Were these a brick-and-mortar product and not restricted to online then a store chain would eventually feel the pressure to mark down a $100 ship in a big box just to try to get rid of a few of them. The $250 Falcon that’s still sitting in a lot of TRU stores from coast to coast has undergone at least two sharp markdowns I can think of and will probably see at least one more before they’re scooped up and removed from the sales floors.

But yeah, agreed on the repeated uses of this mold. They’ve milked this thing umpteen times over the past eleven years and it’s not remotely as if it’s something fresh and new off the drawing boards of their designers. I don’t look at the cost of the last Legacy version of the Gunship as much as I do the age of the mold and the bad economy. $99.99 seems reasonable for something that was designed that long ago and is going to be sold at a time where more people are just plain reluctant to drop three digits on one ship, included ball turrets or not.

I don’t know if you will ever see a price drop on these. Hasbro is hell-bent on gouging fans and everybody knows TRU is the most expensive place to buy. The TRUs in my area still have the vintage style Falcon for $250. Plus, how many times has Hasbro recycled this mold? Haven’t they earned enough off of it to pass a little savings on to collectors?

$99.99 tops. That’s my take. Three included figures and desirable ball turrets or not, this thing just has $99.99 written all over it and it just seems like the right price.

I’m pretty sure with the Christmas shopping frenzy and Black Friday hitting in just two months’ time that the price will drop and even substantially for the Holiday retail season, but a hundred bucks seems like the right launch price and then they can proceed from there.