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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Not saying owt about the value (that being based entirely on perception). Just a straight out price comparisson. Steam Tank for instance was £50.00 when first released in metal. £35.00 when first released in plastic.

That's a straight out £15.00 saving between the two, yes? Whether you feel the £35.00 for the plastic version is worth it is entirely a personal statement.

Owt? Owt/ Where you from?

Not that I'm saying that GW aren't ripping prices, I think they're taking the piss. Just wondering about that vernacular.

marielle wrote:The problem with comparing anything with inflation is that inflation statistics are easily manipulated. If you look at the basket of goods that are used to calculate UK inflation - internet dating, the cost of mobile phone calls (which was irrelevant because of texting) mortgage rates (that were kept artificially low (with the results we see in the banking crisis) etc - they have very little to do with the actual cost of living - or more specifically to the costs of doing business.

A better comparison would be to compare GW products against other figure manufacturers and see how their prices have changed over the period.

When I was a lad, my very first Transformer toy was this bloke:



He cost me $6.99 of my pocket money and I bought him at K-Mart, back when there were still K-Marts in Canada in 1984 (Gasp, I'm old). Today, based on size and complexity, Hound would be a "deluxe" class Transformer. Fast forward almost 30 years to the present:



These young fellas are $12.99 MSRP.

So in 28 years price has increased by 86%. (2.24% compounded yearly). Deluxe class transformers went from die cast metal/plastic construction to all plastic construction. Engineering has arguably improved - with much better robot modes, but IMHO, the newer models don't seem to have the same fit/finish realism that the older ones had in vehicle mode. Plastic Space Marines (circa 1998) on the other hand, have not changed much since the transition to plastic, other than getting additional packaged weapons when their sprue got recut. In 14 years from then to now, they've gone up roughly 70% in price.

I am not making any judgement call as to whether that kind of price rise is justified or not. Just stating the facts.