[Iceman]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I thought only the solid variant was rare and expensive. Because it's a variant so there's already less chance to find that specific version, and because we made it rare. If it weren't for collectors having such high demand (wanting) for the variant, then it would hold less value. Take beanie-babies for example, there are some ridiculously rare and hard to find beanie-babies, but there is absolutely zero demand for them, ergo they are worth less than original price. With MU however, there is a following, and with it a demand for such variants. Look at all the original vintage Star Wars toys, if Star Wars wasn't a cultural phenomenon, the rare vinyl cape Jawa would never be worth around $3000 or more.

Solid Vision was the regular figure of that wave. The phasing version didn't ship until a revision case much later. The wave Solid Vision was in just seems to have been produced in small numbers and a lot of people even passed on Vision when he came out. I don't know if he was one per case or in lower numbers than someone like Warpath (who used to sell for like $75). Maybe some of them disappeared along the way but slowly people were willing to pay more and more for him.