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04-29-2022, 03:51 PM | #11 |
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Yep. With Marvel Legends, I'm specifically only collecting the figures that I enjoy from the Marvel Movies/Shows. So "Hollywood" is specifically fueling collecting for me, with that particular line.
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04-29-2022, 07:46 PM | #12 |
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Price increase and the reduction of Build a Figure size was the reason I dropped Marvel Legends after Hasbro took over. Under Toybiz you could get a full wave for $60-80 with a 12" BAF. It also Took Hasbro way too long to get their figures sculpts and articulation to the quality of Toybiz, by then the figs were $20 bucks each and I had swapped to 25th Joe collecting.
I started collecting 25th Joe right after the Buzzer wave. GI Joe nostalgia hit me at the perfect time. I never wanted to stop collecting Joe but most of the stores in my area stopped carrying the waves after the first movie bombed and it was completely gone by the second wave of the second movie toys. Some repacker scum also started buying up army builders and returning the package with valor vs venom era figures causing stores to skip entire lines due to shelf warming or unsellable repacks. I never saw the POC Lowlight wave and was never able to get him because of the repacks. The failure of the second movie pretty much killed off the Gi Joe line in my area, I never saw anything past the first wave of the second movie line, 50th anniversary never made it to my area. So I was pretty much forced to stop collecting Joe. I got excited when the Retro waves hit as I wanted Baroness, Scarlet, and the Awe Striker, but only ever saw a single Destro, and 2 full rows of Stalker. Vehicle wise the Fang and Hiss III's shelf warmed at the various Walmarts in my area. I had a better version of each of those so never bothered getting them. I despise Walmart exclusives, they always seem to screw up the distribution and order large numbers of the wrong products so they shelf warm. Classified isn't in a scale I collect anymore, the price is too high for me to try and collect full waves, and there are not any vehicles (minus the 2 cycles) which is a big part of Joe to me. And now due to the high number of repackers in the hobby there's no way I'm buying modern figures in the new closed boxes that you can't see the figure in. Nowadays the only modern figures I'm actively collecting is Final Faction and the occasional Fortnite figure that fits in with the Joes or other custom fodder to make a Joe out of. Last edited by sisco; 04-29-2022 at 07:55 PM.. |
04-29-2022, 11:47 PM | #13 |
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1. The industries focus away from my preferred action figure scale. The focus on 6 inch rather then 3.75 inch scale.
2. Pricing. Too expensive. 3. Lack of creativity. Same characters re-done over and over. 4. Lack of vehicles. Specifically mid-range sized vehicles to my preferred scale. Both are phased out effectively due to the 6 inch scale and fan funded projects. 5. Modern hollywood's influence. Largely negative influence. 6. Modern corporatism. Just seems more heartless. No Toys R Us etc. 7. Modern toy packaging shifting to be "greener". Lack of plastic bubbles, traditional cards. The flimsy boxes and tissue paper. This really upsets me. What are you reasons for quitting? I?d add to your list, lack of availability. I?m really tired of toy corporations crying that no one buys their toys when we can?t find them on pegs, then the merchandise pops up by the truck load in some discount chain? I?d just keep army building if I could find troop builders in the wild. And the exclusive items are the most difficult to find. If action figure lines ran this way back in the 80s NONE of us would be here collecting today because we would have cut of these IPs as quickly as they came out. I?d also add the attitude from toy corporations that we should be grateful that they are making the stuff for us. Then in the same breadth tell us that we are only a small sliver of the market. So which is it? I?ve never heard any other industry tell their customers that they should be grateful for their product. None of us should be spending money on toys at this stage of our lives. We should be buying into Roth IRAs. They should be grateful to have so many adults buying products made for children. And what other industry thinks that 20% of their market is expendable? At this point I’m only cherry picking Star Wars OT Hot Toys and OT VC figures. I seem to be able to actually get them when I want them. I may cherry pick a Marvel Legends here and there but am only a copper age guy. And I’m happy to support the new O ring Joe releases. They seem to be readily accessible and easy to order with no issues, but slow to roll out. I’m not stressing any line that that is tough to collect. If I can’t easily collect a toy line I have 0 problem walking away. I have all of the modern Joes, Transformers, and MotU that I need.
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04-30-2022, 01:09 AM | #14 |
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Did you quit G.I. Joe or all action figures in general?
Me personally, I don?t think I will ever quit 100%. I don?t want to go back to drinking, smoking weed and supporting single moms & college girls at the nudity bar. Toys are cheaper.
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04-30-2022, 01:48 AM | #15 |
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Yeah, more or less the same for me. I have higher priorities in a real world serious-ass sense, but I also have higher priorities in my hobbies/interests. Plus, I just don't want to die and leave a buncha fuckin' toys for my loved ones to deal with. I'll be leaving behind enough other shit as it is without adding kid's toys to the pile.
Also, I had chuckle at the list. Like the "Hollywood" thing...shit, if anything, Hollywood makes me want to buy MORE toys. |
04-30-2022, 08:24 AM | #16 |
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04-30-2022, 10:18 AM | #17 |
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HA!
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04-30-2022, 10:38 AM | #18 |
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I think I'll probably keep some of it. Right now it's about paring it down. It's a process and kinda overwhelming, so I've had to take it one box at a time, sorting and consolidating. I'm down to my Marvel, Indiana Jones and GI Joe now and that's all gonna be the hardest to cut ties with. The big issue I run into are associations, whether due to nostalgia or plans I had for custom projects, etc. Like, there are things I think I should get rid of, but then I realize they're connected to something else in some way and that's connected to something else...pretty soon it becomes an "all or nothing" sort of deal, which makes it hard for me to keep anything at all. It's nonsensical and goofy, and speaks to how psychological collecting is.
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04-30-2022, 12:08 PM | #19 |
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Not really ive spent more on toys than i have on women willingly
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04-30-2022, 12:11 PM | #20 |
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