[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by User897

These new pics of Luke don't look AS bad, but still bad. I don't understand why HasBLO is calling this line "Archive" when they're updating, and ruining, some of these figures. If I ever happen to see one in person, I'll reserve final judgement until then. So far, the "upgrades" leave a lot to be desired, which will drive the secondary market prices up on the original figures even more. "Archive" was a case where straight repacks would have been welcome. Oh well.

I can't really see how they are ruining anything here. I hate re-releases as much as the next guy, but if anything they are doing many of us a service by re-releasing these guys, because some of them were difficult if not impossible to find in retail when they launched. I ran into Pilot Luke all but one time in stores, and NEVER saw the other three. The upgrades to these also have been really minimal from what I can tell. Outside the face printing, the color differences so far are fairly minute and the sculpts are identical. Maybe they can fix the plastic quality that the original IG-88 had with the warped legs that caused him standing issues several of us had.

I don't think this is gonna drive the prices up on the original figures at all either. If anything, it's gonna cause them to drop. The only way they will go up is if some sucker completionist gets baited into it. If you need proof of this, just look at the secondary market on several Marvel Legends con exclusives that have been re-released over the past year or two. Several, if not all have dropped drastically in price...and while you will see one or two on ebay priced ridiculously high, most have dropped because a toy realistically is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and when there are cheaper alternatives out there of essentially the same product, people will most often go with the cheaper one.