[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by hainrs

This line isn't for children. It's for adult collectors who are into retro action figures that we played with when we were kids in the 1970s and 1980s. These exist because of Super7's Reaction line (which means Retro Action) which certain people crapped on years ago when it started but now has flourished into a huge figure line comprised of several hundred figures of every pop culture property under the sun and there are dozens more on the way. They're worth anything from next to nothing to several hundred dollars per item, and it's one of my favorite figure lines.

It's been such a revelation of a line that all these other companies and jumping on the bandwagon. Funko (their multiple 9POA lines), Mezco (5-Points), Hasbro/Kenner (this line, Retro Collection and The Vintage Collection with Star Wars and now the Black Series is starting to use Vintage Collection style cards and boxes for their side series), Bif Bang Pow (which has been doing it as long as if not longer than Super7), and a countless number of indie/boutique retro inspired lines, and then there's that new 5" line that's a Walmart exclusive line for now that is set to capitalize on the 1990s nostalgia since the 90s were all about increasing scale sizes (particularly 5") and I love all of them. It features Cowboy Bebop, Naruto, Guns & Roses, Fullmetal Alchemist, and about a dozen more.

Anyway, not a kid's line. I can see children enjoying it, but it's clearly priced for us adult kids, and I think we need more companies to jump on this trend and feed the machine. I didn't even mention the artwork/cards. They're just perfect and pop.

This sounds like a conversation you may have had a few times given the amount of exposition you've pulled from my toss away statement. A statement that wasn't a disparagement as much as it was an amused observation with a notation on cost.

As someone who actually collected toys in the late seventies and eighties, this style of figure just doesn't appeal to me at all anymore. Actually, even as a kid, the 5POA model was blown out of the water with the introduction of Joe's kung-fu grip. More accurately, even the Micronauts, Black Hole, and Buck Rogers (TV-show) figs preceding Hasbro's Joes spoiled me on Kenner's Star Wars wares.

My tastes in toys, as with most other things, have changed significantly throughout the years. But none of this is to say that adults, like yourself and others, can't enjoy these figs - bully for all that dig this format. However, it's also ok for me to be of the opinion that these toys could function well as jump-off points for kids and that they are slightly overpriced for what they are.