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Originally Posted by Tarquinius

I understand what you are saying. Thats why I've switched to being a semi-completist in the sense that I only pick up characters/costumes of old characters that I don't have. I definitely just avoid all the repaints (New Avengers Team set is a good example). However, I will pick up new re-toolings or better looking repaints like for example the new Cap that came out in the Elecktra wave. That Cap is probably the best figure in that entire wave I think.

I have always wondered at the logic of the "partial" re-paint/re-tool. My example is the 8 million Captain America figs in the MU line. I get the ton of them for the Cap movie line but the MU line has ever so slightly re-painted the fig (or changed his belt) so many times it makes me crazy.

I am happier when they re-paint with a purpose. Examples include the Wave 1 Iron Man and his Stealth equivalent in blue (vs the slightly darker repaint he received a few years later in the Target 2 packs). Why, with all the repaints of Cap with "shine" or lite blue and then dark blue and then with "scratches" on his shield, did they not simply repaint to make a "Captain" or US Agent in Black, Red and White? Little things like that make the re-buy worth it for most completionists/semi-completionists.

The Iron Fist in white was a good example of a worth while repaint while the planned (and I guess scraped) Moon Knight in white with dark grey instead of black highlights was a piss poor idea (where as a reversed color scheme like in the comic and Legends line would have made supreme sense). Slight color changes suck. Do we really need Silver Surfer in white, slightly shiny, drab, semi-translucent and silver?