Anybody still collecting SW on here?
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Marshalls has the MTT marked down to $59. Saw a bunch in my travels yesterday. Almost made me wish I still collected SW.
Its great and all, but if Hasbro cant get stores to stock, its irrelevant. The Vintage Collection doesn't exist and neither does The Black Series to me. At least around here neither exist. Still only Clone Wars figures on shelves and barely any of them. I swear to god if the name is not Iron Man around here, it does not get ordered or stocked.
I mostly quit collecting SW because they aren't in stores (MU too). I have now quit Joe's for the most part for the same reason.
My collection would have a hundred more figures if I didn't always have to pay for shipping or scalping.
I mostly quit collecting SW because they aren't in stores (MU too). I have now quit Joe's for the most part for the same reason.
My collection would have a hundred more figures if I didn't always have to pay for shipping or scalping.
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I kind of agree.
- MU stopped being stocked, so I went from an all-in, full line collector to an online cherry picker.
- SW vintage line stopped, and I don't care to display non-vintage style packaging, so I went from a buy-anything-from-Ep IV-VI kind of collector to a cherry picker there too.
- Joe stopped having product that wasn't dollar store fodder, so I've just stopped. Not from lack of desire, but because they don't make Joe toys anymore.
I pretty much only buy Kre-Os, Masterpiece TFs, and lots of third-party TFs. Part of me is sad because all the best toys seem to be drying up... However, lately I've been going through my toy storage units (yes plural), and I see all the crap I've accumulated over the years, and half if it is cool... and half of it makes me wonder what the hell I was thinking. So maybe slowing down, even if it's manufacturer/retailer induced, isn't all that bad.
- MU stopped being stocked, so I went from an all-in, full line collector to an online cherry picker.
- SW vintage line stopped, and I don't care to display non-vintage style packaging, so I went from a buy-anything-from-Ep IV-VI kind of collector to a cherry picker there too.
- Joe stopped having product that wasn't dollar store fodder, so I've just stopped. Not from lack of desire, but because they don't make Joe toys anymore.
I pretty much only buy Kre-Os, Masterpiece TFs, and lots of third-party TFs. Part of me is sad because all the best toys seem to be drying up... However, lately I've been going through my toy storage units (yes plural), and I see all the crap I've accumulated over the years, and half if it is cool... and half of it makes me wonder what the hell I was thinking. So maybe slowing down, even if it's manufacturer/retailer induced, isn't all that bad.
Better yet, is it still the "black" series, as the packaging was the only thing that really fit the moniker. SW Blue Series just doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
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Agreed.
The 3.75" Black Series packaging is having a change but it's the card shape,instead of a rectangle it will be like a TIE pilot or Stormtrooper helmet shape.
Agreed.
The 3.75" Black Series packaging is having a change but it's the card shape,instead of a rectangle it will be like a TIE pilot or Stormtrooper helmet shape.
Sleeved female arms are always a commodity in short supply, and the head is useful, if plain. Oh, sorry, I forgot all you dorks think the military is full of fucking super models. :trollface:
Hell, I might be able to mate up a Joe pelvis and use the torso, too.
Hell, I might be able to mate up a Joe pelvis and use the torso, too.
I doubt I will see these at retail. Guess why?
Yet more peg-warming prequel figures this time on the black series cards! They fit well next to the vintage ones still at my Target.
Yet more peg-warming prequel figures this time on the black series cards! They fit well next to the vintage ones still at my Target.