Why do these toys cost so much?

That's why they have Start Collecting boxes which are priced with like a 40% discount compared to buying their contents individually.

Really bad comparison considering how shit the old warrior models were, but yeah, they can do that without a worry.

When it comes to needing to buy a load of miniatures, that's the wargaming market. Who is there to compete with them outwith historicals? Mantic? Not really. GW has that market cornered hard.

>not knowing memes

What other reason do you have to be on Veeky Forums.

>Fifteen years ago, plastic tyranid warriors were thirty bucks for three.
yeah, and they didn't even have the weapon arms to equip a single squad properly

and they will release rules for 8E for free because they don't care anymore

"In 2017, the relative value of $30.00 from 2002 ranges from $38.00 to $49.30."
source: measuringworth.com/uscompare/relativevalue.php

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Every inflation calculator I can find online sets the value of $30 in 2002 to $40 in 2017 give or take a few cents.

because it is written in that toy book that the toy deals 40 damage to other toys

Correction. Anything made with human hands is expensive outside of cheap production countries. Robots are the future.