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Originally Posted by bmorr

in box g1 transformers still go for crazy stupid money. and marvel legends MOC go for decent money also. But for MU, theres gonna easily be 15 figs at are going to stay over 50 dollars in value no matter what due to rarity right now and collector demand.

When I sold off my G1 collection in 2002-3ish I made like $6000.

The movie hype hadn't taken over yet BUT, the collecting community had more buying power. Values were much better then in my opinion.

Plus now you have the phenomenon of adult collectors, so there will be a much higher ratio of MOC/MOSC figures to buy. In the "80s we just tore open our figures and bashed them around.

Unless you were poor like me then you savored them, carefully opened the package and saved everything, all papaers, decal sheets, etc. Never played rough with them, posed them a bit then back in the box.

See in the '70s and '80s the majority of toy owners were, well us when we were kids. Now there is such a huge industry of action figures/toys geared towards adults that there is a lot more pristine figure collecting going on. Which actually lowers value because there is a lot more inventory for the serious collector to choose from.

I kind of did it backwards, as a kid I treated my figures with the utmost care. Now that I'm all grown up the packaging barely makes it out of the parking lot in one piece!