I guess there are some rich completists out there who will pay top dollar for these things. The makers must feel a bit put out that the prices can ramp up after they sell them, but then they are aiming at the collectors.
The nearest I have are the 3d printed characters from the comic by @katharsisdrill, but I'm not selling.
Yeah, definitely a double edge sword.
In the past several years we’ve seen some of these design houses raise prices massively. Sone say it’s just the cost of doing business and that costs have gone up all around which is true to some degree. But a part of me thinks exactly as you mentioned. These studios see people paying big bucks on the aftermarket and think “we want some of that”…