellow collector help out!

 

I sometimes do that as well. For friends, or for people in my local collecting community, where we all try to help each other out when we can.

Also, there was that one scene in the movie where two Cyclonus' are shown, and that is all that's needed for some hardcore fans to want to recreate, lol

 

I wonder how many will have Quietus and get XTB Abbadon and us who will have Sovereign and the Eligos reissue? Lol

 

I grabbed both for Cyclonus, since Eligos is a known quantity for XTB. Abbadon is going to depend on how XTB handles the Locke reissue, and how well recieved Virtus is. Anything less than a perfect performance on both, and I won't be buying another XTB product ever again without quite a few reviews and a few months of availability to see what issues crop up over time.

 

I will get Abaddon, that thing is impressive, but the QC must be top notch.

 

Doubt it unfortunately. There’s enough FT fanatics to buy em all up and try to force the prices up. It’s a business for them at This point, and they’ll do whatever it takes to keep their cash cow.

 

But if I only buy what I can afford or need, who will take care of the poor credit card companies and the banks?

 

Taxpayers. The ultimate suckers  

 

So what you’re saying is we’re screwed either way. Damn, time to thaw out my credit cards. XTB Locke, here I come!!

 

I do think the FT bubble is starting to burst a little bit. Thomas was peak, where he released at $220 and was selling for $400 later that day. That caused a lot of people to notice and buy speculator copies and retailers to jack up the post-release price so they hang around longer.

Magnum was the last regular release that basically stayed around regular price until it was getting less common. Smokey went up to $200 right away but now places like heat toys are lowering it to $160. I see people with extra Sovereigns/Phoenix’s etc trying to sell them for the $300 retailers want but usually start lowering the price cause everyone seems to have 2 already.

Quietus is the exception because it’s so great and in demand but Spindrift will probably shelfwarm until the next release. I think there’s so many people buying to make a buck that the demand is artificially inflated and there’s not as many people to sell to as you’d think.

 

Economy sucks!

Sometimes I really want an economic system that works closer to how real physical processes work in real life. Minimizing subjectivities and the BS.

 

close to 300 bucks for a couple year old mold, ill look to the future maybe official quietus

 

true all factors are at play here ... i still think it's part to do with certain retailers wanting to charge more BUT but in these hard times factory time and cost of that factory time due to high demand , cost of materials and shipping are all bound to be part of it

that said during last year they managed to squeeze a lot of releases in! but for all we know parts could have already been produced for the majority of them before the pandemic hit hard

 

Went back about 6 pages and didn't see any discussion on this.
Was there any reason given that Terry, ShowZ, and bababobo were not offered a chance at this re-issue? I remember hearing that they were undercutting the prices of the US based sellers and that FT was cracking down on that. But they had the Phoenix re-issue and the upcoming Apache re-issue. Just seeing if there is a new policy coming for those 3 getting cut out by FT.

 

Show-Z just said:
"We are not sure about this product for now. FT things are always hard to get.
Already checking on it"

That was last Friday, so they may still get some. Here's hoping.

 

So are there currently any other legit places that still have a PO for the re-issues?

 

Extremely doubtful. Your best bet is to try to secure a PO when and if ShowZ finally offers him.

 

Or sit on a site like BBTS, refreshing every 3 seconds HOPING someone cancels an order and it shows up as available, lol...

 

LMAO, yeah I was gonna suggest that but I didn't want to torture the lad.