[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by thechris

Partly the reason being psychological, I would gather. The fact that there are only four core characters creates a false sense of satisfied end to a collection making it seem more affordable and viable and less daunting. Most people are satisfied with having Egon, Ray, Peter and Winston. There's nothing held back and you don't need to worry about whether or not you're going to finally get a Winston figure in the next wave.

You get the four core figures right off the bat. You get a set like DC Universe Classics or Marvel Universe and you're constantly in anxiety wondering if you'll finally get that last figure to satisfy your team requirements. It actually borders on annoying and is clearly a tactic used to bait. I've said this before in an old thread, DCIH tried this and by the time we got Aquaman and Martian Manhunter, nobody gave a crap. Like with the Voltron Sub, as expensive as it is, it's gives you all the core figures and the lions to build Voltron.

Maybe I'm a minority, but I don't feel this way at all. And this is a rather extremely irrational viewpoint and a terrible reason not to collect something you want.

"Eh. I want that Jubilee, Chamber, and Skin... but I'll pass because they probably won't ever make M, Husk, Synch, and Penance." Rediculous way to rationalize not perchasing something that'll make you happy.
Just like the people who're talking about selling off their DCUC collections because the line is ending. WTF is up with that? What a waist of money. Just because Transformers Animated ended don't mean I ever wanna give up my TFA collection (If anything it's even *more* important to me since I can't stand RotF, DotM is annoying, and Prime is boring. Basically since I don't like almost everything we've gotten since that line ended)

Secret Six is one of my favorite comics. I bought Deadshot because he was on the team. I had thought maybe we might see a rerelease of Bane somewhere down the line, but had no hopes for the rest of the team. Well, we did get Bane, and so he joined Deadshot. No one else on the team has the "star power" to get used, however. So I closed the door on that, until Catman was announced. Then they announced that the whole line is ending, meaning Ragdoll, Savage, or Silver Banshee (S6 victorian-style version) has no chance of ever getting made. Yeah, I want them but it it doesn't devalue what the other three mean to me.

I think it's really sort of an invalid viewpoint because this is the way it's *always* been. From the start of toy collecting, there have always been incomplete teams. Usually the girls. (I mean, in the old Toybiz lines, we never did get a proper Jean Grey that was in scale with the other figures)
To me, that sort of reasoning is just making up excuses. It works for lines that are focused strongly on a tight main cast of characters, like Ghostbusters, TMNT, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Trek... but to me when you're dealing with a line that sweeps across an entire universe of characters, it's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Not getting a complete team is far, far less an issue for me than a popular or favorite character getting snubbed for inferior reasons (Like Toph, Kitara, Suki, and Azula from Avatar only because they're girls)