The spinning motor does look nice, but if I was shelling out up to £200 for a display model Light Cycle I'd want it to look the part, those LEDs in the wheels suck, the (relatively cheap in comparison) pullback Light Cycle has better lighting! and even then I don't think it has enough LEDs inside.

JediTray Wrote:Well, maybe if you can't sell her on it, you can sell HER! J/K.

Haha! Now there's an idea! LOL

On the bright side, that site you listed does allow monthly payments. That might prove to be a plus for me when I spring it on 'the boss'. LOL

These are nice looking items. However, charging $150 US for a Kevin Flynn figure and $300 US for a Sam Flynn Lightcycle is just ridiculous.

You get what you pay for. Compare a Hot Toys figure with other 12 inch toys and it's easy to see why they're as expensive as they are.

The only thing keeping me from buying these is the fact that it looks like it's only gonna be Kevin and Sam. I would buy a Tron in a heartbeat, and if they made Quorra it would probably be enough to make me invest in the whole set.

Zuse Wrote:You get what you pay for. Compare a Hot Toys figure with other 12 inch toys and it's easy to see why they're as expensive as they are. The only thing keeping me from buying these is the fact that it looks like it's only gonna be Kevin and Sam. I would buy a Tron in a heartbeat, and if they made Quorra it would probably be enough to make me invest in the whole set.

Sorry, but I have to disagree. There is no toy, doll, action figure, vehicle, whatever... that's worth the kind of an absurd price that Hot Toys is charging for, in this case, Kevin Flynn dolls and Sam Flynn light cycle likenesses.

At the rates this company charges you'd think these things were made out of precious metals. It's unbelievable to me that someone would pony up that kind of money for those items.

I'll stick with the TL stuff I currently have. The items I bought may not be as pricey or fancy as a Hot Toys product but they make for a good enough display.

User897 wrote:One man's ludicrous is another man's collectible.

I think it's more like this: One man's ludicrous is another man's collectible is another man's absurdity. Again, it's unbelievable that there are folks who pony up that kind of dough for items like this stuff from Hot Toys without a second thought.

User897 Wrote:So I guess anyone that has Hot Toys items in their home is "insane." Nice.

(sigh) I'll try again. Go back and re-read what I said User897.

I said I thought it was insane that anyone would pay $150 for a doll, NOT that a person was insane. You've made your position clear, as have I so I'm going to nicely suggest once again that you drop it and move on. Fair enough?

Edited to add: I see User897 made the right decision after I posted my reply. Good enough.

tomstroncollectible Wrote:Sorry, but I have to disagree. There is no toy, doll, action figure, vehicle, whatever... that's worth the kind of an absurd price that Hot Toys is charging for, in this case, Kevin Flynn dolls and Sam Flynn light cycle likenesses. At the rates this company charges you'd think these things were made out of precious metals. It's unbelievable to me that someone would pony up that kind of money for those items..

As unbelievable as it may be for you, there are a LOT of people who feel they are well worth the money. Hot Toys is highly respected in the action figure community, and continue to release more and more figures from a variety of licenses, so people are obviously buying them. Just because they exceed what YOU'RE willing to spend on a toy is no reason to try to make those who buy them feel ******.

DevRevenge Wrote:I can't imagine why someone who reviews toys on Youtube would be so personally offended that these exist.

Who said I was personally offended that these items exist? I think it's great that there's new TL stuff coming out.

My objection was and continues to be the outrageous pricing that Hot Toys demands for these and other items. Obviously I'm in the minority when it comes to Hot Toys products and the prices being charged. Fine, so be it. For me to say anything else about it now is just beating a dead horse.

I'm not an avid toy collector by any stretch of the imagination. I made an exception with the TL stuff because Tron was something I grew up with. The reviews I did of my TL items on my Youtube channel were unbiased. If I thought a certain item was crap, I said so.

I also thought that the pricing on the Ultimate figures that Spin Master produced was ridiculous. I wouldn't have gotten them if I hadn't found them at reasonable pricing. And as it turned out I got fortunate in some instances with my TL purchases, notably with the all-yellow Ultimate Clu that I got from the TRU website.

Anyway, I'm sure you and other folks know that I'm out of the Youtube business. That was concluded with my review of the TL movie set I purchased when it was released earlier this month.

Look at it this way, for $40 you got Ultimate Sam. He's alright, I guess. If you got the katana at least, and have Ultimate Clu with katana to fight with. The light up feature is the same as in the $20 toys. The weapons are nice at least.

Or, for about 4x the price, you can get by far the best Kevin Flynn you'll ever see. With tons of different ways to pose him (lol at 'posing' Ultimate Sam.) The ONLY representation we're going to get of Black Robe KF, an even sweeter identity disc than comes with the Ultimate figures (maybe.)

I'm pretty sure I just talked myself into the Kevin Flynn. Might as well save up for the light cycle too

Also take into account that Hot Toys hand paints the heads. You wouldn't get likenesses this natural looking coming off an assembly line.