[behindthemask]

Depends on your wants and needs, if your a completest go marvel select because there's less then 30 figures made from 1st series up to most recent other then some variants, both are around the same price, except when you get into Marvel legends first series and then the odd rarity. ML has 10x more figures so a better chance of finding more characters you need/want and a better chance of buying loose/bulk lots especially on eBay. I had a guy contact me recently to unload his ML collection for $300 I'm getting 3 baf's sentinel,mojo and apocalypse along with few other baf parts, juggy,colossus, gambit,rogue, night-crawler, professor x, longshot, storm, roughly about 20 figures and 3 baf's for $300 if you were to buy some of the figures individually even on ebay could be alot more. For someone just starting, focus on the figures you really want because depending on the xmen or avengers figure you should be prepared to shell out quite a bit of $$ especially when you get into, captain America, thor, iron man. Regular retail was about $15/figure but some of the variants are in the 100+ range, like hulk buster iron man and 1st series stealth variant sell for between 1-200. so in the end buy what you like and collect what u like, I say Ml for articulation, character depth, price,and bafs! MS has some better sculpts and paint aps, less movement, better bases, no baf's, more availability, and not as much price difference.