[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by ukmu

while I agree with my mate En Sabah about exclusives being more readily available or figures that are not exclusive, I do have a RARE maria Hill and she makes me happy that she is so rare.

We collect for fun not profit, but SOMEDAY they will go to my son for him to keep but most likely sell. As that is what a lot of us did when we were late teens or early adults if we were lucky enough to still have a decent collection by then at all. Point is, I want him to have some rare and valuable figures 15 years from now and maybe get some serious cash for his sets, teams,custom vehicles, playsets and armies. I hope he never sells them, but who knows.

Yeah, it would be nice to have single carded figures of some of these. Maybe they could re-release Starfox (as he seemingly is the most wanted ) with a slight different paint app to keep the SDCC one exclusive. Like they did with ZEMO a few years back. I understand why some people love exclusives though...they ARE nice, IF you have one.

I know the feeling of owning one of the truly rares, it is quite unique. I don't have any particularly rare Marvel figures (XMO Deadpool is the rarest I have in that regard), but I do have one of the holy grails of Star Wars figures, Darth Revan, which I actually got back when it was new. To own something that you know not many can say they have is, well it's neat. Even when the figure is not rare, but perhaps a factory error. For example: the Invisible Woman that was in my Fantastic Four team pack has a weird paint error on her right shoulder, the black curved line curves the wrong direction, and it's not that I have the arm on backwards since the elbow only bends one way and there is no bicep swivel. That might not even be rare, someone else here might also have that error too, but it doesn't ruin the toy to me, it makes it unique.
Not to say that I welcome all errors as unique, if a figures eyes were accidentally painted out of place that would kill it for me, or if there was a particularly nasty paint blur from color to color that would be off putting.