Tuvalu Transformers - Opinions?

Some people on this thread truly thought the series would fall to spot within a couple of years. They couldn't have been more wrong. Three years later and they're still either holding their value or worth more than I originally paid for the 2009 set. They were so successful, Perth even released another set in 2011 and it's also selling very well and also worth just as much as it was when Perth issued it.

I forgot about the coin snob remark, MobOfRoos, but it still holds true, to one degree or another. People buy coins for all sorts of reasons. Not just to sell at a profit down the road. Personally, I like a little variety in my coinage. And here in the US, that meant something other than dead presidents. I always hear people say, "I buy old circulated silver for its historical significance." I often wonder, what significance? To me, it's simply pocket change. Something rare, I can see, but for many, I think it's just an oft-repeated and easily remembered meme. Kind of like the old canard, "I buy gold as a hedge against inflation." That's only true if the spot price is rising above inflation, right? Why would anyone assume it always will? Look at history and one learns that that's simply not the case. For 20 years, from 1980-2000, gold would have been as good of a hedge as a hole in the ground, which I'm about to go dig to contain my bamboo hedge ;)

Tulavu Transformers coins were overpriced at issue price.
To those who bought them and loved them good on you
But long term these coins are just a theme coin and the value is unlikely to reach issue price on the secondary market in future.
Collect what you like and enjoy is my motto

not for me personally (even tho I like silver stacking and the transformer movies) but they do look awesome in the flesh!