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Killkrazy wrote:

Bandai manage better for less in their Gundam kits. Slide moulds, multi-colour plastic, polythene moving parts -- it's amazing what they can do for less than the cost of a GW kit.

Agreed. IMHO Bandai as well as the other major modeling kits coming from Japan are vastly superior to what is produced by GW. Been buying resin kits from Japan for 28 years.


Next.

If you really go through the financials and addtional information that has been provided by the interwebs you get.

A company who has continue to increase prices, closing stores, laying off people, (one man stores being implemented in the US) shifting to regional sales in their global market in order to make a profit.

Now replying to the OP is at least in a positive direction considering that their PR at the moment sucks the teat of a boar.