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he's out,Who here will be buying Ecore #23 Fort max for $329 plus $20 in shipping fees?

If you plan on buying it,did you already pre-order it on a site? will you buy the toy within a few weeks/month? will you get the toy before the 2013 year comes to a end? are you waiting for a deep clearance sale? are you hoping hasbro sells this encore fort max toy for leaps & bounds cheaper priced in some usa stores like maybe TRU?

No not me,If Hasbro made a Titan new version that had a super poseable robot mode with higher adult themed sculpt in all modes THEN I'D GLADLY BUY THE TITAN VERSION FOR UNDER $125.

I budget my TF toy/media yearly spending money more tightly as the years pass. I just feel that $329 plus $20 in shipping fees can be used more wisely on better & more quanity TF toys in the 2013 thru 2014 TF toy year.

The Thing is I already bought & owned Two of this Fort Max toy mold. Each time,I got the toy brand new straight from the store shelf.
I had the original 1987 Fort Max that I bought in a TRU store for under $90 on sale back in 1987. Then Years later I bought The Takara year 2000 Car Robots Brave Maximus toy for around $100 on deep clearance from ImageAnime in NYC. SADLY THOSE TWO TOYS NEVER GOT PLAYED WITH & JUST SAT IN STORAGE,SO EACH TIME ON TWO DIFFERENT OCCASSIONS I SOLD THEM AT TOY/COMIC CONVENTIONS IN NYC.

I bought the Korean version of RID Brave Maximus for $116 shipped, as I recall. I've never owned the original or Grand Maximus. I still think the version I have was worth the money, and filled the "Fort Max" gap in my collection very nicely. I can't see spending over $300 on a second version of the same mold, even if mine is missing some accessories that the others had.

So it's a pass for me. If I didn't already own a version of Fort Max, I think the price would still be off-putting. That's a lot of money that I'd have a hard time justifying on a non-necessity.

If this had happened a few years ago, I'd probably have been in. I like the look of Fort Max, and there's an appeal to having a new version of the one G1 figure you always think you'll never be able to have.

But at this point, screw it. I don't even know where I'd keep the thing. And like Anderson said, I couldn't justify spending that much on a toy. That's like, almost an extra mortgage payment or something like that.

Man, I wish I had a job.