[DogFashionDisco]

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Originally Posted by Boba Fettuccini

Action figure value goes down like 90% as soon as it's a couple months old. Star Wars figues I bought new were selling for $50+ on ebay, now I get a trade-in value of less than a dollar at the local collector toy shop. There's not really much point in saving them mint, because someone else somewhere has a mint archive copy for when the museums want one. Otherwise it's just a toy.

They're all just toys. What museums? I like to think of these figures as little sculptures of awesome artistic renderings of classic comic characters, but at the end of the day they're just expensive plastic.

[thechris]

I agree, unless you like the way they look on card more than you enjoy them out of package, then you may as well take them out of package. Investing in toys in hopes of making money on them by keeping them MOC is pretty pointless. It's kind of like hoarding. I used to keep the packaging to things like my Super Nintendo and it's kind of pointless. You'd have to find a pretty desperate guy or an impulsive buyer to pay like a bunch of money for something like that and it just ends up taking up space in your home until you find him/her. If you enjoy playing with the toy, take it out of the package, if you like looking at a toy in the package, keep it MOC.

Don't worry about monetary value. Chances are, when you HAVE to sell it for money, it won't be high in demand. For example, TFs were uber popular when the first movie came out, the value on them skyrocketed. Now, not so much. These MUs are going to get to a point where they aren't really worth much, they're kind of getting there for me right now. I no longer really care about them as much as I did before where I was like "Gotta have this. Gotta have that". I remember when there was the D&D miniatures craze and I bought a Harbinger Umberhulk for $72 and I thought it was a "good price" and now they're worth nothing.

I find that the mania seems to die off after a while and when I don't want it anymore, no one else seems to either. Some sort of mania always seems to drive the value up, and when people see other people caring about something, they feel compelled to care, the value goes up. In 5 years, we'll see these Archangels going for $20 bucks a pop and the Nick Fury will be worth nothing. I say this having paid $75 on Nick Fury because I bought it during a time when everyone else still cared.

The thing about Nick is you can reseal him because he didn't come in a blister. In 5 years, I probably won't give a crap about my MU collection and when I go to sell them, I'll be lucky to get half of what I put into it. It's that "Gotta have it now" mentality. Unfortunately, nothing would motivate me to want to collect at a time when these are worthless because why would I? With renewed popularity in Marvel comics, I'm unfortunately driven to buy now, just like everyone else. I want the toy now, not later. So is your craving satisfied with it simply sitting there in the package or must you remove it from it's packaging and play with it to get enjoyment from it? It's already money spent and accept that by the time you want to get rid of it, it's probably when everyone else wants to, too. If it's the guilt and shame having spent $60 on a repainted figure of a $10 figure. Well it's spent now. Open it now. OPEN IT! OPEN IT, DAMN YOU!!! Or sell it, immediately, now, on eBay for over $100 to some impulsive fat kid right NOW, because you won't be able to later. Do it... DO IT..........

[DogFashionDisco]

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Originally Posted by thechris

I agree, unless you like the way they look on card more than you enjoy them out of package, then you may as well take them out of package. Investing in toys in hopes of making money on them by keeping them MOC is pretty pointless. It's kind of like hoarding. I used to keep the packaging to things like my Super Nintendo and it's kind of pointless. You'd have to find a pretty desperate guy or an impulsive buyer to pay like a bunch of money for something like that and it just ends up taking up space in your home. I don't really want to debate this so I'll stop right here. If you enjoy playing with the toy, take it out of the package, if you like looking at a toy in the package, keep it MOC. Don't worry about monetary value. Chances are, when you HAVE to sell it for money, it won't be high in demand. For example, TFs were uber popular when the first movie came out, the value on them skyrocketed. Now, not so much. These MUs are going to get to a point where they aren't really worth much, they're kind of getting there for me right now. I no longer really care about them as much as I did before where I was like "Gotta have this. Gotta have that".

