[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..........