Anyone here collect toys/Action Figures?

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Any of you ever try this stuff? The standard advice is to apply some paint, tape, or crazy glue (you have to constantly work the joint with the latter, until it dries, to keep it from permanently locking up though, so, that's risky) to tighten loose toy joints.
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Toy industry crash coming, maybe? Prices have been getting more-and-more insane at retail for some time now...

If only hasbro would get there freaking distributing in order and stop doing store exclusive bs then maybe there sales would be better :p
 

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Picked up Evil Lynn & Mossman from the MotU Revelations line during Amazon's recent early bird (AKA, let's get customers Xmas shopping before Halloween) sale for cheap. This series was intended more for the adult collector and imitating lines like Marvel Legends with lots of articulation, extra hands/heads, etc.

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They went more for a Sasquatch Swamp Thing-esque take on Mossman, which I dig, instead of "flocked, green Beastman". He's got a big root tendrils alternate hand instead of his usual brown mace.

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They didn't redesign Evil Lynn too much, but, I love that they gave an extra helmet-less head with her long white hair exposed. She's got both short wand and long staff versions of her iconic weapon and the orbs are actually transparent balls instead of just painted, another nice touch.

The only other figure I own from this line is the deluxe, Hulked-out Skelegod, and I like these 2 better, as Skeletor is pretty much perfect in his normal form without giving him that silly Super Saiyan treatment.
 

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If only hasbro would get there freaking distributing in order and stop doing store exclusive bs then maybe there sales would be better :p

Hasbro sucks now. Their quality isn’t any better than anyone else and much worse than others, meanwhile their prices SUCK.

Recently I bought my kid this Sonic the Hedgehog play set that looks like the Flying Battery zone. It has a chain you raise and lower, whirling fire obstacle, and a really solid Sonic toy. This was all $20. Also $20 is a single five joint non-transforming Bumblebee. Is Hasbro paying themselves huge money for their own Transformers license? It seems like they are. Their shit has NBA/NFL level ripoff pricing.
 

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Hasbro sucks now. Their quality isn’t any better than anyone else and much worse than others, meanwhile their prices SUCK.

Recently I bought my kid this Sonic the Hedgehog play set that looks like the Flying Battery zone. It has a chain you raise and lower, whirling fire obstacle, and a really solid Sonic toy. This was all $20. Also $20 is a single five joint non-transforming Bumblebee. Is Hasbro paying themselves huge money for their own Transformers license? It seems like they are. Their shit has NBA/NFL level ripoff pricing.
Hasbro blames the price increase of oil for the use in plastics for which bs or not who knows.Still buying any transformers from them is a nightmare at retail either it's scoop up by collectors or scalpers.When it comes to there current legacy toy line i prefer to just buy online since most of the time retail is a lost for me.Though,lately i been dabbling a little more into buying third party transformers and it can be easier to find on the internet and some times a better quality.
 

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Toy industry crash coming, maybe? Prices have been getting more-and-more insane at retail for some time now...


A good chunk of this is Magic the Gathering. They pumped out way too much product and saturated the market. The report says they are sitting on considerable amounts of inventory for Magic.
 

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Maybe, but, a lot of Marvel/G.I.JOE/Transformers/Star Wars collectors have been buying less, or stopping altogether, with the rising prices and other economic woes.
 

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I see a lot of the fans toys dinobots on eBay for reasonable prices...or more reasonable than they have been in the past.

Did they do additional runs? Or are these knock-offs of the knock-offs :p
 

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There are many versions of the dinobots, classic, modern, bootlegs, etc. If prices seem too good to be true, they probably are.
 

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There are many versions of the dinobots, classic, modern, bootlegs, etc. If prices seem too good to be true, they probably are.

Indeed. A crazy low price does indicate “bootleg” however with Hasbro that often means “superior” or at least “not any worse” because Hasbro shit is not only more expensive than bootlegs but also sometimes even shittier. It’s not like they haven’t fucked up their own reissues over and over again.
 

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Collecting modern toys is a load of bollocks. Where do people store all of this stuff. It is all so much in so little time.
 

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Fat Chocobos & Bags of Holding (hilarity ensues when it's really a Mimic).

Most collectors seem to use shelves, display cabinets, or totes. MOC collectors sometimes get peg boards and display them just like in a store aisle.
 

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I think what he means is that at the pace at which companies are releasing stuff and people are buying the shit it seems like it would fill up a house pretty quick if people in their 30s and 40s have been collecting it for any length of time.

It used to be sane to collect every Optimus Prime, let’s say in 1997. Now that would be an entire fucking room and 3/4 of it would be crap nobody likes. There have to be 1000 R2D2s by now, right? Not even including pirate stuff.
 

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Model kits up in this thread, or naw?

Either way…built some old Gundams that had been sitting in a box since the mid-90’s. My daughter and I freed them from their cellophane prisons this afternoon.

Forgot how fun this is on a rainy day.
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I've got a couple of those SD Gundam ones, they're pretty cool. Got them in a Big Lots of all places over a decade ago.

I bought a Gundam model tool kit from Amazon about a year ago too, mainly for the sprue tree snippers and tiny metal files (a LOT of guns come attached to sprue trees in my military block sets).
 

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Oh damn, there's a Galactus that big? Shit on a cracker. How heavy is he?

I just put together my second detolf and realized I need probably two more, maybe 3 so I can space out the bots more properly. And this is only about 2/3 of my bots, and doesn't include the Titans Metroplex, Titans Devastator and the Legacy Menasor.


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Oh damn, there's a Galactus that big? Shit on a cracker. How heavy is he?
1000% sure that's not M's picture. I don't see stacks of bootleg Lego and clearance aisle MOTU junk everywhere, I guarantee he doesn't have a clean surface that large in his entire dwelling.
 

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1000% sure that's not M's picture. I don't see stacks of bootleg Lego and clearance aisle MOTU junk everywhere, I guarantee he doesn't have a clean surface that large in his entire dwelling.
He probably doesn't even own a step-stool like the one in the photo
 
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