I also collect JW dinos and even though Mattel has still pushed out some good releases, I realized that due to poor distribution and the exclusivity of some of these lines, it has made it so much harder to collect for the last couple of years. I went from having a list of 10 figures I wanted every 6 months, to only 3 or 4 a year. At this point, I would rather collect all of the ones I just had to have instead of like...all of them. There are a few of the figures from a year or so that cost $10 that are selling on eBay for $50 and up. So if you live overseas or don't have a friend who got the repaint of the Albertosaurus in Germany, then you're screwed. But I digress lol Sorry for the rant. The line has still brought me joy....but at the price of the collectors guilt. Lol Anyway, best of luck to you!  

 

That was a weird vehicle/playset that ultimately turned out not being fun to me. It was cool that it came with a coffee mug for General Hawk but just didn’t make sense altogether as a playset.

 

Star Wars was the only franchise I bought vehicles from.

More often then not it was a model kit purchase.

 

My entire collection of D.C.U. Classics 2008-2011-ish? I literally have no attachment... It's all unopened and packed away... It was addicting and cheap at the time... $10 bucks a pop I didn't even think twice about buying figures of characters I had no clue about them, just wanted to be a completionist, lol. Think even the multipacks and exclusives were only like 20-30.

Ah young HunterGreen2005, so young, so naive.  

 

Mostly things with bad quality and a high pricetag. That includes most recent Transformers lines figures which is what we called 20 years ago KO's.
Thransformers armada/energon/cybertron figures, just not for me, all sold or scrapped now.
Transformers MP's, just got rediculously expensive for what is it. Can't complete the basic G1 and BW cast without going bankrupt.

Also alot of lego star wars from the newest garbage triology, i got alot of sets from the first new movie, but lost all interest after seing number 2.Still love lego and star wars, but only the old triology and clone wars stuff.
Lego nexo knights, got everything, sold 90% again. Love lego castle themes, but this one just wasn't very good, too much vehicules and tech, not enough castle.

 

KFC Kingorilla
MP01
MP03
MP05
MP09
MP10
MP13 (MP02 Hasbro ver.)

all of those have somehow broken or fallen apart in boxes which is really weird. I had regretted some PG Gundams but since i sent them to people that would appreciate them i no longer regret them. I have a lot of stuff that i don't have room for or display, or things that have been put away bcuz a better ver. has come along and i don't consider having or getting an older ver. of something a regret. I rarely regret action figures like ML, DC, or any other 1/12-1/10 figure bcuz since i've started working on customs they have uses lol

 

I found a guy who made all of the cardboard accessories into wood. The pingpong table was garbage because the net didn't set flush against the table, but the crates were awesome. It definitely helped make the set a little cooler.

But damn does it take up a lot of space once it's fanned out, and a lot of the "playset" portions are not worth the amount of space that they take up.

Granted, mine has been boxed up since 2009 so maybe it's time to dig it out and give it another shot.
I'd say that at the very least, it'd give me an opportunity to inventory all of the pieces, take pics, and sell it, but that's the other downside of the super-large playsets and vehicles, they are a bitch to sell and ship because their size makes shipping prohibitively expensive if you're not one of the big-box retailers with a bulk-discount rate with UPS/Fedex.

 

It's a short list for me.

1. BTS Sonicron. I did _not_ do my homework and bought him during a BBTS sale years ago. Quite possibly the biggest piece of shit I ever bought.
2. Toynami MP Alpha. This is the sort of toy I imagine sparked the undying hatred of "die-cast bad!1" posters. I hated this toy even more when years later the hands just broke off.
3. Some Brave symmetrical dockers knockoff set I bought at KB. Black parts crumbled to dust right out of the box.
4. Mafex Wonder Woman. I really wanted to like this figure but the blue stains on her thighs just wouldn't come off.

 

I had the Aoshima retool of that which somehow was actually worse! The irony being that the toy itself was based on a styrene kit made by Imai/Aoshima.

Problem was, all Toynami did was make a toy based on said kit without taking tolerances into account and seemingly added diecast “just cause” instead of for functional reasons. There’s diecast done right(SOC Golion) and diecast done wrong(Toynami MPC Alpha), sadly, diecast done wrong was a running theme for toys in the 2000’s.

 

ah man i love my Nexo Knights castle, i took the castle and 2 fortrexx and formed them together, through a wizard's libray in there and i like it, and everything can detach and close up, that's one series that i really like despite it's techy faults

 

I honestly can’t think of too many. I picked up an older NECA Xenomorph earlier this year before Big Chap was released. The hips on the older version suck and the shoulders were both fused...I got one to free up, but the other broke. He’s cannon fodder now!

MP Hound I have mixed feelings about...I think it’s more disappointment than regret.

Edit: Super7 Orko. That fucker DOES NOT magically float across surfaces as advertised. He rolls...poorly.

 

Toynami Voltron EX - pricey for all plastic toy, crap paint (sold after 1 year of owning it)
Yamato 1/3000 SDF-1 - pricey for something so small, plastic felt cheap (sold it after 1 month of owning it)
TFC Hercules - bought into the hype, floppy - sold it
TFC Uranos - bought into the hype, floppy - sold it
UT Predaking - looked cool, floppy mess - sold it
Maketoys Computron - looked cool and that was it - sold it
Energon Optimus Prime, Energon Wing Saber, Armada Optimus Prime, Armada Ultra Magnus - bricks! - sold em all

 

What do you have?

