[NikIsTheMan]

Hello To The Board,
Wanted to get your opinion on something I have been thinking about.

So I got into collecting Marvel toys after my son was born (he is now 4 and a half) as a way to share an interest with him from my childhood. I started with the Super Hero Squad since it would be age appropriate, and of course my marvel-infested blood mingled with his poor innocent gene pool to produce another rabid collector/fan. A year later, and we owned every Super Hero Squad release that was ever produced, thanks to Ebay. He plays with them almost every day.

With MU hitting it's stride last year, along with the Iron Man 2 line, I decided to start collecting the Marvel 3.75 inch toys for him as the logical next step in his collection. I grew up with similarly scaled GI Joe toys as a kid, so these lines always struck me as something I would have loved if I was a child now. Seeing his similar interests, I had a natural inclination towards getting these for him. I have them stored away and will give them to him when he gets older. Once again thanks to Ebay and revision packs, I have been able to get him almost every single 3.75 inch toy that's been released. I should have all completed soon. I resisted the 6 inch line because it's not something I had played with as a kid, and because when I started collecting for him last year they did not have a big presence in retail anyway.

So last month I finally purchased my first 6 inch Marvel toy, just to see what I would think of them. Unexpectedly, I LOVED the size and the design of the figures. So now I am wondering if I want to collect the 6 inch scale as another "down the road" set of toys for him, as in some ways I like them even more than the 3.75 inch figures.

So here is where my question comes in. Like many of you on the board, I am an OCD completist when it comes to collecting. So if I start to build a Marvel Legends collection for him, along with it's various off-shoots, I will want to go all in. My question is, how realistic would it be to expect that I'd be able to collect everything in the 6 inch scale dating back to its onset with Toy Biz in 2002? Can you basically find everything on Ebay and through the secondary market, or are some things just not out there anymore? I could answer that question for someone when it comes to both SHS and MU based on my experience the past couple years, but have no clue what to expect with the ML type stuff. I guess I am wondering if my mission is impossible before I undertake it. ;0 Would appreciate your opinions on this. Thanks.