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08-14-2020, 03:11 PM | #41 |
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It means so many different things in so many different contexts. For Marvel Legends (my first real foray into active retail collecting), I started out intent only on getting my core favorite characters. When the line took off and many of my B-tier and C-tier favorites started to get made, I realized I needed to refocus. That meant 90s X-Men, Spider-Man villains, the Fantastic Four, and the Marvel Knights vigilantes. I make some exceptions here and there if something is really spectacular, but I display my collection so it always needs to look cohesive.
For Black Series, I have Vader, snowspeeder Luke, Boba Fett, Bossk, Dengar, Mando, Lando and yellow jacket Luke. Unless they make a Kyle Katarn, I’m done - the collection is complete. For Joe in general, I got into the vintage figures a few years ago thinking there’d never be a 6” line. I bought my absolute favorites immediately (Mutt, Outback, Bazooka, Beachhead, Cesspool) and then resolved to only buy one whenever I come across a vintage toy store. Completeness will never be achieved so long as toy stores are around and I kinda like that. For Classifieds, I couldn’t even begin to guess what it will mean yet. I’ve already skipped on ones I’m not feeling design-wise (Scarlett, RB). What happens if they start making vintage homages? Maybe I’ll resell all existing Classifieds and refocus on that. Maybe I’ll just buy it all. What if the lines dies in two years and I never get an Outback? I shudder just at the thought. I think with Joe, complete is going to be much harder to define. There aren’t really sub-teams or groups like with comic characters that make it easy to draw a line. And I certainly can’t start excluding land over sea, ninja over soldier. That’s far too harsh. The Joes are the Joes. Cobra are Cobra. Who’s really a favorite? How am I feeling about Dusty this week? Time will tell, I suppose. Thanks for reviving the thread. This was really cathartic. Last edited by Junkyard84; 08-14-2020 at 03:14 PM.. |
08-14-2020, 05:29 PM | #42 |
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Sorry for reviving an old thread. New member. Consider this my introduction. Warning: It's long.
I was 8-years-old in 1982 and the VAMP with Clutch rocked my world. I went all-in on G.I. Joe over the next several years and collected tons of both figures and vehicles. Every birthday, Christmas, and other gift-giving opportunity, all I wanted was G.I. Joe. I stopped collecting in high school, when I thought I was too old to play with kiddie toys anymore, and my interests moved to video games (NES all the way!) and other things. However, I got back into G.I. Joe after college. I was a very active member of the alt.toys.gijoe-1980s USENET newsgroup and an early contributor to YoJoe.com. A number of photos on that site come from my collection, including the Manimal Iguanus prototype. During that time, I aggressively bought and traded figures with the goal of amassing a "complete" collection. Unfortunately, because I lived in a small apartment at the time and had little storage space, I made the difficult decision to sell off almost all of my vehicles and focus exclusively on action figures. I regretted giving up my original Skystriker for many years afterward. I continued to buy everything and anything G.I. Joe I could when the line was revived in the late '90s and early '00s, but I got burned out by all the terrible figures and endless variations in the Joe vs. Cobra and Valor vs. Venom eras. I took another break from collecting in early 2005 and decided to focus all my energies on the original line of 1982-1994 figures. As far as that goes, I eventually came to the point where I had what I considered to be a "complete" collection from that original run. (More on this shortly.) I looked in with interest during the 25th Anniversary revival, but I really dislike the body design of modern-era figures and decided to forego starting up again. The original o-ring construction looks so much better to me. Recently, my passion for G.I. Joe was reignited during this pandemic due to all the time spent at home. Also, one of my sons has become head-over-heels obsessed with my collection. He's 6-years-old and knows more about vintage ARAH than many adult collectors. He plays G.I. Joe all day every day. It's all he cares about anymore. I've given him a bunch of my castoff figures, duplicates, and junk from the 2002-2004 era. He begs me for more G.I. Joe toys every day. Some days, he wears me down enough that I'll hunt down vintage figures for him on eBay or Mercari. He whined so much for a Storm Shadow v2 that I finally bought him one, only for him to promptly lose it down a storm drain just a few days later. Sap that I am, I bought him another one. To the topic of this thread, I've put a lot of thought into what I consider to be a complete collection. I have one of every domestically released figure from 1982 until the initial cancelation in 1994. Most of them are complete with all accessories, but I am still missing a fair number of accessories, and some figures I've made a conscious decision to re-accessorize if I don't like the accessories they originally came with (most of the spring-loaded, water-squirting, or sound-making crap from the 1990s, as well as the generic weapon trees). I do not have every variation of every figure. For example, I replaced all of my straight-arm 1982 figures with swivel arms when I was a kid and never re-acquired the straight-arm versions. Those feel like a glaring omission in my collection right now. I only have one Starduster (Version B) and two Steel Brigade V1s (B and D). I would like to fill in the 1982 straight-arms and the other versions of those two characters, but some figures with minor paint variations I just can't be bothered to hunt down. I have the 1994 Dial-Tone V4 with the green highlights on his chest but not the one without the highlights, and don't honestly care. I have a good number of figures released in foreign countries during those original years, but I can't claim to be a completist there. I've focused on figures that are substantively different than those released in the U.S., either unique characters or significant paint changes. Even to that end, I still have a long want-list that I'm sure I'll never complete, either due to rarity or expense. Currently, all of my 1982-1994 figures are on display in a locked cabinet. They're really crammed into it three to four rows deep per shelf, but I've put a lot of work into organizing them so that they're all visible. Figures are arranged in chronological order by year, G.I. Joe on one side and Cobra on the other. Most of my figures from 1997 onward are in boxes in a closet. However, I've made exceptions for a Cobra army display on top of the cabinet. That consists of a number of different Cobra Troopers, Vipers, Crimson Guards, and Alley Vipers, with Cobra Commander, Baroness, and the Crimson Twins in charge. I've also recently started selectively acquiring favorite vehicles and playsets. I'm very happy to have found a near-perfect 1983 Skystriker, which I've hung in position flying over the G.I. Joe Headquarters Command Center for a diorama manned by some of the Comic Book-style figures from 2004 and 2005 that I think were pretty cool. I don't plan to go much further with this, though I would like to get a new Dragonfly to sit on the HQ landing pad. Apologies for writing a novel here. I don't have another outlet for this reminiscence. Thanks to anyone who read the whole thing for bearing with me. I'll try to be more succinct in the future. |
08-18-2020, 08:48 PM | #43 |
Wants to try Yo-Jo cola
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Once you start buying duplicates because there's nothing else that interests you, it's complete.
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08-18-2020, 09:03 PM | #44 |
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Well shit, this pretty much sums up my collecting habits O_o
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