[Dolemite]

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Originally Posted by DarkEyes

Just AWESOME!

Like they are the same height.

Whaaat? You like that Harley Quinn is the same size as Batman and Superman and that Batgirl is bigger than Nightwing?

Dude, I'm 100% convinced that you're a paid shill for McFarlane at this point. I hated on this line when it was first revealed, sure, but even I have admitted at this point that I was wrong in some regards and that the line as a whole looks pretty good. But you refuse to see any conceivable fault, to the point of declaring that you love one of this line's most glaring issues! Geez.

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Originally Posted by webz

Wow... I thought I sound pretentious.

I've worked in the toy industry at times too, but more importantly I've lived and worked around collectors of all sorts - music, knives, guns, toys, exotic pets, etc. There is all sorts, it's very hard to anticipate with certainty ANYTHING within a collectible world.

The fact your main focus is in toy "value" shows you are different than 90%+ of collectors, who get toys based on the character, not the "how much can I sell this for in 5 years?". The other line I have issues with is "justify spending thousands on a collection to your spouse". If you have to justify your purchases, you don't have a healthy relationship. A relationship shouldn't need to hide purchases from each other, or their value. My wife knows exactly how much I spend on my collectibles. I won't lie, there are times she rolls her eyes, but she knows I'm responsible and I cover my responsibilities first, then get my fun stuff, so there is no issues. Yo

Also, your whining about BAF sounds again like your only push is profit. I'm glad Marvel/Hasbro sell the BAF and popular characters repeatedly. Juggernaut is amazing looking and it deserves a chance to shine in many collections, not just the collections of the few who can afford to buy 7 or 8 characters at once on BBTS. I've seen kids giggle with delight seeing the Colossus/Juggernaut pack at Walmart. He's HUGE for a 7 yr old.
And that's where I see differently than other collectors. My belief is that TOYS ARE FOR KIDS. It's not fair to kids that 40 year old men soak up all the supply of a figure everyone wants. Kids should be able to get all the characters of a line.

I wish MORE companies would correct for that. In a "perfect" world, Hasbro/NECA/Mattel/etc would have someone watching ebay and forums for the most in-demand figures, and then re-release those on the market just to keep up with demand and destroy the scalpers and those "making money on thousands of figures".

When I was a kid, I had all the Toybiz X-Men and could recreate the events of the 1990's cartoon with my figures. At $5 a figure, it wasn't too bad to have 30 main players (heroes and villains). For a child coming into X-Men today, it'll easily cost nearly $800 just based on MSRP. That's hard enough without factoring in the leeches trying to sell a character for $80-$120 because it's a BAF.

All I'm going to say here is that I agree with webz completely. I buy toys because I like them, not because I'm planning to use them for a retirement fund one day. I love the fact that Hasbro tries to do what they can to protect collectors from the horrors of eBay by re-releasing certain figures and BAFs. NECA does the same thing, thankfully.