[Mordiganne]

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Originally Posted by Sender

Fans in general, 3.75 inch or other, do care about articulation.

Agreed. I don't do anything with my creations but stand them on a shelf, but making sure they have as much articulation as possible (character dependent) is one of my primary considerations.

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Originally Posted by Sender

Finally, even on the opposite pole of cost, fans are willing to shell out big bucks for their 3.75 inch figure collection. From paying an average of $25 US Dollars for Boss Fights, Marauder Tasks, Acid Rain, Hiya, etc...to the HasLab Jabba's Barge, collectors and fans are out there consuming the 3.75 inch scale regardless of the reasons Hasbro has for shutting down most of their lines.

Agree here, too. Even back when I was "buy & collect" the price was never a factor because I was buying something that I wanted at a price I was willing to pay. If I didn't like the price I just wouldn't buy it. I've left plenty of figures on the pegs over the years. The fact is everything has gone up in price over the last decade. It's rare if you can find something that costs the same now as it did even 2 years ago. I've watched Hot Toys figures climb from sub $100 a figure to now being $400+ on average in 5 years. That's life in a capitalistic society.

One of Hasbro's early mistakes (that they've now corrected) was underestimating the customizing market. I spend more on MU figures in a year now then I did the entire time I was just collecting. Because the only way to get parts is to buy more bodies. Hasbro caught on to that (eventually) which is why they started packing alternate character heads in with the figures instead of making a whole extra figure on its own and selling it with that head. Because people will buy more of the base figure to get another body to stick the head on. It's a great business model that the idiot bean counters ignored for years.