2024 Wrap Up Thread Best/Worst/2025

[fantasticfrog]

All right, let’s wrap up the collecting year. What were your:
top 5 figures you received
Top 5 disappointments in collecting this year
Top five things you are looking forward to in 2025 for collecting?
My top five figures
1. Bane
2. Rotj vader
3. Rotj c3po
4. Aotc anakin
5. Aotc C3po

Top 5 disappointments
1. No bespin han
2. No bespin escape leia and it possibly being artisan/exclusive
3. The onslaught of exclusives and 2.0s
4. The horrible sideshow que system
5. The phantom menace anniversary

Looking forward to:
1. Endor han
2. Esb Chewbacca
3. The sideshow scum and villainy line
4. Dark empire luke
5. Terminator line

And go…

 

[AssassinHood]

Top 5:

• DX28 Vader
• Crosshair
• (Only got those 2 this year)

Top disappointments:

• TPM Anniversary being lacklustre
• The lack of awareness to read the room by HT - too many SW exclusives

Looking forward to:

• Collecting more SW prequel-stuff, new stuff and 2.0. Hopefully a sculpted Anakin 2.0.

 

[rayeknor]

My top five figures in hand
1. Rotj vader
2. Kenobi vader
3. Umbra trooper
4. Kenobi in Mandalorian armor
5. Imperial commando

Supposedly Sideshow is shipping artisan Joker very soon, if that gets here before end of year that will probably snag #1.

Top 5 disappointments
1. Asmus balrog, fortunately got my money back. Trainwreck product vs a good looking prototype.
2. The horrible sideshow que system
3. The onslaught of limited exclusives and 2.0s tho I get why rooted hair figures are hard to do runs of past a few thousand.
4. Pleather
5. Pleather

Looking forward to:
1. Artisan Joker/Dark empire artisan Luke
2. Revan
3. Grievous
4. any new OT announcements & Maul 2.0 shipping
5. Sith 20th announcements

 

[RandomHero]

Top 5 of 2024:

1. Kenobi Vader
2. Baylan Skoll
3. Padawan Anakin
4. Tech
5. Chopper


Top 5 Disappointments:

1. Mace Windu head sculpt
2. Where the f*** is Cal Kestis
3. Hardcase not up for pre-order
4. Where the f*** is Cal Kestis
5. Shin Hati didn’t release with Baylan


Looking forward to:

1. Clones coming home - Fives, Echo, Wolffe
2. Andor season 2 - hopefully Cassian/Luthen figures
3. Endor Han - will finally have the guy on the shelf
4. Baddie Shin standing next to Baylan
5. Hopefully something cool for ROTS 20th that we haven’t already seen. Chancellor Palpatine? Aayla Secura? Commander Gree?

 

[Wor-Gar]

I only received 6 figures this year, so TOP 5:
InArt Aragorn
InArt Gandalf
Mars Nicholson Joker Mob Boss
Mars Carrey Riddler
HT ROTJ Vader

Disappointments:
Fortunately, I stayed away from receiving anything I didn't like.

2025 looking forward to:
HT Grievous
New HT Chewbacca
Artisan Sparrow

 

[Bluemonday]

Top figures received:
1. Inart Batman
2. HT Final Swing Suit Spiderman
3. HT Mace Windu

Top Dissapointments:
1. No Artisan Qui Gon 2.0 announcement
2. Delayed Inart Batman release
3. Not securing Artisan Anakin and no sculpted option offered
4. No revised sculpt for Mace Windu like was done for other releases
5. No Artisan Leia announcement from any of the movies

Looking forward to:
1. Artisan Jack Sparrow release
2. ROTS Chancellor Palpatine announcement
3. ROTS Obi Wan 2.0 announcement
4. Darth Maul 2.0 release
5. D&W Wolverine release

 

[RandomHero]

I assumed this was supposed to be Star Wars related as it’s in the Star Wars thread, definitely would have changed my answers a bit

 

[MGS_OldBoy57]

Starwars:

Best of the year: HT ROTJ Vader
Disappointment of the year: HT Mace Windu
Looking forward to: Endor Han Solo

Everything else:
Best of the year: Threezero Rambo 2
Disappointment of the year: HT Catwoman
Looking forward to: HT T2 line

 

[fantasticfrog]

I assumed this was supposed to be Star Wars related as it’s in the Star Wars thread, definitely would have changed my answers a bit

It could be anything. I had Bane as my top. I just 95% collect Star Wars.

