Official Ultimate Edition New Gen Arena Megathread

To be honest dude, no one should care about appeasing resellers. Least of all Mattel. Their job is to provide the value to the consumer. The next (or any) crowdfund should be an idea that is popular enough to fund on its own by people who actually want it, not reliant on convincing people it’ll be worth something upon release. Or ever for that matter.

Pictures of cardboard shipper boxes and completed listing on eBay aren’t selling the next crowdfund. You know what is? All those pictures of the set laid out with figures in the entrance and the ring. The testimonies of how happy people are to have it. The quality. That’s what’s really gonna sell people on the next thing.

The reality of this set is that it almost didn’t get made. Macho got the set made and all the resellers you’re worried about got in purely for how rare they thought that figure would be. He probably will fetch a higher price than everything else in the set, but we’ll still have to see because it’s still 8k.

If anything, resellers did it to themselves. They put this thing into “not rare enough” territory. Pretty much everyone who wanted this got it already, so there’s only going to be so many that will sell for what’s being asked right now. Maybe down the road it’ll go up again, but anyone wanting triple or more *right now* is probably going to be disappointed, and that has nothing to do with Mattel.

For the people having a panic that the next crowdfunded project is going to fail, this first one was mostly a ring. Do you know how many people were in the comments going, “I’d like this, but I don’t need a ring. I already have a ring and/or don’t have room for it.” Well, the next project isn’t going to have a ring. Mattel said time and time again they weren’t going to crowd fund a ring. They were going to do something else. So quit setting your hair on fire until they announce the next project.