Juggernaut Maquette

[Comicbookguy]

Originally Posted by Biggunz

Tell me this. Why can you buy a legendary dr. Doom for $1400 including shipping (Note: shipping has to be $300 minimum) mind you this is a recast (note: everyrhings a recast), but at the same time is being made by the same Chinese workers who make all sideshows, xm, and others stuff now. Also, this is being made right now in 2018/2019 and when supposedly those Chinese cost where a lot lowers years ago and Sideshow had this priced at $1999.00 not including Shipping and taxes.

Wow! great point never thought of this but so true. These days those recast has gotten so good they are close to the real statues now. Not perfect but close enough like those later newer recast we are selling popping up so fast on the newer statues. I hate recast myself and reported them all. SS and eBay does nothing at all. After days of reporting multiple times. Nothing happen so I gave up.

[darren1228]

Originally Posted by Biggunz

Tell me this. Why can you buy a legendary dr. Doom for $1400 including shipping (Note: shipping has to be $300 minimum) mind you this is a recast (note: everyrhings a recast), but at the same time is being made by the same Chinese workers who make all sideshows, xm, and others stuff now. Also, this is being made right now in 2018/2019 and when supposedly those Chinese cost where a lot lowers years ago and Sideshow had this priced at $1999.00 not including Shipping and taxes.

Because recasts are cheap = labor costs haven’t gone up???

[MONSTER]

Originally Posted by Biggunz

Tell me this. Why can you buy a legendary dr. Doom for $1400 including shipping (Note: shipping has to be $300 minimum) mind you this is a recast (note: everyrhings a recast), but at the same time is being made by the same Chinese workers who make all sideshows, xm, and others stuff now. Also, this is being made right now in 2018/2019 and when supposedly those Chinese cost where a lot lowers years ago and Sideshow had this priced at $1999.00 not including Shipping and taxes.

Well the people that are doing the recasts are not paying a licensing fee to Marvel so that probably helps keep the cost down.

[craigcliff1]

I was going to write that. DC Collectibles did Black Manta at 12 inches and it's like $134.00. Yet Twweterhead, Gentle Giants statues in that scale are twice that. I take it D.C. Collectibles
doesn't pay fees.

[Biggunz]

Originally Posted by MONSTER

Well the people that are doing the recasts are not paying a licensing fee to Marvel so that probably helps keep the cost down.

Now your getting somewhere

[Biggunz]

But what are the fees and what’s the spread sideshows making.
For sideshow they have had record breaking sales probably for the past two - three years
Don’t think they have been having record breaking costs and record breaking fees

[Biggunz]

Originally Posted by darren1228

Because recasts are cheap = labor costs haven’t gone up???

Huh? I think I just got dumber reading this

[darren1228]

Originally Posted by Biggunz

Huh? I think I just got dumber reading this

With logic such as yours I don't think that is possible

[Josh-a-tron]

Originally Posted by MONSTER

Well the people that are doing the recasts are not paying a licensing fee to Marvel so that probably helps keep the cost down.

Nor are they paying the sculptors, painters, concept artists, studio costs, licensing for software to create the product, etc. etc. etc.

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Let’s agree that selling price has little to do with production cost. $700 is a massive amount of money to put down on a comic statue.

Come to terms with what this ridiculous hobby is and you will be better for it.