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11-21-2022, 07:36 PM | #41 |
Bill Cosplay
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By the early 90s the comic collector market was picking up and mags like Wizard would have toy price guides in the back as well. I distinctly remember a bunch of us in Grade 7 looking at an early wizard and marveling how much our Super Powers figs would have been had we kept them in good condition....
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11-21-2022, 07:43 PM | #42 |
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Image Bubble and Death of Superman hitting back-to-back. I remember Home Shopping Network desperately hawking comics....
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11-21-2022, 07:44 PM | #43 |
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Yup! I feel like that was around 1991-1993ish and thereafter. The thing that really ruined collecting for a lot of us whether it was baseball cards or comic books, video games, magazines or action figures was the stupid grading companies. People get stuff graded that isn't even worth anything or that is brand-new now. Not to mention it made trying to get a hold of something you want that much more difficult and expensive than it already was.
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11-21-2022, 07:47 PM | #44 |
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In 2017 I found an unopened Slaughters Marauders Footloose on a super sun-faded card at a mom n pops shop for $15
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11-21-2022, 07:51 PM | #45 |
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And that?s why every flee market, figure store, and comic shop in the Midwest is overflowing with pegs of POTF. In one town I visited there were three separate stores each with at least 20 pegs of POTF. One store had two whole aisles of it.
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11-21-2022, 07:56 PM | #46 |
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This reminds me of when POTF2 was relatively new still, circa early '97 when the Special Editions were hitting, I had quite a few friends who were not even into toys or action figure collecting at all that were buying the PotF2 figures thinking they were going to be worth something 10 or 15 years later.
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11-21-2022, 08:05 PM | #47 |
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I understand kids doing it, but adults...wtf? If you can't afford it at full price, you shouldn't be buying it. Or even shopping for 'em, for that matter. You have bigger problems. And what adult doesn't have credit anyway? Besides, adults oughta have better shit to do than creep around stores hiding toys and remembering to come back months later to save a few bucks.
So, I'd stash and tell them where. After that, there was maybe one time I had to actually return something to the peg. Funny how that works. |
11-21-2022, 09:13 PM | #48 |
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This reminds me of when POTF2 was relatively new still, circa early '97 when the Special Editions were hitting, I had quite a few friends who were not even into toys or action figure collecting at all that were buying the PotF2 figures thinking they were going to be worth something 10 or 15 years later.
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11-21-2022, 09:32 PM | #49 |
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This reminds me of when POTF2 was relatively new still, circa early '97 when the Special Editions were hitting, I had quite a few friends who were not even into toys or action figure collecting at all that were buying the PotF2 figures thinking they were going to be worth something 10 or 15 years later.
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11-21-2022, 10:03 PM | #50 |
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that was common. even when Episode 1 came out I was just barely working at target at that time and I bought a bunch thinking they will go up in value lol. but never really did. maybe the vehicles did. but the figures never really went up. but I never bought any of the vehicles lol
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