 

I was into Legends scale TFs for a bit. At first there where cheaper releases that helped even out the price of other releases. Then one of the companies released a Jetfire and I got derailed into that aesthetic for a bit and the dinobots in another aesthetic... Eventually I realized I had all these figures in a box I hadn't thought about in a while. I took them up to the comic shop for trade and I realized I could get MP-44 even trade. I hadn't been keeping up much with mp but I kept thinking I wasn't going to get a second chance at getting it this easily. Now I gotta say I have a lot more fun with ER Prime. Now I'm thinking about trading my remaining MP figures, 8, 11, 44, and some others but I'm trying not to think about the loss on 44 even if it kinda fell in place easily.

 

Anything by Neca...seriously every single Pacific Rim and Godzilla figure I got of theirs has crumbled...most of them without even being touched when they broke. I saw 2 of my Jaegers break at the leg joint and fall while just standing on the shelf next to my TV.

Hot Toys...again...too many problems and that shouldn't happen for figures THAT expensive. From Captain Americas shield flanking to death to my ED209 having the rubber cracking right out of the box. Sold off them all and never looked back

 

Going to also add Kre-O to the list.
I was on a major LEGO rediscovery kick at the time, and I was willing to buy anything that would remotely go with that collection.
I ended up with sets that I bought just for the minifigs and never built the actual model (Sentinel Prime), a slew of un-opened combiners, and even a box of the last wave of single-packed figures, which I'm pretty sure that I never opened, either.

Now everything has been put into a bin for the last 7 years. I probably could have done without spending the money.
The GI Joe packs were kind of cool, but yeah. Still regret them.

 

Pretty much all of TF Armada and Energon — not that they were bad toys/TFs, it’s just I would have sat those lines out, if I had known what would be coming later. The only reason OG RID/CR gets a pass, is because that’s when I first got back into TF. Though, I would have bought less of those too, if I could go back.

Also regret buying the early/mid 2000s G.I. Joes - Spy Troops and VvV. Again, not that they were (all) bad, but better stuff, like 25th, would be coming out a few years later. Though admittedly, the current Joe resurgence makes me want to dig those Joes out of storage.

 

I don't know if I'd use the word 'regret', but I'm not as happy with Devil Toy's War of Order Secret Assassin as I was hoping to be. It's not a bad toy per se, but getting the cloak off to swap out the head was a pain. I actually ripped the cloak - after several attempts at removing it - where the hood and shoulder meet. It dawned on me after the fact to warm it with a hair dryer, maybe? to make it more malleable. I'm mentioning this because I'm guessing anyone who buys this would want to swap the head pictued below with the much cooler looking sculpt with the single, red 'eye'.

And then getting the head swapped out... what a pain. The head is on a double ball joint - a barbell, if you will - and rather than pop right off for an easy swap, it pulled the neck/barbell out of the upper body. On top of that, the neck part would literally stretch out as I tried to take the head off for the swap. Ugh... This is the first time I might not recommend something.

The other thing I don't get is the pricing - $30 usd for the figure and... three accessories: the cloak, the wrist mounted dagger and the rifle. Four if you include the extra head. A Vitruvian HACKS figure on the other hand is bursting with accessories like extra heads, hands, weapons galore and vastly more paint apps and is $25 usd.

The rest of the figure isn't bad - good posability, even if the joints are a bit loose out of the package; nice design - I like the ominous look the simplicity gives the figure.

Shrugs.

War of Order Secret Assassin by Alt Mode, on Flickr

 

I always have seconds thoughts on purchases I made. My motto is, "Buy now, regret later."      

Seriously though, yes, there have been many figures I've thought about whether or not I should have bought them. Most recently it was the Atomic Blast GMK Godzilla from NECA, which I only bought for the blast effect for my regular GMK Godzilla and the X-Men Age of Apocalypse wave.

The AoA figures are fantastic, but I keep wondering if I really need them. Too late now, but I still think about it.

For lines I used to collect, well I regretted buyin MotUC so much that I sold off my entire collection in 2013. God damn I wasted so much money on that line and in the end, I didn't like it. I let nostalgia blind me. The same thing happened with the GI Joe annivesary line, especially as I army built the Cobra soldiers and vehicles.

I wish I hadn't bought the Green Lantern wave Mattel released towards the end of DC Classics.

However, the biggest regret I ever made was when I picked up more than half of the Transformers Cybertron line along with more beyond that. When I moved to Colorado one of the first people we made friends with was also a Transformers collector. In fact, he worked for Hasbro due to how much he idolized the franchise. He had such a huge collection that encompassed every Transformer series up to that point that I wanted to match him, so I stupidly opened up a Target credit card that gave me a $5000 credit limit and nearly maxed it out on Transformers. It took me six years to rectify that mistake and pay off that card. Thankfully, I've never made that mistake again, though, sometimes I do still go a little overboard.