[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Tomax

burned out? what do you mean by that? you are not forced to buy the figures. unless you are repeating figures. i will never have this problem cuz im not one of those type of collectors that likes everything and thinks that every figure that comes out they have to buy it. i dont know, never did understand when collectors say they are 'burned out. either you collect or you quit collecting due to other reasons.

Or...you simply get burnt out because you're tired of seeing the same **** shoveled over and over again at you endlessly. It's something that I mentioned recently about superhero movies, and it's starting to leak into the realm of toys as well.

Captain Nash hit a lot of it on the head, where it's difficult to find a balance between new and old characters to draw in new collectors while appeasing the older ones. New characters are ALWAYS welcome, but look at the endless amount of unnecessary repaints being shoveled our way greedily by Hasbro in that "leaked" list. When I saw ANOTHER proposed MCU Cap was on the way, (especially when there are still other MCU characters they have not got around to,) I wanted to puke. The Ultimate Spider-Man that comes with Vulture was completely not needed, as we JUST received that figure last year, meaning I will most likely have to resort to finding Vulture on his own on the secondary market, or will have to re-gift that Spider-Man to someone simply because there's no way I'll be able to get some of that money back trying to sell or trade him.

I get that..."you don't need to buy it..." idea. I've been collecting A LONG time, back from when Apocalypse had "extending" limb action and the Punisher had popper caps you placed in his back. I walk away from a lot of potential purchases every single time I go to my local TRU. At the same time though, Hasbro forces the hand in a way with the BAF system, which often at times is what ends up causing me to purchase some of these unnecessary figures in the first place, because often at times, the BAFs are staple characters to the collection, or proper versions of or larger characters we would not receive otherwise. It's either that, or spend hours of time scouring the internet or Ebay for loose parts or trades. Or, I can have the joy placing the recently purchased unwanted figure up on Ebay for free basically after Ebay and shipping charges take their cut. I'm almost at the point where I feel like doing what we here have typically frowned on, and just return the thing with some random BAF piece that I have lying around, because I'm tired of paying full price for Hasbro's half-hearted givings. I won't resort to that, because I have more integrity than that, but I can certainly understand how this element of our collector brethren came about.

And it's not just Legends where I'm feeling it. The Black Series has been getting away with it for years, especially as of late with the 40th anniversary series, as well as NECA. How many ******* different colored versions of Big Chap do we really need? And believe me, as a completionist on those lines, it's taken A LOT for me to get to that point.