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Originally Posted by frodotrout

what is it?, i always thought mcfarelane revolutionized the action figure industry, he raised the bar on sculping and quality, yet his figures have almost no resale value what so ever, very strange.

I wouldn't say the don't retain value, a lot do and a lot don't. All the sports figures have rare one's/ case and variant colors ex I had a Patrick Roy figure when he played with Colorado, but he has a green Gatorade bottle instead of blue and I ended up getting $75 for it locally. Spawn has 12'' figures, collector's edition ones, the movie masters line has some expensive figures such as robocop, predator, alien, donnie darko etc. Not to mention his music figures Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Metallica etc are near $100 range on ebay,also the Anime/video game characters he did such as Metal Gear Solid and Akira also grab big bucks, and his Where the Wild Things Are figure are crazy pricey. He has stuff that's worth it leaving MOC, but can you deal with it... frankly the Mcfarlane effect is, amazing likeness to the athelete,actor, chracter, from the face sculpt, to body sculpt and paint, but the acticulation is usually shit, maybe 10 points of articulation usully less.. they're made to be mini cheap statues and to be posed in 1-2 particular poses ie spawn with the classic covers, the figures are built to be an exact representation of 1 particular comic cover, so the pose is dictated by the cover. I wish Mcfarlane would team up with Hasbro and do the MU headscupts and weapons and display bases/vehicles.