[GoodGuy9]

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Originally Posted by tlasjr

Is there a market for 1/18 figures? 100% yes. Is there a market.for 3.75" g.i. collector joes? Again yes. Is the Market large enough to support a mass retail line and will brick and mortar retailers support such a line? I would say no.

There's plenty of 1/18 scale collectors, there's pleny of people to fund small scale kickstarters or Super7 niche lines, there is not enough support to $22+ figures on pegs. Even if there were, poor distribution would cause it to suffer like ME retro did

[scruffyronin]

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Originally Posted by MFJayman

That's just providence telling you to hang onto those 4". What are you dumping POC for anyway?! Cmon! :P

This. All day.

[IzzyTipsy]

I feel like there still is a market for ME Joes. Alot of those things go for good money on Ebay, especially Collector's Club stuff.

Even buying a lot of 25 Iron Grenadiers would up costing me $200 by the time the bidding dust settled.

[zbs]

I wonder how many people that just started collecting again because of Classified would jump Into ME 4” joes. I know personally I would much rather spend my money on 4” as opposed to 6”.

[IzzyTipsy]

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Originally Posted by zbs

I wonder how many people that just started collecting again because of Classified would jump Into ME 4? joes. I know personally I would much rather spend my money on 4? as opposed to 6?.

Classified got me back into Joes after being out since 94, and that led to me collecting ME.

[SpottedEagleSvn]

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Originally Posted by zbs

I wonder how many people that just started collecting again because of Classified would jump Into ME 4? joes. I know personally I would much rather spend my money on 4? as opposed to 6?.

Classified brought me back to toy collecting, but after seeing a bunch of ME joes for the first time at a con recently I don?t see the appeal. They didn?t look that much different from the vintage figures. Do people collect these so that they can have an on-card figure at a discount compared to vintage?

[Sataninjaku]

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Originally Posted by SpottedEagleSvn

Classified brought me back to toy collecting, but after seeing a bunch of ME joes for the first time at a con recently I don?t see the appeal. They didn?t look that much different from the vintage figures. Do people collect these so that they can have an on-card figure at a discount compared to vintage?

I've always been an o-ring guy myself, but did collect ME for a year or so. The appeal is the more "realistic" sculpts, added articulation, etc. At the end of the day though, I dumped them all and just stuck with o-ring.

[IzzyTipsy]

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Originally Posted by SpottedEagleSvn

Classified brought me back to toy collecting, but after seeing a bunch of ME joes for the first time at a con recently I don?t see the appeal. They didn?t look that much different from the vintage figures. Do people collect these so that they can have an on-card figure at a discount compared to vintage?

I sold my vintage for ME because I preferred the TVC style sculpts. Just like I dumped my older Star Wars figures.

I want my figures to evolve and not remain like they were. Hence my growing distaste for "retro" Star Wars.

[DarthBrett]

I absolutely loved the ME line when it was new in 2007 and really enjoyed it for the 8 or 9 years it was in stores. But I also readily admit the ME stuff has lost most of its luster for me now 15+ years later. I'll always view it with rose-tinted glasses with lots of nostalgia, and I have a ton of great memories collecting the ME line and coming on here. But for me, the figures just did not age well for the most part and had a lot of design weaknesses. I think the ARAH o-rings have actually aged a lot more gracefully than most of the ME stuff did in terms of sculpts and articulation and overall design aesthetics.

I got rid of my ME collection last year and have zero regrets. But it is G.I. Joe, so of course it still has appeal with lots of us and I totally get why it does.

[46 Zone]

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Originally Posted by SpottedEagleSvn

Classified brought me back to toy collecting, but after seeing a bunch of ME joes for the first time at a con recently I don?t see the appeal. They didn?t look that much different from the vintage figures. Do people collect these so that they can have an on-card figure at a discount compared to vintage?

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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

I sold my vintage for ME because I preferred the TVC style sculpts. Just like I dumped my older Star Wars figures.

I want my figures to evolve and not remain like they were. Hence my growing distaste for "retro" Star Wars.

I did the same as Izzy, but I took one more step. When 25th came out, I collected those as they were an "upgrade" to my boyhood Vintage ARAH figures. Then, the POC/30th/Ren/Ret/50th figures came out whose sculpts had more realistic proportions than the 25th figures. My collection is now all of the POC/30th/Ren/Ret/50th figures, along with "50th Ultimate" customs of the figures we never got in the later ME builds. I now look for fodder to complete more customs.

I still don't know why we never got a factory painted ME Duke from Hasbro or the club. Here is my copy of HissHissFangFang's version of what we could have gotten: