I suppose some would say that's a good thing.
Maybe fewer better dolls... than a mass of toy-like figures.
Obviously, yes. That's the way I started. But on the other hand, I will miss on about 80% of my wants. No Marvel and Star Wars stuff because Hot Toys is hogging them. I'm not much into LotR, and from the Matrix I just want a Reloaded/Revolutions Neo. So for the next 2-3 years I'd be looking at just Ledger & Paul. Maybe they'll get more licenses, sure. Like, dunno, let's say by some miracle they get Mass Effect, which I love. It'll all still be sculpted. What, will Shepard have a rooted buzzcut? So what'd be the difference with HT then?
Look, if QS/Inarts got the Marvel/SW licenses, I'd be delighted to have to worry about more expensive, but less figures. I'd then buy only Anakin & Obi-Wan, Sheev & Vader, Strange & Doom, Hal & Sinestro, Xavier & Magneto, and so on, instead of planning displays. It'd be mentally and financially better for me, I'll tell you that.
But right now, right this moment, I can jump in completely uncharted waters that will change my collection entirely, without even knowing how they'll even treat their next few figures, or I can keep going steady. I don't have a lot, but the things I have on PO will instantly be cancelled or rendered obsolete, and my OCD will not allow me to pose rooted with non-rooted. So it'll be ~20 figures in storage, and a Ledger & a Paul sitting in a glass cabinet while I'm looking at pics of HT's F4, unable to buy them.
I don't know, maybe it's the feeling of those last few hours before a massive decision that are getting to me.
Yep, this is exactly what happened to me. I got my Dr. Strange customized and I'm no longer entirely happy with a figure anymore unless it has rooted hair. It's certainly can become problematic if you think you'll need it for every figure.
This is exactly what I fear. For me, it's not that I'd want it for every figure. It's that I wouldn't be able to get the figures I want in that style. Were I to go all rooted, I'd need 20-50 figures in total, and that's me going to extremes. About 20 of them are pure fantasy, and then the rest are not going to be made by QS anytime soon. So my options here are go rooted, buy a figure per year and stop until QS gets Marvel, or keep going.
I saw your pic and I loved it. I'd much prefer to have a great rooted Strange instead of a Strane and five other figures in a display. But if I can't get a rooted Strange, if I can't get a rooted Doom and Anakin, then why even make the leap?
I really need to purge my collection - maybe this figure will be a “wake up” call. So many 1/6 figures that I just don’t look at anymore.
Look, my collection ATM is
- Some Doctors (Doctor Who)
- Endgame Iron Man and Thanos, the former because it was the closest comic accurate suit and the latter because I was banking on an Adam Warlock
- TROS Kylo Ren
- DX15 Jack Sparrow
So pretty barebones. Like I said, I was never a Nolan fanboy, an Avengers guy, an 80s-born, and so on. I never was wowed by the SnyderVerse, the MCU costumes were too ugly for the characters I liked, too. Beyond SW, which I was too afraid of jumping into lest I lost all control, and was waiting for a ROTS/ROTJ Vader, I was never interested in much of the already existing figures. I'd placed orders for the Deadpools (Sideshow & HT) and cancelled. I POed 3Zero Shepard and cancelled. So I was very picky.
Meanwhile, my current POs are:
- DAM Godfather (one installment remains)
- BCS Tommy Shelby & Definitive 12th Doctor
- AUG Paul
- HT DX19 Baleman & DX23 Luke
- Iconiq Bateman
I've just now started getting into it. I was reserving my funds and space for the X-Men and the FF. I held off 6 years on a Doctor Strange and waited for a more comic accurate costume. Hypothetically, if I did jump in, I'd have to cancel Luke & Baleman. BCS stuff never were up to par with HTs, so they'd be alone anyhow. QS Paul will be much better than AUG Paul, that's a given. Bateman will likely never get another figure so I'm keeping him, and Vito was nearly bald anyhow. Baleman will be remade, but the question is if he will have rooted hair; if not, what's the point? Iron Man is an armoured guy, Thanos is an alien and Kylo is masked, so even in a rooted-only display, they wouldn't stand out as "cheaper'".
I was just revving up, so I don't have much to lose. If I do alter the course now, I can theoretically do it. I'll have to skip literally 80% of my wishlist though, and hope QS makes more rooted versions, otherwise I'm legitimately ******, as I'll have passed on great HT Doctor Stranges just to have a rooted Ledger Joker and Paul Atreides with Hobo Neo in the corner...
In a dream scenario I narrowly escape the HT completionism, QS gets the Marvel/SW licenses, and at 500/figure, I'm then "forced" to be more selective and buy just a special few. In the worst case, I miss out on buying the 8.5/10 figures of characters I love, and hold off for the 9/10s that will never come.
So... Ideas?
Selling is easily the worst part. Putting all the pieces back in their boxes, listing it, dealing with (some) buyers...Yeah, no fun whatsoever.
I still have mine in their plastic wrappings... I was waiting to have at least 2 or 3 complete displays until I built one.
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