"The Eternal Lost Lurker" <osaka@raspberry.hv> wrote in
news:5EyNb.8555$eK5.1688@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com: 

> 
> "James Marshall" <marshall@astro.umd.edu> wrote in message
> news:bu6bod$po5$1@grapevine.wam.umd.edu...
>>
>> Wow, that much?  Why are the kits so expensive?  You have to build
>> and paint everything yourself.  Is it the material, is resin that
>> expensive? 
> 
> Hint: They're fanboy obsession hobby items. The companies know that
> anyone obsessed enough to spend the time it takes to assemble and
> paint the things is obsessed enough to pay through the wang for it.
> 
> 

When I was in Otsu last summer in a little shop there was a finished 
Kanzaki Akari (from Battle Athletes) resin figure I would love to have had, 
but it was around $160.00. So I had to pass and just get the plastic Rei 
figure (the one with the interchangeable heads and arms, can't remember the 
brand right now) for a cheap $30.00. (That is what the price tag said in 
katakana..chipu)