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    Really figures. I switch from MU to Legends and now ML starts pulling a MU. it just doesnt pay to collect Marvel figures oh heck it doesnt pay to collect any Hasbro produced line.

     

    Well it is a little frustrating but we're still getting some pretty cool figures in the line. I think in today's market you just have to take the attitude that you enjoy what we get and not worry about the stuff we don't.

     

    I don't know about that.

    I've been collecting since the beginning and I have almost every figure... but still as a fan of the D-List characters this line has been miserable.

    I know it's frowned upon to openly attack Hasbro but they've had issues with every product they produce.

    If there is not a movie to prop sales upon they seem in free fall completely incapable of getting product out the door.

  2. If nobody sold their collection how would we collect? Older stuff would be almost impossible to find because nobody's selling it. Think of where do you get your stuff that's no longer sold. Retail doesn't keep 5 or 20 year old stuff in stock unless someone is real lazy. lol. Besides people do run out of space and why not sell them if it helps generate income that's needed at the time or fund further collecting. A friend sold me a tub of misc. TFs a few years back for $200 an told me to just put what I didn't want or need on ebay. At the time I had never used ebay an didn't know the value of what I had. Needless to say I listed the leftovers all auction style and made about $2000 in a little over a month. I got a good start on my MLs collection and paid some bills from it.

    As for me I collected mine when they were new, on shelves in stores...

    ...as God intended.

     

    As for I respect your view also. But do not say as God intended.

    The God intended line was a joke, guess not as obvious as I thought it was.

  3. Wow, mister Judgmental over here. I don't think any one intends on selling their said collection going in, but things change tastes, likes, dislikes, company, quality, Space, financial responsibility(family is number 1 for me)and the list goes on and on. Thats every ones right, and the only ones I see buying up every thing and making an investment are small shop owners( Flea Markets) but even that is the risk they are taking. Dude to each his own, If I had to sell my collection to pay for something to better my family or to get out of a tight spot I would, would I like it No but life goes on.

    That's noble, but would you do it to save a four year from being set on fire?

    Or to spare the last forest?

    Or to redeem the souls of all mankind?

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    Like I said, I get it. Just see it from the side of those who never sold... too late, nevermind.

     

  4. If nobody sold their collection how would we collect? Older stuff would be almost impossible to find because nobody's selling it. Think of where do you get your stuff that's no longer sold. Retail doesn't keep 5 or 20 year old stuff in stock unless someone is real lazy. lol. Besides people do run out of space and why not sell them if it helps generate income that's needed at the time or fund further collecting. A friend sold me a tub of misc. TFs a few years back for $200 an told me to just put what I didn't want or need on ebay. At the time I had never used ebay an didn't know the value of what I had. Needless to say I listed the leftovers all auction style and made about $2000 in a little over a month. I got a good start on my MLs collection and paid some bills from it.

    As for me I collected mine when they were new, on shelves in stores...

    ...as God intended.

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    I understand the mindset, I don't favor it. But I do understand it.

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    See it from my side as well though, I've had many, many, many late-to-the-game collectors demand that I sell them bits of my collection. They become inspired by their newfound passion, they feel they will love that figure more than me, and that I am not a part of the natural cycle of Buy-then-move-on, I've been called a hoarder for it many times. I have been pressured, bullied, begged and condescended for not being willing to "share".

    I'm not against anyone elses choices, I'm also not swayed.

  5. I collected Marvel Legends from Day 1 but when MU came out I made the switch to the smaller scale, mainly because they take up less space. These days I collect many different lines but there is no one line I feel a need to pick up every figure from. I pick up the ones I like. As for selling, unless you really need the money, I never really got the point of selling a collection. Did you spend all that time collecting a line just to sell it off? I don't collect ML that much any more but I still have all the ones I did collect, same with the 90's TB line and the Secret Wars ones before that. Its cool to just sometimes go and look back at the old lines.

    I still get ML, and I agree with you, I don't understand buying just to sell... but I see that in a lot of collectors. Especially in comic shops. They view it as part of collecting, getting them all them moving on to something else. Some people do it because they like the thrill of collecting, others do it as speculators.

    I have more sympathy for the 'thrill of the hunt' guys, but either way they don't seem like real fans, and I always here regret from them when they talk about a figure they had and sold.

  6. I typically don't reference the cartoons when I talk about characters (I'm biased towards the comics), he has popped up lately, but even then I can't say he was used well.

    He's just not a good character, just someone used to fill a void.

     

    I think the problem is that I am a marvel reader, and I've seen Klaw enough times to have low opinion of him.

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    Also, my decision on all of these figures begins with asking myself "How much much am I willing to pay for this figure?" and Klaw isn't a $20 figure, I may pay $ten for him, and I think that may be what others are thinking as well. I suspect he will haunt the toy aisles for years, and may lead to stores not ordering newer cases... al'a MU Namor.

  7. Not counting the spiderman figs that came before legends, I remember buying captain america at a babbages (pre-gamestop). If only I had known how many more of these things I'd be buying.

    Same, same and same.

    I still have him.

    There's a real difference in what people who have been getting them since they began want from them and expect.

    Makes me a little insensitive to how some people act since I've had the benefit of owning them all without ever having to do the Ebay thing.

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