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Originally Posted by behindthemask

I wouldn't say the don't retain value, a lot do and a lot don't. All the sports figures have rare one's/ case and variant colors ex I had a Patrick Roy figure when he played with Colorado, but he has a green Gatorade bottle instead of blue and I ended up getting $75 for it locally. Spawn has 12'' figures, collector's edition ones, the movie masters line has some expensive figures such as robocop, predator, alien, donnie darko etc. Not to mention his music figures Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Metallica etc are near $100 range on ebay,also the Anime/video game characters he did such as Metal Gear Solid and Akira also grab big bucks, and his Where the Wild Things Are figure are crazy pricey. He has stuff that's worth it leaving MOC, but can you deal with it... frankly the Mcfarlane effect is, amazing likeness to the athelete,actor, chracter, from the face sculpt, to body sculpt and paint, but the acticulation is usually shit, maybe 10 points of articulation usully less.. they're made to be mini cheap statues and to be posed in 1-2 particular poses ie spawn with the classic covers, the figures are built to be an exact representation of 1 particular comic cover, so the pose is dictated by the cover. I wish Mcfarlane would team up with Hasbro and do the MU headscupts and weapons and display bases/vehicles.

Yeah, it seems that pretty much all of McFarlane's figures do pretty well EXCEPT for the actual Spawn line. Those are dirt cheap. I always collected the Movie Maniacs line from wave 1 and those are definitely worth some loot. (By the way, Donnie Darko was made by NECA, not McFarlane)

As far as McFarlane teaming up with Hasbro, not sure if you know this, but McFarlane toys officially let go of all their sculpting department last year and now only use scanning technology to capture the likeness of their figures. Sucks big time. I always prefer the artist's interpretation since they can exaggerate certain features that translate better to toy form. Sometimes, if the sculpt is so perfect it doesn't look right as a toy. It sounds kind of weird, I know, but sometimes a little interpretation goes a long way.