[Mordiganne]

Back from another vacation. Lots of posts to catch up on, but seeing some collectors leave the hobby I have to echo the posts quoted below. I'm a rather different case since I don't really care what Hasbro actually makes since I'm prone to making customs of most things they put out anyway. For a pure "buy and collect" person I can understand the frustration.

To me it all boils down to the fact that I'm really in this hobby - at this point - to make customs. I guess not having that much of an investment in what the company puts out makes the lower quality figures they're throwing out now easy to ignore. I spend a bunch of money on this hobby but it's mostly buying older figures to make customs. That I'll always do because I enjoy being creative and making new figures. If the line completely fizzled out tomorrow I'd still be making custom figures for as long as I could find parts.

Space is my one major factor. Not for these little guys, I can stick every figure I have (customs & non-customs) in a tote and put it under the bed and still enjoy the hobby. But for Legends and such, space is a huge factor which is why I never kept up with them when they dropped to just putting out two packs during their transition. That reminds me, I need to sell those things...

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Originally Posted by MUfan97

I don't see why a collection should be dropped due to the present state of a line. Financial reasons are understandable, but how does the present state of the line effect how good it was before? Did Marvel Legends collectors forsake their Toy Biz figures once Hasbro started ruining that line? No, because a good figure is a good figure, no matter what the state of affairs are. I just don't get why people are jumping ship on collections they've put YEARS of love and money into.

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

There can be lots of reasons --space, loss of interest, financial reasons, while I'm missing UM's awesome pictures I get it, if he feels it's time to drop the line and sell it off that's his choice.

I do think that this scale will have it's time again (though it may start from scratch). In about three years the big names of the MCU are going to be done with their solo movies and the main Avengers movies - what's left is second stringers and the draw for them and their movies just is not going to be as strong. What that means is that the figures for them are not going to have as strong a following, either, and the 6 inch scale will begin to take a back burner again around 2019/2020 and this scale will once again come to the forefront. It's all cyclical.

Personally I have no intention of selling either scale of my collections but that's just me. If I lose interest in a line for a while, I just don't buy the figures, but still have what I have. Right now I'm kind of at a low myself, of the first two waves of this year I only bought Captain Marvel and Living Laser, though I did get all four of the new wave. It's a marked decrease from previous years and it's because my actual interest in the new stuff for this scale is very minimal. But I doubt it will always be that way.