[Trivial Psychic]

Since Hasbro failed to give us a new headsculpt to allow us to create "Ultimate" Venom for the Monster Venom re-release, I finally (and painfully) offered up my Select as the sacrificial lamb. Thankfully, I didn't need to do any dremeling...a nice soak in boiling water did the trick. I might do a little bit of touch up with some paints as the paint on this much older figure has faded a bit, but I love how it came out.





Which brings me to my next question...as Hasbro continues to fill out our collections with remakes that are supplanting our older versions, how do you feel about turning older figures into fodder parts? Accessories aside are one thing, as they can easily be swapped back and forth between figures...I'm talking more about more permanent changes that often cannot be reversed,, such as removing headsculpts and body parts?

It's something that I struggle with personally, as I tend to not dump off the older figures in my collection. Purposely breaking them or chopping them up, even if they are to make improvements to another figure, feels destructive and wasteful to me at times. There's something about keeping those original figures in their original state that appeals to me...as if I'm preserving history somehow. Even in the case of the Select Ultimate Venom figure (great sculpt, but terrible figure) I felt a great deal of guilt just popping the head off this sucker, even though I was happy with the result. Just wondering how some of you felt about it?