 

[rayeknor]

So is dark empire Luke and Starkiller the only figures so far announced with nylon suits? If there is any figure released with pleather suits after these two it will retroactively be my 1-5 disappointments whether I'm interested in the figures or not.

 

[RandomHero]

It could be anything.

Well then.

Top 5 of 2024:

1. InArt Gandalf the Grey
2. Kenobi Vader
3. InArt Harry Potter
4. InArt Aragorn
5. Baylan Skoll


Top 5 Disappointments:

1. Mace Windu head sculpt
2. InArt continued QC issues
3. LimToys delays
4. InArt prices skyrocketing
5. Where the f*** is Cal Kestis


Top 5 Looking forward to:
1. Snape/Sirius/Dumbledore from InArt
2. Clones coming home - Fives, Echo, Wolffe, Sinker
3. Imminent Limtoys releases - Nathan Drake and John Marston
4. Endor Han - will finally have a figure of the guy
5. Limtoys announcements - Joel/Ellie/Dutch/Sully?

 

[HyperDrive]

Top 5 figures received:

• INART Batman
• Hot Toys Alien Ripley MMS366 (holy grail)
• Hot Toys/OT Customs Batman Begins kitbash
• Hot Toys Bane 2.0
• Hot Toys ROTJ (my ESB kitbash) Vader

Top 5 disappointments in collecting this year:

• No INART Daenerys PO
• Hot Toys ROTS Sidious portrait likeness/expression is terrible (still PO’ed… settling)
• Hot Toys (Disney) lazily renewing DMTNT license vs obtaining ideal Curse of the Black Pearl license for new Jack Sparrow figure (still PO’ed DMTNT version… settling again)
• Hot Toys only announcing (2) TPM 25th anniversary figures. 2!? No tan B1 at least? It’s been shown off at prior booths.
• Endor Han not being ‘Bespin Han’ (my fav OT character/outfit for him) *only collecting Empire for my OT display. Still stoked for this release though, never thought it’d happen and I’ll still be able to see it in hand and get my fix.

Top 5 things to look forward to in 2025:

• Hot Toys ROTS 20th anniversary announcements (hoping for Vader, Chancellor Palpatine DX set w/ dual sculpts, more Jedi and the real clone commanders. No more TCW CCs, please)
• INART POs that I’m interested in (hoping for Daenerys, TDK Batman, BvS Batman, FOTR Frodo & Sam)
• Receiving INART Paul in hand!
• Can Hot Toys – preferably INART – do something with T1?
• Receiving the PO’ed Prequels figures (Grievous, Maul 2.0 and ROTS Sidious)

 

[SOU7567]

Top 5 (in no order)
-Umbara ARC Trooper
-Clone Wars General Kenobi
-Padawan Anakin
-OWK Darth Vader
-2022 The Batman

Top 5 Disappointments
-Lack of TPM reveals, though I probably wouldn't of gotten all of them, I think the regular tan B1 battle droids and a Padawan Kenobi would of made sense for the anniversary.
-Exclusives, this appears to be a big thing going forward, so Hot Toys can guarantee sales. I think with niche characters (Mando Kenobi, which is awesome), it works, but for army building characters to get this treatment, just doesn't make sense.
-Artisan Anakin experience was a joke
-Mace Windu head sculpt, I don't hate it like a lot here do, but for a character of this magnitude to come out as disappointing as he did is a bummer.
-The laziness when it came to the Republic Commandos

Top 5 Things Looking Forward to
-ROTS reveals, this is going to be an expensive year for PT collectors, they already started with the anniversary with Kisto, Sideous and Plo.
-Fives, Echo and Wolffe, some of the biggest named clones will finally be in our collections
-General Grievous
-Overall just seeing if they expand on exclusives or keep it at the same pace it was this year
-Thinning the collection a bit

Unfortunately my entire collection is going into storage in the next month or so, but I'll continue to collect 1/6 and any 1/4 statues that catch my eye. Going back to graduate school and need to move closer so renting out my condo for the next year or so. Good for my career and future, bad for my man cave.