Huge price increases in new Japanese kits ¬_¬

[konamonkey]

http://www.hiroboy.com/catalog/product_info.php?pr...

Thats a LOT more than I'd pay for a Fujimi 1/24 kit I guess we are going to see a steady increase in Japanese imports Oh well....

[dr_gn]

konamonkey said:

http://www.hiroboy.com/catalog/product_info.php?pr...

Thats a LOT more than I'd pay for a Fujimi 1/24 kit I guess we are going to see a steady increase in Japanese imports Oh well....

It's currently a hot topic of conversation in model forums and magazines.

[Eric Mc]

My benchmark for Japanese prices is the Hasegawa 1/72 Lancaster. Prices vary from £40 to £55.

Revell's (arguably better kit) is £17.00

[chris watton]

Yikes! That is a LOT of money for what seems, at glancing at the details, to be a small 'bog standard' plastic kit!

Any ideas as to why the sharp increase in prices - are they hoping to recoup development costs with the first few thousand kits, rather than the usual hundreds of thousands?

ETA - I bought the 24th scale Airfix Stuka for less than that, and the Stuka kit has at least three times as many parts!

Edited by chris watton on Friday 20th August 14:26

[Marf]

chris watton said:

Any ideas as to why the sharp increase in prices?

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=GBPJPY=X#chart2:symbol=gbpjpy=x;range=5y;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined