LogFAQs > #955470292

Surprisingly, Gamestop sometimes has their Mystery Minis cheaper than other places. The MSRP for most sets is about $6 but they'll sometimes sell them for $5 even without a promo or clearance. And they wind up clearancing them more often than other places, which usually just run the stock down.

In general, they're kinda funny with pricing where they'll go over MSRP on some stuff, under on other stuff, and then have "clearances" where the price is the MSRP but sometimes there's a % off promo.

That same day I was looking at the McFarlane DC figures (Mattel lost the license a few years ago after they let the brand spectacularly implode), which is still all kinds of wonky. Apparently they're doing BAFs/CNCs now but those figures have a $25 MSRP instead of the usual $20 (wtf?), which is particularly egregious with some of the smaller figures (like Scarecrow). Their handling in general has been kinda weird, because McFarlane went super-heavy on Batman and Bat-family variants, as well as just sticking to variants of the big-name heroes. So there are a lot of Batman figures, but very rogues of any kind.

When I was at a Wal-Mart recently, I saw a gold variant of the HellBat marked down to $16 and I figured I'd just pick it up since, as an armored character, it wouldn't look as out of scale next to my DCU figures. The jointing is pretty decent so it poses okay for something that size, although the gold they used is just atrocious. I'll probably pick up the TT Cyborg at some point and, if they get around to some of the other TT characters, probably those as well (and I had previously though about getting the JLU figures at the start of the line). I don't think I'll ever get big into figure collecting again, though.

---

(\/)(\/)|-|
There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist.