[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by redfox

Another major collecting loss of mine came during Hasbro's Marvel Legends re-emergence, and I was on hiatus and focused primarily on the 3.75 Marvel Universe line. Passed on a Walmart-clearanced Jean Grey from the Rocket Raccoon wave. That wound is still fresh to this day...

I know this feeling too. I wasn't interested in the Raft set when it dropped, and I was able to obtain the "Mcfarlane" Spidey locally at a trade show in which the person didn't realize what they had and improperly marked it at a low price (I paid 12 dollars for him,) resulting in a heck of a bargain. With the Netflix shows going strong, and a Sandman BAF already in the works, I never pursued or felt a need to aggressively pursue Purple Man or Sandman aggressively because surely we would get them in a standard wave at some point right?

Fast forward a few years, all the Netflix shows are gone, and the prices on Purple Man have skyrocketed into the 40-60 dollar range, with Sandman actually hitting close to 30-40 as well. I could have grabbed both of them for about 30 bucks two years ago as Purple Man was still averaging about 20 bucks and people were practically giving away their Sandman figures once that BAF dropped. Yet somehow, they've jumped up into a price range I'm no longer comfortable with, especially Purple Man, who I just don't feel is worth dropping 60 dollars on essentially a purple tinted suited body.