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01-27-2009, 02:54 AM | #1 |
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This is something that has been really chapping my @ss lately, that I've seen on this board and a lot of other boards. But, . . . when a new line comes out, that any collector worth their salt should have caught wind of way in advance, there are the johnny come latelys that forget to buy it. They have to resort to ebay, or other means. Does anyone feel sorry for them? I have to say personally, I didn't collect joes until the end of 86, when all the cool cartoon oriented figures were gone, and the terror drome was just a memory. Was I raw about that? Hell yes I was. Even as a child I understood it was my fault for not collecting sooner. Ebay be damned I tried to bargain with my friends to get theirs.
A current example, the two new Masters of the Universe Classics figures, fools on message boards were on the fence about them, and now see how cool they really are and are pissed they have to pay inflated EBAY prices now for them. Fellas, they were on Mattycollector.com for a WHOLE GOD DAMNED MONTH!! Are you kidding me? It's like being late to the party and being pissed all the good eats are gone. Do what we all do, make a pit stop at Taco Bell on the way home. They open till 2AM. Collectors as a whole have to realize, ... you snooze, you lose. Get with the program. Am I the only one irritated by this? Thoughts? |
01-27-2009, 03:04 AM | #2 |
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Honestly? Could care less what people are upset about missing. You and your collecting Joe's at the end of '86... yeah, I get it. I was there, I collected to play with them and gave them all to my cousin afterward. Been recollecting for the last couple of years now.
As far as current stuff though, nah. I don't worry about what other people collect or miss. Life's too short to get bent about things like that... |
01-27-2009, 03:16 AM | #3 |
Iron Grenadier Sorcerer
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I don't feel sympathy but it doesn't get on my nerves.
I am presently in the market for a Susan & Reepicheep from "Prince Caspian." I remember seeing at least one in the wild, but that was before Target clearanced out all their "Prince Caspian" stuff and I was able to obtain pretty much the whole run for very cheap (didn't know there'd be a second series that would pop up at a midwest pharmacy chain and the United Kingdom!) minus Susan...who is now going for like $65 on ebay while the rest of them quietly get no bids. My point is, I never collected that line, though I remember appreciating it, 'til Target clearanced them out and I could get 'em for cheap. Then of course I wanted to finish out the run. At the time I had no idea the Susan action figure was in such demand which only seems to have gone up and up and up. So maybe the MOTU collectors didn't become interested 'til they saw Skeletor and by then it was too late to get He-Man and Beastman for retail price. Toy collectors are a whining lot by nature (I saw some little blonde kid in the action figure aisle at TRU the other day whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiining to his daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad because he wanted a Transfoooooooooooooooooooormer and his eyes filling with tears and his lip quivering and his dad being like you don't play with the ones you have or some such evasion. Definitely a future collector, that kid. |
01-27-2009, 03:28 AM | #4 |
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Well, MOTU Collectors bought the first two, it was the generic toy collectors and people who buy things just because they're worth something who didn't. I understand why there would be skepticism about whether they'd be worth something since the last few reboots were failures. But hey, it was for the fans, NOT for worth whores or re-sellers.
I got into Joes to make money originally and made some damn good money on the secondary market. With the growth of the line and the exposure of online suppliers (BBTS/EE) I wasn't able to sell them for 4 times retail and still have one for myself, so I decided to just keep buying them for myself and not even trying to buy extras. |
01-27-2009, 03:33 AM | #5 |
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Ha!
No, I think what annoys me more are the collectors that beg for certain figures, and then after (name your manufacturer of choice) creates the oft asked for figure it sits on the shelf in droves. Case in point: Yarna D’Al’Gargan from Star Wars. For years collectors whined and bitched that they really wanted this fat, six-titted dancer from Jabba's palace. Hasbro put it off and put it off until they finally caved. Now she sits in quantities of 15 or more at all 6 of the Targets in my area. I'm afraid that the same $hit will happen with the freakin' Tonnika sisters and the ice cream maker dude from Bespin (first off, who gives a $hit about every little .5 second screen time Star Wars extra... oops, sorry, "character", anyway?) I just kind of want to go to Rebelscum and say: "Shut the F**k up! You'll get the figure, when you get the figure." Then I'd like to go to Hasbro and say: "What the F**k were you thinking? What 'kid' (they always talk about their main market being kids) is going to want a fat six-titted dancer? Make it a starwarsshop.com exclusive! Give the collectors the opportunity to buy what they want and stop clogging the pegs with useless hunks of plastic." [/rant] Last edited by Lantern_Lad; 01-27-2009 at 03:35 AM.. |
01-27-2009, 03:39 AM | #6 |
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ebay prices blow but they also give you a idea of what a figure is worth. if you pass on something you find at retail and regret it later, thats just the name of the game.
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01-27-2009, 03:41 AM | #7 |
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I wonder what the child of Wild Bill and Yarna D’Al’Gargan would look like?
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01-27-2009, 03:42 AM | #8 |
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It would look like Monkey Man from the Indiana Jones toy line.
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01-27-2009, 03:50 AM | #9 |
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Or possibly just the monkey's plastic ass.
Sometimes I think the Q&A's do almost more harm than good. I mean, most the time the Q&A's for both Star Wars & Joe are the following: "Dear Hasbro, when will I get blahblahblah?" Hasbro gets enough of those questions and we get a rushed figure in a comic pack rather than a preferred single pack figure. I think Hasbro knows a cash cow when they see one. We'll get all the figures we could possibly ask for in time. And those that we don't, we can customize, until they eventually get to it. And they will get to it... Yarna D’Al’Gargan is proof of that. |
01-27-2009, 03:53 AM | #10 |
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lmao
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