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View Poll Results: Will the 25th gain in value or fall like a brick? | |||
GI Joe 25th will increase in value over the long haul. | 70 | 17.28% | |
GI Joe 25th will never be worth as much as vintage ARAH. | 142 | 35.06% | |
It is not about the cash value but the personal value. | 193 | 47.65% | |
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04-10-2009, 10:06 PM | #11 |
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I had a conversation yesterday with several other GI Joe collectors and we all seemed to agree on something that I wanted to share here. I hope this can open up some dialog because I would love to hear what you believe. This is just my opinion and like they say, we all have one. So read mine and share your own.
Do any of you remember the Star Wars Power of the force collection? You know the stuff from the 90’s that came out, which today can be picked up still on card for pennies on the dollar. I saw a few weeks back in a box on a guys table at a flee market being sold for $1.00 per figure still on the card. Well I see the current 25th Joe line going the same way. In 25 years there will still be a huge amount of 25th on cards and in boxes sitting around in storage. There will also be a huge amount of mint opened figures too. There are just so many of us who are getting AFA graded figures, sealing and storing them ourselves or army building them. The 25th stuff will not have a chance to become rare since so many of us are keeping them in pristine condition. I have several friends who bought up every Power of the Force figure they could find. They stored them in mint condition and have kept them safe, yet now they can barely get their money back on many of them. There are a few rare cases where they have made a profit but over all they are saddened by the glut of Star Wars Power or the Force items out there. The reason why the ARAH stuff is so highly priced is our parents threw them out, sold them in yard sells or we played with them ourselves so much they just fell apart. Now that we have grown and gotten jobs of our own, we are buying back pieces of the childhood we had. So I hope some of you are not banking on the future resale value of these guys. There is going to be way too much around for the value to increase in such a way that you will get rich off them. The value of the 25th line should be measured in how happy it makes you feel or how many wonderful childhood memories they remind you of. These are toys and are meant to bring joy and happiness. Any monetary value is just an added bonus Many of us need to take a lesson from the 90’s and remember the crash of the Comic book market, the crash of the Sports card market, the crash of the Collectable Gaming card market, the crash of the Beanie Baby market, or all the other crashes of value that came from the shear volume of products that people picked up like everyone else and stored away. The 25th line will be around for a long time even if Hasbro stops the line. I wish I had sold my comic book collection years ago.I remember starting collecting when I was young.I still have like about 20 copies of McFarlanes Spider-Man 1 and almost all 80's-90's comics mint some never even read,now they aren't worth much.Kids just don't read or collect comics anymore,change of the times with the internet and video gaming |
04-10-2009, 10:08 PM | #12 |
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It's already happeining. Gold PDD is dropping like a brick. He has been seen going for under $120 shipped. It seems the only ones holding value are yellow Stalker and RRP. They seem to be the only figures that there are never more than 3 - 5 at a time on evil bay. I'm sure this line will decrease in value for those that are looking for an investment over time but I am stoked just to have some of the figures that I do so I could care less about what they may be worth down the road. I always opened my toys anyway so that has not changed except for exclusives and embossed logo cards which I have doubles of the figures anyway. The stock may go up again when the movie comes out but that is no guarantee. If the movie figures are the only ones on the shelves than the secondary market may rise slightly for a little while. The only ones that may hold their original value, if any would most likely be the 25th logo cards since they were only produced so much.
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04-10-2009, 10:11 PM | #13 |
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I agree 100%
I wish I had sold my comic book collection years ago.I remember starting collecting when I was young.I still have like about 20 copies of McFarlanes Spider-Man 1 and almost all 80's-90's comics mint some never even read,now they aren't worth much.Kids just don't read or collect comics anymore,change of the times with the internet and video gaming
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04-10-2009, 10:16 PM | #14 |
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The main thing to point out is that the 25th/Modern line's main target market has been the kids that grew up in the 80's who are now prime adults with expendable cash getting a little back of their youth and most of us already own everything if not multiples of everything.If you're looking to sell any of these in the future that means your hoping that the future generation of kids would actually still want these when more than likely they are probably into a newer line of G.I. Joe some time in the future or another different toyline
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04-10-2009, 10:18 PM | #15 |
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yeah i got mine to make a giant dio, me an my neighbor had this convo yesterday. i said i careless if they are worth anything, an i got em for a dio an that's it. my moc was due to a great auction on ebay, i needed one figure an could use another. an had all these others that were doubles. an i never really had interest in selling on ebay, so i started a new collection for the f of it. that collection i wouldnt care to keep or lose to be honest. i just want my armies an full collection to display in a room that's designed like those train ppl do. ocean, swamp, desert, mnts, artic, field/plains, cobra base, joe base, the whole 9 plus 3.. an will keep it displayed for as long as my lungs breathe air. i really dont see these ever to be worth a damn thing. adults are collecting them this time around, not kids. there is no destruction to them other then customs. but maybe after the movie hits an if kids get hooked an these become a hit, 25 years from now those lil kids we be us today!
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04-10-2009, 10:25 PM | #16 |
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I agree with this 100% I only started collecting the 25th figures to re-gain those characters I loved as a kid. My original intentions were quickly set aside when I caught the collecting bug and started getting cold sweats every time a new fig came out that I didn't have. 'I hate Matt Trakker! I hate him so much I am going to buy him and put him in the back row!'
Honestly I only care to get the figures for my personal enjoyment and couldn't care less if they only go down in value. |
04-10-2009, 10:28 PM | #17 |
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I'm not worried/thinking about resale value. Though kinda funny that i still got moc figures.
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04-10-2009, 10:34 PM | #18 |
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With the exception of a few variants or exclusives I can't see the 25th/modern line ever being worth as much or as rare as a lot of the ARAH line. That being said I've never collected anything for hopes of a future profit
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04-10-2009, 10:37 PM | #19 |
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I started my collection when my older brother said he saw a Cobra Commander at Walmart. When I got him, it was like 84-90 again. But now that I have the money to get what I want, I find myself looking alot more. At first, it was get everything. I stopped at wave 11, everything I have is MOC, in Star Cases, stacked in my brother's spare bedroom. I have 2 boys, Christian who is 6 and Julian, who is 3. My boys can look at hte back of the card and tell me everyone who is on there. I don't care about the value that it has, I KNOW the value that is has because of the time me and my kids spend together looking for Joes. Julian was so happy when he saw I found a Build-n-Brawl Sgt. Slaughter. Makes it worth everything.
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04-10-2009, 10:39 PM | #20 |
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I pick these up just for the nostalgic joy of holding them and having them be more like what I would have wished for as child if I had any awareness of what an action figure could be.
Samantha's post about her nephews made me wonder, what will our children be nostalgic for? Cell phones that only took pictures, played music and allowed text messaging? I think in another generation the value of sentiment and nostalgia may be little more than something to feel sentimental and nostalgic about themselves. Then again, I think too much. Carry on. |
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