Transformers Commemorative Series VIII
All prices are for MISB (mint in sealed box)

Series VIII



Skids - $20 - retailed @ $24.99
Skids was a little too late. He hit the shelves and nobody wanted to pay $24.99 for him. All the other reissues were @ $12 to $19. The entire collecting community waited for him to price drop.

Because of this, every store got 1 shipment of Skids, and that was it. He's a bit more difficult to find.



Sideswipe ...

NEVER RELEASED. See him in Skids' inner cover? He was right there ... the G1 figure everybody wanted to buy ... but he was NEVER F'ING RELEASED. Canada got him, that was about it. If you see Sideswipe, you're paying $40 + shipping from China on eBay.



This pretty much signaled the end of the reissues. They failed because of:
- poor release planning (reissuing repaints first, reissuing repaints of repaints in back to back series)
- horrible pricing (a new series would hit the shelf, the previous would be on clearance)