[Black Arbor]

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Originally Posted by behindthemask

If memory serves me correct he's a real-estate agent, or something like that and does quite well $$ for a living... so he spends a good chunk of his free $$ on toys. He has a complete set of ML figures moc, every single figure, including 2packs, spiderman classics, movie figures, box sets etc, variants, and then just about every single figure loose, in some cases 20-30-50 of 1 figure!! He knows Dave Vonner who I believed hooked him up with a guy who sold him some rare figures... plus when you buy and sell/trade as much as he does you get to know people. Plus if you start collecting something from the beginning and are super passionate about it and have a lot of $$ you end up with his collection which is breath-taking and sets the bar so high the average collector will never ever come close, but that's fine with me. Slow and steady goes the collector, as all good things come to those who wait, it pays to be frugal and shop around. Some items maybe a "dier" want to some but not to me, it's honestly to each their own. Now the average collector or newb collector in ML wouldn't know of figures like those or be willing to pay anything close to that, but to the ones that want a complete set, collection, or that focal piece that they can say only a hand full of people own, that's why they buy it. I agree nobody in their right mind would step up and think I want a Johhny Storm figure and gravitate to this one, but someone could see it think cool figure, then looks on eBay and is like wtf $800... lol

I could never have rare samples. Thing is, when I like a toy, I want other people to enjoy it too, and if I had the only one or one of just a few, I'd feel terrible. It probably sounds silly, but the other day when I found a MMPR Legacy Power Morpher at Toys R Us, I was so pumped, I went to read what other people thought of it. Then when I learned there were so few out there right now (only 155 in the US, I think), I felt really bad.