The_root_of_all_evil said:
$250 for a Team Fortress 2 Heavy Weapons Guy?
The Single Thirty-Something is a lot easier to get to than the Credit-Crunched Family at the moment. Or the Tweenlighters. Even the Granny Brigade has been hit with the Miserybacks and Crimepr0n.
And what's the production run on those Heavy Weapons Guys? For PR toys it numbers in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. For a 250$ statue you're gonna be lucky if there's more than two or three thousands. The statue market is extremely small compared to the kids' toys market. The credit-crunched family's having hard times indeed, according to Bandai's financial report, but it has only affected the US market and their so far financially successful response has been to aim for an even younger target than usual.