[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Nimrod

I've been waiting 20+yrs for more core members of the classic Imperial Guard & Squadron Supreme to be made or a boxset of the classic Starjammers team, but nope, people just clamor for more of the same characters that have been made umpteenth times. Classic Gladiator & Hyperion need to be redone on the retro Herc buck before we get an umpteenth version of a Spiderman villain.

Wait, what? o_O

You say this:

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people just clamor for more of the same characters that have been made umpteenth time

but then you say this:

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Classic Gladiator & Hyperion need to be redone

Are you just trolling right now?

With that said, I understand the pain of wanting your favorite teams to get done and not have that happen. I'm waiting for The Enforcers from Spider-Man to get made along with the rest of the Serpent Society. Hell, Mattel never even finished the New Teen Titans, core Legion of Super Heroes, nor the Rogues. Hasbro was doing like one SS member a year but then stopped after Rock Python came out in 2019. However, like with the Serpent Society and Enforcers, the Starjammers and Imperial Guard are very low on Hasbro's priority list because they wouldn't sell to anyone but the die-hard fans. I gaurantee you an Imperial Guard wave would pegwarm until it was clearanced, even with an alternative Wolverine head for Fang. Store would be clogged with them the same way they are with The Eternals.

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Originally Posted by Nimrod

While some of you may not collect these for investment purposes, some people do. I don't begrudge them for that nor will I call them names.

Sorry, but they are what they are, morons. I would know, I was one too. I spent countless amounts of money on toys from 2006-2011 for the sole purpose of making money off of them in the future and it was stupid as hell. All I did was put myself in debt rather than thinking logically about it. It cost me more money to ship my MOC anniversary GI Joes than I got selling them at times as none of them were truly worth even retail price anymore. Same with Transformers Classics and Reissues, MOTUC, DCUC, NECA Resident Evil, and everything I else decided to off-load over the course of a few years.

Prices can be listed as to their value in books all they want, but it's what people are willing to pay that truly determines how well it sells and let me tell you, people are cheapskates. They don't care that you're selling a lot of hard to find figures that are technically worth $40-70 a piece, they will only buy it if you are willing to sell it to them for an 80% discount.