Im just tired of buying them. I originally just wanted a nice Avengers roster. Then it was Spider-Man, then X-Men, then Cosmic, X-Force, rinse and repeat. Ive bought so many cool figures of characters I dont even care about.
Yeah, I still need to complete X-Factor, X-Force, Claremont X-Men teams, Spider-Man, Captain America, and Fantastic Four, plus I want some individuals like classic Doctor Strange dudes from the Ditko run, and a few one offs here or there. BTW, I am in serious need of some advice. Last year I bought that Future Pledge polish to tighten the joints of figures, but it's not work. Like I poured a bunch of it into Ghost Rider's waist yesterday and let it sit there for 3 hours and his waist actually got looser than it was before. I even tried it on the pegs for the fist hands for the new Spider-Man and all it did was make the hands sticky. Is there something special I'm suppose to be doing?
I burnt myself out trying to get all the mutant and Spider-Man figures when I started collecting MLs... $20 here and there is so inconspicuous but it seriously adds up so fast.. so fast. My Marvel Legend moment of self actualization occurred when I got the X-Men retro (and/or Wendigo) wave at full MSRP last year... I had serious buyers remorse, and was questioning my life. FOMO became FML Now I just cherry pick and I'm much a much happier collector, I think.
My XLS said $670 left, this year. I've whittled that down to $529. Ridiculous. Thats just in preorders. I miss when I just collected Transformers.
I never understood the "Got have 'em all" approach to collecting. I don't think I have ever had every single figure from a line and why would I?
I just buy what figures I like. Only complete team I have is the F4 because they are my favorite super hero team. When it comes to X-men or avengers I just buy my favorites. I don’t buy all villains but my mostly my favorite ones I will get.
I was a borderline completionist with the line starting close to before the ROML line and started to cherry pick by 2014-2015. We’re at a point now where Legends are pretty much in saturation, there’s something for everyone and it isn’t like years back where you’d just see 1 wave altogether(or remnants of it) on shelves at a time. Now we got Xmen, Spider-Man, Deadpool waves, et al, on shelves at the same time. With Hasbro starting to sell BAF’s solo, I have more incentive not to be a completionist. It did help that Hasbro pretty much outdated their own figures years later. For example, the 2013 X-Force Wolverine was 1 of my favorite Legends. The 2019 version surpasses it in every way. 80th Cap last year far surpassed the 2016 Cap save for the shoddy eye paint.
I've come close with DCUC, the GI Joe anniversary line from a decade ago, and Beast Wars. The only Beast Wars figure I was missing was Transmetal Rhinox as I could never find him and the one time I saw him at a convention the seller wanted $80 for him. I then went to college and sold off my Beast Wars collection to afford text books. Biggest mistake ever. For DCUC, I had everyone outside of a few convention exclusives (Lobo and the Wonder Twins). I sold them all off when DC kicked off the ICONS line and showed they were going all in. Now in regards to GI Joe, it was the same as DCUC except I was buying two of everyone, one to open and one to keep MOC, but then after I took them down while I was getting to move in 2012 I realized I'd have to re-set them up if I kept them and just got rid of everything. After that, I love my desire to get everything in a line. Even Marvel I've been working very hard and trying not to go that route. Most of the time I've stayed strong with it, other times I failed. I failed with the Age of Apocalypse line as I wasn't going to get them but when I saw them in person, I couldn't resist. On the other hand, I only bought WS and Crossbones for the Black Widow wave.
I actually did have pretty much every DCUC figure, including the Wonder Twins with Gleek thanks to someone going to SDCC to get him. They, along with all my Toy Biz Marvel Legends, and various Transformers toys aside from my G1 and Beast Wars toys were sitting in storage boxes for a while before I decided to sell them all to of all places, Big Bad Toy Store, back when they bought lose lots of toys. (I might be the reason they stopped) I sorta regret it as I loved the uniformed look they had with each other, and the nods to the old Super Powers toyline and SuperFriends cartoon, but alas...limited room at the time and the fact they were just collecting dust in storage. Felt like it was a better idea to sell them to others that could display them. And yet here I am now years later with all kinds of Hasbro Marvel Legends, Transformers, Power Rangers, and now G.I.Joe stuff on display. LOL
I don't but others are buying them by the case. I haven't done that since TF Universe 2.0 myself. All I can say is that it used to be easier back when 40 toys was a bumper crop. If I ever break 100 Marvel Legends _total_ I'll be shocked (and I've been collecting since the line launched with ToyBiz).
Thankfully, I toned down my collecting immensely as I used to buy anything and everything from any series I liked. Ghost in the Shell, Bastard!!, Onimusha, Resident Evil, Mega Man, Big O, Cowboy Bebop, GI Joe, Transformers, Mario, Voltron, Metroid, Zelda, Castlevania, MotU, Final Fantasy, .hack, Hellsing, DC, Star Wars, Dragonball, Sailor Moon, Gundam, Ultraman, Sentai/Power Rangers, Kamen Rider, Godzilla, Gamera, Marvel, horror movie stuff, etc. Now, I only collect a fraction of those with Star Wars and the Toku ones being relegated to only my favorite movies/shows/characters.
Ever since the Sauron wave there hasn't been any break. Right now there is BW, Animated Spidey, Strong man and gamerverse. All I want now is Australian outback X-men, Heroes reborn Ironman and even though I hated it I would buy Spiderman unlimited Spidey then I'm done.
I kind of cycle. I was burnt out for the past four months but I'm all on board now. But yeah, I have more characters in boxes than out in the open. There's just no place to display them all.
Serious question, I noticed a bunch of tiny arcade games for sale over at BBTS, now these things are a tad too small for playing in my opinion, but I was wondering if they were marginally/roughly to scale with six inch figures, one or two of them might make decent accessories/display options for my ML collection to make a small arcade. Maybe when there's a sale or something, but I don't know if they would work. Has anybody else had this idea for these things? Let me know if I'm way off base or not with this idea.
Pretty sure I've seen people pose Jubilee in front of those recently. They're pretty close from what I could tell.
