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09-26-2008, 12:31 PM | #31 |
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the one thing your missing when it comes to the value of this figure is the fact that it isnt a big fan favorite. As someone else said, he is a new character, wasnt an original marvel character that is, and doesnt have that big a following. you look at other variants out there and they are all established figures with fan followings.
Wraith does have a fan following, (he kicked snake eyes ass once),and I happen to be one of them, but it isnt a very big one ,but even I am more interested in the regular version, not the variant. basically the scalpers will try to price it high becuase it is a variant, but will drop the price again when they are not selling like SE/with black timber does. |
09-26-2008, 12:43 PM | #32 |
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09-26-2008, 12:54 PM | #33 |
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They will sell for whatever somebody wants to pay for it. If the figure does bring in crazy money I would most certainly put mine up for sale also.
As for the AFA graded ones, I will let you know in 2 weeks when I get my factory cases back from AFA. I will have 2 Wraiths that will receive the uncirculated grade so now I just sit back and wait to see which grades they get.
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09-26-2008, 01:05 PM | #34 |
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I am guessing starting around $50-$60, then once he becomes more readily available it will drop to $30, and then not too long after you will start seeing BIN for around $15-$20
I'd pay up to $30, but have a feeling it will be much lower, so I must resist, and going to get one for $20 or less, or find in WM He is not like Yellow Stalker or Black Timber SE, which are errors or Roddy, Sdcc Destro, and CC which are exclusives he is a planned variant or chase figure, which there will be ALOT more of. |
09-26-2008, 01:11 PM | #35 |
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Baroness actually hunted Wraith down and killed him (unless he somehow survived) and took the suit, then gave the suit back to the Red Shadows in xchng for the location of CC) In WWIII Alexanders tells CC the stealth tech was taken from the recovered suit... Now, for collectors that don't like Wraith, they can always say this is actually Baroness v.4 because she does wear the armor at one point before turning it over to Wilder Vaughn.
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09-26-2008, 01:36 PM | #36 |
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I think Wraith is a nice addition to the Joe-verse
The story wasn't too bad either and he had some sweet covers made of him I wanted to buy the original Turner cover but that was like 2500, and now with Mike gone, it is probably doubled |
09-26-2008, 01:51 PM | #37 |
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I'd just be interested in someone telling me where the hell this character came from. I admit to not being a childhood reader of the comics and then refining my understanding as I grew up and bought the back issues. My first G.I. Joe comic was the last issuw with Hawk, Snake-Eyes, stalker and Duke folding the flag. I read Batman comics and novels as a kid. Then, as I got older, I read X-Men. But I never read the Joe comics as a kid. I relied on the cartoon to explain it to me. I can't see paying retail for this figure, varients, et al, much less $1000 for it. If I was still buying at retail, I'd pass on this figure and all it's variants..just like the Bazooka Trooper or the Cobra Flint or the Cobra Para-Trooper. I still need a Major Bludd and a Tripwire; these superfluous characters don't mean anything to me. I pre-ordered a croc master figure, but I'm also waiting on a theme-pack Major Bludd since it looks far superior to the single carded version. At this point in the responses, I guess I wish I was in this to make money, if I could, but I'm not.
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i don't really get the appeal of Wraith.
It's like the DDP writers couldn't use Boba Fett so they just decided to manufacture and force feed us an "instant Bad-ass" character. I don't buy it. He's not part of the original line, so he's not on my must have list, but if i come across the variant, yeah i'll grab him, 'cause it is a cool looking figure, but i wouldn't pay more than retail for him. the history just isn't there with him.
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09-26-2008, 02:02 PM | #38 |
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Also new were Red Shadows Scanner Coil Troopers Firewall (a guy that came in when Firewall started, killed off by Serpentor) forgot his name Gen Rey Phoenix Guard (cobra's disguised as good guys) appointed by.... Vice President (who was really cobra Commander, genius!) who else? I'd buy all of these characters |
09-26-2008, 07:13 PM | #39 |
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Ha looks like the first one made it on
GI JOE COBRA MERCENARY WRAITH CHASE FIGURE MOC IN HAND - eBay (item 290263587694 end time Sep-29-08 09:38:37 PDT) **Sorry if this was already posted** |
09-26-2008, 07:29 PM | #40 |
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this should be fun. so soon upon release, I'm going to say $175.
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