You should have kept the packaging to your SNES, its worth quite a bit in certain circles. Anyway, I dig packaging on some figures, but I see what you mean in reference to MU. These are great little figures, but I can only justify owning a certain amount of them because having too many of them just takes up too much space. Kids open figures and therefore can toss them anywhere, whereas collectors have to find space for these things, and that is inevitably a pain in the ass. *end of rant*

[thechris]

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Originally Posted by DogFashionDisco

You should have kept the packaging to your SNES, its worth quite a bit in certain circles. Anyway, I dig packaging on some figures, but I see what you mean in reference to MU. These are great little figures, but I can only justify owning a certain amount of them because having too many of them just takes up too much space. Kids open figures and therefore can toss them anywhere, whereas collectors have to find space for these things, and that is inevitably a pain in the ass. *end of rant*

I did keep the packaging to it, but I can't justify trying to sell it on eBay and having to pay like $10 to relist a $100 item that didn't sell every month. I just checked eBay, there's like at least 5 of them going for around $100 and nobody bit. I paid $99 for it originally anyway, seems like a waste, really, since $99 in the mid 90s is worth more than $99 in 2011.

[DogFashionDisco]

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Originally Posted by thechris

I did keep the packaging to it, but I can't justify trying to sell it on eBay and having to pay like $10 to relist a $100 item that didn't sell every month. I just checked eBay, there's like at least 5 of them going for around $100 and nobody bit. I paid $99 for it originally anyway, seems like a waste, really, since $99 in the mid 90s is worth more than $99 in 2011.

Well it is one of those strange things to own that shouldn't be sold on eBay anyway (eBay is overrated). If I were in your position, I would wait until someone really wanted it (a lot of people collect boxes like this because it is harder to find than the system itself) or you might even be able to donate it to one of the video game museums that are popping up.

[thechris]

^^ I figure I'll just keep it around if I ever throw a 90s themed house party. LOL.

[Boba Fettuccini]

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Originally Posted by DogFashionDisco

They're all just toys. What museums? I like to think of these figures as little sculptures of awesome artistic renderings of classic comic characters, but at the end of the day they're just expensive plastic.

Hypothetically, a hundred years from now these things might be in a museum, like old tin toys and such are now. There are toy museums all over the world.

[thechris]

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Originally Posted by Boba Fettuccini

Hypothetically, a hundred years from now these things might be in a museum, like old tin toys and such are now. There are toy museums all over the world.

The museum in Victoria, B.C. has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers toys in their modern history section. LOL.

[bmorr]

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Originally Posted by thechris

The museum in Victoria, B.C. has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers toys in their modern history section. LOL.

well, now i feel old. What kind of BS museum is this?

[thechris]

The Royal B.C. Museum. I'm sure Tiberius and M3T4L V1K1NG can tell you all about it since they live there.

[bmorr]

im kinda torn on this. Im not sure whether to feel its awesome that toys are regarded as art or ridiculous that they chose TMNT and Power Rangers.

[Jason Abbadon]

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Originally Posted by behindthemask

Only trouble opening SDCC stuff and mail away stuff is your conscience telling you, as soon as that plastic leaves cardboard your figure's value just went down in half. I had 2 Ironman 2 3packs, still moc that I hummed and hawed keeping moc, but last night free'd them from their plastic jails mainly because I made room to display them. My SDCC Thor remains MOC though.

I stil see those three packs- play with your toys! Are they not so much more awesome when you can feel and see the whole fig?
Of course they are.

Lets look at it another way- value rises and falls depending on availability- for years the original Secret Wars line commanded nice prices- $20-30 for loose figs even. The Yoybiz started making cap, and the prices went even higher. The ML came along and fans had good figs (if too big) and demand died down. Now there's MU and demand and prices have tanked.

One day, demand for MU will die, the prices will drop to zip and we'll all laugh about how whatever the new line is, is SO much better than MU.

But I still have my SW figs- they were the first Marvel action fgures and I still love them...I just saw the Tower of Doom playset yesterday and thought..I could use this for MU!
(but it was $100- in the box!- and I got bills no honest man can pay).