Agree on that part!!! But than again you never know...the very first G1 Trans, don't they go for high price if they're still in the box unopened? Although how much do Marvel Legends go for now a days since the MU line came out...those may have dropped in price I'm betting...

in box g1 transformers still go for crazy stupid money. and marvel legends MOC go for decent money also. But for MU, theres gonna easily be 15 figs at are going to stay over 50 dollars in value no matter what due to rarity right now and collector demand.

Hard to say man, the way MU is selling.growing no telling when the line will offically die, plus it hasn't happened to marvel icons or marvel legends, they're always going to be "soft" items that have half the appeal/resale value of when you first bought it, but there will be items then appreciate and go up overtime, it;s like anything. Hell talk to the arker who paid $150 for a white suit bob reboot figure moc. shows been over for like 10-15 years and the items still command money. It'll all about supply and demand, plus as long as you have the supply, someone will have the demand.

That was an awesome thread.

I have a name you know! :P

picked up a lego mandalorian set.

Picked up TF Prime Bumblebee and DOTM Jolt (it was the only other thing that I even kinda wanted left on the pegs) thanks to their BOGO Free sale. Also from there I picked up PCC Undertow w/Waterlog. Shame that line ended just as it was getting good.

Also got Cyberverse Dark Sentinel Prime from Meijer for $6. Nice redeco, but I only got it because it was cheap and I like that mold. Can't beat articulation + integrated weapons storage.

The reason G1 toys go for big $$$ is mostly because production levels for toys were much lower back then, so there's less of them around now. Compare that to MU, whose production levels are much higher and involve more extensive revision waves. Even current Transformers are handled in a similar fashion.

Also there weren't as many collectors back then and kids usually open any toys they get, so in-package G1 toys are even rarer than their loose counterparts. But now there's a large collector's market and aftermarket sales are much more widespread.

Because of the abundance of most mass-marketed modern toys, their value over time will diminish as anyone who wants them will eventually get them. Thus, the remaining stock becomes cheaper as demand decreases.

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I got this short-tempered dick (walrus man, not the wise one) at K-Mart for $4.59 today. No sale, but it was not in their system so the girl asks me how much it is, I answer $9 and change, and I guess she didn't feel like doing the work so she just scanned te dog treats I had a second time and toss Ponda in my bag. Then she banged me (jk about that part).

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I went to walmart today looking to pick up just my last Christmas present for my douche of a stepdad,.. neways well I decided to checkout the toy isle and see what's up only about a peg worth of MU, few mrs marvels, luke cages, and bucky's, was about to leave when I noticed they had the Captain America figures on sale for $2! Now I already have majority of the wave few versions of cap,red skull, crossbones, captain britain, but they had the new hydra troop figures 2 versions, along with the newer cap figures the dessert outfit and camo outfit, I also got the hangglider version and the 1 similiar to the sdcc. I'm going to open them later, soooooooo happy I got a ton of hydra goones for the price of 1.

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I got these from Lord Marvel yesterday and the day before
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Sweet Walrus Man.

From HLJ.

H.S. MonsterArts Godzilla.

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The best part is the packaging: "Pursuing Character Expression through Monster Action!" LOL. How could I NOT buy this? Japanese packaging rocks!

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Awesome love this guy.

Weird that he has no pupils like all the others.

booya

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So its been a pretty lucrative few weeks for me (thank the toy gods!) so I apologize but this post is gonna be a little "pic-heavy". :) Anyway, enjoy!

So first up is my "Joe" haul, of which I am very happy to have found all these awesome guys. And I'm especially proud of the "Joe"-rassic Park guy and Storm Shadow who IMO is the best representation of a ninja in the 3 3/4" scale EVER (unless they make another just like him with "thigh swivels") lol
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And next up is the Microman batman and custom Mr. Freeze I picked up from Ebay, Mr. Freeze is truly an awesome custom and in hand looks like he came right off the store shelf. :)
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Bowser from the recent 5(?) inch Mario line that I picked up at Ross, paint job is pretty sketchy but idk they made a Bowser in this scale, so why the hell not?
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A full set of these awesome little poseable DOA women (3 3/4" scale) that I also snagged from ebay for $34(!)
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Marvel Select Hawkeye from Disney.com's online store, Badass figure, amazing base, cheap price (with special code) not much more to say than BOOYAH. ;D
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Brute Cheiftan from Hastings, quite possibly my new favorite Halo figure to date. He is absolutely MASSIVE once you get him out of the package. Tons of joints and great range of movement, none of his joints are loose either so that surprised me as well. Pick this bad boy up if you get the chance, you will not regret it. :D

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And last but not least, these awesome ML Thor figures from LORDMARVEL that I have so much fun play...um..I mean POSING with. ;D

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Thanks to wolverine2281 (awesome guy to deal with) for the Thor now I want the Cap from Family Dollar!! The Giant Man/Iron Man was from The 'bay but scooped it up for $60 shipped which isn't bad seeing as how its usually going for upwards of $100 and I never saw it locally :/

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Predator 2 pack. Bad. Ass.

I know, and glad you replied, did not feel like looking through hours of searching lol. and yes it was a good thread.

From HLJ's Macross sale:

Yamato 1/60 VF-11C + Yamato Stand (not pictured)

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finally got it? awesome dude. I almost got another one just for you :)


Isn't the camo back drop the best thing ever? he's basically hidden on my shelf. My wife is scared shitless of my predators. She still thinks galactus dances in the middle of the night

When I sold off my G1 collection in 2002-3ish I made like $6000.

The movie hype hadn't taken over yet BUT, the collecting community had more buying power. Values were much better then in my opinion.

Plus now you have the phenomenon of adult collectors, so there will be a much higher ratio of MOC/MOSC figures to buy. In the "80s we just tore open our figures and bashed them around.

Unless you were poor like me then you savored them, carefully opened the package and saved everything, all papaers, decal sheets, etc. Never played rough with them, posed them a bit then back in the box.

See in the '70s and '80s the majority of toy owners were, well us when we were kids. Now there is such a huge industry of action figures/toys geared towards adults that there is a lot more pristine figure collecting going on. Which actually lowers value because there is a lot more inventory for the serious collector to choose from.

I kind of did it backwards, as a kid I treated my figures with the utmost care. Now that I'm all grown up the packaging barely makes it out of the parking lot in one piece!

Such a long winded monoloque I forgot to post my "Look at what I just got" pic:

Marvel Legends days of Future Past Logan and a couple more ToyBiz Brood warriors for my Brood army:

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Too lazy to post pics :)
But all from Ebay, Psylocke, Storm, Iron Fist, Shadowland Daredevil and Guardian.

i just realsied something this thread is going to be very popular after or on christmas day lol :)

Im really hoping the values drop in favor of the buyers because of the economy to be honest. Also, i did do something similar to what you did about saving stuff from the box, like the instructions and the tech specs on the back. I cut them out and saved them like trading cards.