Tamashii is able to make figures that are the same price of a next gen video game consoles now :lol.

It's a web exclusive so I don't think they're quite there yet. Between this and Tridoron being web exclusive I'm going to assume that the Machine Itasha didn't sell well enough for them to consider such costly figures as mass market stuff again.

(Not that Akibaranger is particularly good thing to measure it by, because by the looks of it none of it sold all that well)

Eep I just bit the bullet and preordered it.

My reasoning was that I looked at the only other hyper detailed hulkbuster on the market with all the bells and whistles and that was the hot toy's stupid expensive one, so I thought for this quality, size and price range it's pretty damn good. So i preordered it.

I'm not buying anything in December.

I've seen a number of people on other boards complain about the price and saying Bandai's overcharging, but I think a lot of them keep forgetting that when it comes to licenses like Marvel, not just for Figuarts but Figma as well, it boosts the price up more.

Like if this didn't have to deal with the Marvel license, I would bet the price would have been more around 200 instead of 300.

I don't really think they're overcharging, but I could have done without the diecast or LEDs. Really it's the Chogokin element that's driven the price up over what I personally would have paid for it.

I'd probably bite if I knew it was going to be the only thing I bought/wanted in January, but I highly doubt that's going to be the case.

Daaaaaam.
I'm out. I can't justify Hulkbuster at that price, even if it is justified. Maybe I'll get lucky and it will end up on deep clearance on Mandarake, like Machine Ishta was.
:'(

We can hope together!

Thing is, I don't expect it to go down that much, simply because it's a Marvel Collectible. Unlike Itasha who is quite niche, the hulkbuster is an iconic suit so I can only see it's prices going up, especially as it's a chogokin release.

I went ahead and preordered the Hulkbuster. With it coming out in january it should give me enough time to save up for it.

Don't forget the sheer size of the thing.

There really isn't a way they could've made an in scale Hulkbuster for this line while also making it "affordable"